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Labor dispute erupts over AI-voiced Darth Vader in FortniteLabor dispute erupts over AI-voiced Darth Vader in Fortnite

For voice actors who previously portrayed Darth Vader in video games, the Fortnite feature starkly illustrates how AI voice synthesis could reshape their profession. ....

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Epic goes to court to force Fortnite back on US iOSEpic goes to court to force Fortnite back on US iOS

it recently submitted complies with all Apple policies and court rulings by offering a link to the external Epic Games Store for purchases. ....

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Orbbec's Gemini 335Lg Depth Camera.

Orbbec&s Gemini 335Lg stereo vision 3D camera can be used in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and robotic arms.

Orbbec Inc., a robotics and AI vision provider, and Connect Tech Inc., an expert in embedded and edge AI computing, have partnered to provide built-in support for the Gemini 335Lg. This is the GMSL/FAKRA version of the Gemini 335L...

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Trump to sign law forcing platforms to remove revenge porn in 48 hoursTrump to sign law forcing platforms to remove revenge porn in 48 hours

Likely wearisome for victims, the law won't be widely enforced for about a year, while any revenge porn already online continues spreading. ....

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Experts alarmed over Trump&s promotion of deep-sea mining in international watersExperts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of deep-sea mining in international waters

, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. ....

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The global assistive technology market was valued at more than $22 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow substantially by 2030. Despite the potential market size, many founders building tech to help people with disabilities struggle to secure the kind of early funding needed to get their companies off the ground in the first place.

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Microsoft closes 9-year-old feature request, open-sources Windows Subsystem for LinuxMicrosoft closes 9-year-old feature request, open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update back in 2016, giving them access to a built-in Linux command line and Linux applications from within Windows. ....

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UAV Navigation- Grupo Oesía Presents Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems at XPONENTIAL 2025

Once again, UAV Navigation – Grupo Oesía will participate in XPONENTIAL from May 20 to 22 in Houston, Texas. The Spanish company, hyperspecialized in Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) systems for UAS platforms, is part of Grupo Oesía and has more than 20 years of experience in the sector.

This participation consolidates its role as a...

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Brex has once again made the surprising, but perhaps realistic, decision to partner with another one-time competitor. This time Zip, the CEOs of both companies told A Technology NewsRoom exclusively. 

In April 2022, fintech Brex announced it was making “a big push” into both the enterprise and software.

The news was notable considering that Brex...

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programsFCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programs

"Verizon recognizes that some DEI policies and practices could be associated with discrimination," the letter said. ....

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GA Integrates Software for USMC Common Intelligence Picture WTI Course

– General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.  has successfully integrated the advanced Optix software—developed by General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-i3)—into the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Common Intelligence Picture (CIP) for a multi-service Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course.

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Enterprise data intelligence platform Alation acquired Numbers Station to help give its customers access to AI agents that run on top of their structured data.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Numbers Station, which builds AI-native data applications, is a Series A-stage startup that’s raised more than $17 million in venture capital from firms...

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F1 in Imola reminds us it&s about strategy as much as a fast carF1 in Imola reminds us it’s about strategy as much as a fast car

Sunday brought smiles for the Red Bull and Ferrari teams. ....

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HENSOLDT to Upgrade ASUL C-UAS System for German Armed Forces

The Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) has commissioned the sensor specialist/solution provider HENSOLDT to enhance the functional capabilities of the ASUL defence system against unmanned aircraft systems.

ASUL is part of a comprehensive air defence system: The modular counter-unmanned...

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Gravitee, a platform designed to help companies manage their APIs and other digital traffic pipelines, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from Riverside Acceleration Capital and Albion VC.

The new capital, which brings Gravitee’s total raised to just over $125 million, will be used to f...

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: Weirdly, you can state some things that you wouldn't necessarily in a real show when DeWanda Wise's character, who's a navigation bot, says, "I'm a navigation unit, not a sex bot." I'm sure there are many people who have felt like that. ....

