#RoboCup2025: social media round-up part 2
RoboCup2025 took place from 15-21 July in Salvador, Brazil. The event saw around 3000 participants competing in the various leagues. ...
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Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages
US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs ...
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Interview with Kate Candon: Leveraging explicit and implicit feedback in human-robot interactions
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. ...
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US Senator Urges DHS to Probe Whether Agents Were Moved From Criminal Cases to Deportations
Since February, multiple news reports have alleged that a significant number of agents at Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—the Department of ...
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Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
There are currently more than 50 issued nationwide 404 permits—some of which still require pre-construction notifications—which are renewed once every ...
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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl
Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that ...
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Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Influence on DC?
Zoë Schiffer: Totally. Okay. I need to shift us to a new topic because I’m already feeling quite depressed. This ...
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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe
The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. ...
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Do You Need a Barbecue Knife?
A while back at my favorite kitchen-gear trade show, I spotted what appeared to be a trending category: barbecue knives. ...
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Best Breast Pumps (2025): Wearable, Portable, Easy to Clean
Honorable Mentions Elvie Pump for $550: The Elvie worked just fine, but it didn’t do anything cool enough to warrant ...
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