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All people with cars across the country should pay attention to the latest regulations applicable from October 26
GenK5 minutes ago

All people with cars across the country should pay attention to the latest regulations applicable from October 26

**The Ministry of Construction has issued Decision 1838 dated October 26, 2026, promulgating the maximum price for inspection services, exempting the first inspection for motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles.** Specifically, the Decision promulgates the maximum price schedule for inspection services and exemption from first-time inspection for motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles. The maximum prices specified in this Decision do...

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Selling more than thirteen thousand units at an expensive price, is the U1Pro super simulation robot really worth the money?
GenK5 minutes ago

Selling more than thirteen thousand units at an expensive price, is the U1Pro super simulation robot really worth the money?

**Appearing at the Wuzhen conference (China), the super simulation robot U1Pro attracted more than thirteen thousand orders despite its very expensive price. Can this machine worth nearly 170,000 yuan really meet the needs of life or is it just to comfort emotions?** At the recent Wuzhen conference (China), the robot display area witnessed the scene of spectators crowded without a single empty seat. The crowd flocked here not simply because...

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An e-commerce platform is about to lay off 1,000 people
GenKabout 2 hours ago

An e-commerce platform is about to lay off 1,000 people

**One of the world's oldest e-commerce platforms, plans to cut about 1,000 employees, equivalent to 9% of the global workforce, in an effort to streamline operations and focus resources on high-growth business areas.** At the end of October, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone informed employees of his plan to cut about 9% of global staff. An eBay representative later confirmed that the restructuring would affect about 1,000 positions. With about 12,300...

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How much does Elon Musk work? Former employee X revealed the meeting time, surprising many people
GenKabout 2 hours ago

How much does Elon Musk work? Former employee X revealed the meeting time, surprising many people

**Chris Park said many times he witnessed Elon Musk working at 1-3 am. After four years working under the billionaire, former employee X thinks he has learned the equivalent of a decade of knowledge.** At 1 o'clock, at 2 o'clock, and then at 3 o'clock in the morning, Elon Musk still sat in meetings with his employees. That's the memory recalled by Chris Park, former head of developer platform at X, in a share in early November. Park said he...

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Autonomous combat drone maker Shield AI buys radar startup Echodyne for $5.3B
SiliconANGLEabout 3 hours ago

Autonomous combat drone maker Shield AI buys radar startup Echodyne for $5.3B

### Autonomous combat drone maker Shield AI buys radar startup Echodyne for $5.3B Defense technology startup Shield AI Inc. said today it has agreed to buy the Bill Gates-backed radar startup Echodyne Inc. in a massive deal valued at $5.3 billion. The acquisition is intended to enhance Shield’s autonomous drone warfighting capabilities, it said. Echodyne is a 13-year-old startup that’s best known for its Metamaterials Electronically Scanned...

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OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects
The Vergeabout 3 hours ago

OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects

Following this week’s midterms where voters resoundingly voiced their opposition to data center expansion, OpenAI today announced new commitments to communities where it is working on data center projects, including that it won’t use non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with public officials. # OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects The ChatGPT maker won’t use NDAs with public officials as part of its new data center...

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Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M, releases new AI productivity features
SiliconANGLEabout 3 hours ago

Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M, releases new AI productivity features

### Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M, releases new AI productivity features Dropbox Inc. is acquiring cloud storage startup Tigris Data Inc. for $350 million. The company announced the deal today in conjunction with a major update to its product portfolio. It introduced DBX Agent Cloud, a service that artificial intelligence agents can use to store their data. Dropbox is also adding new AI productivity features to its flagship file...

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Mercedes-Benz reveals 3 new technologies: LED in the car window, hologram HUD and 800 V converter
Tinhte.vnabout 3 hours ago

Mercedes-Benz reveals 3 new technologies: LED in the car window, hologram HUD and 800 V converter

Mercedes-Benz has just introduced three technologies in development, including an LED screen integrated into the windshield to communicate with surrounding vehicles, a hologram HUD screen that turns the front windshield into a separate display surface for the driver and passengers, and a Power Converter that keeps the output voltage stable to 800 V regardless of whether the battery is full or empty. The company emphasizes that these are...

