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“you get 120x “Pro Zoom,” which uses AI to generate sharper details (and sometimes completely fabricated ones like garbled text) at that magnification, compared to the 100x on the Pixel 10 Pros.”
“Nine PBS, the public television station in St. Louis, has sued Iron Mountain Data Centers in Denver District Court, seeking the return of roughly 50 terabytes of archival material sitting in a Denver facility.”
“San Francisco makes up over 40% of all AI-related open job positions in the U.S.”
“DNA testing had confirmed the woman's identity as 29-year-old Sonia Bellina - an influencer with more than 250,000 followers on TikTok.”
“About 1,700 callers “were impacted,” City Hall spokesman Jeremy Edwards told The Post on Wednesday”
“Eligible college students in the United States can get one year of Google AI Pro at no cost, according to Google.”
“Daybreak Blue is the latest tier for individual researchers that grants access to “frontier general-purpose models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol, with safeguards tailored to authorized defensive security work,” according to OpenAI, which launched…”
“GTA 6 is set to launch across PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19, 2026.”
“Iris2 becomes the first large European space project in which a key component – the satellite hardware – is entrusted to a start‑up rather than the traditional aerospace giants.”
“The digital services tax imposes a 2% levy on the revenues of “search engines, social media services, and online marketplaces which derive value from U.K. users.””
“We walked into it very much thinking it was going to be an homage piece — 50% Spider‑Man, 50% noir — and we were talking about that opening scene.”
“Open Source Storage (OSS), which quietly went defunct earlier in 2026.”
“American already offers screens on more than 140 long-haul aircraft.”
“we believe up to 400 New Yorkers may have been unable to connect with a 911 call taker”
“The plan usually costs $200 a year, or $20 a month, Engadget reporter Lawrence Bonk noted.”
“TechCrunch spoke to five researchers who said they have had this problem.”
“On Tuesday, Cyberleeks said ‘two to four more leaks’ were ‘incoming’ today (August 19)”
“It was taking an old 2,000‑foot mag reel and poking out the core and letting it just spiral out.”
“The agreement was due to expire on March 6th, and the contract essentially allowed PBS an additional 30 days to retrieve its data after termination.”
“Delta debuted the Delta One suite on its new Airbus A350-1000 aircrafts, featuring a luxury 180-degree flatbed.”
“A total of 5,659 calls for EMS, FDNY and NYPD response came into the 911 system during the time it was down.”
“Engadget put the increase at four times the standard cap.”
“he and three others drove to the data center nearby to its Bellevue, Washington headquarters, found the compromised system, pulled out a set of scissors, and snipped the cable connecting the box to the outside world.”
“Netflix’s Extended Look at GTA 6 which takes place on Thursday, August 27 at 8pm BST.”
“We also looked for old libraries of ours that were recorded 50 years ago and sounded pretty bad.”
“on March 13, Nine PBS sent a demand letter asking the data center operator to preserve and return its material”
“over 63,000 global locations that are operated by around 1,500 franchisees.”
“The Big Apple overhauled its antiquated 911 system beginning in 2004, under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg.”
“It includes 5TB of cloud storage.”
“Amazon announced Wednesday a major expansion of Amazon Prime Air, its drone delivery service, with plans to reach nearly 500 U.S. cities by the end of 2026.”
“Nine PBS sued OSS and its president Charles Wells in St. Louis Circuit Court on April 16”
“digital kiosks, which have been rolled out to around two-thirds of restaurant locations globally”
“boosted the cost over $2 billion, according to a 2015 report by the city Department of Investigation.”
“Google is giving them a year of Google AI Plus, a cheaper plan that normally costs $5 a month.”
“this marks a significant milestone as it expands the service’s footprint by roughly 6x its current reach.”
“The order Nine PBS secured from a judge in the second case states that it must identify a third-party vendor, potentially a former OSS employee, who can access and retrieve the data from the infrastructure inside Iron Mountain's facility, …”
“an automated, voice AI ordering system has been rolled out to more than 900 Taco Bell U.S. restaurants”
“More than 300 mostly domestic companies are attending the World Robot Conference, which runs through Sunday, displaying over 2,000 exhibits and launching more than 150 products, according to organizers.”
“The subscription auto-renews at the full price after a year, Engadget noted.”
“Prime Air will soon launch in 11 locations: Tolleson, Arizona; Ruskin, Florida; Kansas City, Kansas; Papillion, Nebraska; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Hazel Park and Pontiac, Michigan; and Richmond, San Antonio, Richardson, and Waco, Texas.”
“Nine PBS vice president and chief content officer Leah Freeman puts the span at approximately 70 years of the organization's history.”
“Yum’s automation system has led to an 85% reduction in “stockouts””
“A sales representative said Robotera had more than 100 parcel-sorting robots in 15 warehouses nationwide.”
