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Do robots dream of perfect hands?

Ask the most bullish representatives of big AI companies, and they’ll tell you that robotic colleagues and house staff are just around the corner. A massive market for robotic aids, powered by AI “brains,” could contribute huge sums to the bottom line of tech firms. Elon Musk predicted earlier this year that they could produce […]

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Trump extends TikTok deadline again

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order once again delaying enforcement of a TikTok ban after announcing the U.S. had a “framework” for a deal to keep the app available in the U.S. The latest extension pushes back the deadline to enforce a law, which requires TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to divest from […]

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Senate Democrats call for probe into DOJ settlement over HPE-Juniper merger

Several Senate Democrats are calling for an investigation into the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to settle a lawsuit blocking Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) raised concerns to the DOJ inspector general Friday about the… […]

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NASA Releases Opportunity to Boost Commercial Space Tech Development

NASA has released a new proposal opportunity for industry to tap into agency know-how, resources, and expertise. The Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity (ACO), managed by the Space Technology Mission Directorate, enables valuable collaboration without financial exchanges between NASA and industry partners. Instead, companies leverage NASA subject matter experts, facilities, software, and hardware to accelerate their […]

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Trump administration rescinds Biden AI chip export rule

The Commerce Department on Monday officially rescinded the former Biden administration’s artificial intelligence diffusion rule that would have placed caps on chip sales to most countries around the world. The Bureau of Industry and Security, in a release published Tuesday, said the Biden-era rule, which was supposed to go into effect Thursday, would “have stifled… […]

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View the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCE

You can now get a sense of the awe-inspiring Parthenon in all its former glory thanks to a multiyear endeavor merging history and 3D computer modeling. University of Oxford archeologist Juan de Lara combined primary source information, astronomical data, and CGI to digitally recreate the ancient Greek pilgrimage site as it appeared to visitors arriving […]

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