Astronauts fall over. Robotic limbs can help them back up.

May 16, 2024

We all fall down sometimes. Astronauts are no exception. You need to be in peak physical condition for space travel, but bulky space suits and lower gravity levels can be a recipe for disaster, causing them to trip over themselves. The answer to this very specific issue may well be robotic limbs. They won’t prevent […]

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Microsoft’s custom Cobalt chips will come to Azure next week

May 16, 2024

Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview at its Build conference next week, TechCrunch has learned. In an analyst briefing ahead of Build, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive VP of the Microsoft Cloud and AI group, directly compared Cobalt to AWS’s Graviton chips, which have been available to developers […]

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Tesla keeps cutting jobs and the feds probe Waymo

May 16, 2024

What a wild week for transportation news! It was a smorgasbord of news that seemed to touch every sector and theme in transportation.

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Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI

May 16, 2024

Sony Music Group has sent letters to more than 700 tech companies and music streaming services to warn them not to use its music to train AI without explicit permission. The letter, which was obtained by TechCrunch, says Sony Music has “reason to believe” that the recipients of the letter have “may already have made […]

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