“Google is also selling a discounted bundle of AI Pro and YouTube Premium for $9 a month.”
“In October 2025, two drones collided with the boom of a crane.”
“the tablet’s measly 2GB of RAM”
“Yum has authorized enterprise licenses for OpenAI’s ChatGPT for district managers and franchise leaders, who are also mandated to take courses through an “AI Academy” that teaches them how to understand prompting, create digital executive …”
“Its longest deployment has lasted one month, and it is testing robots in hundreds of homes this year before gradual commercialisation next year, said co‑founder and Chief Executive Yang Qian.”
“Google said in July that Gemini had passed a billion monthly users.”
“with deliveries in as fast as 30 minutes," David Carbon, vice president of Amazon Prime Air, said.”
“meager four-core processor”
“OpenAI’s 20‑year lease for the data center will provide the company with eight gigawatts of computing capacity”
“Global humanoid shipments rose 272% in the first half of 2026 to about 19,000 units, with Chinese companies accounting for 97% of the total, according to Morgan Stanley, citing Smart Analytics Global data.”
“Google offers full-length practice SAT tests in Gemini at no cost.”
“The service currently operates across seven states, including Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas.”
“getting it to a point where the tablet could comfortably run one Android app at a time.”
“nearly 500 U.S. cities”
“But about 65% of shipments still went to entertainment, education, research and data collection rather than productive commercial work, Morgan Stanley said.”
“Gemini is gaining 3D simulations too. A prompt like “show me how DNA works in 3D” returns a structure a student can rotate and zoom, TechCrunch reported.”
“Amazon says launches in Georgia, Ohio, Illinois, Idaho, and New York are also coming soon.”
“when we first reviewed it back in 2024.”
“in as fast as 30 minutes”
“The product cycles for robots are more like six to eight months, not three to four years,” he said.”
“The company is raising funds at a pre‑money valuation of $6.5bn, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg reporters Rebecca Torrence and Dina Bass.”
“Prime members receive free ultrafast drone delivery on eligible orders of $50 or more.”
“Running Android 13 on the reMarkable Paper Pro”
“up to 5 pounds”
“next-gen humanoid robot it calls “Superman,” which is purportedly capable of leaping more than six feet in the air and running at more than 28 miles per hour.”
“It expects to bring in about $600mn in the round.”
“For Prime members placing eligible orders under $50, the delivery fee is $2.99.”
“More than $200,000 was raised in total, with $174,536 distributed to participating grantee projects.”
“more than sixfold”
“Fractile raised a $220mn round three months ago.”
“Non-Prime customers pay a $4.99 delivery fee.”
“580 unique donors made 662 contributions, with an average donation size of just $41.”
“free for Amazon Prime members who are ordering more than $50 worth of goods, but smaller orders will cost members $2.99”
“It gave the startup a valuation of around $1bn, Bloomberg reported at the time.”
“Nearly all items 5 pounds or less can be delivered by drone.”
“Non-members will pay $4.99 for drone delivery”
“Fractile has reached an initial agreement to sell roughly $250mn of chips to the AI lab, the people said.”
“In June, the companies added seven new markets, including Phoenix, Philadelphia, and the Bay Area.”
“flying drones in 11 sites across Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas”
“The chips will not be ready for use until 2027, the people said.”
“cover about 175 square miles”
“The company says it now processes more than 10 trillion tokens a day.”
“serve communities with 30 million customers by year‑end”
“It serves over 10 million developers and businesses, it adds.”
“expects to deliver half a billion packages by the end of this decade”
“Through one interface, developers can reach more than 400 models from over 80 providers.”
“aim to deliver inside 30 minutes”
“certified by the Federal Aviation Administration and the company has been awarded waivers to fly drones beyond the line of sight of the pilots”
“I often tell students it’s better to skim 10 papers than to read one in detail because you then get 10 points in your cloud of what might be possible," Dean said yesterday at the Asian American Scholar Forum’s 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Sympo…”
“Or, even skim 100 abstracts because what you want to be able to do is connect important ideas that have not yet been connected.”
“A problem that could take 20 years to solve is probably too ambitious if you don’t have a clear idea of how to attack it, he added.”
“But a problem that can be solved in two years may be too obvious to produce a major breakthrough.”
“The perfect shape of a problem that you want to work on in a reasonably long-term manner [is] like five years or something," Dean said.”
“Dean stepped away from Google earlier this month after working at the company for 27 years, notably serving as the head of Google AI from 2018 to 2023 and Google’s chief scientist from 2023 to 2026.”
“The 58-year-old is now the cofounder and CEO of DiscoveryLoop, an AI company focused on accelerating scientific and engineering discovery.”
“Dean graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 1996.”
“In 10, 15 years’ time, we’ll be in a kind of new golden era of discovery that [is] a kind of new renaissance," Hassabis previously told Fortune.”
