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Ace is a robot that aims high: It wants to become the world champion of table tennis. It was developed by Sony AI researchers who, in a new study published in Nature, have shown how this robot, equipped with artificial intelligence, has…

“If you're going to bring Faces of Death into the modern era,” says director Daniel Goldhaber, “on some level, you have to contend with the fact that Faces of Death is everywhere.”In 1978, John Alan Schwartz’s low-budget, exploitation…

An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour.In Wuhan, a city in central China…

Anthropic might have misgivings about giving the US military unfettered access to its AI models, but some startups are building advanced AI specifically for military applications.Smack Technologies, which announced a $32 million funding…

When Netflix dropped the first season of Love Is Blind in February 2020, it offered a reprieve from the washboard abs that normally seem like a casting requirement for reality TV shows.The premise—that couples get engaged “sight unseen”…

On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plug-in for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model.Called Humanizer, the simple prompt plug-in feeds Claude a list…

For Juárez, the main factor behind digital disruption is disintermediation. Basically, that each of us is now our own media outlet. “That’s what these platforms have sold us: You choose what to be informed about and you stay inside a…

A Virginia startup calling itself Operation Bluebird announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X Corporation’s trademarks of the words “Twitter” and…

Jamie would meticulously schedule his days around finding time alone to watch porn and masturbate—often up to five times a day.The 32-year-old Michigan engineer, who did not want to use his real name due to privacy concerns, first watched…

When OpenAI unveiled its first open-weight models in years this August, it wasn’t just tech companies that were paying attention. The release also excited US military and defense contractors, which saw a chance to use them for highly secure…