yes, of course, this is an emerging determinant of geopolitics. But it equally and proportionately has a strong bearing in individual life and society.
People need to take responsibility. There is a wide open platform for those who get on board. Yet most are sitting around on social media talking the same nonsense they have for years.
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Mysterious radio signals are coming from ‘unprecedented’ part of space, scientists say
Mysterious radio pulses are coming from somewhere scientists have never seen before.
For a decade, something has been sending blasts of radio emissions towards us every two hours, roughly from the Big Dipper constellation.
But work over those years using multiple telescopes has finally revealed where they might be coming from. The long radio blasts appear to be emitted from a pair of dead stars, researchers believe.
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President Donald Trump has approved the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will be funded by Bitcoins seized through criminal or civil asset forfeiture—at no additional taxpayer cost.
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Yet, the portrayal in the media overlooks how it undermines an entire system and benefits those collecting sizable six- and seven-figure salaries while promoting a driven, ideologically charged narrative.
U.S. consumer prices increased less than expected in February, but the improvement is likely temporary against the backdrop of aggressive tariffs on imports that are expected to raise the costs of most goods in the months ahead.
The consumer price index rose 0.2% last month after accelerating 0.5% in January, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday.
In the 12 months through February, the CPI increased 2.8% after climbing 3.0% in January. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI gaining 0.3% and advancing 2.9% year-on-year.
The Power Joy Voyager is a portable video game console that heavily resembles the iconic Nintendo Game Boy, but with a multitude of issues and problems. The system is poorly built, with a flimsy design and cheap materials. The directional pad is not a traditional pad, but rather individual buttons that can be pressed simultaneously, leading to awkward gameplay. The screen is also of poor quality, with a thin plastic screen protector that can damage the screen over time.
The Voyager comes with a cartridge that contains a collection of games, but these games are not what they seem. They are actually hacked and pirated versions of classic games. The system also has a TV mode, but it is not compatible with the games on the cartridge, and instead plays a separate set of games that are also pirated.
Remote Control Your Steam Deck With A Powerful Free Tool! RustDesk FTW
The video showcases a free tool called RustDesk, which allows users to control their Steam Deck from a Windows desktop, Linux PC, or mobile phone. The host, Shane Arman Rowe, demonstrates how to install RustDesk on both a Windows 11 PC and a Steam Deck, and how to use it to remotely access and control the Steam Deck. He also highlights the tool's features, such as easy file transfers, and notes that it is free and works without the need for a central server.
The video showcases the top 10 coolest gadgets available on Amazon, featuring a range of innovative products that can enhance daily life, productivity, and entertainment. The list includes the Rocketbook Pro 2.0, a smart notebook that combines analog and digital note-taking, and the Mancro Laptop Backpack, a practical and functional bag designed for modern professionals and students.
Other gadgets on the list include the Canon Ivy Mini Photo Printer, a compact device for printing instant memories, and the USBC Hub 7-in-1 Multiport Adapter, a versatile accessory for expanding device functionality. The video also highlights the Dell Inspiron 167000, a powerful and stylish laptop, and the Lamle Adjustable Laptop Stand, a sleek and ergonomic solution for enhancing comfort and productivity.
The video discusses the reputation of Python being slow, but the speaker argues that with the right tools, Python can be as fast as C++. The speaker uses the longest common subsequence problem as a case study, implementing a dynamic programming solution in native Python, native C++, and various libraries built on top of Python.
The speaker compares the performance of these implementations, including NumPy, mypyc, Cython, Numba, and Taichi. The results show that some of these approaches can achieve C++-level performance, with Taichi being the fastest. The speaker also discusses the trade-offs in terms of code readability and intuitiveness.
The video's creator decided to use only 1980s technology for a week, replacing all their modern devices. They started with a DynaTech 8000x, the first mobile phone released in 1983, which had a 10-hour charge time for 30 minutes of call time.
They also used a Sony Walkman, the first portable music device, and a Macintosh SE, a portable computer from 1987. The creator had to adapt to using these old technologies, including using a Walkman for music, a Macintosh SE for typing, and a payphone for making calls. They also used VHS tapes for watching movies and had to deal with the challenges of using old technology, such as a TV that started smoking when they tried to use it.
"I'll never stop playing modern games like it's still 1998" Video Summary
The speaker discusses their preference for playing modern games on a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor, similar to how they played games in 1998. They cite two main reasons for this: motion clarity and input latency. CRTs have zero added motion blur during movement, making it easier to track enemies in fast-paced games, whereas LCDs can introduce blurring between frames.
Additionally, CRTs have zero added input latency, allowing for quicker reaction times in twitchy first-person shooters. The speaker also expresses their fondness for gaming in a 4:3 aspect ratio, which they find provides a more immersive experience with less distractions.
The Steam Deck, a device that blurs the lines between PC and console, has set a new standard for gaming hardware. Its ability to switch between a console-like experience and a desktop PC mode has been particularly appealing, and it seems that Microsoft is taking note.
The next Xbox, rumored to be released in the next two years, may follow a similar path, with Microsoft reportedly planning to create a device that is essentially a PC with a TV-friendly shell and a specific set of specs in mind. This approach would allow developers to build games for a Windows PC, but with the knowledge of exactly what the specs will be, making it easier to optimize games. The lack of dev kits for the next Xbox has sparked speculation, but it's possible that games can be developed and run on the device without the need for dev kits.
Google has open-sourced SpeciesNet, an AI model for identifying animal species in wildlife images, to assist researchers with camera trap data analysis.
NVIDIA's data center business leads the AI market with Q4 revenues of $31 billion and over 70% margins. Microsoft and IBM follow with $3.25 billion and $2 billion in AI revenues, respectively. Hardware still dominates over software and services in the AI sector.
This article provides definitions for key AI terminology, including "AI agents," chain-of-thought reasoning, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs). Deep learning is described as a subset of machine learning inspired by the neural pathways in the human brain, and LLMs are described as neural networks enabling AI assistants like ChatGPT. Fine-tuning and the importance of weights in optimizing AI models are also discussed.
The AI industry is evolving rapidly, with OpenAI's GPT-4.5 focusing on refinement, Google's Gemini 2.0 facing adoption hurdles, and China's DeepSeek and Kimi pushing the limits of affordable, specialized AI. Meta is expanding AI into wearables and robotics, while XAI's Grok 3 remains a niche competitor. The AI race is intensifying as specialization and real-world integration become critical, challenging established players like OpenAI and Google.
Hugging Face and Yaak have released L2D, the largest open-source multimodal dataset for automotive AI. It includes expert and student driving policies collected from driving schools, with natural language instructions to enhance spatial intelligence models.
Reka has open-sourced Reka Flash 3, a 21B parameter general-purpose model optimized for reasoning, chat, coding, and instruction following. It performs competitively with proprietary models and features a 32k context length, making it suitable for low-latency and on-device applications.
OpenAI has launched new APIs and an Agents SDK to help developers build AI agents more easily. The toolkit includes web and file search, computer use capabilities, and observability tools to streamline agent orchestration and task automation.
Google Colab now includes a powerful AI agent tool for data science! This upgrade helps users clean data, spot trends, and generate insights straight from their notebooks. It’s a game-changer for anyone working with big data, making tedious tasks like data cleaning a breeze. Imagine getting instant analysis without needing to juggle multiple apps. It's like having a personal assistant for your spreadsheets!
Microsoft's Dragon Copilot, powered by Nuance’s AI tech, is here to help healthcare workers tackle burnout. With AI-driven dictation and ambient listening, it streamlines documentation, making it faster and more efficient for doctors and nurses. Instead of getting bogged down by endless paperwork, they can focus on what really matters—patients. It's like having a personal assistant who keeps track of everything without missing a beat.
Google just launched SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to help researchers identify animal species in camera trap images. By open-sourcing the model, it aims to assist wildlife researchers in analyzing data more efficiently. Think of it as a super-powered nature detective, sorting through endless photos to find the creatures hiding in them. It's a game-changer for conservation efforts and biodiversity research. The model’s now available for anyone to use, boosting global wildlife monitoring.
NVIDIA is dominating the AI scene with a massive $31 billion in Q4 revenue and a hefty 70% profit margin. Microsoft and IBM are trailing behind, with $3.25 billion and $2 billion in AI earnings, respectively. Despite the rise of software, hardware still rules the AI market. NVIDIA’s impressive numbers show how vital infrastructure is in this booming industry.
Ever wondered what all those AI terms really mean? This quick glossary break down key ideas like "AI agents," "chain-of-thought reasoning," and "deep learning." Deep learning mimics how our brains process info, and large language models (LLMs) power tools like ChatGPT. Plus, it explains how fine-tuning and adjusting "weights" can make AI smarter. Now you're ready to speak the AI language like a pro!
A new paper on generalized discrete diffusion introduces a denoising process paired with an enhanced masking scheme, making training faster and more efficient. This approach helps models like AI text generators better correct their own mistakes, improving overall performance. Imagine a machine learning model that learns from its errors in real time—sounds like a game changer, right? This could mean better, faster models for text generation and beyond.
Making AI Smarter at Understanding Images and Text
Embedding models often struggle with tricky mismatches between images and text, especially in hard negative pairs. This paper introduces a new regularization strategy that helps AI learn from these tough cases, leading to big improvements in tasks like image-text search and even zero-shot video retrieval. That means better AI for things like searching massive image libraries or automatically understanding video content—without extra training!
MovieAgent is pushing AI filmmaking to the next level. It blends different AI models and persona-based prompting to keep characters and storylines consistent—no more random face swaps! Frames are stitched together using the Stable Diffusion video model. While promising, it still has room for improvement, especially with tools like Wān. If AI can master long-form storytelling, Hollywood might have some real competition.
Hugging Face Drops the Largest Open-Source Driving AI Dataset
Hugging Face and Yaak just launched L2D, the biggest open-source multimodal dataset for automotive AI. It’s packed with real driving school data—expert and student driving policies, plus natural language instructions—to help AI understand the road like a human. This could mean safer, smarter self-driving tech trained on real-world decision-making. Huge step for autonomous vehicles!
reka just dropped reka flash 3, a 21-billion-parameter model built for reasoning, chat, coding, and instructions. it's open-source, holds its own against big-name models, and packs a 32k context window—great for handling long conversations or complex tasks. plus, it's designed for low-latency and on-device use, meaning faster responses without relying on massive cloud servers. this could be a game-changer for developers looking for a solid, open alternative.
Apple's Big 2025 Update: A Fresh New Look Across Devices
Apple is revamping its software in 2025 with iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, all inspired by visionOS. Expect redesigned icons, menus, and system elements for a seamless experience across iPhones, iPads, and Macs. These updates will debut alongside the iPhone 17 series, M5 MacBook Pro, and M5 iPad Pro, giving Apple's ecosystem a fresh, modern feel—perfect for a new generation of users.
NASA just sent SPHEREx and PUNCH into space from Vandenberg at 11:11 PM ET on Tuesday. SPHEREx is like a cosmic camera, mapping the entire sky in over 100 invisible colors to uncover the universe’s secrets. PUNCH is a team of satellites studying the Sun’s outer atmosphere and solar wind—key to understanding space weather. Big step for astronomy and solar science!
sam altman says openai’s latest model is really good at creative writing—something the company hasn’t focused on before. until now, their ai has been more into math and coding, but this could mean a major leap in storytelling, essays, and who knows, maybe even novels. no word yet on when it drops, but if it's as good as altman hints, human writers might have some real competition.
Leaked renders of the Pixel 10 show a device that looks nearly identical to the Pixel 9 but with a wider pane of glass on the back that hints at a third rear camera.
Sphere Entertainment is working on a design for mini-Spheres with a capacity for about 5,000 people. Smaller investigations of the Sphere could potentially attract a wider range of artists. Designing and producing the custom video content required for the venue requires a hefty investment from performers. There are no details on where or when the mini-Spheres would be built. The company plans to build a second full-sized Sphere in Abu Dhabi.
There has been a 'vibe shift' from and of the founders in Y Combinator's current batch - people want to achieve their dreams with as little VC as possible. This wasn't due to a lack of interest by VCs - the round was oversubscribed. It's becoming more common for YC startups to raise less capital than was offered to them by investors. Raising less means founders maintain a larger ownership stake in their companies, giving themselves more ongoing business and exit options.
"Despite liquidity support from our lenders and key counterparties, the company was unable to secure the necessary financial conditions to continue in its current form," Northvolt said Wednesday.
Northvolt said a Swedish court-appointed trustee will oversee the company's bankruptcy process, including the sale of the business and its assets and settlement of outstanding obligations.
Waymo also recently launched a commercial robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, just in time for the city's annual South by Southwest festival.
While would-be competitors including Elon Musk's automaker Tesla, and Amazon-owned Zoox, are continuing their own robotaxi testing and development, Waymo has pulled far ahead of self-driving companies in the U.S.
Before Tuesday's expansion, Waymo said it was serving more than 200,000 paid trips per week across San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix.
Alphabet doesn't disclose financial results for the autonomous vehicle business, but Waymo is part of its "Other Bets." That business unit generated $400 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 and incurred operating losses of $1.17 billion, according to the company's most recent financial filing.
Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars where new solar systems emerge.
The cone-shaped Spherex — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view. Four full-sky surveys are planned over two years, as the telescope circles the globe from pole to pole 400 miles (650 kilometers) up.
Spherex won't see galaxies in exquisite detail like NASA's larger and more elaborate Hubble and Webb space telescopes, with their narrow fields of view.
Instead of counting galaxies or focusing on them, Spherex will observe the total glow produced by the whole lot, including the earliest ones formed in the wake of the universe-creating Big Bang.
It's like "looking at the universe through a set of rainbow-colored glasses," said deputy project manager Beth Fabinsky of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
To keep the infrared detectors super cold — minus 350 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 210 degrees Celsius) — Spherex has a unique look. It sports three aluminum-honeycomb cones, one inside the other, to protect from the sun and Earth's heat, resembling a 10-foot (3-meter) shield collar for an ailing dog.
Besides the telescope, SpaceX's Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg Space Force Base for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch. From their own separate polar orbit, the satellites will observe the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, and the resulting solar wind.
