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A San Francisco crowd torched a Waymo robo-taxi on Saturday night, the local fire department said, amid ongoing mistrust of driverless technology in the city. The vehicle was “surrounded and then graffiti’d, windows were broken, and firework lit on fire inside the vehicle,” a post on X by the San Francisco Fire Department said. …
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Join us at EmTech Digital Europe in London For over ten years, academics, policymakers, and business and technology leaders have gathered at our EmTech Digital event in Silicon Valley and on the …
A 3D-printed ice template of blood vessels Philip LeDuc et al./Carnegie Mellon University Complex artificial organs could be created by 3D printing a mould of veins, arteries and capillaries in ice, casting that in organic material and then allowing the ice to melt away, resulting in a delicate, hollow network. This leaves a space …
Prime Computer of Switzerland has launched the PrimeStation Pulsar PC. So far, so ordinary, but the Pulsar is one of the most powerful fanless mini-PCs on the market, and is claimed to be 100 per cent climate-neutral. The machine, described as a ‘workstation’ by the designers, uses its aluminium case as the heatsink, and …
Inflexion Games The survival crafting game genre is in the middle of a renaissance. Players have been drawn to mainstays like Minecraft and Terreria for well over a decade at this point, but the last couple of months have seen plenty of new contenders enter the market. Lego Fortnite, Palworld, and Enshrouded all recently …
What just happened? The once-rosy relationship between Starlink and Ukraine has become even more tense after the country’s military intelligence accused Russian forces in occupied territories of using the company’s terminals. Starlink’s CEO and founder, Elon Musk, has denied the claim. The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency (GUR) says it has proof that Russia’s 83rd …
Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has been ordered by a federal judge to testify once again in the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) probe into his takeover of Twitter, which he later renamed to X. The judge, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, also set the deadline for the agreement, mandating Musk and …
Enlarge / Where it all started for the author, even if he didn’t know it at the time. Getty Images I’ve set up dozens of smart home gadgets across two homes and two apartments over the last five years. I have a mental list of brands I revere and brands from which nothing shall …
Super Bowl 2024 was everything it should be. High-energy, action-packed, and full of suspense. But it wasn’t just the big game that made an impact on viewers. As usual, many big brands splashed the cash, securing themselves one of the most expensive ad slots on the planet, with each reportedly paying a massive $7 …
“What is so impressive is that PaLM has never seen parallel sentences between Bengali and English,” Pichai said at that event. “It was never explicitly taught to answer questions or translate at all. The model brought all of its capabilities together to answer questions correctly in Bengali, and we can extend the technique to …