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Ukrainian Fibre Optic FPV Drones Hit Turtle Tanks in Russian Repair Shop

Fibre-optic drone footage released by Ukrainian sources shows an attack inside of a Russian repair shop against two stationary “turtle” tanks. It’s unclear how effective these strikes were, and the second attack appears to have impacted with the armour’s cage instead of the exterior of the tank.

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Affiniti founders Aaron Bai, 20, and Sahil Phadnis, 22, are building the kind of expense management software for main street small businesses that tech startups have enjoyed for years.

Their growth has been so impressive that six months after raising an $11 million seed round, they raised a $17 million Series A, led by Signal Fire, they told A...

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CERN gears up to ship antimatter across EuropeCERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

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Texas-based startup Campus Guardian Angel hires professional drone racers, military veterans and former law enforcement officers to combat school shooters with on-campus drones piloted from a surveillance hub in Austin.

Retired Navy SEAL Bill King and defense tech entrepreneur Justin Marston believe drones that can swarm, pepper spray and pummel a...

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Cairo-based Sylndr has raised $15.7 million as it expands beyond online used car sales into auto financing, servicing, and tools for dealers. Development Partners International’s Nclude Fund led the round.

The company, which operates in Egypt’s fast-growing but under-digitized vehicle market, said the latest round includes both fresh equity and p...

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Removing the weakest link in electrified autonomous transport: HumansRemoving the weakest link in electrified autonomous transport: Humans

"There are, surprisingly, a lot of trucks today that are standing still or running empty," Green said. ....

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While Amazon delivery drones are still trying to figure out where to land, Zipline is already floating boxes into backyards with sci-fi precision — and doing it quietly.

In a recent episode of The Future of Everything, Wall Street Journal reporters explored how Zipline, the drone company once known for dropping blood in Rwanda, is now dropping...
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The Robot Report Podcast & middot; Automate 2025 RecapIn Episode 196 of The Robot Report Podcast, co-hosts Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre evaluation last week&& s Automate occasion, which they both attended. The podcast includes interviews with leadership at ABB and Teradyne Robotics, the moms and dad business of Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial ...
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Deel has lobbed a new volley in the ongoing legal battle with rival HR tech startup Rippling. Deel filed a series of letters to the Irish court asking Rippling to hand over information.

In one letter, Deel wants unredacted versions of witness affidavits, including the famed one by former Rippling employee Keith O’Brien. In a story full of plot t...

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New Orleans called out for sketchiest use of facial recognition yet in the USNew Orleans called out for sketchiest use of facial recognition yet in the US

According to police records submitted to the city council, the network "only proved useful in a single case." Investigating the tension between these claims, the Post suggested we may never know how many suspects were misidentified or what steps police took to ensure responsible use of the controversial live feeds. ....

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Saildrone brings in $60M to expand European maritime presence

Equipped with a suite of advanced sensors, Saildrone&s systems deliver real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) above and below the surface. | Source: Saildrone

Saildrone Inc., a developer of maritime autonomy, last week announced the closing of a $60 million investment round. The company said it will use the investment...

