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As we come into winter and the days get shorter, it's important that cyclists take precautions while out on roads.

On The @lstwrd with @cooper_m we discussed the best cycling tech to stay safe and seen this winter:

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Exclusive | The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived Quantinuum unveiled its latest system, Helios, inching the industry toward the day the technology will deliver meaningful commercial value.

The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived

Quantinuum unveils its latest system, Helios, inching the industry toward the day the technology will deliver meaningful commercial value

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Blue Origin’s Big Boy Is Back: 3 Things to Know About New Glenn's Second Launch Both NASA and Blue Origin have a lot riding on this flight. You won’t want to miss it.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is gearing up for the second launch of New Glenn. The megarocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, no earlier than 2:51 p.m. ET on Sunday, November 9.

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Apple Nears $1 Billion-a Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google that would help run its long-promise...

Apple is planning to use a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed by Google to help power its overhaul of Siri.

An agreement would see Apple pay roughly $1 billion annually for access to Google's tech:

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Amazon Equips Next Underwater Cable With 'Robust Armoring' to Prevent Cuts The AWS 'Fastnet' cable will run from Maryland to Ireland, transporting over 320Tbps. Amid growing cable sabotage, however, 'we're burying this cable as deeply as possible,' Amazon says.

Amazon Equips Next Underwater Cable With 'Robust Armoring' to Prevent Cuts

The AWS 'Fastnet' cable will run from Maryland to Ireland, transporting over 320Tbps.

Amid growing cable sabotage, however, 'we're burying this cable as deeply as possible':
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Apple Prepares to Enter Low-Cost Laptop Market for First Time Apple Inc. is preparing to enter the low-cost laptop market for the first time, developing a budget Mac aimed at luring away customers from Chromebooks and entry-level Windows PCs.

Appleis preparing to enter the low-cost laptop market with a budget Mac aimed at luring away customers from Chromebooks and entry-level Windows PCs.

The new device, code-named J700 will be sold for well under $1,000:

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How Brussels Broke the Apple Experience:

EU tech regulations have fractured the once-unified, global Apple experience.

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Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?

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Alphabet is increasingly launching 'moonshot' projects as independent companies -- here's why | TechCrunch Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.

Alphabet is increasingly launching ‘moonshot’ projects as independent companies — here’s why

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OpenAI, Amazon Sign $38 Billion Cloud Deal The seven-year agreement is the companies’ first computing partnership and is part of Amazon’s efforts to grow its cloud business.

OpenAI, Amazon Sign $38 Billion Cloud Deal

Companies’ first computing partnership is part of Amazon’s efforts to expand its cloud business

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I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human. 1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

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Tesla Eyes Internal CEO Candidates If Musk Leaves Over $1 Trillion Pay Vote Tesla Inc. is prepared to name a new chief executive officer from inside the company if shareholders reject Elon Musk’s proposed $1 trillion pay package and he steps down, according to the chair of th...

Tesla is prepared to name a new chief executive officer from inside the company if shareholders reject Elon Musk’s proposed $1 trillion pay package and he steps down, according to the chair of the EV maker’s board.

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Sam Altman Reportedly Developing Noninvasive Brain Interface to Rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink A new report suggests Sam Altman is building a brain interface using sound waves, potentially rivaling Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly working on a brain-computer interface that could connect to the human brain using sound waves instead of surgery. The project may offer a safer, noninvasive alternative to Neuralink’s implanted approach.

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Cathie Wood says humanoid robots will be the ‘biggest of all’ AI opportunities Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood on Tuesday singled out the potential for artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of humanoid robots.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood told CNBC on Tuesday that humanoid robots will represent the “biggest of all” the embodied artificial intelligence opportunities.

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OpenAI completes restructure, solidifying Microsoft as a major shareholder The nonprofit holds an equity stake currently worth about $130 billion in its for-profit arm.

OpenAI has completed its restructuring into a nonprofit with a controlling equity stake in its for-profit business.

Microsoft, which has backed the company since 2019, will hold roughly 27% in OpenAI Group PBC.

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Bitcoin worth $14bn seized in US-UK crackdown on alleged scammers The UK has also frozen assets linked to the alleged scammers, including a £100m London office building.

