Author: Maverick Studios
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Can we AI our way to a more sustainable world?
Technical advancement is moving at such a rapid pace that it can be challenging to define the tomorrow we’re working toward. In The Shape of Things to Come, Microsoft Research leader Doug Burger and experts from across disciplines tease out the thorniest AI issues facing technologists, policymakers, business decisionmakers, and other stakeholders today. The goal: to amplify the shared understanding needed to build a future in which…
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Hyundai Ioniq 3 2026: Price, Specs, Availability
The brand’s new European 300-mile urban EV hatchback has great interior space and driving smarts, but a lot of competition.
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Omnichannel ordering with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Introduction Building a voice-enabled ordering system that works across mobile apps, websites, and voice interfaces (an omnichannel approach) presents real challenges. You need to process bidirectional audio streams, maintain conversation context across multiple turns, integrate backend services without tight coupling, and scale to handle peak traffic. In this post, we’ll show you how to build…
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Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce?
The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.
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Autonomous AI at Scale: Adobe Agents Unlock Breakthrough Creative Intelligence With NVIDIA and WPP
AI agents are transforming how work gets done across all industries, accelerating everything from content creation to decision-making. NVIDIA’s expanded strategic collaborations with Adobe and WPP are bringing agentic AI to the center of enterprise marketing operations across creative production and customer experience orchestration. As demand for personalized customer experiences surges, brands require intelligent systems…
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The Download: murderous ‘mirror’ bacteria, and Chinese workers fighting AI doubles
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all In February 2019, a group of scientists proposed a high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting idea that the National Science Foundation should…
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UK High Court ends National Lottery license fight with Allwyn victory
The UK High Court has thrown out the legal attack on the award of the fourth National Lottery license, handing an important courtroom win to the Gambling Commission and operator Allwyn. The decision closes, at least for now, one of the longest and most expensive rows linked to one of Britain’s biggest public contracts. Claims…
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The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad
Years before the figure skater became an Olympic superstar, a Chinese operative tried to stalk her father and monitored other US residents deemed dissidents against China. And that’s just the beginning.
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Michigan approves bet365 launch as Odawa partner, replacing PokerStars
Michigan has signed off on a new online betting operator, giving bet365 permission to enter the state through a partnership with the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. The approval was announced Friday (April 17) by the Michigan Gaming Control Board. It allows Hillside Michigan LLC, doing business as bet365, to become the tribe’s…
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Colossal Biosciences said it cloned red wolves. Is it for real?
If you want to capture something wolflike, it’s best to embark before dawn. So on a morning this January, with the eastern horizon still pink-hued, I drove with two young scientists into a blanket of fog. Forty miles to the west, the industrial sprawl of Houston spawned a golden glow. Tanner Broussard’s old Toyota Tacoma…