All eyes however will be on astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who have been stuck aboard the ISS since June after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft developed propulsion issues and was deemed unfit for their return.
The pair, initially slated for an eight-day mission, were reassigned to Crew-9 after its astronauts arrived in September aboard a SpaceX Dragon. The spacecraft carried only two crew members instead of the usual four to make room for Wilmore and Williams. Crew-9 will remain in orbit until Crew-10 arrives.
"We came up prepared to stay long, even though we plan to stay short," Wilmore said in a recent news conference. "That's what your nation's human space flight program is all about, planning for unknown, unexpected contingencies."
The issue recently sparked a heated online exchange between Musk and Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, whom Musk called "fully retarded." Retired astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly and Chris Hadfield defended Mogensen.
One astronaut who backed Musk however was Wilmore, who offered contradictory statements in last week's press conference.
"I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says is absolutely factual," he said, seemingly endorsing the SpaceX founder's version of events, before adding "politics is not playing into this at all."
"We have the utmost respect for Mr. Musk, and obviously respect and admiration for our president of the United States, Donald Trump. We appreciate them... and we're thankful that they are in the positions they're in," he continued.
The Crew-10 team consists of NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan's Takuya Onishi, and Russia's Kirill Peskov.
"The longer that inflation runs above the Fed's target, even if it is due to temporary forces like tariffs, the greater the chance that expectations de-anchor to the upside," said Stephen Juneau, a U.S. economist at Bank of America Securities. "Were that to happen, restoring price stability would be that much harder for the Fed."
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI climbed 0.2% in February after gaining 0.4% in January. In the 12 months through February, the so-called core CPI increased 3.1% after rising 3.3% in January.
Following the cascade of tariffs, economists have upgraded their inflation forecasts.
New York Green Light Law, formally the Driver's License Access and Privacy Act, allows undocumented migrants to apply for drivers' licenses without providing a Social Security number, CBS News reported. The law also restricts the Department of Motor Vehicles from sharing that data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi last month announced the Department of Justice is suing New York over immigration enforcement, specifically the Green Law.
While in Albany, Homan also will support state Senate and Assembly Republicans' efforts to push back on New York's sanctuary city policies. In February 2024, GOP lawmakers introduced a bill that, among other things, would require local and state law enforcement to notify ICE when an arrested person or defendant is not a U.S. citizen.
Zeldin cited an example of that wasteful spending: "Millions of tax dollars on a museum to praise environmental justice."
"[It's] the size of a one-bedroom apartment, just blocks from the White House, and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to operate," he said. "And that museum was designed with major gaps in EPA history, mainly between 2016 and January 2021 [the years of the first Trump administration]."
Zeldin said he has worked with "the talented team" at the Department of Government Efficiency to find unnecessary spending.
"I've now canceled over $2 billion in DEI and environmental grants — 2 billion!" he said. "This agency spends nearly $100 million on rent every year for headquarters buildings that have remained overwhelmingly empty. We will pursue efficiencies by reducing our real estate footprint.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement that the bloc “will always remain open to negotiation.”
“As the U.S. are applying tariffs worth 28 billion dollars, we are responding with countermeasures worth 26 billion euros,” she said. The commission manages trade and commercial conflicts on behalf of the 27 member EU countries.
“We firmly believe that in a world fraught with geopolitical and economic uncertainties, it is not in our common interest to burden our economies with tariffs,” von der Leyen said.
Trump said his taxes would help create U.S. factory jobs, but von der Leyen said: “Jobs are at stake. Prices will go up. In Europe and in the United States.”
He said on Wednesday that it became clear during the trip “that the EU is not the problem.”
“I argued to avoid the unnecessary burden of measures and countermeasures, but you need a partner for that. You need both hands to clap,” Šefčovič told reporters at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
European steel companies brace for losses
The EU could lose up to 3.7 million tons of steel exports, according to the European steel association Eurofer. The U.S. is the second biggest export market for EU steel producers, representing 16% of the total EU steel exports.
The EU estimates that annual trade volume between both sides stands at about $1.5 trillion, representing some 30% of global trade. While the bloc has a substantial export surplus in goods, it says that is partly offset by the U.S. surplus in the trade of services.
Britain, which isn’t part of the EU, meanwhile said it won’t impose retaliatory measures of its own on the U.S. British Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Wednesday he would “continue to engage closely and productively with the U.S. to press the case for U.K. business interests.”
He did not rule out future tariffs on U.S. imports, saying “we will keep all options on the table and won’t hesitate to respond in the national interest.”
"Reports, including from Elon Musk himself, link various Democrat-affiliated non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to the attacks, specifically, Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project, and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)," Greene's official wrote in a memo announcing the letter and call for investigation.
"These groups receive a significant amount of funding from ActBlue, a Democrat superPAC."
Nevertheless, locals and conservationists have expressed outrage at the environmental impact of the highway. The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity.
Professor Silvia Sardinha works as a wildlife researcher at a university animal hospital where injured animals are treated and then released back into the wild. The hospital overlooks where the highway is being built.
"From the moment of deforestation, there is a loss," Sardinha said. "We are going to lose an area to release these animals back into the wild, the natural environment of these species. Land animals will no longer be able to cross to the other side too, reducing the areas where they can live and breed."
The project also is harming locals' ability to raise income.
"Everything was destroyed," said Claudio Verequete, who lives
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said in court papers that the woman, who has not been identified publicly, came forward to prosecutors just days before the start of Weinstein's first trial but was not part of that case.
Prosecutors said they did not pursue the women's allegations after Weinstein was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but they revisited them and secured a new indictment after the state's Court of Appeals threw out his conviction last April.
Farber ruled in October to combine the new indictment and existing charges into one trial.
Weinstein's lawyers contend that prosecutors prejudiced him by waiting nearly five years to bring the additional charge, suggesting they had elected not to include the allegation in his first trial so they could use it later if his conviction were reversed.
Weinstein has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anyone.
2 Senior GOP-Appointed Judges Speak on Federal Judiciary Threats
Amid threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary, two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, spoke out Tuesday.
Two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, spoke out Tuesday against threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary.
"Threats against judges are threats against constitutional government. Everyone should be taking this seriously,” said Judge Richard Sullivan, whom President Donald Trump appointed to the federal appeals court in New York.
"We allocate disappointment to half the people that come before us. Criticism is no surprise as part of the job. But I do think when it gets to the level of a threat, it really is about attacking judicial independence. And that’s just not good for the system or the country," said Sutton, who was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush.
Both judges stressed threats have been rising for years and neither mentioned Musk or Trump. Chief Justice John Roberts also devoted his year-end report to efforts to undermine judicial independence through intimidation, disinformation, and the prospect of public officials defying court orders.
Congress is not giving judges as much as they say they need for security, the judges said. Funding has been "flat" for the past two years, Sullivan said.
"Which means we're not even keeping up with inflation in an environment that is always changing and challenging," he said.
On impeachment talk, Sullivan said that parties to lawsuits get multiple cracks at the system, from the trial court to the Supreme Court.
"Impeachment is not, it shouldn't be a short-circuiting of that process. And so it is concerning if impeachment is used in a way that is designed to do just that," he said.
“The footprints are from 47 individual dinosaurs which passed across a patch of wet, white clay, possibly walking along or crossing a waterway,” Romilio said.
He further added: “It’s an unprecedented snapshot of dinosaur abundance, movement and behaviour from a time when no fossilised dinosaur bones have been found in Australia.”
Small-plant eating dinosaurs
The fossilized footprints display each distinctly three toes left by 47 individual dinosaurs. These weren’t giants but small plant-eaters.
No Early Jurassic dinosaur skeletons have ever been discovered in Australia.
Therefore, they’ve identified the footprints as belonging to Anomoepus scambus, an “ichnospecies” (a species defined by trace fossils like footprints).
Evidence suggests these creatures possessed legs ranging from a mere 15 to 50 centimeters in length.
With advanced 3D imaging and light filters, I was able to reveal hidden details in the footprints,” he added in the press release.
These techniques detected the subtle nuances of each footprint, providing insights into the dinosaurs’ movement and behavior.
Even more surprisingly, the research team uncovered another fossil sample — quite literally hiding in plain sight. This second rock, far larger than the school’s boulder, was being used as a simple car park entry delineator at the Callide Mine.
This unexpected find revealed two distinct footprints, larger than those found at the school, suggesting they were left by a slightly larger, bipedal dinosaur.
The new technique, which is safer, cheaper, and more sustainable than current plastic recycling methods, offers a promising path toward creating a circular economy for plastics.
“What’s particularly exciting about our research is that we harnessed moisture from air to break down the plastics, achieving an exceptionally clean and selective process,” Yosi Kratish, who is also the co-corresponding author of the study, said in a press release.
Recycling plastic remains a key focus in research, but existing methods often rely on extreme conditions—such as high temperatures, intensive energy use, and harsh solvents—that produce toxic byproducts.
Moreover, catalysts like platinum and palladium are expensive and contribute to the waste problem. Once the reaction is complete, researchers must separate the recycled materials from the solvents—a process that is both time-consuming and energy-intensive
“Instead of using solvents, we used water vapor from air. It’s a much more elegant way to tackle plastic recycling issues,” Kratish said.
To bridge this gap and bring artificial muscles closer to practical uses in robotics, prosthetics, and assistive technologies, researchers say new materials and manufacturing processes are needed to produce actuators that move naturally.
An important advancement has been made by researchers at Empa’s Laboratory for Functional Polymers, who have created a technique for 3D printing soft actuators.
According to the team, these DEAs are composed of interlocking layers of two silicone-based materials: a conductive electrode and a non-conductive dielectric. When voltage is applied, the actuator contracts like a muscle and relaxes when the voltage is removed.
However, the good news was short-lived as the start of Wall Street trading saw the return of characteristic selling pressure across crypto markets.
Bitcoin thus fell to $82,400 before consolidating, at the time of writing, circling the daily open.
In his latest market observations, popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital saw reason for cautious optimism on BTC price performance.
“The latest Bitcoin Daily Close means that price has began the process of exiting its recently filled CME Gap after turning it into support,” he told X followers, referring to the difference between session closing and opening levels on CME Group’s Bitcoin futures — a common short-term price influence.
magniX’s new HeliStorm engines
The HeliStorm engines, powered by magniX’s Samson battery, will provide a significantly lighter alternative to the turbine engines typically used in helicopters.
The engines also have the capacity to generate electricity in the air. This means they can be used to extend the range of hybrid-electric rotorcraft.
To date, magniX has developed two separate integrations for the R44 helicopters. In June 2022, the first electric Robinson R44 helicopter powered by a magniX motor flew at the Los Alamitos Army Airfield in California.
According to magniX’s press statement, “this was a significant milestone in the development of electric aviation and subsequent tests went on to deliver the world’s first point-to-point flight of an electric helicopter.”
With the new HeliStorm engines, magniX is building on its experience to expand its portfolio into a new space.
“The helicopter market represents a tremendous opportunity for magniX, as the strengths of our technology align well with the market need,” Reed Macdonald, CEO of magniX, explained in the company’s statement.
“Our HeliStorm engines build on our existing world-class capabilities and offer a step-change in performance, reliability, and value for our customers,” he concluded. “We look forward to bringing our innovative technology to another segment of the aviation industry.”
cientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized and characterized “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule containing the highly radioactive element berkelium.
This discovery marks a significant leap in understanding the chemical behavior of heavy actinides and challenges “long-held theories about the chemistry of the elements that follow uranium in the periodic table.”
“Only a few facilities around the world can protect both the compound and the worker while managing the combined hazards of a highly radioactive material that reacts vigorously with the oxygen and moisture in air,” explained Polly Arnold, a co-corresponding author and director of Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division.
The research team overcame these obstacles by utilizing custom-designed gloveboxes, enabling air-free syntheses with highly radioactive isotopes.
“Then, with just 0.3 milligram of berkelium-249, the researchers conducted single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments,” added the team in a press release.
Crucial for addressing nuclear waste issues
Interestingly, an unexpected finding emerged from electronic structure calculations performed by Jochen Autschbach at the University of Buffalo.
These calculations revealed that the berkelium atom in berkelocene exhibits a tetravalent oxidation state (+4), stabilized by the berkelium-carbon bonds. This contradicts traditional periodic table expectations, which suggested berkelium would behave more like lanthanide terbium.
“Traditional understanding of the periodic table suggests that berkelium would behave like the lanthanide terbium,” highlighted Minasian.
“But the berkelium ion is much happier in the +4 oxidation state than the other f-block ions we expected it to be most like,” asserted Arnold.
The researchers emphasize that this discovery necessitates the development of more accurate models of actinide behavior across the periodic table. Such models are crucial for addressing critical issues related to long-term nuclear waste storage and remediation.
“When scientists study higher symmetry structures, it helps them understand the underlying logic that nature is using to organize matter at the atomic level,” concluded Minasian.
Alex Krainer paints a harrowing picture of the current debt situation faced by countries in the West, as they have overcommitted to the war in Ukraine without considering that their side might not end up with a victory. Alex explains why he believes the collapse of Great Britain is on the horizon, the curious case of US treasury futures potentially being cleared in London, Trump's tough economic threats and his demand to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and much more.
"We literally have not been able to confer with our client once since he was taken off the streets of New York City," he said.
"He was taken by U.S. government agents in retaliation, essentially, for exercising his First Amendment rights, for speaking up in defense of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, for being critical of the U.S. government and of the Israeli government."
Khalil. 30, is married to an American citizen who is eight months pregnant. The administration has not officially charged Khalil with a crime, but he has been accused of distributing pro-Hamas literature on the Columbia campus.
“Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean [CR through April 11] that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass.”
With Republicans holding a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, and legislation needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, at least seven Democrats would need to support the spending bill, which passed the House 217-213 Tuesday night.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has also opposed the measure, so the GOP will need eight Democratic defections if there is full attendance in the chamber.
“In a shameful display of coordinated political theater, Democrats are willing to run out the clock on funding the government in a failed attempt to block the America First agenda,” the House speaker said. “Now it’s decision time for Senate Democrats: cast a vote to keep the government open or be responsible for shutting it down.”
