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Futurism Dogs With Guns A Chinese military contractor recently showed off a number of robot dogs that were carrying machine guns on their backs during the biggest-ever Chinese drill alongside Cambodian troops, as Agence France-Presse reports. The terrifying gun-toting drones were part of a massive, 15-day military exercise called "Golden Dragon" in a remote training center […] Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Microsoft said on Thursday it plans to offer its cloud computing customers a platform of AMD artificial intelligence chips that will compete with components made by Nvidia, with details to be given at its Build developer conference next week. Microsoft's clusters of Advanced Micro Devices' flagship MI300X AI chips will be sold through its Azure cloud computing service. South China Morning Post With its latest flagship smartphone, Huawei Technologies has pushed ahead in cramming in ever more China-made components, according to a recent tear-down analysis of the Pura 70 line, as the tech giant looks to overcome US sanctions and go head-to-head with Apple on its home turf. The Pura 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro Plus and top-of-the-line 70 Ultra have packed in a record number of locally sourced semiconductors, a sign that the Shenzhen-based tech giant is close to breaking free of the escalating US s South China Morning Post TikTok, the short video platform originally popular for its 15-second lip-synching content, is now testing 60-minute video uploads with certain creators, in a challenge to veteran online video giant YouTube. The feature, first shared publicly by UK-based social media consultant Matt Navarra, allows users to upload from both the mobile app and desktop, according to a screenshot he posted on Thursday on Meta Platforms' Threads. Neither TikTok nor its Chinese owner ByteDance immediately responded t Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- A senior Apple Inc. executive told a US judge that the iPhone maker's new 27% fee on purchases made outside its App Store are a good-faith attempt to comply with the law. Most Read from BloombergA 25-Year-Old BofA Trader Dies Suddenly at Industry OutingChina Attempts to End Property Crisis With Broad Rescue PackageUS Company Becomes World's Most Valuable Solar Firm After Chinese Rivals SlipZyn Shortage? Nicotine Pouches Out of Stock in Several US StatesChina Says Agriculture Minis CBC In some of his most hawkish comments to date, the head of Canada's intelligence agency is warning Canadians — including teenagers — against using the wildly popular video app TikTok. "My answer as director of [the Canadian Security Intelligence Service] is that there is a very clear strategy on the part of the government of China ... to be able to acquire ... personal information from anyone around the world," said CSIS director David Vigneault in an interview with CBC's The House airing Saturda Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Snowflake Inc. is in talks to acquire startup Reka AI for more than $1 billion, expanding the software maker's effort to offer generative AI capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter.Most Read from BloombergA 25-Year-Old BofA Trader Dies Suddenly at Industry OutingChina Attempts to End Property Crisis With Broad Rescue PackageUS Company Becomes World's Most Valuable Solar Firm After Chinese Rivals SlipZyn Shortage? Nicotine Pouches Out of Stock in Several US State The Daily Beast XThe Biden campaign gleefully turned one of Donald Trump's favorite digs against him on Saturday, branding the 78-year-old candidate as woefully geriatric in response to his embarrassing stumble at a Minnesota rally on Friday.Video from the event shared by Biden-Harris HQ on X showed Trump grabbing the lectern during his remarks on stage, after nearly toppling the podium over.A feeble Trump nearly falls down on stage after he leans on his podium too hard and then goes on an angry rant calling hi CBC Three teenage girls are expected to plead guilty in the swarming death of Kenneth Lee near Union Station in December 2022, court heard Friday.The girls, aged 13, 13, and 14, appeared in provincial court in Toronto.Three other girls, aged 15, 16, and 16, are expected to plead not guilty, court heard. Eight teenage girls were initially charged with second-degree murder in connection with Lee's death. They range in age from 13 to 16 years old. Lee, 59, was pronounced dead in hospital on Dec. 18, af The Daily Beast KSTPIn an interview with a St. Paul, Minnesota reporter that aired a few days before his scheduled appearance Friday at the state GOP Lincoln Day fundraising dinner, former President Donald Trump denied saying that he wouldn't return to the Midwest state if he lost it in 2020—but the local ABC affiliate brought the receipts to prove otherwise.KSTP reporter Tom Hauser spoke with Trump over a video call conducted Tuesday before the indicted ex-president went to court to hear testimony from his forChina Shows Off Robot Dogs Armed With Machine Guns
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