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A startup founded by former teenage drone-racing champions won a US Army contract worth up to $500 million for its FPV attack drones This marks the Pentagon’s largest small-drone contract ever, running up till 2031 even as it grapples with taking on Chinese-built drones and components with a much smaller manufacturing base This contract allows…

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, July 20 (game…

Alan Turing is widely revered as one of the most important scientific and technological figures in modern history. Following his work on cracking the Enigma Machine during the Second World War, Turing published his thoughts on the future of machine intelligence – and specifically on the pathway that we can one day take to achieve…

Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) struck a Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter in flight over the Belgorod region with a SkyFall Shrike 10 FPV drone, hitting the helicopter from above The attack, which saw a $400 drone strike and ‘kill’ a $19 million attack helicopter as per Skyfall, represents an impressive 47,500x exchange ratio The attack…

13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs will drive compute at the Nvidia Vera Rubin AI factory The project will be the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI By partnering with Noetra Corp, Nvidia is providing hardware to drive Japan’s FRONTia Project Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is supporting a…

70.8% of evening instant repliers were promoted in the last two years Promotion is 1.3x more likely for instant replies than those who wait until next morning Millennials get the biggest rewards for fast replies in research published by workforce solutions company Careerminds UK Achieving a work-life balance by disconnecting from work on an evening…

Netflix announced it bought AI firm InterPositive for $587 million It acquired the company back in March Though the partnership claims to support human creativity, it’s still ringing alarm bells for subscribers Netflix is taking another huge step into its investment in AI — now the streaming platform has completed its $587 million acquisition of…

A digital rights group unveils a new version of its free, open-source VPN FreeSocks v2 adds Xray-based pluggable proxy to evade VPN blocks Post-quantum encryption has also been added for maximum security With state-sponsored internet blocks growing more sophisticated worldwide, ordinary citizens are finding it increasingly difficult to stay connected. Now, one privacy-focused non-profit is…

If you’re looking for a mini PC that can comfortably handle work, study, and everyday computing without taking over your desk, I’ve found a great deal on the Geekom A5 Pro. Powered by AMD’s Ryzen 5 7530U processor, a six-core, 12-thread chip with boost speeds of up to 4.5GHz, the Geekom A5 Pro is now…

While the tech world is gearing up for the debut of Samsung’s new foldables at Unpacked next week — with the company teasing some major changes to its lineup — here in the UK we’re finally able to get our hands on the Samsung Galaxy XR headset. It’s now available outside the US and Korea…