Before Schumer’s announcement, the only Senate Democrat to openly back the House GOP continuing resolution was Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), while Sens. Jon Ossof (D-Ga.), Angus King (I-Maine), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) had signaled openness to supporting the bill.
“I’ve gone back and forth on this thing three times because it is two horrible choices,” Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) admitted to reporters before the lunch.
“If you shut down the government, the president is the person who decides what is essential,” Hickenlooper explained. “He decides what part of the government stays open, so you are actually giving him even more power.”
On the other side of the argument, a senior Senate Democratic aide told The Post that some members “worry a shutdown leaves Elon Musk alone in the candy store,” referring to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cost-cutting efforts.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., elicited a firestorm of conservative criticism this week when she said America is in its "angry teenage years" and suggested that President Donald Trump won the 2024 election because voters' brains are not fully formed.
"I don't think there's anyone who feels like what's going on right now is normal, even if you voted for Trump," Slotkin told ABC's "The View" on Tuesday. "We're about to turn 250 years old, right? We're still pretty young for a country."
"These are like our angry teenage years. We are going through this push and pull where we're happy, we're sad, we want this, we want that," Slotkin continued. "And what do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form."
"I think it's on us to be clear about not only leadership — and there's lots of leaders in both parties — but also a strategy," she said. "I think that's something that, as Trump has been successful in flooding the zone and, like every day, 15 things happening, we are still finding our footing, and I think you can't get better until you admit you have a problem."
The CIS study also found that nearly three-quarters of U.S. immigrants in 2023 had legal status, with 49% becoming U.S. citizens and 19% holding green cards. The proportion of children living with at least one immigrant parent has doubled since 1990, rising from 13% to 26%.
The immigrant population remains concentrated in major urban areas. New York City has the largest total number of immigrants at 5.9 million, while Miami has the highest percentage at 42%, while Texas and Florida continue to see the greatest numerical growth.
Steven Camarota, CIS director of research, emphasized the scale of the shift, saying, "The new data is not only more up-to-date, and therefore better reflects the migrant surge, it is the first government survey to reflect the re-weighting the Census Bureau did to reflect that surge better. The total foreign-born is now 53.3, not 47.8 million. And the percent of the U.S. population is a record 15.8%."
Bowman, along with Fed governor Christopher Waller, voted against Barr's proposal. She was appointed to the Fed's governing board by President Donald Trump in 2018 during his first term in the White House.
Barr resigned from his post as vice chair for supervision but has remained on the Fed's seven-member board of governors. As a result, Trump was forced to choose from among the existing seven governors, rather than appointing someone from outside the Fed.
Prior to joining the Fed, Bowman was the state bank commissioner in Kanas in 2017-2018, after serving as vice president at a local bank. She also had previous stints in Washington at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
A spokesperson for the governor said in a statement, "Governor Hochul has been clear with New Yorkers: She supports secure borders and deporting violent criminals but won't let New York help the Trump administration tear babies away from their parents. This isn't the first time Trump administration officials have lied about our policies — and it probably won't be the last — but Governor Hochul is staying focused on keeping New Yorkers safe."
Homan also denied that the Trump administration's decision to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams was related to the mayor's support for Trump's immigration policies and push for mass deportations.
"As far as all this, 'Oh, well he's making a deal because of his criminal issues' — I've been talking to him since November — it has nothing to do with that," Homan said. "Far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that the mayor of New York City, the largest city in the world, is actually sitting down with law enforcement to make that city safer."'
He also said that Adams "wanted to get federal immigration authorities back into Rikers Island to talk to illegal aliens who committed a crime against a citizen."
"I am done with the discussion of locker rooms, I am done with the discussion of bathrooms, and we better start having a conversation about the classroom," Emanuel said at a recent lecture. "We can lead a discussion and force a topic onto the agenda of this country that's worthy of having a debate about. The New York Times put crumbs all the way to the front door of the USAID headquarters and we just walked along back there."
In an appearance on "Real Time With Bill Maher," Emanuel lamented the party's handling of transgender issues.
"In seventh grade, if I had known I could've said the word ‘they' and gotten in the girls' bathroom, I would've done it," he said. "We literally are a superpower, we're facing off against China with 1.4 billion people and two-thirds of our children can't read eighth grade level."
While Emanuel has never lost a race, he declined to run for a third term as mayor of Chicago, following clashes with the teacher's union and his handling of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer.
If he ran, he'd face fierce opposition from the party's left flank and the McDonald shooting could doom his support among Black voters.
"I'm not sure people in South Carolina know or care who Rahm Emanuel is," Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a longtime South Carolina Democrat lawmaker told Politico. "His connection to Barack Obama is decades old. We're in a different time."
As the Trump administration continues its massive deportation effort, ICE is reportedly running out of detention space, and officials told reporters on Wednesday that the agency is currently detaining 46,700 migrants as they await deportation.
Citing internal data, CBS reported that ICE detention facilities are presently at approximately 120% capacity.
Customs and Border Protection rolled out a new app on Monday that will allow illegal immigrants to notify the federal government of their plan to "self-deport" in lieu of waiting for immigration authorities to arrest and detain them.
Called CBP Home, the app will give migrants the option of signaling their "intent to depart," according to the agency.
Trump removed all exemptions from his 2018 tariffs on the metals, in addition to increasing the tariffs on aluminum from 10%. His moves, based off a February directive, are part of a broader effort to disrupt and transform global commerce.
He has separate tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, with plans to also tax imports from the European Union, Brazil and South Korea by charging “reciprocal” rates starting on April 2.
The EU announced its own countermeasures on Wednesday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that as the United States was “applying tariffs worth 28 billion dollars, we are responding with countermeasures worth 26 billion euros,” or about $28 billion. Those measures, which cover not just steel and aluminum products but also textiles, home appliances and agricultural goods, are due to take effect on April 1.
Outside forecasts by the Yale University Budget Lab, Tax Policy Center and others suggest that U.S. families would have the costs of the taxes passed onto them in the form of higher prices.
With Wednesday's tariffs on steel and aluminum, Trump is seeking to remedy his original 2018 import taxes that were eroded by exemptions.
After Canada and Mexico agreed to his demand for a revamped North American trade deal in 2020, they avoided the import taxes on the metals. Other U.S. trading partners had import quotas supplant the tariffs. And the first Trump administration also allowed U.S. companies to request exemptions from the tariffs if, for instance, they couldn’t find the steel they needed from domestic producers.
Newark’s median rent increase was trailed by New York downstate metros White Plains and Newburgh, which logged 13.5% and 12.3% spikes, respectively.
A significant year-over-year decrease in rental prices earned Bayonne, New Jersey a spot at the bottom of the list. The small city is just across the bay from Newark and only a stone’s throw from Staten Island, but median rent in Bayonne plummeted in February by 15.6% year-over-year.
A one-bedroom in Bayonne, as of last month, will run you about $1,890.
While Newark and Bayonne are currently poles apart in annual rent growth, both cities were recently identified as the top two most affordable locations to buy a home near Manhattan.
Upstate Kingston clocked in as the cheapest city in the metropolitan area for renters, with a median price of $1,500 for a one-bed — though Kingston is not located off a commuter rail line. The former state capital is closely followed by Bridgeport, Connecticut — which is — at $1,650 per month and Paterson, New Jersey at $1,730 per month.
The power of cannabis terpenes
Terpenes are the aromatic compounds that give cannabis (and other plants) distinctive smells.
But beyond just making your favorite strain smell like citrus, pine, or skunk, these compounds might hold real medicinal value.
In a recent study, researchers tested four cannabis-derived terpenes—geraniol, linalool, beta-caryophyllene, and alpha-humulene—on mouse models of fibromyalgia and post-operative pain.
Geraniol emerged as the MVP, showing a significant reduction in pain levels.
“Our research shows that terpenes aren’t great for acute pain from injuries like stubbing your toe or touching a hot stove,” said lead researcher John Streicher, PhD. “But we are seeing significant pain relief for chronic or pathological pain.”
The House bill includes $9.9 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $10.6 billion for the Transportation Security Administration, and $10.4 billion for the Coast Guard, all under the Department of Homeland Security’s auspices.
The bill also reportedly slashes $2.5 billion in spending from former President Joe Biden’s efforts to provide visas and green cards through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars from various programs supported by the Biden administration.
A House GOP fact sheet on the bill said the funding prioritizes enforcement efforts for fentanyl and human trafficking, as well as increasing detention beds, including family detention beds that were phased out during the Biden administration.
Nature’s untapped potential
“The work being done by Dr. Streicher’s lab on terpenes and chronic pain highlights the importance of basic research,” said Todd Vanderah, PhD, director of the Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction at U of A Health Sciences.
“There are hundreds of unique plant compounds, including those in cannabis, that remain undiscovered,” Vanderah continued.
“Nature creates incredible chemical structures, and many could have potential benefits for human health.”
With millions suffering from chronic pain, cannabis-derived terpenes could mark a breakthrough in pain management.
And while your stoner friend may still swear by a good indica, science is proving they might be onto something—just with a bit more precision.
Light-show drones to redefine entertainment
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT) has signed a partnership agreement with Colorado-based Nova Sky Stories and Abu Dhabi-headquartered Analog, an Emirati company specializing in physical intelligence and mixed reality.
“By harnessing innovative technologies, we are finding new and immersive ways to share our vision and culture with the world,” said his excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of DCT Abu Dhabi.
“At the intersection of creativity and entertainment, this partnership with Nova Sky and Analog will challenge convention, raising the bar for what residents and visitors can experience. These visual spectacles reinforce Abu Dhabi’s leading position in entertainment innovation, delivering experiential and memorable moments for all.”
There have been recent declines in confidence surveys of consumers and small business owners, apparently due to escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and its major trading partners of Canada, Mexico and China, as well as a massive cut in government jobs since Trump entered the White House.
Mnuchin, who since leaving office has been running the investment firm Liberty Strategic Capita, also commented on the recent downturn in the stock market, pointing out to CNBC that the decreases have come only after the indexes reached high levels.
Light shows to take place at various locations
The light shows will take place in various locations across Abu Dhabi, with each performance designed to highlight a different aspect of the emirate’s cultural heritage and futuristic vision.
Incorporating holographic-style storytelling is also expected to create an emotional connection with audiences, making it more than just a spectacle—but an unforgettable experience.
Alex Kipman, Founder and CEO of Analog, stated that Abu Dhabi’s skyline is set to become a dynamic canvas for storytelling.
“We are painting holographic stories in the sky, fusing tradition with next-generation technology so audiences can feel that spark of wonder only possible when imagination meets reality,” said Kipman.
With this status, Baker Hughes will look into developing utility-scale geothermal power plants capable of delivering consistent electricity to military locations, even during grid disruptions.
Utility-scale geothermal plants
Ajit Menon, Vice President of Geothermal at Baker Hughes, explained the importance of geothermal energy in ensuring a stable power supply, saying, “Geothermal can provide reliable, secure baseload power.”
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the Western United States contains approximately 500,000 megawatts of potentially recoverable Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) resources.
Struggling electric vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt says it has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden.
Struggling electric vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt on Wednesday said it has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden.
The firm said it that it submitted the insolvency filing after an "exhaustive effort to explore all available means to secure a viable financial and operational future for the company."
"Like many companies in the battery sector, Northvolt has experienced a series of compounding challenges in recent months that eroded its financial position, including rising capital costs, geopolitical instability, subsequent supply chain disruptions, and shifts in market demand," Northvolt noted.
"Further to this backdrop, the company has faced significant internal challenges in its ramp-up of production, both in ways that were expected by engagement in what is a highly complex industry, and others which were unforeseen."
Northvolt's collapse into insolvency deals a major blow to Europe's ambition to become self-sufficient and build out its own EV battery supply chain to catch up to China, which leads as the world's largest market for electric vehicles by a wide margin.
The Swedish battery firm had been seeking financial support to continue its operations amid an ongoing Chapter 11 restructuring process in the United States, which it kicked off in November.
Salesforce on Wednesday announced plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years.
Salesforce on Wednesday announced plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years.
The cloud software giant said the investment is designed to accelerate the country's digital transformation and the adoption of Salesforce's flagship AI offering Agentforce.
Salesforce is among the many technology companies hoping to boost revenue with generative AI features.
The company launched the newest version of Agentforce last month. It has previously described the system — which it says can tackle sophisticated questions in Salesforce's Slack communications app, based on all available data — as the first digital AI platform for enterprises.
"We have had a fantastic experience here. We've been here for about 25 years at Salesforce and we're investing another $1 billion in our operations here," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told CNBC's Sara Eisen at CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore on Wednesday.
"We don't just do sales and marketing here. We also do extremely advanced artificial intelligence development. We have dozens of some of the very best AI engineers in the world here in our Singapore research center," he added.
Reddit shares rose more than 10% following an analyst note on Tuesday that said the company's shares remain "extremely attractive."
Reddit shares rose more than 10% on Tuesday, reversing a three-day slump that coincided with a broader decline among technology companies.
Despite Tuesday's gains, Reddit shares are still roughly 30% below the close on Wednesday.
Reddit's stock market upswing was likely bolstered by a Loop Capital analyst note published Tuesday that reiterated a buy rating and characterized the company's shares as "extremely attractive." The analyst note said that Reddit's 50% drop on Wall Street in the past month "is excessive," and that the social media company "has the biggest upside potential relative to Street estimates in our coverage universe."
The company's shares dropped more than 15% in February after the company reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter user numbers as a result of a Google search change that temporarily hurt its search-derived traffic. Although Reddit said at the time that it had recovered from the algorithmic shift, the user number miss spooked investors.
Reddit's shares have since spiraled downward along with other tech companies like Apple, Nvidia and Tesla off of concerns related to President Donald Trump's tariffs and growing fears of a recession. The seven most valuable tech companies lost more than $750 billion in market value on Monday with Nasdaq experiencing its biggest decline since 2022.
With the expansion, Waymo will now take passengers around Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale, California.
Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025.
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Waymo on Tuesday announced it is expanding its service to include another 27 square miles of coverage around the San Francisco Bay Area.
With the expansion, Waymo will now take passengers around Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale, California. The Alphabet-owned company opened its robotaxi service to the general public in San Francisco in June.
