A gang of robbers in Colorado found themselves high and dry after their getaway car got stolen, police say

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Three masked individuals were robbing a check-cashing business in Commerce City, Colorado when their getaway car got stolen, per a police statement.

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One barrier to making personal assistant robots a commercial success? Price.

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A small humanoid robot called Nao waves its hand.
Nao, an autonomous programmable humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, can be a teaching assistant and costs about $13,000.

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President Biden safe but startled after car plows into a parked vehicle in his motorcade

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President Joe Biden reacts after hearing a loud bang as he leaves his campaign headquarters.
A car plowed into a parked SUV that was part of Biden's motorcade Sunday night while the president was leaving a visit to his campaign headquarters. The president and first lady Jill Biden were unharmed.

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In Los Angeles, a 49-unit apartment complex is taking 17 years to complete, the result of complex laws that exacerbated California's affordable housing crisis

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Los Angeles.

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On the first day Lego Fortnite was available to the public, users repeatedly recreated the 9/11 attacks

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The Lego Fortnite release smashed Fortnite's previous player peak.

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Police in Florida say they arrested an 11-year-old who reported a fake school shooting because he 'wanted to go home early'

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Florida police arrested an 11-year-old accused of falsely reporting a school shooting.

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The billionaire founder behind China's AI giant SenseTime has died of an unknown illness at 55

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Tang Xiao'ou, professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, speaks behind a podium at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference.
Tang Xiao'ou, professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, speaks during the opening ceremony of 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on July 6, 2023 in Shanghai, China.

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What mice in VR goggles can tell us about our brains

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The view from inside a pair of VR goggles being worn by a mouse in a research lab shows multiple screens depicting an owl.
The view inside the VR goggles that the mice were wearing sometimes featured predators like owls.

Daniel Dombeck, Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern University

Epic Games CEO fears Google may still be able to stifle Play Store competitors

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney

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Former Amazon engineer pleads guilty to stealing $12.3 million of crypto in first ever hacking case involving smart contracts

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Representation of Bitcoin is seen with binary code displayed on a laptop screen

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