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Building an enterprise AI company on a "foundation of shifting sand" is the central challenge for founders today, according to the leadership at Palona AI. Today, the Palo Alto-based startup—led by former Google and Meta engineering veterans—is making a decisive vertical push into the restaurant and hospitality space with today's launch of Palona Vision and Palona Workflow. The new offerings transform the company’s multimodal agent suite into a real-time operating system for restaurant operations — spanning cameras, calls, conversations, and coordinated task execution.The news marks a strategic pivot from the company’s debut in early 2025, when it first emerged with…
Law offices of Robert D Perry reports 398 NHTSA reported Waymo involved accidents in the first half of 2025. Waymo was only allowing employees to drive or ride with Waymo on highways until a few weeks ago. Waymo has had 50 million miles up to end of 2024 and about 100 million miles in 2025. There are about 2-4% of the miles in Austin. Waymo launched public robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in March 2025 with about 100 cars. They had to ramp up the service and had 4% of the cars for 9 months. They are reportedly expanding to…
The OnePlus 15R was unveiled in global markets yesterday with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC and a 7,400mAh battery. While it is offered in two color options globally, the Indian market gets a distinct Ace Edition finished in a purple shade. In markets outside India, the phone is sold in Charcoal Black and Mint Breeze. For India, the company also offers the OnePlus 15R Ace Edition, featuring an exclusive Electric Violet finish, a fiberglass rear panel, and ‘Ace’ branding etched on the back. The OnePlus 15R is essentially a rebranded OnePlus Ace 6T, which is sold in China in…
Apple is one of the largest technology companies on the planet and wields major financial might, giving it the means to acquire both successful and growing brands. Apple isn’t shy about spending millions, or even billions, to acquire companies it considers valuable. Beats and Shazam are two high-profile Apple acquisitions that live on within the company today, but others, like NextVR and Dark Sky, were shut down. Which category will Pixelmator Pro end up in? I’m primarily a macOS user, though I own and use Windows PCs as well. The one thing keeping me on macOS is Pixelmator Pro, the…
If you’re in the market for an affordable everyday laptop or something reliable for students, this Asus Vivobook 15 deal at Currys for £199 is hard to ignore.That price has dropped from £349, making it one of the cheapest full Windows 11 laptops with a modern Intel Core i3 processor right now.At the heart of the Vivobook 15 is Intel’s Core i3-1215U, a 12th-gen chip with six cores that’s well suited to day-to-day tasks. Web browsing with dozens of tabs, Microsoft Word and Excel, video streaming, online learning platforms, and light photo work are all well within its comfort zone.This…
Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. student at Purdue University NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is currently trekking towards exciting new terrain. After roughly four months of climbing up and over the rim of Jezero crater, the rover is taking a charming tour of the plains just beyond the western crater rim, fittingly named “Lac de Charmes.” This area just beyond Jezero’s rim will be the prime place to search for pre-Jezero ancient bedrock and Jezero impactites — rocks produced or affected by the impact event that created Jezero crater. The formation of a complex crater like Jezero is, well… complex. Scientists…
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Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal, is making its way to Gemini. The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool, which lets you build AI-powered mini apps, inside the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps, which Google calls Gems. Introduced in 2024, Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios. For instance, some of Google’s pre-made Gems include a learning coach, a brainstorming assistant, a career guide, a coding partner, and an editor. Opal, meanwhile, focuses on helping users create mini-apps or mix existing apps. To use the feature, users describe…
The Redmi Note 15 Pro+, unveiled a few months ago in China, made its international debut today. However, the international model doesn’t share all the specs with its Chinese counterpart. For starters, the Chinese Redmi Note 15 Pro+ came with a 50MP primary camera, but the international Redmi Note 15 Pro+ features a 200MP HPE primary camera with 2x and 4x in-sensor zoom. Its camera lens also supports five focal lengths, ranging from 23mm to 92mm. The international version’s primary camera is joined by an 8MP ultrawide camera, like the Chinese model, but it drops the 50MP telephoto unit. Another…
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Doublespeed / Getty Images Back in October, word started making the rounds of an AI startup called Doublespeed. Backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Doublespeed offers customers a unique service: access to a massive phone farm that could be used to operate hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts. Now, 404 Media reports in an explosive scoop that Doublespeed has been hacked. This wasn’t just one account associated with the startup, but the entire backend used to manage its phone farm — so it provides an extraordinary glimpse at how the service is…