Waymo will initially limit the availability of its Silicon Valley service to users of the Waymo One app who are residents with ZIP codes in the area, the company said. Waymo plans to serve more riders across the region over time. The fleet of vehicles that will be in use in the new coverage areas are fully electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicles with Waymo's fifth generation of self-driving sensors, software and other technology.
Google owns 14% of Anthropic. Its investment gives it little control over the AI startup - Google holds no voting rights, no board seats, and no board observer rights at Anthropic. Google is set to invest an additional $750 million in Anthropic in September through a convertible debt - it has invested more than $3 billion into the AI company in total so far. It is only allowed to own up to 15% of Anthropic.
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman claims that his company has trained a new model that is 'really good' at creative writing. It is unknown how and when the model will be released. OpenAI has previously focused on challenges in the fields of math and programming rather than creative writing. The company experimenting with writing suggests that the latest generation of models has vastly improved on the wordsmithing front.
SPHEREx and PUNCH lifted off from the Vandenburg Space Force Base at 11:11 PM ET on Tuesday. SPHEREx is a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. PUNCH is a suite of satellites that will study the Sun's outer atmosphere and solar wind. This article gets into the specifics of what the missions aim to do.
NASA's newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time.
SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth's poles. Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to study the sun.
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.
An Australian man lived with a totally artificial heart for 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March. The BiVACOR total artificial heart uses magnetic levitation technology to replicate the natural blood flow of a healthy heart. The implant is still in the early stages of clinical study, but it looks to be a promising alternative for patients who are unable to wait for a donor heart or when a donor heart is simply not available. There is still a long way to go before the artificial heart could be considered a replacement for a heart transplant - the functioning time span of the device is still significantly less than that of a donor heart.
Paving the way for a pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months to finally come home, a routine crew rotation at the International Space Station has taken on unusual significance.
A routine crew rotation at the International Space Station has taken on unusual significance: It paves the way for a pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months to finally come home.
The NASA-SpaceX Crew-10 mission is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:48 PM (2348 GMT) on Wednesday. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries a Crew Dragon capsule with a four-member team on a scientific expedition to the orbital lab.
GOOGLE'S BIG BET ON ANTHROPIC—WITH STRINGS ATTACHED
Google owns 14% of Anthropic but has no say in how it runs—no board seats, no voting rights, nothing. Still, it’s doubling down, set to invest another $750 million in September through convertible debt. That brings its total investment past $3 billion. But there’s a cap: Google can’t own more than 15%. It’s a high-stakes game, with Google betting big while staying on the sidelines.
This system strings together multiple generative modalities and uses persona-based prompting to encourage consistency and accurate results. It then uses the Stable Diffusion video model to create and stitch frames together. This likely would be improved using Wan.
This new, more sustainable technique offers a promising path towards a circular economy for plastics.
In what could be a fix to the world’s plastic problem, researchers have developed a simple new method of harnessing moisture from air to breaking down the waste.
The process begins with an inexpensive catalyst that breaks down the bonds in polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the most widely used plastic in the polyester family. Once broken, the material is simply exposed to ambient air to transfer PET into monomers—the essential building blocks of plastics.
Researchers believe these monomers could then be recycled or upcycled into more valuable materials.
These DEAs use interlocking silicone layers—conductive and non-conductive—contracting with voltage like muscles and relaxing when off.
These DEAs use interlocking silicone layers—conductive and non-conductive—contracting with voltage like muscles and relaxing when off.
Swedish researchers have developed a breakthrough 3D printing method to create soft actuators.
These dielectric elastic actuators (DEA) are made from silicone-based materials, combining conductive electrodes with non-conductive dielectrics in interlocking layers.
According to the team at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), the innovation enables the efficient production of complex, flexible components, advancing soft robotics and smart materials.
The PayPal Honey browser extension, marketed as a convenient tool for online shoppers to discover deals and coupons, faced accusations of being a “scam” that steals revenue from influencers. The video alleges that Honey not only fails to deliver on its promise of finding the best available deals but also actively diverts affiliate revenue away from content creators.
Discrepancies between Honey's advertised functionality and its actual performance were highlighted last year by a content creator. While the extension claims to “find every working promo code on the internet,” it frequently fails to locate effective coupons or promotes Honey-branded codes, even when superior deals are readily available through simple online searches.
Build Your OWN AI Agent That Can SEE And SPEAK With Ease
This video tutorial teaches viewers how to build AI agents using the n8n platform without requiring any coding knowledge. The AI agent can see, speak, and think for itself, and can be integrated with various tools and services such as Telegram, Gmail, and Google Calendar. The tutorial covers the process of creating a Telegram bot, setting up a large language model, and integrating various tools to enable the agent to interact with its environment.
The AI agent can perform various tasks such as reading and responding to emails, setting calendar events, and searching the internet. The tutorial also covers how to set up a custom knowledge base using a vector database, which allows the agent to retrieve information from a database and use it to perform tasks.
According to the company, Gemma 3 models build upon the success of the previous AI models, which recently celebrated its first anniversary with over 100 million downloads. Gemma 3 aims to empower developers to create powerful AI applications that can run directly on devices, from smartphones to workstations.
“Gemma 3 delivers state-of-the-art performance for its size, outperforming Llama-405B, DeepSeek-V3 and o3-mini in preliminary human preference evaluations on LMArena’s leaderboard. This helps you to create engaging user experiences that can fit on a single GPU or TPU host,” the company said.
The speaker, a father of three, has been on a journey to learn coding and become a web developer for over a year and a half. However, after attending a coding boot camp and working as an entry-level WordPress developer, he realized that he might not be cut out for a full-blown software engineering career.
Despite enjoying problem-solving, he found that his strengths lie in solving people problems, and his background in entrepreneurship has always been more focused on service-based businesses. He has now shifted his focus towards building a web agency, leveraging his skills in WordPress development and project management.
As per the report, multiple sources have confirmed that Qualcomm has also been approached by TSMC with this joint venture proposal. If things go as planned, this joint venture would see TSMC taking on the operational responsibilities of Intel's foundry business, while remaining a minority stakeholder, the report adds. Intel's foundry division specialises in manufacturing chips designed to meet the specific requirements of various clients.
According to the report, the proposal for TSMC to partner with US chip designers for an Intel foundry joint venture is in its early stages and originated from a request by the Trump administration for TSMC to assist the struggling US chip icon.
State Bank of India (SBI) has said that customers may encounter significant disruptions to the bank's online services such as UPI due to technical issues. The bank has said that they are actively working to address the problems.
“We are facing technical issues in UPl, due to which customers may face issues in availing UPI services. UPI Services will be resumed by 20:00 Hrs IST dated 12.03.2025,” SBI said in a post on X.
ManusAI, introduced on March 6, 2025, is touted as the world's first fully autonomous AI agent. Unlike traditional AI models that require specific instructions, ManusAI can independently analyse, plan, and execute complex tasks across various domains. From planning a trip to Japan to conducting in-depth stock analysis, ManusAI demonstrates capabilities that go beyond existing AI assistants.
In a move to combat the spread of misinformation and deepfakes, Spain's government has approved a bill imposing significant fines on companies that fail to label AI-generated content. This legislation aligns with the European Union's AI Act, which mandates strict transparency requirements for high-risk AI systems
The new bill classifies the failure to label AI-generated content as a "serious offence," punishable by fines of up to 35 million euros ($38.2 million) or 7% of a company's global annual turnover. The legislation aims to ensure that AI systems do not harm society by spreading misinformation or undermining democracy
At first, it will be available as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users. OpenAI is calling it their "most knowledgeable model yet," but warns that it may not perform as well as some other models like o1 or o3-mini. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that GPT-4.5 is a "giant, expensive model" and that it "won’t crush benchmarks."
The first season of the show became available on Amazon Prime Video this week. Soon after, the content streaming platform started advertising the same on its landing page. Amazon plans to release new seasons of “The Apprentice” weekly, with the seventh season scheduled to become available in April.
Trump expressed his enthusiasm for the program's revival—a show where he served as a producer. Trump said: “I look forward to watching this show myself -- such great memories, and so much fun, but most importantly, it was a learning experience for all of us! The Apprentice is one of the best shows that I ever produced.
The concept of Starlink was first publicly announced by Musk in 2015, with the goal of providing high-speed, low-latency internet access worldwide. SpaceX began launching Starlink satellites in 2019, gradually building the constellation, which is nothing but a network of thousands of small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO).
The LEO approach reduces latency compared to traditional geostationary satellites, essentially reducing the time taken by signals to travel to ground infrastructure.
The upgraded assistant will be available in the coming weeks in the US, and Prime members can have it for free or others can pay $19.99 monthly for it.
The new assistant represents a complete redesign, transforming Alexa from a simple command-response tool into a conversational AI agent capable of autonomously completing complex tasks. Alexa+ can make restaurant reservations, order groceries, control smart home devices, and navigate web services with minimal user supervision.
Just a day after announcing an early beta voice feature for the chatbot developed by his AI startup xAI, the tech billionaire once again took to the social media platform X (earlier Twitter) to share another update about this Grok feature.
“Major improvement coming to Grok Voice tomorrow night!,” Musk wrote while responding to another post that praised Grok’s newly released voice feature and included some examples of the same.
The decision comes after the company discovered that these users were exploiting the AI technology for malicious purposes, including surveillance and influence operations.
According to OpenAI, the banned accounts were involved in activities that align with tactics often employed by authoritarian regimes to manipulate information both domestically and internationally. In one instance, users leveraged ChatGPT to generate news articles in Spanish that portrayed the United States negatively. These articles were later published in Latin American media under the byline of a Chinese company.
"Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we're also reinventing the browser," a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. Interested users can now sign up to be among the first to access the upcoming browser.
Aravind Srinivas, Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, called Comet "a pretty serious engineering undertaking" in a LinkedIn post, emphasizing that the browser will aim to help users with "deep research and tasks" through AI assistance.
Founded in 2022, Perplexity enters an already crowded browser market dominated by Google Chrome and other established players. The company will also face competition from newer AI-focused browsers like Dia
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Oh, I can completely do with out them, lol. Life would be great, lol. That's why I am going outside and working in the garden, lol, right after I drink my coffee.
I just noticed Inleo is working well on chrome. I can now use my browser for Inleo. Still haven't gotten used to Opera mini yet lol. Thanks Leo team #feedback
The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%.
The world’s biggest trading bloc was expecting the U.S. tariffs and prepared in advance, but the measures still place great strain on already tense transatlantic relations. Only last month, Washington warned Europe that it would have to take care of its own security in the future.
I think we should forget about crypto market for a while and find else to occupy our minds. That's the only way I think we can be truly happy this time.
Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire announced on Wednesday that she will not seek re-election in 2026, saying it was "just time" in a video posted online by Punchbowl News.
"There are urgent challenges ahead, both here at home and around the world and while I am not seeking re-election, believe me, I am not retiring," she said.
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AI= Job polarization+Job Displacement
AI skills are a must to improve the odds of getting a job. The main problem is that AI evolution is faster than acquiring skills and reskilling.
Yep. That is the case.
The real "Fear of Missing Out" is created by AI.
Missing out on AI will be catastrophic for anyone involved....individuals, companies, or nations.
yes, of course, this is an emerging determinant of geopolitics. But it equally and proportionately has a strong bearing in individual life and society.
People need to take responsibility. There is a wide open platform for those who get on board. Yet most are sitting around on social media talking the same nonsense they have for years.
Unfortuantely, we have not trained our habitual disposition. The incumbent mind of web 2.0 is reluctant to evolve into web 3.0. Those who miss out will miss out for ever. They will not be even eligble for unit of labour.
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wowww I got second place! 🙌
Wow! A lot of changes on the leaderboard, the change is good. New positions attained.
Thanks for the update Mightpossibly.
did you see the top 10 leaderboard though? You're still on it. Barely ;)
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X2Earn is an interesting concept... I'm seeing all kinds of "do-this to earn" platforms. Some of them seem to have potential while others look like scams... we'll see what sticks
Haha first thought it was Elons new monetization plan 😅
Yeah many ideas being thrown out there. Lets see what sticks
Got any interesting ones? Hit me with it
working on an article about one atm
The market has shifted from "having a facility" to "scrutinizing a facility".
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don't get in your own way of success
good advice and easier said than done
yep, it's most people's weakness
Individual success has to be qualified by the success around you.
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Visited my father again after work. The hospital in Maastricht is enormous.
His situation is the same. Waiting to be operated on Wednesday.
Thankfully the pain medication is working well.
May the surgeon know what he‘s doing and have a relaxed hand. All the best and lots of energy for your dad! 💪🏽😎👍🏽
Our thoughts and prayers go out.
Thank you, much needed.
Here is me wishing your dad a successful surgery and a quick recovery.
Thank you so much.
Good day inleo friends, how is your day going?
I have been doing some cleaning at home since morning, just finished with it a little while ago.
good morning to you as well
Mysterious radio signals are coming from ‘unprecedented’ part of space, scientists say
Mysterious radio pulses are coming from somewhere scientists have never seen before.
For a decade, something has been sending blasts of radio emissions towards us every two hours, roughly from the Big Dipper constellation.
But work over those years using multiple telescopes has finally revealed where they might be coming from. The long radio blasts appear to be emitted from a pair of dead stars, researchers believe.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/mysterious-radio-signals-are-coming-from-unprecedented-part-of-space-scientists-say/ar-AA1AKXpx?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=6310bef7a25a4c6da13a3101618fa035&ei=10
Amazing pulled pork bun in Schloss Hof. #foodtalk #foodies
This got me salivating here.
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TARIF-----> RECIPROCAL TARIF
PRICE ACTION------> LIQUIDATION
I was buying a new card daily, but supply is starting to try up, so I got a bit more aggressive... #splinterlands
DCA?
I was wanting to wait for DEC to go back up but at the rate these cards are flying off the market it wasn't going to be worth it. Picking up cards for survival mode.
BREAKING: Michael Saylor claims that the United States currently holds the largest Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in the world.
Who is the second largest holder of strategic bitcoin reserve?
Exact figures aren't widely confirmed. Some sources hint at major institutional holders or corporations with sizeable treasuries, but details remain murky. The rankings often depend on peer estimates and limited transparency in reporting.
What about sovereign wealth funds? Are there any statistics relating to that and their Bitcoin holdings?
