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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this month quietly awarded a $30,000 no-bid contract for sniper and combat training to a Virginia firm run by ...

At the height of the Iraq war, bloggers coined the term “Friedman unit” in reference to the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s habit of claiming ...

The Swedish Gambling Authority has shared a new report estimating that the channelization rate with licensed operators was 85 percent in 2024. The ...

—James O'Donnell Digital clones—AI models that replicate a specific person—package together a few technologies that have been around for a while now: ...

The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a ...

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models ...

Fresh on the heels of August's black moon is September's full moon, which will be among the most interesting full moons of 2025. It's coming with a total ...

The following article comes from two blog posts by Drew Breunig: “How Long Contexts Fail” and “How to Fix Your Contexts.”Managing Your Context Is the Key to ...

The U.S. Commerce Department says it will not abide by an agreement to fund the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act’s R&D through the nonprofit set up to ...