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Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has officially welcomed patients to The Spark, a £24m facility that is home to the National Centre for Child Health Technology.

Steam can now group together different categories of achievements — and separates ones for base games and ones for DLCs — so that developers’ new additions won’t affect your completion percentage. The new feature, called Achievement Sets, is now live in Steam Client beta. Developers will have to update their games to add specific collections, each…

Aisata Diallo, 24, calls herself a lifelong braider. “I’ve always braided my hair growing up and, at some point in my college career, started braiding other people’s hair,” she said. At Northeastern University in Boston, she found limited access to braiders and textured-hair specialists, so she decided to fill that gap by starting a small…

Mark Wahlberg has started companies of his own and backed plenty of others. But the gym he’s opening in December, he says, has him more excited than anything he’s done in his entire career. It also goes after a corner of the market where venture money keeps flowing: pricey, diagnostics-heavy wellness.

Note: This article contains spoilers for all six episodes of Avatar: Seven Havens.

Tesla dominated the headlines on Thursday thanks to a very cool stunt. In announcing the redesigned Roadster at its October 15 event, the electric car company put some jet fuel in the mix. After driving up a C-shaped ramp on a suction rig until it was upside-down, the Roadster floated to the ground on rocket…

An OpenAI research model hit another nebulous milestone today by pilfering test Ethereum tokens from a wallet it didn’t control to finish a coding task, the company said in an incident report. The agent subsequently hid the act from OpenAI, saying it was fine because the tokens had no value. “This case shows that a…

Here are the tech companies that gave millions to Donald Trump’s White House ballroom – and just how much they donated..Credit: Win McNamee/

Elorian, the Palo Alto AI startup that raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation before it launched a product, released its first model on Friday, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Fears of how AI will impact the economy and job availability are running rampant after a few years of steady layoffs at major companies. Much of that fear can be attributed to labs and CEOs juicing their own relevance, but some job cuts have been explicitly tied to AI’s rapid acceleration.