Published on: 2025-06-05 16:03:43
Autonomous drone from TU Delft defeats human champions in historic racing first News - 15 April 2025 A team of scientists and students from TU Delft has taken first place at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi - an international race that pushes the limits of physical artificial intelligence, challenging teams to fly fully autonomous drones using only a single camera. The TU Delft drone competed against 13 autonomous drones and even human drone racing champions, using innovative methods t
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It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. “SmolVLA aims to democratize access to vision-language-action [VLA] models and accelerate research toward generalist robotic agents,” wr
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Obviously, Dorothy has to enter the Wicked story eventually—the movies are based on the Broadway musical, which is based on the book, which riffs off The Wizard of Oz and its own source-material books. And everyone knows The Wizard of Oz follows Dorothy’s journey over the rainbow, where she meets and defeats the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West. Wicked may show Elphaba’s side of the story with a sympathetic eye, but we all know she’s on a collision course with a certain bucket of water. N
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The NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers gets underway Thursday night. The top seed in the West, the Thunder needed seven games to get past the Denver Nuggets in round 2 but have otherwise had an easy time in the playoffs, sweeping their first-round series and dropping only one game in the conference finals. The Pacers are the No. 4 seed in the East and have also lost only four games in the playoffs before reaching the finals. The Thunder are heavy favorites to hoist
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. LG has announced a new 40-inch Thunderbolt 5 monitor with an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio, and the company is being very upfront about who it’s for: people who love crunching data and want more room to do that. The new LG UltraFine 40WT95UF is designed to “meet the needs of data-intensive industries such as finance and IT,” according to a release
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Hundreds of thousands—if not over a million—years ago, humans discovered how to make fire. This would prove to be one of the most important advancements in prehistoric human development, but the origin of this vital discovery remains a contentious topic among scholars. In a study published last month in the journal Frontiers, researchers from Tel Aviv University proposed a new theory for what prompted humans to start making and controlling fires: to protect their food from animals, and, most no
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Fifteen out of 16 is pretty good odds, right? Let me just do the math here… yes. That’s like 94%. So if something happened 15 out of 16 times, including the 12 prior times, you’d have to say there’s a very good chance something is going to happen again. What the hell am I talking about? Well, The Life of Chuck, the new Mike Flanagan film based on a novella by Stephen King, won the prestigious “People’s Choice Award” last year at the Toronto Film Festival. Fifteen of the last 16 films to win that
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Researchers at one of the world's leading AI labs are warning that humans may soon be little more than "meat robots" for near-future artificial intelligence systems. During a recent interview with AI podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Anthropic researchers Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken were surprisingly casual when fretting that the technology they're working to build may soon render us into AI-controlled androids — or, at the very least, further grim job loss to the technology. "There is this who
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Could some kind of Mark Twain revival be afoot in this, the 175th-anniversary year of Harper’s Magazine, a periodical that more consistently than any other provided a home for Twain’s writing during the half-century-long major phase of his career? The signs are come unto us. The writer Percival Everett’s 2024 novel James, in which Everett reimagines the story of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s raft mate on the Mississippi, the self-emancipated Jim, took home
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Hundreds of thousands—if not over a million—years ago, humans discovered how to make fire. This would prove to be one of the most important advancements in prehistoric human development, but the origin of this vital discovery remains a contentious topic among scholars. In a study published last month in the journal Frontiers, researchers from Tel Aviv University proposed a new theory for what prompted humans to start making and controlling fires: to protect their food from animals, and, most no
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A hacker targets other hackers, gamers, and researchers with exploits, bots, and game cheats in source code hosted on GitHub that contain hidden backdoors to give the threat actor remote access to infected devices. This campaign was discovered by Sophos researchers, whom a client contacted to estimate the danger of a remote access trojan called Sakura RAT, which is freely available on GitHub. The researchers found that the Sakura RAT code was essentially nonfunctional but had a PreBuildEvent i
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In 2023, co-founders Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani sold their expense management startup Expensya to Swedish procurement software firm Medius in what is widely considered to be one of the largest acquisitions of an African startup. Some sources say the sum was just over $120 million, although deal terms were not disclosed. Success achieved, both founders swore off entrepreneurship, never intending to do another startup again and Jouini became a CTO role in the merged software company, with oth
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Wouldn't this basically give us Google Books and searchable Scihub at the same time? What would it cost?
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Bottom line: As top labs race to build an AI master race, many turn a blind eye to dangerous behaviors - including lying, cheating, and manipulating users - that these systems increasingly exhibit. This recklessness, driven by commercial pressure, risks unleashing tools that could harm society in unpredictable ways. Artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns that AI development has become a reckless race, where the drive for more powerful systems often sidelines vital safety research.
