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Proposed California bill seeks to rein in fast electric bicycle speeds

If a proposed new bill eventually becomes law, higher-speed electric bicycles (e-bikes) may soon have a tougher row to hoe in California. Electric bicycle speeds in the state, which uses a similar three-class system as most of the US, are limited to either 20 mph (32 km/h) for Class 1 and 2 electric bicycles or 28 mph (45 km/h) for Class 3 electric bicycles. However, because electric bicycles are…
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CryptoNews

Coinbase International Adds Support for Trading Pre-Launch Tokens

Coinbase International has announced its support for pre-launch markets, a platform that allows traders to trade perpetual futures contracts for tokens that are yet to launch. This feature offers traders the opportunity to participate in price discovery of upcoming projects within a secure environment. Pre-launch markets also carry unique considerations and elevated risks, including lower…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Exclusive: Former Meta engineers launch Jace, an AI agent that works independently

Today, Zeta Labs, a London-based startup founded by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, announced the launch of Jace, an LLM-powered AI agent that can execute in-browser actions on command. The company also announced it has raised $2.9 million in a pre-seed round of funding, led by Y Combinator’s former head of AI Daniel Gross and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.  While…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI and the future of storytelling | Inworld AI

  Kylan Gibbs, CEO and cofounder of Inworld AI, gave a talk recently at the TED 2024 conference. In the talk, he delivered is vision for the future of AI and storytelling in games.With the kinds of AI agents that Inworld enables, audiences can now step beyond the script…
DefenseNews

Defense spending bill would defund Biden’s Gaza pier

The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced its fiscal 2025 defense spending bill while adding a provision that would eliminate the military’s makeshift pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip, which has struggled to deliver an adequate level of humanitarian aid to Palestinians facing famine-like conditions. The committee voted 34-25 along party lines to send the $833 billion bill to…
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