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. ... New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Usare premiering on HBO every Sunday night, and Ars' Kyle Orland (who's played the video games) and Andrew Cunningham (who hasn't)will be talking about them here after they air. While these wrap-ups don't delve into each and every single plot point of the episode, there are obviouslyheavy spoilerscontained within, so go see the episode first if you want to go in fresh.Kyle: Going from an unexpected shot of heavenly Pedro Pascal at the end of the last episode to a semi-related flashback with a young Joel Miller and his brother was certainly an option. I practically respect how overtly they are simply screwing with audience expectations here.As for the opening flashback scene itself, I guess the message is Hey, take a look at the generational trauma his family was dealing withisn't it terrific he got rid of that to love Ellie? However I'm unsure I can draw a straight line from he got beat by his dad to he condemned the entire human race for his surrogate daughter. Andrew: I do not have the same problems you did with either the Joel pop-in at the end of the last episode or the flashback at the start of this episodelast week, the show was signifying here comes Joel! and this week the program is indicating appearance, it's Joel! Possibly I'm simply reacting to Tony Dalton as Joel's daddy, who I know best as the charismatic lunatic Lalo Salamanca from Better Call Saul. I do concur that the throughline in between these two occasions is unsteady, though, and without the flashback to fill us in, the I hope you can do a little better than me sentiment seems like something escape of left field.But I dunno, it's Joel week. Joel's back! This is the Duality of Joel: you can all at once think that he is terrible for failing a civilization-scale trolley issue when he eliminated a structure filled with Fireflies to conserve Ellie, and you can't assist but be entirely charmed by Pedro Pascal enthusiastically describing the numerous ways to utilize a Dremel. (He's! It's a flexible tool!)Really, there's practically nothing in this episode that we couldn't have actually presumed or rated based upon the information the show has actually already made available to us. And I state this as a non-game-playerI didn't need to see exactly how their relationship became as strained as it was by the start of the season to have some concept of why it took place, nor did I require to see The Porch Scene to comprehend that their bond however endured. This is likewise the dynamic that everyone came to the program for last season, so I can just make myself grumble about it to a point.Kyle: It's true, Joel Week is a time worth commemorating. If I'm stumbling upon as grouchy about it at the start, it's probably because this whole episode is a realization of what we're missing out on this season thanks to Joel's death.As you stated, a lot of this episode was completing gaps that could well have actually been presumed from occasions we did see. However I would have quickly taken a full season (or a full second video game) of Ellie growing up and Joel handling Ellie growing up. You could include some zombie attacks or an overarching Big Bad enemy or something if you desire, but the advancement of Joel and Ellie's relationship deserves more than simply some condensed flashbacks. It works ?! Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery It works ?! Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery Andrew: Yeah, it's tough not to be disturbed about the initial sin of The Last of United States Part 2 which is (assuming it's like the show) that having some dull underbaked villain crawl out of the woodwork to kill the program's primary character is kind of an inexpensive shot. Sure, you surprise the hell out of viewers like me who didn't see it coming! But part of the factor I didn't see it coming is due to the fact that if you eliminate Joel, you require to do a whole lot of your program without Joel and why in the world would you decide to do that?To be clear, I do not mind this season a lot and I've found things to like about it, though Ellie does often drift into being a protagonist so short-sighted and spontaneous and occasionally just-plain-stupid that it's tough to be in her corner. Yeah, flashing back to a time simply 2 months after the end of season 1 truly does make you question, Why could not the story simply be this? Kyle: In the gaming space, I comprehend the desire to not have your sequel game be just more of the very same from the last video game. I've always felt The Last of Us Part 2 drifted too tough in the other direction and ended up being something almost completely indistinguishable from the initial video game I loved.But let's focus on what we do get in this episode, which is an able recreation of my preferred minute from the second video game, Ellie delighting in the heck out of a messed up science museum. The childlike wonder she shows here is an excellent respite from a great deal of action-heavy scenes in the game, and I think it serves the same purpose here. It's likewise far more drawn out in the gameI might have luxuriated in simply this part of the flashback for a whole episode!Andrew: The only thing that kept me from being totally on board with that scene was that I believe Ellie was acting a fair bit more youthful than 16, with her pantomimed launch sounds and flipping of switches, But I might think that a kid who had such a rough and shortened