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SpaceX aiming to launch massive Starship for the third time early Thursday

SpaceX will attempt to send the massive Starship rocket to orbit for the third time early Thursday morning after U.S. regulators gave the green light for launch. The company is aiming to complete the launch within a 110-minute window that … Continue reading

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Cypher’s inventory drone launches from an autonomous mobile robot base

Doing inventory sucks. I feel the need to reiterate this any time I discuss the topic here. Having performed a bit of it during my years of retail work, I can personally attest to the fact that it’s a mind-numbing … Continue reading

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MicroStrategy shares up 180% this year after debt sale to buy more bitcoin spurs latest rally

Shares of MicroStrategy continue to soar as the company uses every opportunity to add to its bitcoin stash.

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Budget, Robodebt Failures Making Australian Government Hesitant About Citizen-Facing AI

According to Gartner, the Australian government is enthusiastic about AI; however, Robodebt and other mistakes of the past, as well as small budgets, are forcing them to be selective.

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Reflex Robotics’ wheeled humanoid is here to grab you a snack

Agility’s Digit wasn’t the only humanoid holding court at Modex in Atlanta this week. On the opposite end of the Georgia World Congress Center, Reflex Robotics, a younger and smaller startup, was drawing its own crowd. The booth was centered … Continue reading

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Solana’s price rises to $160, highest level since January 2022 as memecoin mania rises

The token behind Solana, a layer-1 blockchain that’s competitive with the Ethereum blockchain, has been through the wringer after it plummeted from a high of about $260 in late 2021 to a low around $8 in early 2023. But like … Continue reading

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Palantir CEO says short sellers bet against great companies ‘so they can pay for their coke’

Palantir CEO Alex Karp had colorful words for short sellers in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday.

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What is Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot and how does it work?

You might’ve heard of Grok, X’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It’s a chatbot and, in that sense, behaves as you’d expect — answering questions about current events, pop culture and so on. But unlike other chatbots, Grok has “a bit … Continue reading

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35 games launch with Omni One VR treadmill, more than a decade after we first saw it

Hands up who remembers Palmer Luckey? The Hawaiian-shirted entrepreneur and founder of Oculus VR who once made a VR headset that would literally kill you if you died in a game was the poster boy of the early re-arrival of … Continue reading

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BBC’s Doctor Who to incorporate AI

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is set to trial artificial intelligence (AI) within the world of its flagship icon Doctor Who. The publicly funded broadcaster will be using generative AI to promote the ‘Whoniverse’ collection on the company’s streaming platform … Continue reading

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