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China has achieved substantial technological advances across robotics, AI, and semiconductor manufacturing as part of a seven-year self-reliance campaign that has tripled the country’s research and development spending to $500 billion annually.

Apple is aiming to release smart glasses at the end of next year as part of a push into AI-enhanced gadgets, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, but it has shelved plans for a

BrianFagioli writes: In a surprising move that will frustrate longtime fans, Mozilla has announced it will shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. The once-popular read-it-later service, which helped users save and

An anonymous reader writes: The US Treasury is phasing out production of the penny and will stop putting new one-cent coins into circulation. The US Treasury has made its final order of

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 today, positioning Opus 4 as the world’s leading coding model with 72.5% performance on SWE-bench and 43.2% on Terminal-bench. Both models feature hybrid

The Russian government has introduced a new law that makes installing a tracking app mandatory for all foreign nationals in the Moscow region. From a report: The new proposal was announced by

Verizon is officially asking for a waiver of the FCC’s phone unlocking requirements. From a report: “Given the substantial and growing harms to consumers, competition and Verizon from this obligation — and

Google’s expansion of Gemini’s data access through “personal context” represents a fundamental shift in how AI assistants operate. Unlike competitors that start from scratch with each new user, Gemini can immediately tap

BrianFagioli writes: Signal has officially had enough, folks. You see, the privacy-first messaging app is going on the offensive, declaring war on Microsoft’s invasive Recall feature by enabling a new “Screen security”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Wednesday the company plans to ship 100 million AI “companion” devices as part of what he called “the chance to do the biggest thing we’ve ever

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: “Do not use semicolons,” wrote Kurt Vonnegut, who averaged fewer than 30 a novel (about one every 10 pages). “All they do is

Wisk Aero and NASA have signed a new five-year partnership to advance the safe integration of autonomous, all-electric aircraft into U.S. airspace, focusing on urban air mobility and regulated eVTOL flight. Electrek