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News Image Amazon MGM is Taking No Time to Rush James Bond’s Return

The world's more than willing to wait for 007's next adventure. Or at least, Amazon and the Broccolis hope they are.

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News Image The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise

Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks to and played games with guests, and danced inside a gazebo. Seemingly most surprisingly, they could even talk. But it was mostly just a show. It’s obvious when you watch the videos from the event, of course. If Optimus really was a fully autonomous machine that could immediately react to verbal and visual cues while talking, one-on-one, to human beings in a dimly lit crowd, that would be mind-blowing. Playing charades with the Tesla Optimus robot last night. This is either the single greatest robotics and LLM demo the world has ever seen, or it's MOSTLY remote operated by a...

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News Image Hasbro Is Selling Power Rangers’ History, and No One’s Happy About It

An upcoming auction has brought controversy and a more money-focused conclusion to the franchise's legacy than its fans and stars would like.

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Woman stabs ex-husband with knife during argument, trial in Breda

The court in Breda showed video footage on Friday of the stabbing in which Alex van Gool (41) was killed in October last year.

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News Image Prime Day: Here Are 17 Offers Up to 80% Off for This Sunday on Amazon

Almost all Prime Day offers are still available this Sunday. Here’s a list of the deals you shouldn’t miss and which will expire tonight.

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SpaceX successfully catches returning Starship booster

For the first time, SpaceX not only launched its mammoth Starship, but also returned the booster to the launch site and caught it with a pair of oversized “chopsticks.” This test flight — the fifth in the Starship development program — took place Sunday morning at the company’s Starbase site in southeast Texas. The nearly […]

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Apple might release a $2,000 Vision headset next year

Apple’s Vision Pro hasn’t exactly reshaped the market, but the company isn’t giving up on headsets that combine the digital and real worlds. A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple’s next big mixed reality release could come as early as next year, with the launch of a Vision headset costing around $2,000 […]

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Netherlands sees company bankruptcies soar

The number of bankruptcies increased again in September, after a sharp decline in August.

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The promise and perils of synthetic data

Is it possible for an AI to be trained just on data generated by another AI? It might sound like a harebrained idea. But it’s one that’s been around for quite some time — and as new, real data is increasingly hard to come by, it’s been gaining traction. Anthropic used some synthetic data to […]

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News Image One Piece is Going on Hiatus and Getting a Remaster

While the current "Egghead" arc is taking a break until next spring, Toei's briding the gap by retelling one of One Piece's previous sagas.

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Netherlands condemns attacks on UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon

The Netherlands is among the 40 countries that have condemned the recent attacks on the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL.

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The original source code for Backyard Baseball is long gone. Mega Cat Studios remastered the game anyway.

Backyard Baseball 1997 is back in all of its nostalgic glory, sliding onto Steam like Pablo Sanchez when he steals a base. But before Mega Cat Studios could remaster the cult favorite PC game, founder James Deighan had to sift through almost 30 years of detritus. Playground Productions, a children’s media company, scored the rights […]

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