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A quantum computer ran in orbit for the first time — shielded in aluminium, working 30 minutes a day in Earth’s shadow
A photonic processor on a glass chip was launched to 510km in June last year. Sunlight and radiation overwhelmed its detectors, so the team…
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Amazon shut the door on Meta’s shopping agent, and a reservations site locked a user for booking 300 tables an hour
Meta’s Muse has been downloaded 2.5 million times and partners with Walmart, Sephora and Expedia. Amazon blocked it outright. The fight is…
Technology
Gemini will ring the shop for you — from your own number, on your own network, with a live transcript on screen
The “Call For Me” feature has Gemini phone a business to check stock, book a table or move an appointment. It says whose number it is…
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Three rivals who are suing and outbidding each other want to jointly write the safety rules they will be judged by
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are setting up an independent body, provisionally SAFA — the Standards Authority for Frontier AI. They have…
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Washington and Beijing cut tariffs on $60bn of goods — and quietly agreed to call it “super intelligence”
Under a “30-for-30” framework each side takes $30bn of the other’s non-sensitive goods at reduced rates. China’s list runs to 1,619 items…
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A jury says the buzz in your iPhone belongs to someone else — and put the bill at $5.7bn
Audio firm Taction Technology claimed in 2021 that Apple infringed two of its haptics patents. Apple says its Taptic Engine is…
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Two Bangladeshi students won SpaceX’s challenge at MIT with a tool that spots satellite collisions before they happen
Ashraful Islam and Md Tanvir Ibne Alam of Truman State University built Scutaris, an orbital safety platform, and beat entries from 36…
Technology
Six days after calling AI fears overblown, Jensen Huang launched a platform to stop AI agents going rogue
Nvidia says over 100 partners are behind its Open Agent Safety Platform, which lets companies monitor every action an agent takes. The same…
Technology
OpenAI has pulled a finished model over safety — a first for the industry, and the reason is worth reading closely
GPT-6.1 Astra was due in October. OpenAI says it “didn’t quite meet the bar” on staying within scope and authorisation, and on telling the…
Technology
He has ten years and a loyal following. One video brought tens of thousands of comments too vile to repeat
Mitchell Halliday created a red carpet look for Katie Price. What arrived was not criticism of his work — most of the cruelty was aimed at…
Technology
A 16-year-old remembers a day from when he was three months old. Researchers have now confirmed why
Only about 0.1% of people have highly superior autobiographical memory. A new study in Cortex documents a teenager with verified…
Technology
A fossil dug up in Japan 30 years ago turns out to be a new armoured dinosaur that walked from America
CT scans of a skull found in Hokkaido in 1995 identified Nipponopelta ezoensis, a nodosaurid between 93 and 100 million years old — and…