youth would have some enjoyable sitting in an Apollo module. For someone without any memories of the pre-outbreak society, it must look like sci-fi, and the show gives us some beautiful visuals to go with it.The things I like best here are the little moments in between scenes rather than the parts where the show demands revealing us occasions that it had currently mentioned in other episodes. What sticks to me the most, as we leap between Ellie's birthdays, is Joel's insistence that we could do this example more often as they go to a museum or patrol the routes together. That it requires to be mentioned several times recommends that they are not, in fact, doing this example more frequently in between birthdays.Joel is thoughtful and attentive in his waya little bit better than his fatherbut It's such a bittersweet little note, a surrogate dad's clumsy effort to bridge a space that he understands is there but does not completely understand. Why can't it resemble this permanently? Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery Why can't it be like this forever? Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery Kyle: Yeah, I'm okay with a little apprehended advancement in a girl that has actually been forced to miss so many of the markers of a normal pre-apocalypse childhood.But yeah, Joel is pretty awkward about this. And as we see all of these efforts with his surrogate child, it's simple to forget what took place to his genuine daughter way back at the start of the very first season. The trauma of that event shapes Joel in such a way that I feel the story in some cases forgets about for long stretches.But then we get moments like Joel leading Gail's recently infected partner to a death that the poor guy would quite like to postpone by an hour for one last minute with his other half. When Joel says that you can constantly close your eyes and see the face of the one you love, he may have been thinking of Ellie. However I like to think he was thinking about his actual daughter.Andrew: Yes to the degree that Joel's actions are relatable (I won't say excusable, but relatable ) it's due to the fact that the undercurrent of his relationship with Ellie is that he can't watch another child pass away in his arms. I saw the very first episode again just recently, and that whole scene remains a masterfully carried out gut-punch. But it's a tough tightrope to stroll due to the fact that if the story invests too much time focusing on it, you draw attention to how unhealthy it is for Joel to be requiring Ellie to play that role in his life. Don't get me wrong, Ellie was looking for a father figure, too, which's why it works! It's a discovered household dynamic that they were both searching for. I can't hear Joel's soothing baby girl epithet without it rubbing me the wrong method a little.My gut reaction was that it was right for Joel not to completely trust Gail's partner, but then I realized I can never ever not suspect Joe Pantoliano of treachery since of his function as betrayer in the 26-year-old film The Matrix. Brains are weird.Kyle: I simulated the way Ellie informs Joel off for lying to her (and to Gail) about the killing; it's a real maturing minute for the character. And obviously it transitions well into The Porch Scene, Ellie's supreme minute of facing Joel on his supreme betrayal.While I'm not a fan of the head-fake this scene isn't going to happen thing they did earlier this season, I think the television show when again justified among the most impactful parts of the video game. But the video game also handled to spread out these Joel-centric flashbacks a bit more, so we're not transitioning from museum enjoyable to patio confrontation rather so quickly. Here, it feels like they're trying hard to hurry through all of their revive Pedro Pascal requirements in a single episode. When you've only got one hour left, how you invest it becomes quite important. Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery When you've only got one hour left, how you spend it becomes pretty important. Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery Andrew: Yeah, due to the fact that you do not require to pay a 3D model's appearance costs if you wish to use it in a bunch of scenes of your computer game. Pedro Pascal has other things going on!Kyle: That's most likely part of it. Without giving too much away, I believe we're seeing the limits of stretching the occasions of Part 2 into what is basically 2 seasons. While there have been some cuts, on the whole, it feels like there's also been a lot of filler to round out these characters in ways that have been more harmful than handy at points.Andrew: Yeah, our episode ends by transferring us back in the primary action, as Ellie go back to the abandoned theater where she and Dina have actually holed up. I'm curious to see what we're in for in this last run of almost-certainly-Joel-less episodes, but I suspect it involves a lot of non-Joel characters ping-ponging in between the WLF forces and the local cultists. There will probably be some villain monologuing, most likely some zombie hordes, most likely another called character death or 2. Pretty basic issue.What I do not expect is for anyone to adoringly and accurately explain the process of refurbishing a guitar. Which's the other issue with putting this episode where it isjust as you're getting utilized to a show without Joel, you're advised that he's missing all over again.44 fb7d8aba44cc7e1f91f47d3f3d1dc6
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