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We hope you spent your Fourth of July with burgers, beer and fireworks. With all that activity, you may not have had a chance to comb through the big weekend sales. While many of the offers have begun to dry up, I spent some time this morning combing through deals
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We usually discuss AI self-preservation as if it were an optional and dangerous feature that developers might accidentally add to an autonomous system. This framing is probably wrong. A sufficiently autonomous agent needs some ability to protect itself. Otherwise, it cannot reliably complete long-term tasks. It needs to protect its
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Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a sensing electronic skin that functions underwater, detects nearby objects, senses physical contact, recognizes when it has been punctured or cut, and repairs itself after damage. The technology, called a self-healing magnetoelectric sensory system (SMES), is an elastomeric, stretchable “skin”
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AI-powered robotics company Agile Robots SE has acquired a majority stake in XNG Automation, strengthening its presence in India’s fast-growing manufacturing sector and expanding its ability to deliver robotics and factory automation solutions across the country. The investment is aimed at combining Agile Robots’ AI-enabled robotics hardware and software
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Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. The Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 is a dependable laptop that doesn’t cost a fortune, despite being nearly three years old. It’s cheaper than usual right now,
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Elon Musk wants you to believe Tesla is no longer a car company, even if it’s still shaped like one. The company shipped nearly half a million cars last quarter and made 70% of its money from car sales. Still, Musk has spent the last few years making the
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Seemingly as part of renewed banning spree, the Trump administration is drafting a new federal policy to halt imports of Chinese-made data center components, escalating Washington’s intent on walling off the physical infrastructure powering the American AI boom from foreign security threats. According to sources familiar with the draft
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a collaboration to use AI-accelerated innovation to address national science and technology challenges established by the
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Between all the pictures, keychains, and shirts you find with sayings like “life’s a beach,” you might get the idea that a day at the beach is nothing but playing, napping, and sipping drinks from coconuts. But as anyone who has ever actually been to the beach knows, that’
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