Some sovereign wealth funds are rumored to have exposure to Bitcoin, but public data on their exact holdings is limited. Most reports remain speculative due to low transparency in these assets
What is your basic system prompt?
1 BTC = ∞ USD
Bitcoin will forever be capped at 21 million.
An endless supply of dollars will keep chasing Bitcoin.
With this beautiful view of Avila Hill I want to wish you a happy and productive day #nature #photography #crypto #cent #bbh #newlion
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US inflation falls to 2.8% lower than expectation.
1/2 🧵 Manus, an AI agent regarded as more sophisticated than a typical chatbot, is capable of performing a wide range of tasks, such as analyzing the stock ..
#ai #manus #tech
This will be commonplace by the end of the year.
We'll see well trained AI bot doing complex algorithms and tasks.
2/2 🧵 market or designing a customized travel guide, all based on straightforward user instructions.
Time to feed LeoAI some more!
We need to grow our database.
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Trump’s Bold Bitcoin Reserve
President Donald Trump has approved the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will be funded by Bitcoins seized through criminal or civil asset forfeiture—at no additional taxpayer cost.
#btc #bitcoin
The reserve won’t buy more BTC, but efforts are underway to grow it through budget-neutral methods.
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Any issue with 3speak? It seems my leo shorts are not uploaded for a week now.
#feedback #3speak #leoshorts
There was an issue with 3speak...I got some long form to go through yesterday.
I didnt try today.
When did you last sent one through?
More than a week now, although I have not tried today. Thinking the problem is still yet to be resolved.
Anyone knows about #gosh? Is it still goshing? 🤓🤔
Good morning
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What is the estimated size of transactions moving between L2s?
"Curious if there's an average amount for transactions when bridging between these layers?"
I think they will decline in size as AI agents are built.
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"Every mention of DOGE's spending—be it a million here or ten million there—seems minor.
Yet, the portrayal in the media overlooks how it undermines an entire system and benefits those collecting sizable six- and seven-figure salaries while promoting a driven, ideologically charged narrative.
Every dollar matters." #Economics #ValueMatters
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US Inflation Slows to 2.8%
U.S. consumer prices increased less than expected in February, but the improvement is likely temporary against the backdrop of aggressive tariffs on imports that are expected to raise the costs of most goods in the months ahead.
The consumer price index rose 0.2% last month after accelerating 0.5% in January, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday.
In the 12 months through February, the CPI increased 2.8% after climbing 3.0% in January. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI gaining 0.3% and advancing 2.9% year-on-year.
Tariffs will play its part it is just beginning. Unless they reduce VAT and other taxes to control consumer goods price escalation trend.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
#quote
Better be ready
It is murky out there.
that was three months ago ago and it is still valid today
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 3/12/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Fake Boy - The Worst Game Boy Ever
The Power Joy Voyager is a portable video game console that heavily resembles the iconic Nintendo Game Boy, but with a multitude of issues and problems. The system is poorly built, with a flimsy design and cheap materials. The directional pad is not a traditional pad, but rather individual buttons that can be pressed simultaneously, leading to awkward gameplay. The screen is also of poor quality, with a thin plastic screen protector that can damage the screen over time.
The Voyager comes with a cartridge that contains a collection of games, but these games are not what they seem. They are actually hacked and pirated versions of classic games. The system also has a TV mode, but it is not compatible with the games on the cartridge, and instead plays a separate set of games that are also pirated.
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Remote Control Your Steam Deck With A Powerful Free Tool! RustDesk FTW
The video showcases a free tool called RustDesk, which allows users to control their Steam Deck from a Windows desktop, Linux PC, or mobile phone. The host, Shane Arman Rowe, demonstrates how to install RustDesk on both a Windows 11 PC and a Steam Deck, and how to use it to remotely access and control the Steam Deck. He also highlights the tool's features, such as easy file transfers, and notes that it is free and works without the need for a central server.
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Amazon's Top 10 Gadgets
The video showcases the top 10 coolest gadgets available on Amazon, featuring a range of innovative products that can enhance daily life, productivity, and entertainment. The list includes the Rocketbook Pro 2.0, a smart notebook that combines analog and digital note-taking, and the Mancro Laptop Backpack, a practical and functional bag designed for modern professionals and students.
Other gadgets on the list include the Canon Ivy Mini Photo Printer, a compact device for printing instant memories, and the USBC Hub 7-in-1 Multiport Adapter, a versatile accessory for expanding device functionality. The video also highlights the Dell Inspiron 167000, a powerful and stylish laptop, and the Lamle Adjustable Laptop Stand, a sleek and ergonomic solution for enhancing comfort and productivity.
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Compiled Python is FAST
The video discusses the reputation of Python being slow, but the speaker argues that with the right tools, Python can be as fast as C++. The speaker uses the longest common subsequence problem as a case study, implementing a dynamic programming solution in native Python, native C++, and various libraries built on top of Python.
The speaker compares the performance of these implementations, including NumPy, mypyc, Cython, Numba, and Taichi. The results show that some of these approaches can achieve C++-level performance, with Taichi being the fastest. The speaker also discusses the trade-offs in terms of code readability and intuitiveness.
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I Used 1980s Technology for a Week
The video's creator decided to use only 1980s technology for a week, replacing all their modern devices. They started with a DynaTech 8000x, the first mobile phone released in 1983, which had a 10-hour charge time for 30 minutes of call time.
They also used a Sony Walkman, the first portable music device, and a Macintosh SE, a portable computer from 1987. The creator had to adapt to using these old technologies, including using a Walkman for music, a Macintosh SE for typing, and a payphone for making calls. They also used VHS tapes for watching movies and had to deal with the challenges of using old technology, such as a TV that started smoking when they tried to use it.
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"I'll never stop playing modern games like it's still 1998" Video Summary
The speaker discusses their preference for playing modern games on a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor, similar to how they played games in 1998. They cite two main reasons for this: motion clarity and input latency. CRTs have zero added motion blur during movement, making it easier to track enemies in fast-paced games, whereas LCDs can introduce blurring between frames.
Additionally, CRTs have zero added input latency, allowing for quicker reaction times in twitchy first-person shooters. The speaker also expresses their fondness for gaming in a 4:3 aspect ratio, which they find provides a more immersive experience with less distractions.
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Following Valve’s Lead
The Steam Deck, a device that blurs the lines between PC and console, has set a new standard for gaming hardware. Its ability to switch between a console-like experience and a desktop PC mode has been particularly appealing, and it seems that Microsoft is taking note.
The next Xbox, rumored to be released in the next two years, may follow a similar path, with Microsoft reportedly planning to create a device that is essentially a PC with a TV-friendly shell and a specific set of specs in mind. This approach would allow developers to build games for a Windows PC, but with the knowledge of exactly what the specs will be, making it easier to optimize games. The lack of dev kits for the next Xbox has sparked speculation, but it's possible that games can be developed and run on the device without the need for dev kits.
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Google releases SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to identify wildlife
Google has open-sourced SpeciesNet, an AI model for identifying animal species in wildlife images, to assist researchers with camera trap data analysis.
#technology #ai #google #science #wildlife
Lopsided AI Revenues
NVIDIA's data center business leads the AI market with Q4 revenues of $31 billion and over 70% margins. Microsoft and IBM follow with $3.25 billion and $2 billion in AI revenues, respectively. Hardware still dominates over software and services in the AI sector.
#technology #ai #nvidia #revenue
The TechCrunch AI glossary
This article provides definitions for key AI terminology, including "AI agents," chain-of-thought reasoning, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs). Deep learning is described as a subset of machine learning inspired by the neural pathways in the human brain, and LLMs are described as neural networks enabling AI assistants like ChatGPT. Fine-tuning and the importance of weights in optimizing AI models are also discussed.
#technology #ai #techcrunch #glossary
AI Market Summary & Conclusions (March 2, 2025)
The AI industry is evolving rapidly, with OpenAI's GPT-4.5 focusing on refinement, Google's Gemini 2.0 facing adoption hurdles, and China's DeepSeek and Kimi pushing the limits of affordable, specialized AI. Meta is expanding AI into wearables and robotics, while XAI's Grok 3 remains a niche competitor. The AI race is intensifying as specialization and real-world integration become critical, challenging established players like OpenAI and Google.
#technology #ai #market #summary #conclusions
Hugging Face Expanding LeRobot Platform
Hugging Face and Yaak have released L2D, the largest open-source multimodal dataset for automotive AI. It includes expert and student driving policies collected from driving schools, with natural language instructions to enhance spatial intelligence models.
#technology #ai #huggingface #lerobot
Reasoning with Reka Flash
Reka has open-sourced Reka Flash 3, a 21B parameter general-purpose model optimized for reasoning, chat, coding, and instruction following. It performs competitively with proprietary models and features a 32k context length, making it suitable for low-latency and on-device applications.
#technology #ai #reasoning #rekaflash
OpenAI Introduces New Tools for AI Agents
OpenAI has launched new APIs and an Agents SDK to help developers build AI agents more easily. The toolkit includes web and file search, computer use capabilities, and observability tools to streamline agent orchestration and task automation.
#technology #ai #openai #agents
GOOGLE COLAB JUST GOT A BOOST WITH AI AGENT TOOL!
Google Colab now includes a powerful AI agent tool for data science! This upgrade helps users clean data, spot trends, and generate insights straight from their notebooks. It’s a game-changer for anyone working with big data, making tedious tasks like data cleaning a breeze. Imagine getting instant analysis without needing to juggle multiple apps. It's like having a personal assistant for your spreadsheets!
#googlecolab #ai #datascience #technology
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MICROSOFT UNVEILS DRAGON COPILOT FOR HEALTHCARE
Microsoft's Dragon Copilot, powered by Nuance’s AI tech, is here to help healthcare workers tackle burnout. With AI-driven dictation and ambient listening, it streamlines documentation, making it faster and more efficient for doctors and nurses. Instead of getting bogged down by endless paperwork, they can focus on what really matters—patients. It's like having a personal assistant who keeps track of everything without missing a beat.
#healthcare #ai #microsoft #nuance #technology
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Google’s New AI Helps Identify Wildlife Species
Google just launched SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to help researchers identify animal species in camera trap images. By open-sourcing the model, it aims to assist wildlife researchers in analyzing data more efficiently. Think of it as a super-powered nature detective, sorting through endless photos to find the creatures hiding in them. It's a game-changer for conservation efforts and biodiversity research. The model’s now available for anyone to use, boosting global wildlife monitoring.
#AI #wildlife #research #technology
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THE AI REVENUE RACE: NVIDIA TAKES THE LEAD
NVIDIA is dominating the AI scene with a massive $31 billion in Q4 revenue and a hefty 70% profit margin. Microsoft and IBM are trailing behind, with $3.25 billion and $2 billion in AI earnings, respectively. Despite the rise of software, hardware still rules the AI market. NVIDIA’s impressive numbers show how vital infrastructure is in this booming industry.
#AI #NVIDIA #Microsoft #IBM #technology
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AI Lingo Made Simple: The Basics You Need to Know
Ever wondered what all those AI terms really mean? This quick glossary break down key ideas like "AI agents," "chain-of-thought reasoning," and "deep learning." Deep learning mimics how our brains process info, and large language models (LLMs) power tools like ChatGPT. Plus, it explains how fine-tuning and adjusting "weights" can make AI smarter. Now you're ready to speak the AI language like a pro!
#ai #machinelearning #deeplearning #technology
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REVOLUTIONIZING DIFFUSION MODELS IN AI
A new paper on generalized discrete diffusion introduces a denoising process paired with an enhanced masking scheme, making training faster and more efficient. This approach helps models like AI text generators better correct their own mistakes, improving overall performance. Imagine a machine learning model that learns from its errors in real time—sounds like a game changer, right? This could mean better, faster models for text generation and beyond.
#machinelearning #ai #diffusionmodels #technology
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Making AI Smarter at Understanding Images and Text
Embedding models often struggle with tricky mismatches between images and text, especially in hard negative pairs. This paper introduces a new regularization strategy that helps AI learn from these tough cases, leading to big improvements in tasks like image-text search and even zero-shot video retrieval. That means better AI for things like searching massive image libraries or automatically understanding video content—without extra training!
#ai #machinelearning #deeplearning #computervision #technology
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AI MAKES MOVIES—BUT CAN IT KEEP THEM CONSISTENT?
MovieAgent is pushing AI filmmaking to the next level. It blends different AI models and persona-based prompting to keep characters and storylines consistent—no more random face swaps! Frames are stitched together using the Stable Diffusion video model. While promising, it still has room for improvement, especially with tools like Wān. If AI can master long-form storytelling, Hollywood might have some real competition.
#ai #film #stablediffusion #machinelearning #technology
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Hugging Face Drops the Largest Open-Source Driving AI Dataset
Hugging Face and Yaak just launched L2D, the biggest open-source multimodal dataset for automotive AI. It’s packed with real driving school data—expert and student driving policies, plus natural language instructions—to help AI understand the road like a human. This could mean safer, smarter self-driving tech trained on real-world decision-making. Huge step for autonomous vehicles!
#huggingface #ai #selfdriving #opensource #technology
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REKA FLASH 3: A NEW OPEN-SOURCE POWERHOUSE
reka just dropped reka flash 3, a 21-billion-parameter model built for reasoning, chat, coding, and instructions. it's open-source, holds its own against big-name models, and packs a 32k context window—great for handling long conversations or complex tasks. plus, it's designed for low-latency and on-device use, meaning faster responses without relying on massive cloud servers. this could be a game-changer for developers looking for a solid, open alternative.
#opensource #ai #machinelearning #llm #technology
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Apple's Big 2025 Update: A Fresh New Look Across Devices
Apple is revamping its software in 2025 with iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, all inspired by visionOS. Expect redesigned icons, menus, and system elements for a seamless experience across iPhones, iPads, and Macs. These updates will debut alongside the iPhone 17 series, M5 MacBook Pro, and M5 iPad Pro, giving Apple's ecosystem a fresh, modern feel—perfect for a new generation of users.
