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SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey

Ars Technica

The researchers presented their initial findings today at the American Physical Society's Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California. The results provide evidence for the hypothesis that spiders crouch to sense differences in web frequencies to locate prey that isn't movingsomething analogous to echolocation.

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The 2025 Cadillac Optiq: Sensibly sized and improves on the Equinox EV

Ars Technica

Rating the Optiq's output in kilowatts might have at least rendered something at least somewhat more comprehensible, but the designation hints at the Optiq's intended global market, which in turn reveals just how important this crossover EV is for Cadillac's future.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The treaty does a lot of things, but let me highlight a few: • A global norm that there be copyright exceptions that allow for the making of accessible versions of copyrighted works for free on a nonprofit basis by a broad range of people or organizations, without having to get permission from the rightsholders.

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HOW TO: Add Your Nonprofit to FourSquare

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And as of last week, FourSquare has gone global. This also hints at how fully integrated FourSquare will be with Twitter. Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. It is Different. www.foursquare.com/user/nonprofitorgs [Friend me!]. Love Twitter.

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Microsoft announces Xbox TV app and its own xCloud streaming stick

The Verge

We’re working with global TV manufacturers to embed the Game Pass experience directly into internet-connected TVs so all you’ll need to play is a controller,” says Liz Hamren, head of gaming experiences and platforms at Microsoft. This will be available as both an app on TVs, and with Microsoft’s own dedicated streaming stick.

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Chinese luxury EV brand Zeekr continues global push into Kazakhstan

TechCrunch

A look at Zeekr’s most recent job postings hints that the automaker is now also setting its sights on the United States, according to a job listing posted this weekend for a U.S.-based At the start of the year, Zeekr posted 3,000 open positions in more than 30 cities around the world. aftermarket efforts.

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Apple confirms new iPhones won’t arrive in September

The Verge

Qualcomm also hinted at an iPhone delay earlier this week, highlighting a “partial impact from the delay of a global 5G flagship phone launch” for its fourth quarter projections. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that Apple had delayed mass production of its upcoming iPhone handsets by around a month.

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