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SlashDotAug 08, 2026
Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice


Mac RumorsAug 07, 2026
AirPods Pro 3 for $189.99, $25 Best Buy Gift Card With MacBook Neo, and More Apple Deals This Week
Some of the best Apple deals of the summer arrived this week, including the AirPods Pro 3 for $189.99, up to $500 off select MacBook Pro models, and the lowest iPad Air prices since Apple's price hike. Additionally, you'll find a solid offer on the MacBook Neo at Best Buy this weekend.


ComputerWorldAug 07, 2026
DeepMind founder ascends to singular AI role at Google
Demis Hassabis, the driving force behind Google DeepMind, is ascending to the role of chief scientist at Alphabet, Google's parent company, replacing Jeff Dean who is leaving to work at a start-up.

The role will enable Hassabis to "put his full attention on actively shaping the future of AGI," or artificial general intelligence, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on the company's Inside Google blog.

Hassabis' attention will still be divided, however: He will continue to lead research at Google spin-off Isomorphic Labs, which works on drug discovery, and although he will no longer be CEO of DeepMind, he will be its chair. Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over DeepMind, reporting directly to Pichai. He is currently its CTO.

Hassabis has been a strong promoter of AGI, defined by Google as the "hypothetical intelligence of a machine that possesses the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can."

He has a long career in AI, having helped found DeepMind in 2010. He has been a prominent figure in the AGI field, prophesying in May that it will be a viable technology within three years. He has been keen to tackle any barriers in the way of developing the technology; just last month,


eWeekAug 07, 2026
Boston Dynamics Trained Humanoid Robot for Millions of Hours to Move a Mini-Fridge
Boston Dynamics trained its Atlas humanoid robot for millions of simulated hours before it successfully lifted and carried a mini-fridge.

Mac RumorsAug 04, 2026
Apple Card Now Fast-Tracks Booking.com Perks With Just One Trip
Apple Card users now have a new benefit available to them at Booking.com, with users automatically being upgraded to Genius Level 2 after completing just one eligible stay or car rental rather than the usual standard of five bookings within a two-year period.


ResearchBuzzJul 09, 2026
Jim Carrey Misinformation, Alaska Data Center Protests, Memphis Water Quality, More: ResearchBuzz AI Update, July 9, 2026
AI PROBLEMS Tane Piper: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death are a Failure Mode. "On the 29th June 2026 - if you searched for Jim Carrey on Google, you would have been […]
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