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The National Competition Commission announced the results of reviewing Grab's pricing and fee policies: Grab spent nearly 3,000 billion VND to immediately do the following
GenKabout 3 hours ago

The National Competition Commission announced the results of reviewing Grab's pricing and fee policies: Grab spent nearly 3,000 billion VND to immediately do the following

**Grab will spend about VND 2,950.9 billion, including revenue reduction due to fee reductions and reimbursements, bonuses, driver support, and promotions for passengers.** The National Competition Commission has just announced the results of a review of Grab's pricing and fee policies and solutions to improve consumer rights, driver partners and information transparency. During the period from late August to mid-September 2026, through...

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Bill Gates: 'AI can cause a pandemic worse than Covid-19'
VNExpress Số Hóaabout 3 hours ago

Bill Gates: 'AI can cause a pandemic worse than Covid-19'

# Bill Gates: 'AI could cause a pandemic worse than Covid-19' Technology billionaire Bill Gates warned that bad guys could use AI to create biological weapons, causing much more damage than Covid-19. At the Future of AI Summit organized by *Financial Times* on November 4, the Microsoft co-founder said the incredible capabilities of AI models mean "both the potential for benefit and the risk of harm are huge". He said that the big immediate...

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NASA unveils mysterious X-70 experimental aircraft using AI-generated image
Ars Technicaabout 4 hours ago

NASA unveils mysterious X-70 experimental aircraft using AI-generated image

NASA has announced a new experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, that will supposedly feature reconfigurable flight-control technology and a modular design for swapping in different payloads. But much remains unknown about the aircraft’s design and development timeline, even as NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said the X-plane could take flight within two years. The mystery surrounding NASA’s newest X-plane was exemplified by the agency’s...

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Meta, Google, and TikTok sue California AG over teen social media law
TechCrunchabout 4 hours ago

Meta, Google, and TikTok sue California AG over teen social media law

Meta, Google, and TikTok have each filed lawsuits against California Attorney General Rob Bonta in an attempt to block a law that restricts social media features it deems addictive for users under 16. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill, known as AB 1709, into law in September, and it’s slated to take effect at the start of the new year. The law prohibits social platforms from offering autoplay videos and personalized feeds to...

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Binary code: how does a computer add 6 and 7 when it only knows how to turn it on and off
Tinhte.vnabout 5 hours ago

Binary code: how does a computer add 6 and 7 when it only knows how to turn it on and off

Inside every phone there are billions of tiny switches, each of which only knows two things: let electricity pass through or block it. Yet from those switches, the computer can do all calculations. The secret lies in two things: the way numbers are written using only 0 and 1, called the binary system, and small circuits called logic gates that turn electrical currents into calculations. ## **Count with two fingers** The decimal system has...

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BMW bumps battery for the better: The 2027 i7 60 xDrive, driven
Ars Technicaabout 6 hours ago

BMW bumps battery for the better: The 2027 i7 60 xDrive, driven

BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles and accommodation so Ars could drive the 2027 i7 as well as the 2027 iX5 and X5. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. When BMW debuted the new 7 Series in 2022, it set a new standard for large luxury sedans, increasingly irrelevant though that class is. Rather than siloing off an electric alternative like Mercedes, with its EQS alongside the normal S-Class, BMW simply made the...

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Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.
Ars Technicaabout 6 hours ago

Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.

ChatGPT allegedly helped a North Carolina woman, Cheryl Gates, craft a “personalized plan” to poison her husband, James, after fueling her delusions that he planned to divorce her and leave her with nothing. A grand jury indicted Cheryl Gates on charges of attempted first-degree murder and food contamination in October. About a week prior, the accusations that ChatGPT was a co-conspirator in the attempted murder came in a lawsuit filed in...

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Bose recalls S1 Pro battery packs due to fire and overheating risks
Engadgetabout 6 hours ago

Bose recalls S1 Pro battery packs due to fire and overheating risks

# Bose recalls S1 Pro battery packs due to fire and overheating risks Over 670,000 units are being recalled in the US and Canada. If you own a Bose S1 Pro or S1 Pro+, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news: the speaker itself is fine. The bad news: the battery pack inside may be less than fine. Bose and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a recall on Thursday, covering nearly 635,000 lithium-ion...

