Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

As the head of Alphabet’s AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can’t come soon enough. For another, they shouldn’t look like us.

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Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team

Unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—has branched out into brazen hacking operations with targets across the world.

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The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink

The Navy is testing out the Elon Musk–owned satellite constellation to provide high-speed internet access to sailors at sea. It’s part of a bigger project that’s about more than just getting online.

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Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft

ON SATURDAY, NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. “I’ve got a question about Starliner,” Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. "There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker … I don’t know what’s making it.”

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Pavel Durov's Arrest Leaves Telegram Hanging in the Balance

Durov has reportedly been detained in France over Telegram's alleged failure to adequately moderate illegal content on the messaging app. His arrest sparked backlash and left some associates asking, what now?

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The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It

With the possible exception of gold, no other metal has caused as much destruction as copper. In the coming years, we’ll need more of it than ever.

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