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‘The frontline is like Terminator’: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war with Russia

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Use of unmanned ground vehicles has grown exponentially since 2024 turning the war into a technological contestVictor Pavlov showed off Ukraine’s newest and most versatile weapon: a battery-powered land robot.The unmanned ground vehicles come in various shapes and sizes. One runs on caterpillar tracks and resembles a roofless milk float. Another has wheels and antennas. […]

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Meet MaxToki: The AI That Predicts How Your Cells Age — and What to Do About It

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Most foundation models in biology have a fundamental blind spot: they see cells as frozen snapshots. Give a model a single-cell transcriptome — a readout of which genes are active in a cell at a given moment — and it can tell you a lot about what that cell is doing right now. What it

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How to Build a Netflix VOID Video Object Removal and Inpainting Pipeline with CogVideoX, Custom Prompting, and End-to-End Sample Inference

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In this tutorial, we build and run an advanced pipeline for Netflix’s VOID model. We set up the environment, install all required dependencies, clone the repository, download the official base model and VOID checkpoint, and prepare the sample inputs needed for video object removal. We also make the workflow more practical by allowing secure terminal-style

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The best USB chargers in the US for phones, laptops, travel and more

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These are the best USB chargers in the US to keep devices juiced up quickly and safely for all your tech needsSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsUSB chargers power the world. From phones to laptops and even bike lights, the gadgets we use every day increasingly

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‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products

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Jeffrey Stephen Wigand revealed how tobacco companies targeted children; now he sees similar marketing by big techA key whistleblower in the tobacco industry’s landmark trials of the 1990s has been watching big tech’s recent court battles closely. Jeffrey Stephen Wigand, a biochemist who helped reveal how tobacco companies targeted children and hid just how addictive

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Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week’s replies: has a call for restraint from an authority figure ever put a stop to war?I always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? I am

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Higher energy costs from Iran war could threaten fragile economics of AI boom | Heather Stewart

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Industry with business model not yet firmly established and investments financed by huge debts is particularly at riskDonald Trump’s most immediate concern in demanding Iran reopen the strait of Hormuz may be rocketing US gasoline prices, but if the conflict drags on, higher energy costs will be felt far beyond the pumps.Systemically higher power prices

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Meet ‘AutoAgent’: The Open-Source Library That Lets an AI Engineer and Optimize Its Own Agent Harness Overnight

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There’s a particular kind of tedium that every AI engineer knows intimately: the prompt-tuning loop. You write a system prompt, run your agent against a benchmark, read the failure traces, tweak the prompt, add a tool, rerun. Repeat this a few dozen times and you might move the needle. It’s grunt work dressed up in

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An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night

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After forgetting the nibbles, refusing my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, ‘Gaskell’ did at least get us to show upTwo weeks ago, an AI bot invited me to a party it was organising in Manchester. It then promptly lied to dozens of potential sponsors that I’d agreed to cover the event, and misled me into

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Netflix AI Team Just Open-Sourced VOID: an AI Model That Erases Objects From Videos — Physics and All

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Video editing has always had a dirty secret: removing an object from footage is easy; making the scene look like it was never there is brutally hard. Take out a person holding a guitar, and you’re left with a floating instrument that defies gravity. Hollywood VFX teams spend weeks fixing exactly this kind of problem.

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