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Nvidia and Hyundai go deeper on robotics, with Boston Dynamics’ Atlas at the centre
8 June 2026 @ 11:01 am
The lobby of Hyundai’s Seoul headquarters now waters its own plants. On Monday it was also handling security and deliveries, a row of robots laid on for one important visitor: Jensen Huang. Nvidia’s chief executive was in the South Korean capital to deepen the chipmaker’s alliance with Hyundai Motor Group, and the pitch on display […]
This story continues at The Next WebBerlin’s GALVANY raises €10M to fix Germany’s broken heat-pump market, and it’s already profitable
8 June 2026 @ 10:29 am
Germany has no shortage of heat pumps on paper. What it lacks is a way to get them sold, installed, subsidised, and paid off without the whole thing falling apart somewhere in the middle. GALVANY, a Berlin startup that runs the entire heat-pump journey from sale to installation to ongoing energy management, has raised €10mn […]
This story continues at The Next WebGhent’s Companion.energy raises €7.8M to automate enterprise energy in real time
8 June 2026 @ 10:02 am
The seed round, led by Realyze Ventures and Pi Labs, will fund expansion into Germany and Spain as volatile power markets push large industrial firms past their spreadsheets. Electricity used to move with the seasons. Now it moves by the minute, and the spreadsheets that large industrial firms still rely on to manage it cannot […]
This story continues at The Next WebPhysicsX hits $2.4bn valuation as Temasek leads $300m round for the AI startup that cuts simulation times from days to seconds
8 June 2026 @ 9:41 am
London-based PhysicsX has raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, more than doubling its valuation to $2.4 billion, less than a year after its Series B priced the company at just under $1 billion. The round was oversubscribed. Alongside Temasek, which first invested in PhysicsX during its […]
This story continues at The Next WebThe lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here
8 June 2026 @ 9:27 am
In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment has arrived. He was talking about social media. But the legal machinery he described is […]
This story continues at The Next WebA UK startup just raised $18.5 million to fly satellites where nobody else can
8 June 2026 @ 9:07 am
Between commercial aircraft at 10km and conventional satellites at 500km lies a band of near-Earth space that has never been used commercially. Very low Earth orbit, or VLEO, sits at 200 to 300km, an altitude historically reserved for spy satellites and the International Space Station. Reading-based NewOrbit announced on Monday an oversubscribed $18.5 million Series A to […]
This story continues at The Next WebJPMorgan poaches Nomura’s international AI strategy chief as Dimon doubles down on AI hiring
8 June 2026 @ 8:47 am
JPMorgan Chase is hiring Nomura Holdings’ international head of artificial intelligence strategy, according to Bloomberg, as the largest US bank by assets accelerates its recruitment of AI specialists. Singapore-based Tahir Zafar, who joined Nomura in late 2023 and was promoted to his current role in March 2025, is expected to start around July after completing […]
This story continues at The Next WebThe AI models finding 10,000 vulnerabilities are the same ones China is trying to copy. That is the problem.
8 June 2026 @ 8:41 am
In May, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed the first known case of an AI system discovering and weaponising a zero-day exploit that was then deployed in the wild. A criminal actor used a frontier model to find a two-factor authentication bypass, build a working exploit, and use it before any defender knew the vulnerability existed. That […]
This story continues at The Next WebMoonshot AI wants a $30bn valuation six months after being worth $4bn. That tells you everything about China’s AI funding race.
8 June 2026 @ 8:32 am
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is seeking as much as $2 billion in a new funding round that would value the company at $30 billion, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. If the round closes at that target, it would mark a seven-fold increase in capitalisation since December, when the startup was valued at just […]
This story continues at The Next WebSouth Korea’s AI chip boom is so strong it’s crushing the bond market
8 June 2026 @ 8:22 am
The AI boom that has made Samsung and SK Hynix trillion-dollar companies and sent the Kospi up roughly 80% is doing something unusual to South Korea’s bond market: destroying it. Korean government bonds have lost 7.5% in 2026 in local-currency terms, the worst performance among 44 sovereign markets tracked by Bloomberg. The benchmark three-year yield has climbed […]
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It seems like the race for smart helmets is heating up. And when we’re talking of 'smart helmets,' the likes of Sena and Cardo are right up there with some notable Chinese helmet makers. And now, Sena has just launched its latest lid to up the ante.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Helmets, 
With NASA having recently accelerated its timeline for building permanent habitats on the Moon, scores of scientists are focused on tackling the myriad technological challenges associated with lunar habitation.Continue ReadingCategory: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and MindTags: 
Shafqat Ahrar Jaigirdar, Sheffield Hallam University/ The ConversationContinue ReadingCategory: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and MindTags: Exercise, Allergies
This RS Jet is the second Inmotion scooter I've reviewed, and it's night-and-day different from the S1F Inmotion had sent me before. Even though that was only 11 months ago, I feel like the technology is light-years apart.Continue ReadingCategory: Urban Transport, TransportTags: 
Bumblebees may be smarter than we give them credit for, with a new study showing the fuzzy insects have the cognitive plasticity required to overcome novel challenges.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: University of Helsinki, Univers
Humanoids may be winning marathons and getting factory jobs, but after spending a few days with around 100 different robots of all shapes and sizes, one thing was clear: There's a chasm separating viral demonstration video and reality.Continue ReadingCategory: AI and Humanoids, TechnologyTags: 
The recently completed Hangzhou Prism is a striking mixed-use tower in China that offers a dramatic take on the conventional glass high-rise. The building rises to 106.5 m (349 ft) and is defined by a distinctive triangular form.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, EngineeringTags: 
A medication commonly given as an off-label treatment for sleep problems may be more risky than we thought – and when prescribed for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or insomnia, as it often is, it isn't backed with the science data needed for safe and informed use.Continue ReadingCategory: Sleep, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Min
To cut costs and emissions, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is rolling out a pilot program using a semi-robotic ground tug called TaxiBot that allows pilots to taxi airliners around the airport without using their main jet engines.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Aircraft, 
BYD has lifted the covers off of the new Dolphin G DM-i, a car that essentially becomes its first proper global offering. With it, the auto brand looks to take on the regional players across markets; whether that be Chery and Tata in Asia, Tesla in the States, VW and Toyota in Europe, among others.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: 
I want to write a filter that blocks the label element, but I want to include either the #shadow-root or faceplate-search-input as part of the path to avoid matching other unintended elements by mistake.
I've tried the following:
example.com##faceplate-search-input > label
example.com##faceplate-search-input > #shadow-root > label
example.com###shadow-root > label
example.com##shadow-root > label
example.com##faceplate-search-input::part(label)
How do I target a shadow root as part of a uBlock Origin filter?
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