The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, will bring 50,000 people to the city. Local resident Claudio Verequete lives near the highway and previously made a living harvesting acai berries. Those trees are gone now, cut down to make way for the UN Climate Conference. Aerial view of an acaí palm plantation in Abaetetuba, Para State, in the Brazilian Amazon Forest, on August 4, 2023.© Photo by Evaristo SA / AFP...

In the demonstrations, the robots look like people! This version of Gemini 2.0 features the addition of physical actions as the output response to a query. Gemini in a robot would instead see that command as something it should physically respond to. Gemini is coming to a robot near you.© Google The second AI model is Gemini Robots-ER, a vision-language (VLM) model with advanced spatial understanding. Google is partnering with companies like Apptronik to build the next generation of humanoid robots....

In what should be an extremely information-rich environment, its become near-impossible to separate signal from noise. First up, there is theProject 2025 Tracker. DOGE Tracker has a simple premise: dont take Elon Musk at his word. Donald Trump greets Elon Musk© Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images That means that Musk and his crew have overstated what they have saved the country by about 92%. Were barely two months into this iteration of the Trump presidency....

Heres how you’ve got the option to watch it unfold. The eclipse is set to begin at 11:57 p.m. ET on Thursday and last for about 6 hours as the Moon slowly exits from beneath Earths shadow. The Moon appears to turn red as it passes into Earth’s shadow.NASA Ames Research Center/Brian Day Unlike the solar eclipse, you wont need any special equipment to view the Moon during the eclipse....

But we didnt really know what she was singing about until we got the script. But shes very mysterious and I feel like at any point, one thing could change her. And I like that we also were told that Awhimai can sing her ass off. © Walt Disney Animation So we knew that we wanted to have this show-stopping song that really showcased her vocal ability. And shes a new character....

Japanese influencer Airi Sato was live streaming a series of train rides when she was murdered. More than 6,000 people had tuned into Sato riding the rails on March 11. Just before 10 am, local time, she screamed. The phone and selfie stick Sato used while was murdered lays at the crime scene.© TBS Television news screengrab. The phone fell to the ground. A man loomed into frame. Are you dead yet?...

Microsoft has been annoyingly hesitant to offer a version of Windows that pairs well with an 8-inch screen. Earlier this week,Windows Centralreported that Microsoft plans to unveil its gaming handheld this year. As for ergonomics, we imagine it could bear a semblance to the companys current ROG Ally design. © Artem Golub / Gizmodo We can also expect it to use a new chip like theAMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme. We caught our first glimpse of that new handheld-centric APU back at CES in January....

Why isnt Musk just donating to his own PAC? That part isnt clear. But the Times speculates its part of a desire for the billionaire to show hes a team player. Elon Musk and Donald Trump do an ad for Tesla at the White House on March 11, 2025.Photo: White House / Flickr But they clearly have an understanding that they need each other to accomplish their goals. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world but also ostensibly an employee of the federal government....

Crew-10 is set forlaunchon Wednesday at 7:48 p.m. In doing so, Trump ignored the effort already in motion by NASA to bring the astronauts home. NASA ended up switching the SpaceX crew spacecraft to bring the two Starliner astronauts back later this month. The members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission (from left) Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and Takuya Onishi of JAXA during training at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

OpenAI is working on an AI model meant to write fiction as well as a human. Too bad the writingwhile more verbosestill sucks. Like a server farm at midnight. © Mike Coppola / Getty Images That line alone would get you laughed out of grad school. It certainly wouldnt turn heads from anybody who regularly reads. But if a large language model writes it, can we say its impressive? © X / Sam Altman...

Your Roomba could soon be a worthless brick. Even there, iRobot could be impacted by President Trumps trade war. Roomba is synonymous with robot vacuums, having first introduced the product back in 2002. iRobot told investors Wednesday it has “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue.“Roomba Of course, however, Roombas still cannot ascend stairs. Robot vacuums are more of a want, not a needand, frankly, vacuuming yourself can be therapeutic....

I will need to slow down at some point, he admitted. However, as a confirmed fan and dedicated reader ofDoctor WhoMagazine, Ill never putDoctor Whodown completely. Davies replacement, even without any speculation as to who it might be, is on his mind. © BBC Theres thinking about that, theres conversations about that, but its hard. Its a tricky one, he said. But [my replacement] better exist… imagine, Im dead at the desk....

Saturn just solidified its title as moon king with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The planets main competition in the solar system, Jupiter, has just 95 confirmed moons. Their sky survey initially yielded 62 moons, as well as many more objects that could not be identified. Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys and Dione, photographed by Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980.NASA/JPL-Caltech This week, the International Astronomical Unionrecognizedthe teams discovery....