Windows adds support for RAR, Netflix cracks down on passwords, and Meta lays off workers

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FDA approves Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants for humans test

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar gives nearly $2M to defund police

Virgin Galactic completes final test flight before launching paying customers to space

Elon Musk’s Neuralink gets FDA approval for human test of brain implants

Linda Yaccarino pushed NBCUniversal to buy Twitter years ago: sources

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Foundation models for reasoning on charts

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Barkour: Benchmarking animal-level agility with quadruped robots

Posted by Ken Caluwaerts and Atil Iscen, Research Scientists, Google Creating robots that exhibit robust and dynamic locomotion capabilities, similar to animals or humans, has been a…

Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasets

Posted by Vincent Cohen-Addad and Alessandro Epasto, Research Scientists, Google Research, Graph Mining team Clustering is a central problem in unsupervised machine learning (ML) with many…