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Meet Neo Beta: Your new, slightly creepy humanoid robot home assistant

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Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT) made headlines earlier this year after securing over $100 million in backing from OpenAI and EQT Ventures, Europe's most prominent technology startup-based capital fund. The support helped to put the Norwegian firm and its latest robot creation, Neo, in a position to compete with industry.

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Interior Design with Stable Diffusion (7-day mini-course)

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At its core, Stable Diffusion is a deep learning model that can generate pictures. Together with some other models and UI, you can consider that as a tool to help you create pictures in a new dimension that not only you can provide instructions on how the picture looks like, but also the generative model […] The post Interior Design with Stable Diffusion (7-day mini-course) appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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Tesla Cybertruck ignites after crashing into a fire hydrant

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Earlier this week, a Tesla Cybertruck erupted into flames after crashing into a fire hydrant outside a Bass Pro Shop in Harlingen, Texas. The collision resulted in a deluge of water soaking the vehicle's battery, which then ignited, according to Assistant Fire Chief Ruben Balboa of the Harlingen Fire Department.

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Researchers unlock cheap way to vaporize plastic and use it to make more plastic

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Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new catalytic process that can vaporize the polyethylene (single-use bags) and polypropylene (hard plastics) that dominate trash piles, converting them into propylene and other hydrocarbon gases. Those gases can then be used as feedstocks to manufacture virgin plastics again, enabling a truly circular.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Columbus judge sues researcher for disclosing true impact of ransomware attack

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In a strange turn of events following a significant ransomware attack on the city of Columbus, Ohio, a judge has issued a temporary restraining order against cybersecurity researcher David Leroy Ross. The Dispatch notes that Ross allegedly published information regarding a security breach last month that he felt officials were.

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Scientists propose method to extend lithium-ion battery life while lowering costs

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Producing lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and many other devices is complex and time-consuming. Manufacturers are trying to find quicker methods without compromising quality, but the nature of the process severely complicates efforts to study the relationship between various manufacturing approaches and performance.

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Injectable pacemaker lets your phone correct heart arrhythmia for up to 5 days

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The concept is wild but also ingeniously simple. It's a special syringe with a needle thinner than a human hair, loaded with nanoparticles suspended in a solution. When injected, these nanoparticles self-assemble into a long polymer chain, forming a structure around the heart that conducts electricity.

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Researchers disclose Windows "downgrade" attack as Microsoft provides a mitigation method

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Security researchers from SafeBreach labs have published the code for software that can roll back Windows to reopen old security vulnerabilities. Microsoft hasn't fully addressed the issue yet, but instituting a strict revocation policy can help defend against it until a proper fix is available.