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World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames

Viral videos of the World Humanoid Robot Games show sprinting robots beating the human 100-meter record held by Usain Bolt—but also feature running robots crashing into barriers and falling down because they cannot readily stop running. A few fallen robots even break at the waist in a shower of sparks or catch on fire. That

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AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “godfather of AI,” predicted that radiologists—the physicians who read X-rays, ultrasounds, and other images to help make medical diagnoses—would find themselves replaced by computers within five years. Today the field can retort by quoting Mark Twain’s famous quip: The report of my death was an exaggeration. Radiology’s ranks are

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With new Mac Studio and Mac mini, Apple leans hard into local AI inference

The Mac mini and Mac Studio occupy two distinct points in Apple’s lineup of desktops, but lately, they’ve had something in common: They’re popular for local AI inference and software development thanks to the advantages of their unified memory architecture and the fast CPUs and GPUs on their systems-on-a-chip. Today, Apple announced new iterations of

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