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Meta's VR Glasses Reach 100 Grams and $1,299 by Moving the Computer Off the Face

The headset undercuts Apple's Vision Pro on both weight and price by moving the processor, battery and cooling into a pack you clip to a pocket, and it ships spring 2027.

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Drone Defense Startup Mara Raises $7M Led by Khosla Ventures to Stop Cheap FPV Drones

The San Francisco company, founded in October 2024 by Daniel Kofman and Sriram Raghu, pairs a sensor unit with a 250-gram tube-launched interceptor and plans to have the Spike system with key customers by the end of 2026.

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A City Power Utility Becomes the First in the US to Sell Commercial Quantum Computing Access

EPB, the Chattanooga utility that wired the city for gigabit internet in 2010, is again turning an infrastructure bet into a business, starting with two university customers.

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An OpenAI Model Produced a Machine-Checked Proof of a Hard Navier-Stokes Result

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