James Cameron filmed his Avatar sequels there. Marvel filmed Thor, Iron Man 2, and The Avengers. Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles even handled Star Wars’ series like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian, which Bloomberg points out is about “a heavi…
Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China’s leader, Thailand’s king, or Saudi Arabia’s crown prince — and it will decline, reports the Associated Press.
That’s “a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday,” their art…
ZDNet reports on June’s Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, where Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a talk titled “Rust and Linux: How the Rust Language is Going to Help Linux Succeed.”
Kroah-Hartman said in his keynote t…
The Washington Post describes a mid-tier executive at Meta as one of Silicon Valley’s “winners” whose financial security suddenly “evaporated” as their workforce “pushed headlong into AI and heavy job cuts,” creating a transformed job market. “Her ex-h…
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The Zilog Z80 has just turned 50 years old. This iconic 8-bit processor first went on sale in July 1976 and stayed in production for 48 years until Zilog, now a Littelfuse subsidiary, stoppe…
“If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake,” reports Bloomberg. “Not so in a robotaxi…”
Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi’s speakers as he rode…
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A federal judge has halted California’s groundbreaking “Truth in Recycling” law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to t…
“Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves,” reports Space.com:
The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST…
“A humanoid robot lost its head,” reports Newsweek, “during the world’s first free-combat tournament for full-sized humanoid robots.”
The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with lo…
Windows 10 still runs on 16.9% of the Windows devices monitored by asset-tracking service Lansweeper. That’s more than one in six, The Register points out.
A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, fa…