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Google's Project Starline was reborn as Google Beam at Google I/O last month. The 3D conferencing system, which uses a lot of advanced hardware, makes users look like they're in the same room as each other. HP has revealed the first Beam setup - the HP Dimension will be available later this year for $24,999. It will come with a 65-inch display (Beam systems will have displays of various sizes) and also support regular 2D chats using Zoom and Google Meet. Google Beam's video model requires a lot of intense cloud processing, so customers will also have to pay for a Google Beam license on top of the hardware - prices for the licenses have not yet been released.

Nintendo sold more than 3.5 million Switch 2 units in the console's first four days, making it the fastest-selling home video game console yet. The company was able to meet the demand by having ample inventory on hand in key markets. Preorders sold out across major retailers in the US ahead of the launch. The threat of price increases from tariffs likely boosted demand. Nintendo aims to sell 15 million Switch 2 consoles by the end of March 2026.

While cancer is still a terrible health threat, the tide in the war against cancer is turning. Thanks to breakthrough treatments, cancer is no longer the death sentence it once was. While there are certain areas where the story isn't getting better, the future of cancer treatment is improving. This article tells the story of three revolutions that caused the dramatic bend in the curve of cancer deaths.

Standard Nuclear has made Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the base of a project to power up America's next nuclear era. It is developing meltdown-resistant fuel for a smaller, safer type of nuclear reactor. Standard Nuclear is the largest source of tristructural isotropic (triso) fuel outside of China. Triso fuel, which is in high demand for use in small modular reactors, is known for its durability and safety.

s3mini is a tiny and fast S3 client for node and edge platforms. It is ultra-lightweight, at around 14 KB minified, and it runs on Node, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, and other edge platforms. s3mini requires zero dependencies and users can use any S3-compatible bucket. It has been tested on Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, DigitalOcean Spaces, and MinIO.

Vitness is a database clustering system for scaling MySQL that adds sharding, connection pooling, query routing, resiliency and failover, and cloud-native orchestration. Multigres is a proxy that sits in front of Postgres databases. It shares the same goals as Vitness but is focused on the Postgres ecosystem. One of the co-creators of Vitness recently joined Supabase to build on the open-source Multigres project.

Elon Musk says that Tesla's robotaxi service is tentatively set to launch in Austin, Texas, on June 22. He says the first driverless trip from the Tesla factory to a customer's house will take place on June 28, his birthday. Tesla is prioritizing safety, so the dates may shift. The rollout will start small, with about 10 to 20 robotaxis, and Tesla will geofence the service, limiting where the robotaxis will be able to operate. Employees will be remotely monitoring the fleet.

Mark Zuckerberg is personally creating a new superintelligence team dedicated to building the world's most advanced AI platform. Meta has offered compensation packages of between seven and nine figures to AI researchers from top competitors, some of whom have accepted. Zuckerberg has been reportedly personally frustrated with the pace of Meta's AI development and has gone into a more hands-on mode to accelerate progress.

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Fervo Energy is developing what promises to be the largest geothermal power plant in the world in Utah.

V-JEPA 2 is designed to understand the movements of objects to better understand, plan, and predict in 3D environments.

s5cmd is a very fast S3 and local filesystem execution tool that supports a multitude of operations, including tab completion and wildcard support for files.

Privy helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences.

Startups that anticipate infrastructure improvements will ride the wave of rising local inference capabilities and create the next set of generationally defining businesses.

Dia can search the web, summarize files, automatically switch between chat and search functions, answer questions from users, and more.