The US government has seized more than $14bn (£10.5bn) in bitcoin and charged the founder of a Cambodian business empire, the Prince Group, with allegedly masterminding a massive cryptocurrency scam, which involved forced labour camps.

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China's dual-tower solar-thermal plant launched in Gobi Desert China has switched on its first dual-tower solar-thermal power station, using concentrated heat to generate power even after sunset.

China has made a revolutionary breakthrough in renewable energy engineering after it just launched the world’s first solar-thermal power plant that utilizes a dual-tower system to generate electricity in the Gobi Desert.

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Figure AI's New Humanoid Robot Can Fold Your Clothes, Do the Dishes It might also take jobs that Figure AI deems 'unsafe and undesirable.'

The day that humanoid robots wash the dishes and do the laundry may be closer than you think. On Thursday, Figure AI introduced its next-generation robot, Figure 03, taking its technology beyond factory floors to the home.

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Nvidia to Finance Musk’s xAI Chips as Part of $20 Billion Deal Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned, tapping backers including Nvidia Corp. to lift its ongoing funding round to $20 billion, according to ...

xAI to Raise $20 Billion After Nvidia and Others Boost Round

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Apple Puts Hardware Chief John Ternus in the Succession Spotlight Apple is intensifying the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus as executive succession looms. Also: The company shelves the “Vision Air” to focus on glasses, but updates of the Vision Pro and iPad ...

Apple is intensifying the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus as executive succession looms. Also: The company shelves the “Vision Air” to focus on glasses, but updates of the Vision Pro and iPad Pro are imminent.

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Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With 'Grokipedia' After blasting Wikipedia as biased and 'woke' and pushing for it to be defunded, Elon Musk says he’s building his own online encyclopedia through xAI.

Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With 'Grokipedia'

After blasting Wikipedia as biased and 'woke' and pushing for it to be defunded, Elon Musk says he’s building his own online encyclopedia through xAI.

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Amazon Is Overhauling Its Devices to Take on Apple in the AI Era Under Microsoft veteran Panos Panay, the company looks to add polish to its gadgets at every price level.

Amazon Is Overhauling Its Devices to Take on Apple in the AI Era

Under Microsoft veteran Panos Panay, the company looks to add polish to its gadgets at every price level

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Human skin DNA fertilised to make embryo for first time US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.

US scientists have, for the first time, made early-stage human embryos by manipulating DNA taken from people's skin cells and then fertilising it with sperm.

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DoorDash unveils Dot, its autonomous robot built to deliver your food | TechCrunch DoorDash's 350-pound autonomous vehicle will hold your food in its robot mouth as it drives 20 miles per hour to deliver it to you.

DoorDash unveils Dot, its autonomous robot built to deliver your food

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World's first ‘behavior transplant’ between species achieved In a breakthrough study, scientists have transferred a courtship behavior from one species to another, triggering the recipient to perform this completely foreign act as if it was its own. While genes...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have transferred a courtship behavior from one species to another, triggering the recipient to perform this completely foreign act as if it was its own.

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A new NFT themed scam;

so, you've had an #NFT sitting on OpenSea for a few years and out of the blue, someone makes you an offer of 0.5 ETH for something you'd forgotten you own....needless to say, if it sounds too good to be true.....

#phishing #ScamWarning #NFTdrop

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
24 hours ago:

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Qualcomm CEO: Android for PC is coming, and it's 'incredible' A Google executive reconfirmed that a merging of ChromeOS and Android is coming at some point in the near future.

Google and Qualcomm execs confirm Android for PC is coming: 'I've seen it, it is incredible'
Where there's smoke, there's fire.

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Trump expected to sign a TikTok deal Thursday The proposed structure would comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform wasn't sold to U.S.-based owners this year.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a deal Thursday to facilitate the sale of TikTok from a Chinese-based company to a group of American investors, two senior White House officials told NBC News.

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Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal The $100 billion deal between Nvidia and OpenAI was struck under the pressure of a looming deadline during President Trump's trip to the United Kingdom.

Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal

Nvidia’s $100 billion deal with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, followed one-on-one negotiations between the CEOs of the two companies.

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