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It’s an upright, stick and handheld vacuum in one. Shark has launched a new PowerDetect vacuum called the "Transformer," because well, it transforms into three different types of vacuum. The whole setup is an upright vacuum with a big canister attached to it, but you can remove
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David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, will lead advanced AI for the region at a consultancy betting heavily on enterprise adoption. The corporate AI leadership market moves quickly enough that a year now counts as a tenure. David Hardoon, Standard Chartered’s former global head
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It’s hard to believe Bernie Sanders. Not because the longtime Vermont senator bears the hallmarks of a liar. Yes, he’s a career politician, but the 84-year-old progressive torchbearer counts more viral memes than scandals to his name. Rather, it’s hard to believe Bernie Sanders because, for decades,
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On the face of it, here’s a salutary story for our times. As enterprise after enterprise cuts their workforces, cheerily citing AI as a satisfactory replacement, they might do well to cast a wary eye in the direction of Ford Motor, a firm that was one of the early
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AI AND ML Huntrix from K-Pop demon hunters Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse The government of South Korea and local tech giants yesterday announced over ₩1 quadrillion of investment related to AI – or about $900 billion – that it says will see the country emerge
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The rise of robotics has long threatened human employment, with machines in manufacturing settings especially seemingly performing the work that people used to do. Take this to its logical conclusion, and it's not outside the realm of possibility to have a massive unemployment problem on your hands. So
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Must construct additional pylons South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028. An Atlas humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics lifts a mini fridge. Credit: Boston Dynamics South Korea’s government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster
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TL;DR Alibaba lost five lobbying firms and Tencent four as a Pentagon rule bars defense work for firms that also lobby for blacklisted Chinese companies. Washington lobbying firms have been quietly dropping Alibaba and Tencent as clients ahead of a new Pentagon rule that takes effect on Tuesday. According
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Swift has watched the sky since 2004, catching some of the universe’s biggest explosions. Now it is sinking, and time is short. NASA is paying Katalyst Space Technologies about $30mn to save it, the Associated Press reported. Liftoff could come as early as Tuesday. The plan sounds simple and
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* Fitbit devices have a new fitness coach powered by Gemini AI * But the AI seems to be giving people extremely questionable advice * Users have voiced their dissatisfaction with the feature Fitbit recently introduced a new fitness coach powered by Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s safe to
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Apple Books is facing the same crisis that has plagued Amazon's Kindle Store for the past couple of years: fake books. Typically composed of low-quality, AI-generated summaries, these "books" copy the titles and visual assets of real books to confuse buyers and cash in on search
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TL;DR Ex-Tesla Optimus lead Jay Li settled a trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised $11M to ship dexterous robot hands from his startup Proception. Proception, a robotics startup founded by former Tesla Optimus engineer Jay Li, has settled a year-long trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised an
