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The robot pizza-making business has, it’s true, been littered with sorry tales of overcooked promises and melting fortunes. Besides Picnic, other companies that have come and gone include Zume, external and Pazzi, which used, external robot arms to assemble pizzas, as well as Basil Street, external, a purveyor of pizza vending machines.Although so-called fast food might seem an easy target for automation, it’s proved harder than many expected. Plus, bringing robots into pizza restaurants could take away entry-level jobs in the hospitality sector. Is the future really filled with robotic pizza?”We haven’t yet seen any of the success stories materialise…

Genius Group has announced a new plan to buy bitcoin — just months after selling its entire stash.  The NYSE-listed AI-powered education company said in a Thursday statement that it was aiming to build parallel AI and bitcoin treasuries worth a combined $1.6 billion, with total company assets targeted at $2 billion by fiscal year 2031.  Just in April, Genius Group sold its entire bitcoin reserves to repay $8.5 million in debt. The sale came as a number of digital asset treasuries were struggling due to a drop in crypto prices.  “Every dollar of preferred capital deployed into our bitcoin…

‘Irumudi’ box office collections day 7 Ravi Teja’s ‘Irumudi’ has maintained a strong position at the box office during its opening week. The film has already crossed Rs 90 crore in India net collections. Its worldwide earnings have also moved beyond the Rs 120 crore mark.The latest figures come amid a controversy over theatre allocations in the Telugu states. Reports say that shows were shifted from ‘Irumudi’ to Yash’s ‘Toxic’ in several theatres.’Irumudi’ earns Rs 6.90 Cr on Day 7According to Sacnilk, ‘Irumudi’ recorded an estimated India net collection of Rs 6.90 crore on Day 7. The film had 2,400…

By John Morris, updated August 27, 2026 Anyone who has tracked a token launch on IcoHolder knows the ritual by heart. A new protocol needs users, so it hands out coins. It might be a retroactive airdrop to early wallets, a referral code worth a few dollars in Bitcoin, or a liquidity-mining program that pays you to park capital in a pool. The mechanics change from cycle to cycle, but the underlying bet does not: give people a reason to show up now, and worry about keeping them later. For a decade, crypto has treated free tokens as the cheapest…

India’s grandmaster (GM) R Praggnanandhaa, (PTI Photo) Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa produced a remarkable turnaround against Fabiano Caruana to win the Grand Chess Tour Finals and secure the biggest title of his career in St. Louis on Thursday (local time).Praggnanandhaa overturned a six-point deficit at the start of the day, winning both rapid games against Caruana before holding his nerve in the blitz section to seal a 15-13 victory.The triumph also saw Praggnanandhaa create history. He became the first Indian player to win the Grand Chess Tour.The victory earned the young grandmaster the $200,000 first prize.Praggnanandhaa erases six-point deficitCaruana entered…

This image provided by Planet Labs PBC shows floodings in Kolpurtar, Nepal on Aug. 26, 2026. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) On August 26, 2026, a catastrophic flash flood struck the Nepal-Tibet border, tearing through the Lhende Khola and Bhote Koshi river system. As rescue operations continue, the death toll has climbed past 270, with over 1,000 people still missing, including a large number of foreign tourists and pilgrims. Of those unaccounted for, 178 are Indian nationals, many of whom were on pilgrimage to Mount Kailash. The flood destroyed roads, bridges, hydropower plants and communication infrastructure, and triggered a mudslide…

Global, August 24, 2026 — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched Sub-Accounts for CFD trading, allowing professional traders, proprietary trading teams, and high-net-worth users to run multiple trading strategies across independent MT5 accounts under a single main account. The new feature separates positions and execution between accounts while providing centralized oversight of CFD trading activity.The launch is designed for traders who run multiple strategies simultaneously, particularly those using Expert Advisors (EAs) and automated trading models. As trading operations become more complex, running strategies with different time horizons and risk profiles within the same MT5 account can make…

When it was pub­lished in the Unit­ed States in 1998, Har­ry Pot­ter and the Philoso­pher’s Stone was reti­tled Har­ry Pot­ter and the Sor­cer­er’s Stone. The jokes about the Amer­i­can read­ing pub­lic’s appar­ent aller­gy to the very word philoso­pher write them­selves, but the change was also unfor­tu­nate for more sub­stan­tial rea­sons. A “sor­cer­er’s stone” had no cul­tur­al res­o­nance at all, where­as the philoso­pher’s stone had been sought after since, at the very lat­est, the dawn of the fourth cen­tu­ry. Some sources claim that human knowl­edge of it goes all the way back to Adam, who got the word direct­ly from God. In any…

Parton died on Aug. 25 at age 80Dolly Parton and Katy Perry in Las Vegas in 2016Credit: Christopher Polk/GettyNEED TO KNOWKaty Perry honored Dolly Parton during a performance in Mexico, praising her kindness and unique qualitiesPerry shared heartfelt memories of Parton, calling her an inspiring example of defying stereotypes for decadesParton died on Aug. 25 after a “brief battle with cancer”Katy Perry is honoring Dolly Parton‘s unique qualities.After the news broke that the Queen of Country died on Tuesday, Aug. 25, Perry took the stage at the National Fair of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and paid tribute to the singer…

There is something distinctly meta about the films of the Trans New Wave, but not in the way we usually mean when referring to a film as metacinematic. Where most examples of metacinema let us in on the fact that we are watching a film, the Trans New Wave goes beyond this self-awareness and often makes us aware of the complex history of trans representation in cinema. This need to break our sense of disbelief in this way comes from the particular position that contemporary trans practitioners find themselves in: one of hyper-visibility and the self-surveillance that comes with it, attempts to…