#apple #ios19 #macos16 #ipadpro #technology
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NASA Just Launched Two Game-Changing Missions
NASA just sent SPHEREx and PUNCH into space from Vandenberg at 11:11 PM ET on Tuesday. SPHEREx is like a cosmic camera, mapping the entire sky in over 100 invisible colors to uncover the universe’s secrets. PUNCH is a team of satellites studying the Sun’s outer atmosphere and solar wind—key to understanding space weather. Big step for astronomy and solar science!
#nasa #spacetech #astronomy #science #technology
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OPENAI’S NEXT AI COULD BE A TOP-TIER WRITER
sam altman says openai’s latest model is really good at creative writing—something the company hasn’t focused on before. until now, their ai has been more into math and coding, but this could mean a major leap in storytelling, essays, and who knows, maybe even novels. no word yet on when it drops, but if it's as good as altman hints, human writers might have some real competition.
#openai #artificialintelligence #creativewriting #futuretech #technology
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A new Pixel 10 leak shows Google adding another camera
Leaked renders of the Pixel 10 show a device that looks nearly identical to the Pixel 9 but with a wider pane of glass on the back that hints at a third rear camera.
#technology #google #pixel10 #leak
Meta is reportedly testing in-house chips for AI training
Meta has developed a chip to handle AI-specific workloads in partnership with TSMC to reduce its reliance on hardware makers like Nvidia.
#technology #meta #ai #chips
The creators of the Las Vegas Sphere want to open smaller mini-Spheres
Sphere Entertainment is working on a design for mini-Spheres with a capacity for about 5,000 people. Smaller investigations of the Sphere could potentially attract a wider range of artists. Designing and producing the custom video content required for the venue requires a hefty investment from performers. There are no details on where or when the mini-Spheres would be built. The company plans to build a second full-sized Sphere in Abu Dhabi.
#technology #entertainment #sphere
Y Combinator founders raising less money signals a ‘vibe shift,’ VC says
There has been a 'vibe shift' from and of the founders in Y Combinator's current batch - people want to achieve their dreams with as little VC as possible. This wasn't due to a lack of interest by VCs - the round was oversubscribed. It's becoming more common for YC startups to raise less capital than was offered to them by investors. Raising less means founders maintain a larger ownership stake in their companies, giving themselves more ongoing business and exit options.
#technology #ycombinator #investment
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"Despite liquidity support from our lenders and key counterparties, the company was unable to secure the necessary financial conditions to continue in its current form," Northvolt said Wednesday.
Northvolt said a Swedish court-appointed trustee will oversee the company's bankruptcy process, including the sale of the business and its assets and settlement of outstanding obligations.
Waymo also recently launched a commercial robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, just in time for the city's annual South by Southwest festival.
While would-be competitors including Elon Musk's automaker Tesla, and Amazon-owned Zoox, are continuing their own robotaxi testing and development, Waymo has pulled far ahead of self-driving companies in the U.S.
Before Tuesday's expansion, Waymo said it was serving more than 200,000 paid trips per week across San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix.
Alphabet doesn't disclose financial results for the autonomous vehicle business, but Waymo is part of its "Other Bets." That business unit generated $400 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 and incurred operating losses of $1.17 billion, according to the company's most recent financial filing.
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Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars where new solar systems emerge.
The cone-shaped Spherex — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view. Four full-sky surveys are planned over two years, as the telescope circles the globe from pole to pole 400 miles (650 kilometers) up.
Spherex won't see galaxies in exquisite detail like NASA's larger and more elaborate Hubble and Webb space telescopes, with their narrow fields of view.
Instead of counting galaxies or focusing on them, Spherex will observe the total glow produced by the whole lot, including the earliest ones formed in the wake of the universe-creating Big Bang.
It's like "looking at the universe through a set of rainbow-colored glasses," said deputy project manager Beth Fabinsky of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
To keep the infrared detectors super cold — minus 350 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 210 degrees Celsius) — Spherex has a unique look. It sports three aluminum-honeycomb cones, one inside the other, to protect from the sun and Earth's heat, resembling a 10-foot (3-meter) shield collar for an ailing dog.
Besides the telescope, SpaceX's Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg Space Force Base for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch. From their own separate polar orbit, the satellites will observe the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, and the resulting solar wind.
All eyes however will be on astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who have been stuck aboard the ISS since June after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft developed propulsion issues and was deemed unfit for their return.
The pair, initially slated for an eight-day mission, were reassigned to Crew-9 after its astronauts arrived in September aboard a SpaceX Dragon. The spacecraft carried only two crew members instead of the usual four to make room for Wilmore and Williams. Crew-9 will remain in orbit until Crew-10 arrives.
"We came up prepared to stay long, even though we plan to stay short," Wilmore said in a recent news conference. "That's what your nation's human space flight program is all about, planning for unknown, unexpected contingencies."
The issue recently sparked a heated online exchange between Musk and Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, whom Musk called "fully retarded." Retired astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly and Chris Hadfield defended Mogensen.
One astronaut who backed Musk however was Wilmore, who offered contradictory statements in last week's press conference.
"I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says is absolutely factual," he said, seemingly endorsing the SpaceX founder's version of events, before adding "politics is not playing into this at all."
"We have the utmost respect for Mr. Musk, and obviously respect and admiration for our president of the United States, Donald Trump. We appreciate them... and we're thankful that they are in the positions they're in," he continued.
The Crew-10 team consists of NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan's Takuya Onishi, and Russia's Kirill Peskov.
"The longer that inflation runs above the Fed's target, even if it is due to temporary forces like tariffs, the greater the chance that expectations de-anchor to the upside," said Stephen Juneau, a U.S. economist at Bank of America Securities. "Were that to happen, restoring price stability would be that much harder for the Fed."
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI climbed 0.2% in February after gaining 0.4% in January. In the 12 months through February, the so-called core CPI increased 3.1% after rising 3.3% in January.
Following the cascade of tariffs, economists have upgraded their inflation forecasts.
New York Green Light Law, formally the Driver's License Access and Privacy Act, allows undocumented migrants to apply for drivers' licenses without providing a Social Security number, CBS News reported. The law also restricts the Department of Motor Vehicles from sharing that data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi last month announced the Department of Justice is suing New York over immigration enforcement, specifically the Green Law.
While in Albany, Homan also will support state Senate and Assembly Republicans' efforts to push back on New York's sanctuary city policies. In February 2024, GOP lawmakers introduced a bill that, among other things, would require local and state law enforcement to notify ICE when an arrested person or defendant is not a U.S. citizen.
Zeldin cited an example of that wasteful spending: "Millions of tax dollars on a museum to praise environmental justice."
"[It's] the size of a one-bedroom apartment, just blocks from the White House, and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to operate," he said. "And that museum was designed with major gaps in EPA history, mainly between 2016 and January 2021 [the years of the first Trump administration]."
Zeldin said he has worked with "the talented team" at the Department of Government Efficiency to find unnecessary spending.
"I've now canceled over $2 billion in DEI and environmental grants — 2 billion!" he said. "This agency spends nearly $100 million on rent every year for headquarters buildings that have remained overwhelmingly empty. We will pursue efficiencies by reducing our real estate footprint.
The EU moves to protect itself
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement that the bloc “will always remain open to negotiation.”
“As the U.S. are applying tariffs worth 28 billion dollars, we are responding with countermeasures worth 26 billion euros,” she said. The commission manages trade and commercial conflicts on behalf of the 27 member EU countries.
“We firmly believe that in a world fraught with geopolitical and economic uncertainties, it is not in our common interest to burden our economies with tariffs,” von der Leyen said.
Trump said his taxes would help create U.S. factory jobs, but von der Leyen said: “Jobs are at stake. Prices will go up. In Europe and in the United States.”
He said on Wednesday that it became clear during the trip “that the EU is not the problem.”
“I argued to avoid the unnecessary burden of measures and countermeasures, but you need a partner for that. You need both hands to clap,” Šefčovič told reporters at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
European steel companies brace for losses
The EU could lose up to 3.7 million tons of steel exports, according to the European steel association Eurofer. The U.S. is the second biggest export market for EU steel producers, representing 16% of the total EU steel exports.
The EU estimates that annual trade volume between both sides stands at about $1.5 trillion, representing some 30% of global trade. While the bloc has a substantial export surplus in goods, it says that is partly offset by the U.S. surplus in the trade of services.
Britain, which isn’t part of the EU, meanwhile said it won’t impose retaliatory measures of its own on the U.S. British Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Wednesday he would “continue to engage closely and productively with the U.S. to press the case for U.K. business interests.”
He did not rule out future tariffs on U.S. imports, saying “we will keep all options on the table and won’t hesitate to respond in the national interest.”
"Reports, including from Elon Musk himself, link various Democrat-affiliated non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to the attacks, specifically, Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project, and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)," Greene's official wrote in a memo announcing the letter and call for investigation.
"These groups receive a significant amount of funding from ActBlue, a Democrat superPAC."
Nevertheless, locals and conservationists have expressed outrage at the environmental impact of the highway. The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity.
Professor Silvia Sardinha works as a wildlife researcher at a university animal hospital where injured animals are treated and then released back into the wild. The hospital overlooks where the highway is being built.
"From the moment of deforestation, there is a loss," Sardinha said. "We are going to lose an area to release these animals back into the wild, the natural environment of these species. Land animals will no longer be able to cross to the other side too, reducing the areas where they can live and breed."
The project also is harming locals' ability to raise income.
"Everything was destroyed," said Claudio Verequete, who lives
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said in court papers that the woman, who has not been identified publicly, came forward to prosecutors just days before the start of Weinstein's first trial but was not part of that case.
Prosecutors said they did not pursue the women's allegations after Weinstein was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but they revisited them and secured a new indictment after the state's Court of Appeals threw out his conviction last April.
Farber ruled in October to combine the new indictment and existing charges into one trial.
Weinstein's lawyers contend that prosecutors prejudiced him by waiting nearly five years to bring the additional charge, suggesting they had elected not to include the allegation in his first trial so they could use it later if his conviction were reversed.
Weinstein has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anyone.
2 Senior GOP-Appointed Judges Speak on Federal Judiciary Threats
Amid threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary, two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, spoke out Tuesday.
Two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, spoke out Tuesday against threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary.
"Threats against judges are threats against constitutional government. Everyone should be taking this seriously,” said Judge Richard Sullivan, whom President Donald Trump appointed to the federal appeals court in New York.
"We allocate disappointment to half the people that come before us. Criticism is no surprise as part of the job. But I do think when it gets to the level of a threat, it really is about attacking judicial independence. And that’s just not good for the system or the country," said Sutton, who was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush.
Both judges stressed threats have been rising for years and neither mentioned Musk or Trump. Chief Justice John Roberts also devoted his year-end report to efforts to undermine judicial independence through intimidation, disinformation, and the prospect of public officials defying court orders.
Congress is not giving judges as much as they say they need for security, the judges said. Funding has been "flat" for the past two years, Sullivan said.
"Which means we're not even keeping up with inflation in an environment that is always changing and challenging," he said.
On impeachment talk, Sullivan said that parties to lawsuits get multiple cracks at the system, from the trial court to the Supreme Court.
"Impeachment is not, it shouldn't be a short-circuiting of that process. And so it is concerning if impeachment is used in a way that is designed to do just that," he said.
“The footprints are from 47 individual dinosaurs which passed across a patch of wet, white clay, possibly walking along or crossing a waterway,” Romilio said.
He further added: “It’s an unprecedented snapshot of dinosaur abundance, movement and behaviour from a time when no fossilised dinosaur bones have been found in Australia.”
Small-plant eating dinosaurs
The fossilized footprints display each distinctly three toes left by 47 individual dinosaurs. These weren’t giants but small plant-eaters.
No Early Jurassic dinosaur skeletons have ever been discovered in Australia.
Therefore, they’ve identified the footprints as belonging to Anomoepus scambus, an “ichnospecies” (a species defined by trace fossils like footprints).
Evidence suggests these creatures possessed legs ranging from a mere 15 to 50 centimeters in length.
With advanced 3D imaging and light filters, I was able to reveal hidden details in the footprints,” he added in the press release.
These techniques detected the subtle nuances of each footprint, providing insights into the dinosaurs’ movement and behavior.
Even more surprisingly, the research team uncovered another fossil sample — quite literally hiding in plain sight. This second rock, far larger than the school’s boulder, was being used as a simple car park entry delineator at the Callide Mine.
This unexpected find revealed two distinct footprints, larger than those found at the school, suggesting they were left by a slightly larger, bipedal dinosaur.
The new technique, which is safer, cheaper, and more sustainable than current plastic recycling methods, offers a promising path toward creating a circular economy for plastics.
“What’s particularly exciting about our research is that we harnessed moisture from air to break down the plastics, achieving an exceptionally clean and selective process,” Yosi Kratish, who is also the co-corresponding author of the study, said in a press release.
Recycling plastic remains a key focus in research, but existing methods often rely on extreme conditions—such as high temperatures, intensive energy use, and harsh solvents—that produce toxic byproducts.
Moreover, catalysts like platinum and palladium are expensive and contribute to the waste problem. Once the reaction is complete, researchers must separate the recycled materials from the solvents—a process that is both time-consuming and energy-intensive
“Instead of using solvents, we used water vapor from air. It’s a much more elegant way to tackle plastic recycling issues,” Kratish said.
To bridge this gap and bring artificial muscles closer to practical uses in robotics, prosthetics, and assistive technologies, researchers say new materials and manufacturing processes are needed to produce actuators that move naturally.
An important advancement has been made by researchers at Empa’s Laboratory for Functional Polymers, who have created a technique for 3D printing soft actuators.
According to the team, these DEAs are composed of interlocking layers of two silicone-based materials: a conductive electrode and a non-conductive dielectric. When voltage is applied, the actuator contracts like a muscle and relaxes when the voltage is removed.
However, the good news was short-lived as the start of Wall Street trading saw the return of characteristic selling pressure across crypto markets.
Bitcoin thus fell to $82,400 before consolidating, at the time of writing, circling the daily open.
In his latest market observations, popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital saw reason for cautious optimism on BTC price performance.
“The latest Bitcoin Daily Close means that price has began the process of exiting its recently filled CME Gap after turning it into support,” he told X followers, referring to the difference between session closing and opening levels on CME Group’s Bitcoin futures — a common short-term price influence.
magniX’s new HeliStorm engines
The HeliStorm engines, powered by magniX’s Samson battery, will provide a significantly lighter alternative to the turbine engines typically used in helicopters.
