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Screengrab Social Media/X Upscaled by Grok AI It’s the fast-approaching dawning of the robot era. We live in a race to produce the stronger, faster, and more useful robots on the planet – and the Chinese seem to have gathered some pace. Robot firm Unitree has unveiled a ‘super-humanoid’ that – they are claiming – is faster than Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest sprinter. The droid also performs other athletic tasks. Unitree New Robot Preview: “Superman” Breaking the Limits of Humanity🥳Standing high jump 2 m, top speed 12.66 m/s (0.85 m leg length)Surpassing the standing high jump and running speed…
Affirm cofounder and CEO Max Levchin.David Paul Morris/BloombergIn the lobby of a mid-tier Palo Alto hotel in June 2000, PayPal cofounder and chief technology officer Max Levchin sat on an indoor fountain, getting ready to speak at a payments industry event. “This may be the last conference I’m going to speak at about PayPal, because I think we’re going to die,” he told his then-girlfriend (and now-wife) Nellie and PayPal advisor Scott Banister.Fraud was decimating his fast-growing, 18-month-old startup. Criminals were creating fake seller accounts at PayPal, making bogus purchases with stolen credit cards and quickly funneling the money into…
A man who works for a top outsourcing firm has been charged with allegedly releasing the addresses of asylum seekers in Norfolk that were later targeted in civil unrest. James Jobson, 62, an employee of Serco, has been charged with “misconduct in a public office” and appeared before the Ipswich Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The Norfolk Police force said in a statement that the charge was “in connection with the release of information relating to a number of addresses in Thetford, which were later targeted during several nights of violent disorder in the town.” According to a report from the BBC, the information allegedly…
As the costs of making movies and TV shows continue to soar, California has found itself last on the list of locations for productions looking to cut costs. But despite this pressure, California’s Attorney General, Rob Bonta, is making it harder for film and TV productions to stay and now he’s even on the verge of chasing Paramount out of the Golden State entirely. Workers, tens of thousands of them blue-collar, are hardest hit by these political battles. As the industry deteriorates in the state, congresswoman Laura Friedman (D-CA), a former film producer, says employees feel “beaten down,” according to…
GOP Rep. Max Miller is fretting that the loss of support from a key constituency could damage his reelection prospects — even as his party base continues to stand with him in spite of serious allegations of domestic abuse centered on his ex-wife and young child. Miller is claiming that multiple unions are turning their backs on him as he seeks a third term in office — a result, he argues, of allegations raised in his ongoing public marital dispute with his ex-wife Emily Moreno, the daughter of Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno. “A lobbyist for a trade union informed me…
Trump-endorsed Byron Donalds won Florida’s Republican primary for Governor on Tuesday evening. Byron Donalds will face off against Democrat David Jolly. Businessman Jim Schwartzel won the GOP primary to replace Donalds’ house seat. Decision Desk HQ projects Byron Donalds wins the Florida Governor Republican Primary#DecisionMade: 8:00 PM EDT pic.twitter.com/VHnTqLOta7 — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) August 19, 2026 Byron Donalds served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2020. In 2020, Donalds won the election for Florida’s 19th Congressional District. President Trump endorsed Byron Donalds. “Florida, Vote for Byron Donalds for Governor. He has my Complete and total Endorsement.…
French President Emmanuel Macron officially promulgated France’s controversial new assisted dying law on Wednesday morning. The legislation, published through France’s Official Journal on August 19, contains 19 articles establishing the right to assisted dying for French nationals or long-term residents, under the terms and conditions established therein by the new law. Le Monde reports the French government must now publish the necessary decrees for local healthcare workers can put the now-official law into practice. To receive assisted dying in France, a French national or long-term resident must be of legal age, suffer from what the law describes as a “serious and…
The H-1B visa program is draining the incentive for complacent politicians to fix the broken K-12 system used by many millions of ordinary Americans, says Daron Acemoglu, a famous economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The educated elite “has given up on the education of Americans because they think that they can fill any skill gap with importing those skills [via the H-1B program], whether they are nurses, whether they’re doctors, whether they’re programmers. That’s the problem,” Acemoglu told Tyler Cowen, a zealously pro-migration economist at George Mason University. Acemoglu is an ethnic Armenian who used the H-1B program to…
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) attacked President Donald Trump, claiming that he “doesn’t want to do” his job and just wants to travel with one of his aides, Natalie. While speaking at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday, Ossoff talked about the Iran war and slammed Trump for promising “peace” and instead giving the United States war. Ossoff continued to accuse the Trump administration of “lying a nation into war” and “treating citizens as fools and those who serve as pawns.” “Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, they’ve now been at sea for 240 plus days without a port call. It’s…
Sen. Jim Justice is being branded in corners of the internet as a “traitor” intent on “BLOCKING the America First Agenda.” The West Virginia Republican’s sin? A brief appearance he made on Capitol Hill Monday afternoon, according to a wave of online conservative fury, wherein he gaveled the largely empty chamber quickly in and out of session, then left. “Thank you for being out here today,” Justice told reporters as he exited the Capitol’s second floor after chatting about the farm bill, the Iran war and the odds of passing a third party-line spending bill before the midterms — seemingly…