LEAVENWORTH, Wash. — Authorities were using DNA testing on Friday to determine whether have they found the skeletal remains of Travis Decker, an ex-soldier wanted in the deaths of his three daughters, in the mountains of Washington state. The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday that preliminary findings suggest the remains belong to Decker. They said they hope to have …
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SpaceX has moved its newest Starship spacecraft to the launch pad for testing ahead of the megarocket’s upcoming 11th test flight. The company documented the milestone today (Sept. 17) via X, in a post that shared three photos of the shiny silver Starship upper stage. In one of those images, the 171-foot-tall (52-meter-tall) spacecraft — known as Starship, or just …
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Waymo has been granted a permit to start testing its autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport, ahead of the launch of a commercial service. The San Francisco mayor’s office announced Tuesday that the airport, known as SFO, and Waymo have signed a “Testing and Operations Pilot Permit” after years of back-and-forth negotiations. The deal with SFO comes just two …
Read More »Capitol agenda: Republicans to reveal funding bill, testing Democrats in shutdown showdown Politico Video C-SPAN House pushes to conference first batch of 2026 funding bills with Senate The Hill Government funding and more nominations headline this week in Congress Roll Call Exclusive / House GOP eyes stopgap funding bill to avert shutdown Semafor Source link
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I’ll play almost any game, but there’s one genre I keep coming back to: battle royale. I started with PUBG and Fortnite, before graduating to Apex Legends’ hero shooter spin on the action as soon as it was released. As the world’s biggest Titanfall 2 stan, it was perfect. Despite many changes, I still jump in for a few ranked …
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A few hours ago, the Battlefield 6 development team unveiled the long-rumored (and recently leaked) Battle Royale mode, which will begin testing this week via the Battlefield Labs platform. The goal is to infuse this highly popular game mode with Battlefield DNA, including destructible environments, classes, and more. Unsurprisingly, the map has been designed specifically for the Battle Royale experience. …
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Microsoft is testing new File Explorer AI-powered features that will enable Windows 11 users to work with images and documents without needing to open the files. Known as “AI actions,” they can currently only be used to remove the background, erase objects, and blur the background in JPG, JPEG, and PNG image files. The complete list of File Explorer AI …
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Read More »Vodafone made a commercial starring an AI avatar posing as a real lady. This is interesting because Vodafone is a major global brand and not a fly-by-night TikTok company using a ridiculous deepfake of Jackson Galaxy to sell cat toys. The tells in the commercial are obvious and what one would expect. The AI avatar’s hair is a bit off, …
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OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current …
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