The paddle follows a long line of oddball products, from $450 mezcal to questionably legal flamethrowers. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Tesla's next big product reveal isn't a long-anticipated affordable passenger car or an actually usable humanoid robot . On Friday, the company announced it has partnered with prominent paddle manufacturer Selkirk Sport on an arguably over-engineered accessory meant to "bring advanced aerodynamics and precision performance" to pickleball players with deep pockets. The result, Tesla claims, is a premium product designed to improve swing speed and durability.

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Like so many things in Elon Musk's orbit, a lot of it may come down to AI. SpaceX is planning to raise tens of billions of dollars through an initial public offering next year, multiple outlets have reported, and Ars can confirm. This represents a major change in thinking from the world's leading space company and its founder, Elon Musk . The Wall Street Journal and The Information first reported about a possible IPO last Friday, and Bloomberg followed that up on Tuesday evening with a report suggesting the company would target a $1.5 trillion valuation. This would allow SpaceX to raise in excess of $30 billion. This is an enormous amount of funding.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Google's real-time AI translation looks like it could change the world If Google can pull this off, traveling overseas to a foreign country won't be that foreign any more. Google Gemini has launched real-time, continuous translation using your phone and a pair of connected earbuds, in what looks like a powerful transformative change to the way in which we interact with speakers from other countries. Google buried its announcement in an update to Gemini voice model updates on Friday, but the additional translation features look like they could change the way in which people interact with foreign speakers. Google is launching a beta of Google Translate to accommodate both real-time translation and two-way conversations, powered by Gemini.

Amazon has pulled a video recap made with artificial intelligence (AI) from its hit TV show Fallout after users said it got several facts wrong about the series. The firm said in November it was testing the first-of-its-kind tool in the US to help viewers catch up on some of its shows on streaming service Prime Video - including Fallout, its adaptation of the popular video game franchise. But it has since disappeared from the site after users highlighted mistakes in its video summarising the events of Fallout season one - including claiming one scene was set more than 100 years earlier than it was. The BBC has approached Amazon for comment. The move to apparently press pause on its AI-powered recaps was first reported by tech publication The Verge .

Google has also introduced a new speech-to-speech translation feature for headphones. Google is rolling out new Gemini-assisted functionality to Search and its Translate app. It says its AI can now provide more natural and accurate text translations for phrases that have more nuanced meanings. Translate will now take slang terms and colloquial expressions into consideration rather than provide sometimes unhelpful direct translations. The latest update to its text translation feature is rolling out first in the US and India, translating between English and just under 20 other languages, including German, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.

Football, under French colonial rule, was built to exclude them. So Algerians built their own club. The Sports Association in Constantine may have laid the foundations in 1898, but it was MC Alger, founded in 1921 who was the first football club that sparked a statement of identity, resistance and belonging. Samantha Johnson looks at how a football club fought colonial rule. Why does Israel play in European Football?

Rep. Brian Mast defends Trump's Nvidia chip policy as part of a broader strategy to maintain U.S. dominance in AI and computing technology markets.

Fulu sets repair bounties on consumer products that employ sneaky features that limit user control. Just this week, it awarded more than $10,000 to the person who hacked the Molekule air purifier. Companies tend to be rather picky about who gets to poke around inside their products. Manufacturers sometimes even take steps that prevent consumers from repairing their device when it breaks, or modifying it with third-party products. But those unsanctioned device modifications have become the raison d'être of a bounty program set up by a nonprofit called Fulu, or Freedom from Unethical Limitations on Users.