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Waymo's long-term business plans include the possibility of personal ownership. The company recently expanded testing to Japan and plans to introduce robotaxis in Austin this summer. Waymo previously floated the idea of selling self-driving cars when it made a deal with Chrysler in 2018 to build self-driving Pacifica minivans. Tesla also aims to release a personal self-driving car - it announced at an event last year that the Cybercab will be available by 2026 for $30,000.

Google claims that it is the only company capable of running Chrome effectively due to complex service integrations. Separating the browser from the company's servers could make some features unusable. Despite Google's claims, experts believe that a Chrome divestiture is technically feasible. There are many parties interested in buying Chrome, including OpenAI and Yahoo.

Humanoid robots are becoming increasingly capable as more and more companies invest hundreds of millions of dollars into the technology. Some are now being tested in the field to see if they can do useful work. Humanoid robots can now dance, run, and do flips, but while manipulation capabilities are improving, they still have a long way to go. While it's possible to automate any specific task, building a robot that can flexibly perform a variety of actions in a novel or highly variable environment is much harder.

Chongqing, China, is as big as Austria. With 34 million inhabitants, the city is the emblem of the fastest urban revolution on the planet. It has become a symbol of the Chinese ability to reshape the world. This article contains a gallery of images from all over the city showing sights like the Yangtze River, street food stalls, various shopping centers, and more.

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TmuxAI is an AI-powered assistant for the terminal that works alongside users in a tmux window. It observes and understands the content of tmux panes to provide assistance without users changing their workflow or interrupting terminal sessions. TmuxAI features context-aware terminal assistance, universal terminal compatibility, prepare and watch modes, and zero-configuration setup. It can understand context across multiple panes.

Magnitude is an AI-native testing framework for web apps. It uses visual AI agents to provide end-to-end testing, allowing it to adapt to any changes. Magnitude can be used to build test cases easily with natural language. It can run tests locally or in CI/CD pipelines.

Huawei's new Ascend 910D AI chip could be more powerful than Nvidia's H100, a popular chip used for AI training. It is still in early development and still needs to be tested to assess performance. The company will receive its first batch of samples of the processor as soon as late May. Huawei faces challenges in producing its chips - it has been cut off from TSMC and China's closest alternative is blocked from purchasing the most advanced chip-making equipment.

Tech positions nowadays are starting to look like regular jobs. Workers are contending with the constant fear of layoffs, longer hours, and increasing responsibilities for the same pay. A few years ago, tech talent was so in demand that some people were being hired to do virtually nothing. Employees are now doing the work of multiple laid-off colleagues. Changing jobs used to be a surefire way to secure a raise, but now, asking for more money can lead to a job offer being withdrawn.

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Big tech companies have packed in as many features as possible to make money - the interaction of these features adds an unimaginable amount of cognitive load.

India currently produces about 40 million iPhones per year, a bit less than a fifth of Apple's global iPhone production.

You are a completely different person today than who you were seven years ago - there's no need to dwell on things for a version of you that doesn't exist, and there's no reason to plan for a future version either: focus your energy and attention on the present moment.

The funding would value the company at over $120 billion.

Slate Auto's first trucks will be available to customers for under $20,000 with the federal EV tax credit by the end of 2026.

Deel has filed a civil suit against Rippling alleging that Rippling was not remitting its customers' payroll tax and social benefits dollars to local taxation authorities but rather categorizing and reporting the funds as its own earnings.

A look at what traits and characteristics could be desirable to have for a Kafka rebuild that looks beyond separating storage and compute and object store support.