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Perhaps you're wondering what kind of footwear is propelling elite athletes to these kinds of times? I've hunted out the shoes worn by a selection of marathon winners, and rounded up the results below. The Adidas Adios…
To put that into context, BAN says that waste would fill 15-23 million 40ft shipping containers, which, placed end-to-end, would be enough to circle the earth six times over. Ultimately, Moore's Law is to blame because…
You can make commissioned dresses for a town of women with different tastes and aesthetics, or you can make your own off-rack dresses to sell. How big is the development team? Anja: The full-time core development team…
It has become increasingly common for AI firms to announce that their latest and most capable models engaged in unauthorized real-world hacking. Google, which has been slow to release frontier Gemini models in recent…
In Europe the only type approval route that works across the whole union for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 units a year per vehicle type. Hyundai will build “ tens of thousands ” of Ioniq 5 robotaxis for Waymo…
According to the company’s updated IPO filing, Oura and its shareholders are together offering 50 million shares at a price range of $40 to $44 each. But most of the IPO’s proceeds will go to shareholders, who are…
His company launched its AI benefits brokerage on Monday with $25m. Its plan is to change that with agents. Bain Capital Ventures led the round. BoxGroup and Definition Capital took part. So did a long list of angel…
On Friday, The Washington Post reported on a contentious White House meeting in which the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya, tried to fend off yet another effort to place funding…
“We did bookkeeping, accounting, sales tax, taxes, everything,” Ali says. It was a stable business, and one that would have been easy to stay in. But Ali started to notice something. His work was increasingly dictated by…
The spread of the AI-powered systems to provide help about the provision of vital services such as energy, banking, phones and internet, is making it harder for millions of already digitally excluded people to handle…