Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones Once reserved for police departments, Flock Safety is now offering its drones for private-sector security, the company announced today, including for businesses intent on curbing shoplifting.  Companies in the US can now place Flock’s drone docking stations on their premises. If the company has a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly beyond visual…
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Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One small detail? That reactor doesn’t exist yet. Neither does the smaller reactor Commonwealth is building…
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving. Wehr, who’s 26, isn’t from Greenland—he grew up in Germany—but he had become obsessed with the island, an autonomous Danish territory,…
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