The engines also have the capacity to generate electricity in the air. This means they can be used to extend the range of hybrid-electric rotorcraft.
To date, magniX has developed two separate integrations for the R44 helicopters. In June 2022, the first electric Robinson R44 helicopter powered by a magniX motor flew at the Los Alamitos Army Airfield in California.
According to magniX’s press statement, “this was a significant milestone in the development of electric aviation and subsequent tests went on to deliver the world’s first point-to-point flight of an electric helicopter.”
With the new HeliStorm engines, magniX is building on its experience to expand its portfolio into a new space.
“The helicopter market represents a tremendous opportunity for magniX, as the strengths of our technology align well with the market need,” Reed Macdonald, CEO of magniX, explained in the company’s statement.
“Our HeliStorm engines build on our existing world-class capabilities and offer a step-change in performance, reliability, and value for our customers,” he concluded. “We look forward to bringing our innovative technology to another segment of the aviation industry.”
cientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized and characterized “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule containing the highly radioactive element berkelium.
This discovery marks a significant leap in understanding the chemical behavior of heavy actinides and challenges “long-held theories about the chemistry of the elements that follow uranium in the periodic table.”
“Only a few facilities around the world can protect both the compound and the worker while managing the combined hazards of a highly radioactive material that reacts vigorously with the oxygen and moisture in air,” explained Polly Arnold, a co-corresponding author and director of Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division.
The research team overcame these obstacles by utilizing custom-designed gloveboxes, enabling air-free syntheses with highly radioactive isotopes.
“Then, with just 0.3 milligram of berkelium-249, the researchers conducted single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments,” added the team in a press release.
Crucial for addressing nuclear waste issues
Interestingly, an unexpected finding emerged from electronic structure calculations performed by Jochen Autschbach at the University of Buffalo.
These calculations revealed that the berkelium atom in berkelocene exhibits a tetravalent oxidation state (+4), stabilized by the berkelium-carbon bonds. This contradicts traditional periodic table expectations, which suggested berkelium would behave more like lanthanide terbium.
“Traditional understanding of the periodic table suggests that berkelium would behave like the lanthanide terbium,” highlighted Minasian.
“But the berkelium ion is much happier in the +4 oxidation state than the other f-block ions we expected it to be most like,” asserted Arnold.
The researchers emphasize that this discovery necessitates the development of more accurate models of actinide behavior across the periodic table. Such models are crucial for addressing critical issues related to long-term nuclear waste storage and remediation.
“When scientists study higher symmetry structures, it helps them understand the underlying logic that nature is using to organize matter at the atomic level,” concluded Minasian.
Alex Krainer paints a harrowing picture of the current debt situation faced by countries in the West, as they have overcommitted to the war in Ukraine without considering that their side might not end up with a victory. Alex explains why he believes the collapse of Great Britain is on the horizon, the curious case of US treasury futures potentially being cleared in London, Trump's tough economic threats and his demand to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and much more.
"We literally have not been able to confer with our client once since he was taken off the streets of New York City," he said.
"He was taken by U.S. government agents in retaliation, essentially, for exercising his First Amendment rights, for speaking up in defense of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, for being critical of the U.S. government and of the Israeli government."
Khalil. 30, is married to an American citizen who is eight months pregnant. The administration has not officially charged Khalil with a crime, but he has been accused of distributing pro-Hamas literature on the Columbia campus.
“Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean [CR through April 11] that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass.”
With Republicans holding a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, and legislation needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, at least seven Democrats would need to support the spending bill, which passed the House 217-213 Tuesday night.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has also opposed the measure, so the GOP will need eight Democratic defections if there is full attendance in the chamber.
“In a shameful display of coordinated political theater, Democrats are willing to run out the clock on funding the government in a failed attempt to block the America First agenda,” the House speaker said. “Now it’s decision time for Senate Democrats: cast a vote to keep the government open or be responsible for shutting it down.”
Before Schumer’s announcement, the only Senate Democrat to openly back the House GOP continuing resolution was Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), while Sens. Jon Ossof (D-Ga.), Angus King (I-Maine), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) had signaled openness to supporting the bill.
“I’ve gone back and forth on this thing three times because it is two horrible choices,” Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) admitted to reporters before the lunch.
“If you shut down the government, the president is the person who decides what is essential,” Hickenlooper explained. “He decides what part of the government stays open, so you are actually giving him even more power.”
On the other side of the argument, a senior Senate Democratic aide told The Post that some members “worry a shutdown leaves Elon Musk alone in the candy store,” referring to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cost-cutting efforts.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., elicited a firestorm of conservative criticism this week when she said America is in its "angry teenage years" and suggested that President Donald Trump won the 2024 election because voters' brains are not fully formed.
"I don't think there's anyone who feels like what's going on right now is normal, even if you voted for Trump," Slotkin told ABC's "The View" on Tuesday. "We're about to turn 250 years old, right? We're still pretty young for a country."
"These are like our angry teenage years. We are going through this push and pull where we're happy, we're sad, we want this, we want that," Slotkin continued. "And what do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form."
"I think it's on us to be clear about not only leadership — and there's lots of leaders in both parties — but also a strategy," she said. "I think that's something that, as Trump has been successful in flooding the zone and, like every day, 15 things happening, we are still finding our footing, and I think you can't get better until you admit you have a problem."
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The CIS study also found that nearly three-quarters of U.S. immigrants in 2023 had legal status, with 49% becoming U.S. citizens and 19% holding green cards. The proportion of children living with at least one immigrant parent has doubled since 1990, rising from 13% to 26%.
The immigrant population remains concentrated in major urban areas. New York City has the largest total number of immigrants at 5.9 million, while Miami has the highest percentage at 42%, while Texas and Florida continue to see the greatest numerical growth.
Steven Camarota, CIS director of research, emphasized the scale of the shift, saying, "The new data is not only more up-to-date, and therefore better reflects the migrant surge, it is the first government survey to reflect the re-weighting the Census Bureau did to reflect that surge better. The total foreign-born is now 53.3, not 47.8 million. And the percent of the U.S. population is a record 15.8%."
Bowman, along with Fed governor Christopher Waller, voted against Barr's proposal. She was appointed to the Fed's governing board by President Donald Trump in 2018 during his first term in the White House.
Barr resigned from his post as vice chair for supervision but has remained on the Fed's seven-member board of governors. As a result, Trump was forced to choose from among the existing seven governors, rather than appointing someone from outside the Fed.
Prior to joining the Fed, Bowman was the state bank commissioner in Kanas in 2017-2018, after serving as vice president at a local bank. She also had previous stints in Washington at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
A spokesperson for the governor said in a statement, "Governor Hochul has been clear with New Yorkers: She supports secure borders and deporting violent criminals but won't let New York help the Trump administration tear babies away from their parents. This isn't the first time Trump administration officials have lied about our policies — and it probably won't be the last — but Governor Hochul is staying focused on keeping New Yorkers safe."
Homan also denied that the Trump administration's decision to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams was related to the mayor's support for Trump's immigration policies and push for mass deportations.
"As far as all this, 'Oh, well he's making a deal because of his criminal issues' — I've been talking to him since November — it has nothing to do with that," Homan said. "Far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that the mayor of New York City, the largest city in the world, is actually sitting down with law enforcement to make that city safer."'
He also said that Adams "wanted to get federal immigration authorities back into Rikers Island to talk to illegal aliens who committed a crime against a citizen."
"I am done with the discussion of locker rooms, I am done with the discussion of bathrooms, and we better start having a conversation about the classroom," Emanuel said at a recent lecture. "We can lead a discussion and force a topic onto the agenda of this country that's worthy of having a debate about. The New York Times put crumbs all the way to the front door of the USAID headquarters and we just walked along back there."
In an appearance on "Real Time With Bill Maher," Emanuel lamented the party's handling of transgender issues.
"In seventh grade, if I had known I could've said the word ‘they' and gotten in the girls' bathroom, I would've done it," he said. "We literally are a superpower, we're facing off against China with 1.4 billion people and two-thirds of our children can't read eighth grade level."
While Emanuel has never lost a race, he declined to run for a third term as mayor of Chicago, following clashes with the teacher's union and his handling of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer.
If he ran, he'd face fierce opposition from the party's left flank and the McDonald shooting could doom his support among Black voters.
"I'm not sure people in South Carolina know or care who Rahm Emanuel is," Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a longtime South Carolina Democrat lawmaker told Politico. "His connection to Barack Obama is decades old. We're in a different time."
As the Trump administration continues its massive deportation effort, ICE is reportedly running out of detention space, and officials told reporters on Wednesday that the agency is currently detaining 46,700 migrants as they await deportation.
Citing internal data, CBS reported that ICE detention facilities are presently at approximately 120% capacity.
Customs and Border Protection rolled out a new app on Monday that will allow illegal immigrants to notify the federal government of their plan to "self-deport" in lieu of waiting for immigration authorities to arrest and detain them.
Called CBP Home, the app will give migrants the option of signaling their "intent to depart," according to the agency.
Trump removed all exemptions from his 2018 tariffs on the metals, in addition to increasing the tariffs on aluminum from 10%. His moves, based off a February directive, are part of a broader effort to disrupt and transform global commerce.
He has separate tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, with plans to also tax imports from the European Union, Brazil and South Korea by charging “reciprocal” rates starting on April 2.
The EU announced its own countermeasures on Wednesday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that as the United States was “applying tariffs worth 28 billion dollars, we are responding with countermeasures worth 26 billion euros,” or about $28 billion. Those measures, which cover not just steel and aluminum products but also textiles, home appliances and agricultural goods, are due to take effect on April 1.
Outside forecasts by the Yale University Budget Lab, Tax Policy Center and others suggest that U.S. families would have the costs of the taxes passed onto them in the form of higher prices.
With Wednesday's tariffs on steel and aluminum, Trump is seeking to remedy his original 2018 import taxes that were eroded by exemptions.
After Canada and Mexico agreed to his demand for a revamped North American trade deal in 2020, they avoided the import taxes on the metals. Other U.S. trading partners had import quotas supplant the tariffs. And the first Trump administration also allowed U.S. companies to request exemptions from the tariffs if, for instance, they couldn’t find the steel they needed from domestic producers.
Newark’s median rent increase was trailed by New York downstate metros White Plains and Newburgh, which logged 13.5% and 12.3% spikes, respectively.
A significant year-over-year decrease in rental prices earned Bayonne, New Jersey a spot at the bottom of the list. The small city is just across the bay from Newark and only a stone’s throw from Staten Island, but median rent in Bayonne plummeted in February by 15.6% year-over-year.
A one-bedroom in Bayonne, as of last month, will run you about $1,890.
While Newark and Bayonne are currently poles apart in annual rent growth, both cities were recently identified as the top two most affordable locations to buy a home near Manhattan.
Upstate Kingston clocked in as the cheapest city in the metropolitan area for renters, with a median price of $1,500 for a one-bed — though Kingston is not located off a commuter rail line. The former state capital is closely followed by Bridgeport, Connecticut — which is — at $1,650 per month and Paterson, New Jersey at $1,730 per month.
The power of cannabis terpenes
Terpenes are the aromatic compounds that give cannabis (and other plants) distinctive smells.
But beyond just making your favorite strain smell like citrus, pine, or skunk, these compounds might hold real medicinal value.
In a recent study, researchers tested four cannabis-derived terpenes—geraniol, linalool, beta-caryophyllene, and alpha-humulene—on mouse models of fibromyalgia and post-operative pain.
Geraniol emerged as the MVP, showing a significant reduction in pain levels.
“Our research shows that terpenes aren’t great for acute pain from injuries like stubbing your toe or touching a hot stove,” said lead researcher John Streicher, PhD. “But we are seeing significant pain relief for chronic or pathological pain.”
New hope for fibromyalgia patients
Fibromyalgia affects up to 5% of the world’s population, causing widespread pain, fatigue, and cognitive issues.
Treatment options are limited, but cannabis-derived terpenes could change that.
“With fibromyalgia, there’s not much understanding of what causes the pain, and treatment options are lacking,” Streicher noted.
“Our findings suggest terpenes may be a viable option, potentially helping an undertreated population.”
For those wary of traditional pain medications, terpenes offer an alternative. Unlike THC, they work without inducing a high.
The House bill includes $9.9 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $10.6 billion for the Transportation Security Administration, and $10.4 billion for the Coast Guard, all under the Department of Homeland Security’s auspices.
The bill also reportedly slashes $2.5 billion in spending from former President Joe Biden’s efforts to provide visas and green cards through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars from various programs supported by the Biden administration.
A House GOP fact sheet on the bill said the funding prioritizes enforcement efforts for fentanyl and human trafficking, as well as increasing detention beds, including family detention beds that were phased out during the Biden administration.
Nature’s untapped potential
“The work being done by Dr. Streicher’s lab on terpenes and chronic pain highlights the importance of basic research,” said Todd Vanderah, PhD, director of the Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction at U of A Health Sciences.
“There are hundreds of unique plant compounds, including those in cannabis, that remain undiscovered,” Vanderah continued.
“Nature creates incredible chemical structures, and many could have potential benefits for human health.”
With millions suffering from chronic pain, cannabis-derived terpenes could mark a breakthrough in pain management.
And while your stoner friend may still swear by a good indica, science is proving they might be onto something—just with a bit more precision.
Light-show drones to redefine entertainment
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT) has signed a partnership agreement with Colorado-based Nova Sky Stories and Abu Dhabi-headquartered Analog, an Emirati company specializing in physical intelligence and mixed reality.
“By harnessing innovative technologies, we are finding new and immersive ways to share our vision and culture with the world,” said his excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of DCT Abu Dhabi.
“At the intersection of creativity and entertainment, this partnership with Nova Sky and Analog will challenge convention, raising the bar for what residents and visitors can experience. These visual spectacles reinforce Abu Dhabi’s leading position in entertainment innovation, delivering experiential and memorable moments for all.”
There have been recent declines in confidence surveys of consumers and small business owners, apparently due to escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and its major trading partners of Canada, Mexico and China, as well as a massive cut in government jobs since Trump entered the White House.
