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Date: 2026-07-21
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Tesla Robotaxis go to Florida

It must be earnings day, because Tesla is making a Robotaxi announcement. The company said in a post on X that it was launching its Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa, attaching a pair of maps that show each city’s service area.

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Instagram will let users endlessly swap the audio on old posts

There’s a symbiotic — and sometimes frustrating — relationship between social media sites and the creators that depend on them. Platforms need influencers’ and creators’ content to keep consumers on their apps; the creators, in turn, need to be able to reach those audiences to justify creating their content in the first place.

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TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe

Making these available for download indefinitely and without restriction is something we consider a risk to our customers, particularly in business environments. There’s also the technical and organizational overhead of maintaining and supporting old versions and their associated keys indefinitely.

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Stellantis taps Mobileye for hands-free driving assist

Stellantis will use technology from Intel’s Mobileye to power its Level 2 hands-free driving features for its vehicle brands, the companies announced Tuesday. Starting in 2027, Stellantis will begin using Mobileye’s EyeQ system-on-a-chip and a data crowdsourcing program called the Road Experience Management , or REM, which uses real-time data from…

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Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday , Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic’s Mythos.

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The Light Flip is a minimalist flip phone with a point to prove

A few years ago, the team at Light shipped the most smartphone-like device they’d ever created. The Light Phone III still kept to its minimalist, no-distractions ethos, but it was a phone-size rectangle with a phone-size touchscreen, a camera, and a number of other features.

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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. would examine open source models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft is established.

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A touchscreen makes Xteink’s new X4 Pro a tempting Kindle alternative

The familiar story with Xteink’s tiny e-readers plays out once again with its new X4 Pro: upgraded hardware held back by frustrating software. The company’s latest tiny e-reader adds a touchscreen and lighting, so choosing it over a Kindle or a Kobo feels like less of a compromise — until you use it.

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Nintendo keeps making shooters more friendly and approachable

Nintendo does a lot of weird things , but Splatoon might just be one of the strangest — or at least the boldest. The series started as an attempt to muscle into the ultra-competitive online shooter space, but in a way that feels a world away from the violence and bombast of Call of Duty or Battlefield .

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The Switch 2 is $50 off at Woot for new customers

Woot is celebrating its 22nd anniversary by rolling out a full week of sales, and one of them stands out for gamers looking to get a deal on Nintendo’s latest console. Normally $449.99, the Nintendo Switch 2 is $22 off for Woot customers who already have an account, or $50 off for new customers, when you use coupon code GIFT26 at checkout.

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Garmin’s new screen-free fitness tracker doesn’t require a subscription

Garmin announced a new smart band today designed to track “advanced fitness and wellness features” without a screen to eliminate distractions and push its battery life to up to 10 days between charges. Similar to competing products like the Whoop 5.0 and Google’s recently announced Fitbit Air , the Cirqa uses a combination of heart rate, blood oxygen, skin…

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Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated

Music streaming company Deezer has been tracking the number of AI-generated tracks uploaded on the platform since last year, and the number has constantly gone up . Today, the company said that AI music now represents more than 50% of downloads.

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America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI

Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable.

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The Sequence Knowledge #898: The Trace Is the Teacher: Distilling Reasoning Into Small Models

In January 2025, DeepSeek took its big reasoning model, R1, and used it to generate around 800,000 worked solutions — long, rambling chains of thought, complete with false starts, self-corrections, and the occasional “wait, let me reconsider.” They filtered these traces for correctness and readability, and then did the most boring thing imaginable with…

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Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models following Kimi K3 launch, citing cybersecurity concerns - downloadable open weights could make an outright U.S. ban nearly impossible to enforce amid growing adoption | Tom's Hardware

The U.S. government may be back on track to ban leading Chinese AI models, following the release of Kimi K3 — a powerful AI model developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot AI —last week.

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DeepSWE - Best Benchmark For Evaluating AI Coding Agents?

DeepSWE is a high-fidelity benchmarking platform designed to evaluate the performance of frontier AI coding agents on complex long-horizon software engineering tasks. Unlike traditional benchmarks that reuse existing GitHub data, this system utilizes original, contamination-free tasks across five major programming languages to prevent models from relying…

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[2607.16222] Fully-sensorized smart-eyewear platform for on-device Machine Learning

[Submitted on 17 Jun 2026] Title: Fully-sensorized smart-eyewear platform for on-device Machine Learning View a PDF of the paper titled Fully-sensorized smart-eyewear platform for on-device Machine Learning, by Andrea Giudici and 7 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: This paper presents ARGO, a smart eyewear platform designed to bridge…

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