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Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed

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Amazon Quick Expands to Desktop, But Stays Off Europe's Sovereign Cloud

Amazon has rolled out its Quick assistant to macOS and Windows users, positioning it as a governed alternative to unsanctioned AI tools. Yet the service notably remains absent from the company's newly launched European Sovereign Cloud.
Europe’s first truly driverless robotaxi is running in Croatia, on Chinese software

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Croatia launches Europe's first fully driverless robotaxi service powered by Chinese AI

Pony.ai and Verne have begun operating completely autonomous passenger rides in Zagreb without safety drivers, marking a European first. However, EU regulatory constraints mean scaling beyond a handful of countries will prove challenging.
Building smarter AMRs with the Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q board

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Arduino's VENTUNO Q Bridges Linux and Real-Time Control for Next-Generation Mobile Robots

The new VENTUNO Q board combines a Linux-capable processor with a real-time microcontroller on a single platform, enabling autonomous mobile robots to sense their environment, make decisions, and act—all in one integrated system.
Still: From Akira to Ink Wash, Building a Generative Garden in WebGPU

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Ming Jyun Hung's Still: Procedural Gardens Meet Japanese Aesthetics in WebGPU

A developer combines toon shading, ink-wash effects, and generative tendrils to build an interactive 3D world inspired by Akira and traditional Japanese art, balancing visual richness with real-time performance.
A Chat With Cathie Hall, Chief Customer And Product Officer At IFS, On How AI Can Preserve Institutional Knowledge

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How Industrial AI Preserves Expertise and Empowers Junior Workers

Cathie Hall, Chief Customer and Product Officer at IFS, argues that Britain's technical skills shortage stems from losing decades of tacit knowledge when senior engineers retire—and that Industrial AI can embed that institutional memory into daily workflows.
Psychology says people who wake at the same time every morning without an alarm aren't relying on willpower alone — the sleeping brain can anticipate when morning is coming, with hormone signals beginning to rise about an hour before the eyes are mea

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Your Brain's Built-in Alarm: Why Consistent Wake Times Beat Willpower

Research reveals that waking without an alarm isn't about discipline—it's about your sleeping brain anticipating morning and triggering hormonal shifts an hour before you open your eyes.
In a 14-day diary study, the single adults who saw singlehood as room to grow were still more satisfied with being single the next day, while the activities they had done no longer showed up in those numbers — and in a separate weekly diary, half of

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Growth mindset about singlehood predicts satisfaction, but daily experiences fade fast

A series of diary studies and an experiment reveal that believing singlehood offers personal development correlates with contentment, yet the actual activities people undertake show little predictive power beyond the same day.
How to overcome decision fatigue, once you accept the willpower-battery story is largely a myth

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Beyond the Willpower Myth: What Actually Works Against Decision Fatigue

The popular theory that willpower depletes like a battery has largely collapsed under scientific scrutiny. Understanding why opens the door to simpler, more effective strategies for managing the real exhaustion that comes from making too many choices.