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The midterms proved once and for all that X is not real life
The Verge Techabout 6 hours ago

The midterms proved once and for all that X is not real life

A week before the midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance hosted a town hall in Texas with Fox News host Jesse Watters. It was a friendly event with a friendly audience in what should have been a friendly state, and maybe that’s why Vance couldn’t help himself. When a college student earnestly asked how the right expected young people like her to settle down and have kids, given the ever-growing cost of living, Vance replied with a quip...

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Google Cloud storage moves to the front of the AI stack as enterprises hit the GPU utilization ceiling
SiliconANGLEabout 6 hours ago

Google Cloud storage moves to the front of the AI stack as enterprises hit the GPU utilization ceiling

### Google Cloud storage moves to the front of the AI stack as enterprises hit the GPU utilization ceiling For the past two years, enterprise AI investment has been dominated by one conversation: compute. Organizations raced to secure GPU allocations, negotiated infrastructure deals and stood up machine learning platforms at speed. What many discovered only after the fact is that the bottleneck they thought they were solving was not the only...

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Blue Origin's New Glenn launch delay will continue into 2027
Engadgetabout 6 hours ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn launch delay will continue into 2027

# Blue Origin's New Glenn launch delay will continue into 2027 Repairs have been slow after an explosion earlier this year. Blue Origin made waves earlier this year after a New Glenn rocket exploded on its launchpad in May 2026. This issue during a hot-test caused notable damage to the company's infrastructure in Florida that has delayed it from further activity. Shortly after the incident, Blue Origin's CEO claimed that the repairs would...

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Getting started with Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS Machine Learning Blogabout 6 hours ago

Getting started with Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. With Web Answer, agent builders get a synthesized, source-cited answer to a natural-language question with a single tool call. They no longer build a search, retrieve, synthesize, and citation pipeline themselves. If you have built agents that need to answer questions from current web sources, you know the pattern: call a search API, decide which...

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Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws
Ars Technicaabout 7 hours ago

Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws

Kalshi is having a bad week in the federal court system. Two circuit appeals courts rejected the prediction market's latest attempts to block state gambling laws in Connecticut, New York, and Nevada. Kalshi is separately facing a new lawsuit filed by the Arkansas attorney general. In all cases involving Kalshi and state governments around the US, the main issue is whether state gambling laws apply to prediction markets despite Kalshi's claim...

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Rising demand puts Locaweb’s data center strategy to the test
SiliconANGLEabout 7 hours ago

Rising demand puts Locaweb’s data center strategy to the test

### Rising demand puts Locaweb’s data center strategy to the test Growing demand and hardware shortages are forcing service providers to rethink data center capacity planning. For Locaweb Serviços de Internet S/A, a cloud hosting and digital services provider based in Brasil, keeping up with customer needs means anticipating infrastructure requirements earlier and finding alternatives when equipment isn’t readily available. That pressure is...

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Humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics debuts on the Nasdaq after SPAC merger
SiliconANGLEabout 7 hours ago

Humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics debuts on the Nasdaq after SPAC merger

### Humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics debuts on the Nasdaq after SPAC merger Agility Robotics Inc. debuted on the Nasdaq today after merging with a special-purpose acquisition company. SPAC deals provide a simpler path to public markets than a traditional listing. In such transactions, a shell company floats its shares and then merges with a privately held business. That business effectively takes the SPAC’s place on the stock exchange...

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A BioWare documentary is set to arrive next year
Engadgetabout 7 hours ago

A BioWare documentary is set to arrive next year

# A BioWare documentary is set to arrive next year Massive Effect: The BioWare Story started filming two years before EA shut down the studio. BioWare is no more after Electronic Arts shut down the storied studio last month. As it turns out, a film crew documented the studio's final act. A documentary called *Massive Effect: The BioWare Story* is in the works, as *Deadline* reported, and it's expected to arrive next year. Filming started...

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