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Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a demand in many countries and regions to reshore — that is, to redevelop critical industry infrastructure, and to bring back businesses, which had moved or outsourced some or all of their industrial operations to cheaper countries farther away.

But that is easier said than done. In the key area of precision...

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AeroVironment Gets $47M JUMP 20 VTOL Contract for Italy

– AeroVironment has announced it has been awarded a $46.6M contract by the Italian Ministry of Defence for the delivery of its JUMP 20 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) medium uncrewed aircraft system (MUAS). The five-year contract encompasses the procurement of JUMP 20 air vehicles, engineering services, initial sustainment and onsite technical...

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Apple and Meta furious at EU over fines totaling €700 millionApple and Meta furious at EU over fines totaling €700 million

of their global annual turnover, which would amount to many billions for Apple and Meta. ....

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Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii is evaluating unique energy innovation to provide electrical power and hydrogen fuel in the sort of separated and austere stations the Air Force will need in the Pacific theater for its brand-new Agile Combat Employment method of warfare.The innovation, established by a majority veteran-founded startup based in Houston, utilizes ...

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Copy of Copy of DroneElle Fanning teams up with a predator in first Predator: Badlands trailer

It's not every day you get a trailer for a new, live-action Predator movie, but today is one of those days. ....

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Zuckerberg stifled Instagram because he loves Facebook, Instagram founder saysZuckerberg stifled Instagram because he loves Facebook, Instagram founder says

If the FTC wins, Instagram may be spun off from Meta's "family of apps," which the FTC believes would, for the first time ever, force Meta to face competition as a social media company focused on connecting friends and family. ....

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The Falcon Mini is a two-propeller “bicopter” which is claimed to be nimbler, quieter, and more energy-efficient than its four-prop counterparts.

Currently the subject of an Indiegogo campaign, the Falcon Mini is made by drone manufacturer ZeroZero Robotics. The firm also makes the popular HOVERAir line of consumer quadcopters, and previously...

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Can the legal system catch up with climate science?Can the legal system catch up with climate science?

Similarly, it's possible to calculate the impact of emissions within a limited number of years. ....

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Bethesda isn&t shutting down ambitious fan-made &Skyblivion& remaster projectBethesda isn’t shutting down ambitious fan-made “Skyblivion” remaster project

"Bethesda has always been supportive of community projects like ours, and we don't see that changing anytime soon," the team wrote at the time. ....

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Chart a course for mobile robot navigation success at the Robotics Summit

The 2025 Robotics Summit - Expo is next week in Boston. If you&re attending the conference and your passion is mobile systems, then don&t miss the session &Nuts - Bolts of Robotic Navigation.&

The session will be on Wednesday, April 30, at 1:45 p.m. ET and features a panel that will will discuss the latest in...

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FCC Democrat slams chairman for aiding Trump&s &campaign of censorship&FCC Democrat slams chairman for aiding Trump’s “campaign of censorship”

and will be hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology. ....

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Republican space officials criticize &mindless& NASA science cutsRepublican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts

have both expressed deep concerns about the future of the space agency. ....

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Helm.ai launches AV software for up SAE L4 autonomous driving

With GenSim-2, developers can modify weather and lighting conditions such as rain, fog, snow, glare, and time of day or night in video data. | Source: Helm.ai

Helm.ai last week introduced the Helm.ai Driver, a real-time deep neural network, or DNN, transformer-based path-prediction system for highway and urban Level 4 autonomous driving. The...

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4chan may be dead, but its toxic legacy lives on4chan may be dead, but its toxic legacy lives on

was sitting up late at night, typing its URL into my browser, and scrolling through a thread of LOLcat memes, which were brand-new at the time. ....

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Starship Technologies surpasses 8M autonomous deliveries

Starship reached the 8M deliveries milestone in early 2025. | Credit: Starship Technologies

Starship Technologies Inc. last week announced that its systems have completed more than 8 million autonomous deliveries and traversed over 10 million miles globally. The San Francisco-based company&s sidewalk robots have become a familiar sight for...

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AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproarAI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar

that it used AI to develop a portion of multiple-choice questions on its February 2025 bar exam, causing outrage among law school faculty and test takers. ....

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Bicycle bling: All the accessories you&ll need for your new e-bikeBicycle bling: All the accessories you’ll need for your new e-bike

Giro, Bell, Smith, POC, and Kask are all reputable brands with a wide range of shapes to fit bulbous and diminutive noggins alike. ....

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The remarkable success of OpenAI’s o1 series and DeepSeek-R1 has unequivocally demonstrated the power of large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) in eliciting sophisticated reasoning behaviors and significantly enhancing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs).

Can GRPO be 10x Efficient? Kwai AI&s SRPO Suggests Yes with SRPO

However, the core training methodologies behind these groundbreaking reasoning...

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Trump is &desperate& to make a deal—China isn&t, analysts sayTrump is “desperate” to make a deal—China isn’t, analysts say

Donald Trump has started signaling that he's ready to slash tariffs on Chinese imports, but economists have warned that the US softening its stance now likely cedes power to China, which perhaps benefits from dragging out trade talks. ....

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AI coding assistant startup Windsurf cut its prices “across the board” it announced on Monday, touting “massive savings” for its users as competition with its rival Cursor intensifies.

Windsurf said it’s getting rid of its complex system of “flow action credits,” which charged developers for actions its AI did in the background. It’s also cutting pr...

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US Marines Surpass 1,000 MQ-9A Flight Hours

– General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Marine Corps has passed more than 1,000 flight hours with MQ-9A unmanned aircraft in support of service-level training exercises and weapons and tactics instructor courses.

This accomplishment involved a combined aircrew of dedicated Marines and GA-ASI personnel, highlighting...

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Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond.

There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at A Technology NewsRoom; three companies raised more than one “megaround,” and seven companies raised rounds $1 billion in size or larger.

How will 2025 compare? It’s still the f...

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Google reveals sky-high Gemini usage numbers in antitrust caseGoogle reveals sky-high Gemini usage numbers in antitrust case

Despite the uptick in Gemini usage, Google is still far from catching OpenAI. ....

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– Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has succeeded in the world’s first experiment to induce and guide lightning using a drone, demonstrating the effectiveness of drone lightning resistance technology and lightning induction technology using electric field fluctuations with actual lightning.In the future, this result is expected to...

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After a sluggish couple of years, fintech appears to be making a comeback.

In the first quarter of 2025, fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3 billion — marking the highest level of funding since the first quarter of 2023, according to CB Insights research. The average deal size of $17.7 million also marked the highest since 2021.

Notably...

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