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2+ hour, 22+ min ago   (434+ words) US President Donald Trump dismissed rising concerns over the alleged threat posed by artificial intelligence to human existence, saying his priority was to maintain an edge over China. While the researchers warned that the technology could lead to human extinction,…...

2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (81+ words) South China Morning Post Poland’s Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski met with the robot protesters to hear their demands regarding industrial AI usage. About 30 robots holding flags and chanting slogans have staged a protest outside Poland’s digital affairs ministry in…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago   (243+ words) Notebookcheck Garmin entered the screenless fitness tracker market relatively late, following competitors like Zepp Health. The current Garmin CIRQA retails for around $200 and offers a fairly stripped-back feature set—a trade-off inherent to its form factor. Lacking a display, the…...

5+ hour, 42+ min ago   (611+ words) In the mid-twentieth century, humanity stumbled into the atomic age. The initial deployment of nuclear energy yielded a grim revelation: a tiny coterie of states had acquired the capability to extinguish life on Earth several times over. Out of that…...

3+ hour, 14+ min ago   (57+ words) 11 Sep 2026 • 3m read • View Author Modular balustrades provide compliant access and fall protection at community library Moddex handrail and balustrade systems streamline installation and meet compliance at Auckland Airport Distribution of DoorBird IP video door stations with 5G begins UWA Perth campus…...

2+ hour, 29+ min ago   (108+ words) Sacramento Bee The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy here. First discovered: 11:33 p.m. Sep. 10 Initial location: Los Angeles County, Calif....

12+ hour, 54+ min ago   (527+ words) A Newcastle academic is to share part of a £66m funding grant as part of cutting edge research into "programming" a key aspect of our DNA. Jim Stewart, a senior lecturer at Newcastle University, has been awarded the funding through the…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago   (480+ words) As intelligent cockpit systems increasingly rely on touchscreen interaction, concerns have emerged regarding driver distraction and interaction safety. Existing studies have primarily examined physical interface design, cognitive processing, multimodal interaction, or adaptive systems separately, while a unified framework explaining their…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (427+ words) The CEO of an Ant-backed humanoid robotics startup has published a letter to OpenAI in Chinese that raises questions about technical and design similarities between the two companies' recent models. "People often say major tech companies have intelligence networks monitoring…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago   (264+ words) Kyoto, Japan -- Amphibian larvae -- often known as tadpoles -- exhibit a behavior known as social aggregation, where they gather together as a way to avoid predators. These interactions are evidence of their association preferences, or their tendency to recognize members of…...