Mnuchin, who since leaving office has been running the investment firm Liberty Strategic Capita, also commented on the recent downturn in the stock market, pointing out to CNBC that the decreases have come only after the indexes reached high levels.
Light shows to take place at various locations
The light shows will take place in various locations across Abu Dhabi, with each performance designed to highlight a different aspect of the emirate’s cultural heritage and futuristic vision.
Incorporating holographic-style storytelling is also expected to create an emotional connection with audiences, making it more than just a spectacle—but an unforgettable experience.
Alex Kipman, Founder and CEO of Analog, stated that Abu Dhabi’s skyline is set to become a dynamic canvas for storytelling.
“We are painting holographic stories in the sky, fusing tradition with next-generation technology so audiences can feel that spark of wonder only possible when imagination meets reality,” said Kipman.
With this status, Baker Hughes will look into developing utility-scale geothermal power plants capable of delivering consistent electricity to military locations, even during grid disruptions.
Utility-scale geothermal plants
Ajit Menon, Vice President of Geothermal at Baker Hughes, explained the importance of geothermal energy in ensuring a stable power supply, saying, “Geothermal can provide reliable, secure baseload power.”
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the Western United States contains approximately 500,000 megawatts of potentially recoverable Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) resources.
Ailing Swedish EV battery firm Northvolt files for bankruptcy
Struggling electric vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt says it has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden.
Struggling electric vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt on Wednesday said it has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden.
The firm said it that it submitted the insolvency filing after an "exhaustive effort to explore all available means to secure a viable financial and operational future for the company."
"Like many companies in the battery sector, Northvolt has experienced a series of compounding challenges in recent months that eroded its financial position, including rising capital costs, geopolitical instability, subsequent supply chain disruptions, and shifts in market demand," Northvolt noted.
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"Further to this backdrop, the company has faced significant internal challenges in its ramp-up of production, both in ways that were expected by engagement in what is a highly complex industry, and others which were unforeseen."
Northvolt's collapse into insolvency deals a major blow to Europe's ambition to become self-sufficient and build out its own EV battery supply chain to catch up to China, which leads as the world's largest market for electric vehicles by a wide margin.
The Swedish battery firm had been seeking financial support to continue its operations amid an ongoing Chapter 11 restructuring process in the United States, which it kicked off in November.
Salesforce pledges to invest $1 billion in Singapore over five years in AI push
Salesforce on Wednesday announced plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years.
Salesforce on Wednesday announced plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years.
The cloud software giant said the investment is designed to accelerate the country's digital transformation and the adoption of Salesforce's flagship AI offering Agentforce.
Salesforce is among the many technology companies hoping to boost revenue with generative AI features.
#salesforce #singapore #ai
The company launched the newest version of Agentforce last month. It has previously described the system — which it says can tackle sophisticated questions in Salesforce's Slack communications app, based on all available data — as the first digital AI platform for enterprises.
"We have had a fantastic experience here. We've been here for about 25 years at Salesforce and we're investing another $1 billion in our operations here," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told CNBC's Sara Eisen at CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore on Wednesday.
"We don't just do sales and marketing here. We also do extremely advanced artificial intelligence development. We have dozens of some of the very best AI engineers in the world here in our Singapore research center," he added.
Reddit rallies after three-day slump as analyst calls sell-off 'excessive'
Reddit shares rose more than 10% following an analyst note on Tuesday that said the company's shares remain "extremely attractive."
Reddit shares rose more than 10% on Tuesday, reversing a three-day slump that coincided with a broader decline among technology companies.
Despite Tuesday's gains, Reddit shares are still roughly 30% below the close on Wednesday.
Reddit's stock market upswing was likely bolstered by a Loop Capital analyst note published Tuesday that reiterated a buy rating and characterized the company's shares as "extremely attractive." The analyst note said that Reddit's 50% drop on Wall Street in the past month "is excessive," and that the social media company "has the biggest upside potential relative to Street estimates in our coverage universe."
The company's shares dropped more than 15% in February after the company reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter user numbers as a result of a Google search change that temporarily hurt its search-derived traffic. Although Reddit said at the time that it had recovered from the algorithmic shift, the user number miss spooked investors.
Reddit's shares have since spiraled downward along with other tech companies like Apple, Nvidia and Tesla off of concerns related to President Donald Trump's tariffs and growing fears of a recession. The seven most valuable tech companies lost more than $750 billion in market value on Monday with Nasdaq experiencing its biggest decline since 2022.
!summarize #tesla #canada #fraud
Waymo expands its robotaxi service again, this time to parts of Silicon Valley
With the expansion, Waymo will now take passengers around Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale, California.
Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025.
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Waymo on Tuesday announced it is expanding its service to include another 27 square miles of coverage around the San Francisco Bay Area.
#waymo #siliconvalley #robotaxi #autonomy
With the expansion, Waymo will now take passengers around Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale, California. The Alphabet-owned company opened its robotaxi service to the general public in San Francisco in June.
Waymo will initially limit the availability of its Silicon Valley service to users of the Waymo One app who are residents with ZIP codes in the area, the company said. Waymo plans to serve more riders across the region over time. The fleet of vehicles that will be in use in the new coverage areas are fully electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicles with Waymo's fifth generation of self-driving sensors, software and other technology.
Inside Google’s Investment in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic
Google owns 14% of Anthropic. Its investment gives it little control over the AI startup - Google holds no voting rights, no board seats, and no board observer rights at Anthropic. Google is set to invest an additional $750 million in Anthropic in September through a convertible debt - it has invested more than $3 billion into the AI company in total so far. It is only allowed to own up to 15% of Anthropic.
#technology #ai #anthropic #google
OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writing
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman claims that his company has trained a new model that is 'really good' at creative writing. It is unknown how and when the model will be released. OpenAI has previously focused on challenges in the fields of math and programming rather than creative writing. The company experimenting with writing suggests that the latest generation of models has vastly improved on the wordsmithing front.
#technology #ai #openai #writing
NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites
SPHEREx and PUNCH lifted off from the Vandenburg Space Force Base at 11:11 PM ET on Tuesday. SPHEREx is a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. PUNCH is a suite of satellites that will study the Sun's outer atmosphere and solar wind. This article gets into the specifics of what the missions aim to do.
#technology #space #nasa #telescope
NASA's Newest Space Telescope Blasts Off to Map Entire Sky and Millions of Galaxies
NASA's newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time.
SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth's poles. Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to study the sun.
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.
#nasa #universe #space #telescope #galaxies
Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success
An Australian man lived with a totally artificial heart for 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March. The BiVACOR total artificial heart uses magnetic levitation technology to replicate the natural blood flow of a healthy heart. The implant is still in the early stages of clinical study, but it looks to be a promising alternative for patients who are unable to wait for a donor heart or when a donor heart is simply not available. There is still a long way to go before the artificial heart could be considered a replacement for a heart transplant - the functioning time span of the device is still significantly less than that of a donor heart.
#technology #science #health #artificialheart
'Stranded' Astronauts Closer to Coming Home After Next ISS Launch
Paving the way for a pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months to finally come home, a routine crew rotation at the International Space Station has taken on unusual significance.
A routine crew rotation at the International Space Station has taken on unusual significance: It paves the way for a pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months to finally come home.
The NASA-SpaceX Crew-10 mission is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:48 PM (2348 GMT) on Wednesday. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries a Crew Dragon capsule with a four-member team on a scientific expedition to the orbital lab.
#nasa #astronauts #iss
GOOGLE'S BIG BET ON ANTHROPIC—WITH STRINGS ATTACHED
Google owns 14% of Anthropic but has no say in how it runs—no board seats, no voting rights, nothing. Still, it’s doubling down, set to invest another $750 million in September through convertible debt. That brings its total investment past $3 billion. But there’s a cap: Google can’t own more than 15%. It’s a high-stakes game, with Google betting big while staying on the sidelines.
#google #ai #startups #investment #technology
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MovieAgent: Automated Movie Generation via Multi-Agent CoT Planning
This system strings together multiple generative modalities and uses persona-based prompting to encourage consistency and accurate results. It then uses the Stable Diffusion video model to create and stitch frames together. This likely would be improved using Wan.
#technology #ai #movie
94% plastic recycled in 4 hours: Scientists develop new method powered by air moisture
This new, more sustainable technique offers a promising path towards a circular economy for plastics.
In what could be a fix to the world’s plastic problem, researchers have developed a simple new method of harnessing moisture from air to breaking down the waste.
The process begins with an inexpensive catalyst that breaks down the bonds in polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the most widely used plastic in the polyester family. Once broken, the material is simply exposed to ambient air to transfer PET into monomers—the essential building blocks of plastics.
Researchers believe these monomers could then be recycled or upcycled into more valuable materials.
#recycling #plastic #airmoisture
Artificial muscles for robots brought closer to reality with 3D-printed actuators
These DEAs use interlocking silicone layers—conductive and non-conductive—contracting with voltage like muscles and relaxing when off.
These DEAs use interlocking silicone layers—conductive and non-conductive—contracting with voltage like muscles and relaxing when off.
Swedish researchers have developed a breakthrough 3D printing method to create soft actuators.
These dielectric elastic actuators (DEA) are made from silicone-based materials, combining conductive electrodes with non-conductive dielectrics in interlocking layers.
According to the team at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), the innovation enables the efficient production of complex, flexible components, advancing soft robotics and smart materials.
#robots #muscle #actuators #3dprinting
How Honey may have ‘scammed’ users
#honey #scam #browser #extension
Build Your OWN AI Agent That Can SEE And SPEAK With Ease
This video tutorial teaches viewers how to build AI agents using the n8n platform without requiring any coding knowledge. The AI agent can see, speak, and think for itself, and can be integrated with various tools and services such as Telegram, Gmail, and Google Calendar. The tutorial covers the process of creating a Telegram bot, setting up a large language model, and integrating various tools to enable the agent to interact with its environment.
The AI agent can perform various tasks such as reading and responding to emails, setting calendar events, and searching the internet. The tutorial also covers how to set up a custom knowledge base using a vector database, which allows the agent to retrieve information from a database and use it to perform tasks.
Longer Summary ->
Google has launched Gemma 3, a family of open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models designed for high performance and accessibility.
#google #ai #launch
Embracing a New Career Path
The speaker, a father of three, has been on a journey to learn coding and become a web developer for over a year and a half. However, after attending a coding boot camp and working as an entry-level WordPress developer, he realized that he might not be cut out for a full-blown software engineering career.
Despite enjoying problem-solving, he found that his strengths lie in solving people problems, and his background in entrepreneurship has always been more focused on service-based businesses. He has now shifted his focus towards building a web agency, leveraging his skills in WordPress development and project management.
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Oh, they released Gemma 3 already?!
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TSMC has a joint venture proposal for US chip designers Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Broadcom
#tsmc #nvidia #us #chip
SBI down: Here is what the bank has to say
#sbi #online #service
Manus Ai is here to challenge the American's Ai Supremacy
#manus #ai #china #america
Spain’s new law: Addressing deepfake threats Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/118923622.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
#spain #ai
OpenAI has launched GPT-4.5, its newest and largest AI language model.
#openai #gpt4 #llm
Amazon Prime Video has started streaming the reruns of “The Apprentice,” the reality television show starring the US President Donald Trump.
#amazon #trump #theapprentice
Airtel and Jio have partnered with Starlink, a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX which is owned by Elon Musk,
#starlink #india #elonmusk
Amazon unveiled Alexa+, its long-awaited AI-powered voice assistant
#amazon #alexa+ #ai #voice
Elon Musk has confirmed that a new Grok feature is coming soon
#elonmusk #grok #newfeature
OpenAi banned several users from China and North Korea from using its ChatGPT platform.
#openai #ban #china #northkorea #chatgpt
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine company, announced on Monday that it will launch a new web browser called Comet.
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Bots and X morons already getting me fired up this morning.
Gonna drink my coffee, smoke a bowl, and go do outside stuff…
I can’t deal with y’all today, lol
It now a fact that we cannot do without them. Ignoring them become the logical thing to do.
Oh, I can completely do with out them, lol. Life would be great, lol. That's why I am going outside and working in the garden, lol, right after I drink my coffee.
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There's a point to be made: Bitcoin isn't the only currency in the world that's been launched as a fully decentralized form of money.
A straightforward guide for establishing AI ventures in 2025:
• Develop models that ensure unintended or negative outcomes are minimized
• Focus intensively on the positive uses of AI
• Act with rapidity.
I just noticed Inleo is working well on chrome. I can now use my browser for Inleo. Still haven't gotten used to Opera mini yet lol. Thanks Leo team #feedback
Enjoy threading. Smooth Inleo.
very smooth Inleo.. thanks man🔥💪💯
lol 😂
The woman was totally out of place.🤭
Let me see those who are good in guessing. Guess who is the senior
She's wearing black sandals
Correct
Right one
Nope. Haha
!summarize #ai #spirit #awakening #consciousness
News
Europe Slaps US With $28 Billion in Tariffs
The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%.
The world’s biggest trading bloc was expecting the U.S. tariffs and prepared in advance, but the measures still place great strain on already tense transatlantic relations. Only last month, Washington warned Europe that it would have to take care of its own security in the future.
Good Day Mr. Task
Ciao my friend.
Being happy is the whole point of the game, right?!
!INDEED it is my friend :)
I think we should forget about crypto market for a while and find else to occupy our minds. That's the only way I think we can be truly happy this time.
Whatever works for you, dude 🖖🏼☀️🤙🏼
#ignorance is #strength :D
News
Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire announced on Wednesday that she will not seek re-election in 2026, saying it was "just time" in a video posted online by Punchbowl News.
"There are urgent challenges ahead, both here at home and around the world and while I am not seeking re-election, believe me, I am not retiring," she said.
Are you happy?
I want to be.
At an open Cafe
#photographers
In Karachi?
Islamabad
!summarize #unelected #elonmusk #grift
😂😂 Seriously! #Lol #fun #Animal
#cricket #wpl #sportstalk #liotes
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Python tricks:
a = "Hello World!"
print(a[::-1])
reverse the order of whole string characters.
Result: !dlroW olleH
#python #coding #devs
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