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A research paper describes a new adaptive motion planning and tracking approach intended to help humanoid robots perform agile, sports-like movements. The work, shared via an industry research hub requiring registration, focuses on enabling robots to adjust their motion in real time to track dynamic targets, similar to a skilled athlete.
Hello Games announced No Man's Sky will launch on iOS for iPhone 11 and newer and 3rd-gen iPad Air and later, starting October 28th. The mobile port includes nearly all content and updates from the PC/console versions, excluding multiplayer and planetary settlements, and features new touch controls plus support for controllers and keyboard/mouse on iPad.
A reviewer testing new Android-powered Googlebooks from Asus and HP describes setup as fast and simple, taking just minutes to register biometrics, sign into a Google account, and import apps from a phone. But after setup, connecting the laptop to a phone for features like file sharing and app casting proved unreliable, often requiring repeated toggling of settings, restarts, and reconnecting after switching Wi-Fi networks.
Reddit user markpronkin bought a rusty, untested nine-GPU crypto mining rig found in a damp garage for about $35 (3,000 rubles) after the seller refused a pre-purchase test. The rig's nine Nvidia P106-100 cards, each with 6GB of GDDR5, provided 54GB of combined VRAM and worked on the first attempt, running Alibaba's 35-billion-parameter Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model in Ollama at over 30 tokens per second.
California's attorney general and city attorneys from San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles reached a settlement with Lyft over claims it misclassified drivers as independent contractors from 2016 to 2020, denying them owed wages and benefits. Pending a judge's approval, Lyft will pay $272.5 million, making it the largest wage-and-hour settlement in state history.
Penguin Young Readers is releasing a set of special-edition children's books this fall featuring decorative touches like gold foil, glitter, and sprayed edges. One edition, a new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, includes a physical Golden Ticket insert packaged with the book.
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London ran a tabletop exercise last September simulating how nations, NGOs, indigenous groups and companies would respond to emerging solar radiation modification technologies. Participants, including roles for governments and tech firms, struggled to agree on ethical guardrails for deploying methods such as spraying reflective particles into the atmosphere to cool the planet. Climate researcher Colleen Golja, who advised players on the science, said she expected easy agreement on ethical research but instead encountered sharp disagreement.
Unverified leaks from sources MEGAsizeGPU and Hongxing2020 claim Nvidia will stop producing the GeForce RTX 5090 and redirect all GB202 chip supply toward its RTX Pro Blackwell-based professional and data-center cards. Hongxing2020 says a factory notice points to a replacement 24GB RTX 5080 model, with China-specific RTX 5090 'D' variants also reportedly affected. Nvidia has not confirmed or denied any of these claims.
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail groups, confirmed it detected a cybersecurity incident on its network and responded by taking certain systems offline. The company has not yet disclosed the scope of the breach or which operations were affected.
Space agency officials and researchers, including ESA director general Josef Aschbacher and Bangor University's Simon Middleburgh, describe plans and challenges for establishing a sustainable lunar base. They point to the moon's value for studying the solar system's origins, hosting telescopes free of atmospheric interference, and serving as a low-gravity launch point for deeper space missions. Significant engineering problems remain, including protection from radiation, dust, asteroids and extreme temperatures, plus the need for self-sustaining resources and autonomous robotic construction.
Data centers generate heat continuously, and researchers are examining ways to capture that excess warmth and store it underground using the earth's stable temperature, so it can later be drawn out to heat buildings during colder months. The approach relies on the fact that ground temperature a few hundred feet down stays near the local yearly average, roughly 50°F, regardless of surface conditions.
Microsoft president Brad Smith told ITV that AI systems are subject to fewer safety rules than washing machines or milk cartons sold in stores. He made the remarks as major AI firms, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta and Nvidia, recently signed a self-regulation pact at a 'Super Intelligence' summit rather than accept government rules, an approach favored by President Trump.