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The rolling robots that deliver groceries and hot meals across Los Angeles are getting an upgrade.
Coco Robotics, a UCLA-born startup that's deployed more than 1,000 bots across the country, unveiled its next-generation machines on Thursday.
The new robots are bigger, tougher and better equipped for autonomy than their predecessors.
The company will use them to expand into new markets and increase its presence in Los Angeles, where it makes deliveries through a partners…

A new delivery bot is coming to L.A., built stronger to survive in these streets
Coco Robotics launched a new generation of delivery bots

Why Israeli *Terrorism Tactics Are Showing Up In Minnesota
#Gaza

Why Israeli counterterrorism tactics are showing up in Minnesota
A decades-long partnership has included resource sharing and a lot of joint training for ICE and CBP with their counterparts in Israel.

12 k Signature c'est bien, mais c'est loin d'être assez. Aller, on se mobilise pour que nos politiques et donc nos journalistes partent de la plateforme X
https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-2610

Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée nationale
Cessez d'utiliser cette plateforme comme l'un des principaux porte-parole des communications officielles en France. Il existe des alternatives bien mieux modérées et régulées, et il est même possible de gérer sa propre plateforme. Si vous allez ailleurs, les journalistes et les citoyens qui veulent consommer l'information du gouvernement français iront aussi ailleurs. Le propriétaire de cette plateforme est ouvertement opposé aux valeurs de la Constitution française. Il publie régul…

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappet

SiFive To Integrate Nvidia NVLink Fusion For Next-Gen AI Data Center Chips
SiFive has announced a partnership with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its forthcoming silicon platforms.

Ravens don't just follow wolves-– they memorize kill sites across vast distances https://www.sciencealert.com/ravens-dont-just-follow-wolves-they-memorize-kill-sites-across-vast-distances

Ravens Don't Just Follow Wolves – They Memorize Kill Sites Across Vast Distances
The partnership between ravens and wolves goes back to Norse mythology – Odin's birds scouted ahead and led prey to the god's canines, a relationship that provided food for all.

🐞 Mirror image pheromones help beetles 'swipe right' to find mates
#bugs

Mirror image pheromones help beetles 'swipe right' to find mates
There are many ways to communicate with prospective romantic partners. If you are a Japanese scarab beetle, it's a matter of distinguishing left from right. New work from U.S. and Chinese scientists, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how these beetles use mirror-image pheromones to find a mate. The work could lead to better monitoring and control of significant agricultural pests.

“In two weeks” finally arrived.
That’s the usual time period in which Trump has, for the last 10 years, promised the arrival of a spectacular plan to reform the healthcare system,
one that would solve every problem anyone could identify,
individual or systemic.
Just you wait, he’d say — the plan is coming in two weeks, and you’re gonna love it.
Well now the White House has indeed released what it calls
“The Great Healthcare Plan.”
Is it great? No…

Trump's long-awaited healthcare "plan" is a joke
He can barely bring himself to pretend he cares.

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

Italian design meets #EV charging infrastructure: Pininfarina will design the future Plenitude charging sites.
https://…

Plenitude e Pininfarina insieme per un nuovo design delle aree di ricarica per veicoli elettrici
Plenitude, attraverso la sua controllata Plenitude On The Road, ha siglato con Pininfarina una partnership strategica finalizzata a trasformare il design delle aree ove sono presenti le proprie infrastrutture di ricarica per veicoli elettrici.

Xreal partners with Asus to unveil ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses with 1080p micro-OLED displays and a 240Hz refresh rate, launching in H1 2026 (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/848256/asus-rog-xreal-r1-smart-glasses-specs-release…

Asus ROG’s next ally is Xreal, with 240Hz AR glasses coming in 2026
Xreal and Asus announced the ROG Xreal R1 AR glasses at CES 2026. These gamer-focused glasses support USB-C video and include a dock with HDMI and DisplayPort.