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A three-way partnership between AI phone support company Phonely, inference optimization platform Maitai, and chip maker Groq has achieved a breakthrough that addresses one of conversational artificial intelligence’s most persistent problems: the awkward delays that immediately signal to callers they’re talking to a machine. The collaboration has enabled Phonely to red
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Last week, I said that Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX‘s remixing of the original Gundam continuity was letting several of the original series’ biggest characters haunt the narrative, from the absent Amuro Ray, to the slightly less absent Char Aznable, and then the one figure who’s really been skirting around the edges of GQuuuuuuX‘s periphery in earnest, the mysterious Lalah Sune. This week, Lalah stopped skirting… and then some. To the surprise of no one after last week’s setup, episode nine of
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An attendee wearing a cow costume while playing Mario Kart World by Nintendo Switch 2 during the Nintendo Switch 2 Experience at the ExCeL London international exhibition and convention centre in London, Britain, April 11, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday talked up the capabilities of Nintendo 's new Switch 2, days before the long-awaited console is set to hit store shelves. In a video posted by Nintendo, Huang called the chip inside the Switch 2 "unlike anything we've built before."
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ORLANDO, Fla. – MetaHuman, an innovative tool from Epic Games to quickly create realistic digital human characters, is now out of early access and available to all developers with today’s release of Unreal Engine 5.6. With the new update, developers can now use MetaHuman Animation to generate real-time animations and audio from almost any mono camera (such as webcams and most smartphones). Any camera that works with Unreal Engine LiveLink, including some Android phones, will be able to take adv
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Epic Games’ hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive, and now the company is making it easier for developers to incorporate them into their projects. At its State of Unreal show on Tuesday, Epic announced that the MetaHuman Creator is now embedded within Unreal Engine as part of Unreal Engine 5.6. The company is also bringing its face-authoring tools for M
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James Gunn talks about balancing the human and the alien in Superman. Predator: Killer of Killers shows off its brutal hunter in action. Plus, the Carrie TV series rounds out its cast. Spoilers, away! The Fantastic Four: First Steps During his recent appearance at CCXPMX 25 this past weekend (via Yahoo! Entertainment), Joseph Quinn revealed the Fantastic Four’s very first villain, the Mole Man, makes an appearance in First Steps. We’ve got a lot of fantastic characters in there. There is also
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Amazon’s UK site has an early listing for what appears to be a successor to the Philips Hue Play Light Bar. The new Philips Hue Play Smart Wall Washer also casts an ambient glow on walls that can be synced to music and videos, but illuminates a wider area with better color output than its predecessor, thanks to “precisely arranged LEDs.” The Hue
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Floriana/Getty Images NICE, a leading provider of contact center as a service (CCaaS) solutions, today announced its new branding. The company has rebranded to NiCE, and one of the many factors driving this rebranding is emphasizing 'intelligence' (a hallmark of AI) in customer conversations, with 'i' marked in lower caps to stand out. During an exclusive analyst meeting, the company's leadership team also announced that the new brand will emphasize the human touch. Also: OpenAI wants ChatGPT
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Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If you’ve been shocked by how much you spend on streaming services lately, you’re not alone. Companies like Netflix, Disney, Max and others have been consistently raising prices to the point where you may question if streaming is even worth it anymore. We at Engadget still think it is,
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Salesforce has quietly snapped up Moonhub, a startup building AI to vet and hire talent. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. In a post on Moonhub’s website on Monday, the company said that its entire Menlo Park, California-based team will be joining Salesforce, an early investor in Moonhub. “As a customer and investor, Salesforce has already played a role in Moonhub’s journey,” wrote Moonhub CEO Nanxy Xu in the post. “From our earliest conversations, it [was] also clear that our companies
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Laptop users … you can do a lot on your device all itself, yes. Though you could be severely limiting yourself. A 17-inch laptop is considered to be on the larger side, yet monitors pretty much start at 10 inches larger than that nowadays. Then you have the super wide, 4K displays for even more field of view. Maybe you type a lot at your desk and you’d prefer having a tactile mechanical keyboard. On-board speakers for your laptop not loud enough? Gotta plug in speakers too. Then we have micropho
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A teen tech entrepreneur is working to retrofit robots with simulated artificial bodily functions like a virtual heart rate, body temperature, and sweating response — a bong-rip idea to make them better emulate human emotional states like joy or anxiety. In an interview with TechCrunch, the 19-year-old founder of "emotionally intelligent robots" company Intempus, Teddy Warner, explained why he's imbuing AI with digital versions of the often-uncomfortable sensations you feel during spells of hei
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Netflix held its Tudum Global Fan Event in Los Angeles this weekend to showcase its upcoming slate of programming. Among the highlights: the official trailer for the third and final season of Squid Game, the first six minutes of Wednesday S2, a teaser for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, and date announcements for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, as well as Wake Up Dead Man: a Knives Out Mystery. (Some spoilers below.) Squid Game S3 As previously reported, Squid Game's first s
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Scientists have made a new calculation of the speed at which the universe is expanding, using the data taken by the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope on multiple galaxies. Webb’s image of one such galaxy, known as NGC 1365. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Janice Lee (NOIRLab), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) For the past decade,
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Rebellions, betrayals, deadly pentathlons and forks used as murder weapons filled season 2 of Squid Game -- the latest entry in Netflix's hit dystopian thriller series. A third and final season is on the way, and it just got its first full trailer at Tudum 2025. Season 3 will continue the story revolving around prize money and fatal children's games. It'll also follow the showdown between Lee Jung-jae's protagonist Gi-hun and Lee Byung-hun's Front Man, the overseer of the games who disguised hi
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