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A U.S. #robotics startup is developing humanoid #robots for military use, including possible combat roles in the future.

San Francisco-based Foundation Future Industries has a $24 million Pentagon contract to test its #humanoid robots with U.S. defense forces. The company was founded in 2024 and is backed by Eric #Trump, who serves as its chief strategy adviser.

Its main robot is called the Phantom MK-1. It is about the size of an adult human and can carry up to 40 kilograms (88 pounds).

Foundation says it has deployed about 10 robots so far. They have been used for industrial work, including moving materials in #factories, and the company says it has also worked with the U.S. Air Force.

The company has also run pilot programs in #Ukraine, where the robots have been used to move objects and supplies.

Foundation #CEO Sankaet Pathak says the robots could eventually take on #military missions that are dangerous for human soldiers. He has also discussed future combat uses.

The robots are leased for about $100,000 per year. Foundation's San Francisco facility can produce around 300 to 500 robots a year, and the company is building another facility to increase production.

Foundation is also developing a second-generation Phantom using AMD chips. The company says it is working to make the robot capable of learning new tasks from only a few demonstrations.

The robots are not currently #autonomous combat soldiers. Foundation is still testing the #technology and developing it for military use.

The company had previously discussed producing 10,000 robots by the end of 2026, but Pathak now says those earlier targets were ambitious.

For now, Foundation is testing its humanoid robots in industrial and military environments while developing more advanced defense #applications.

Sources: Wall Street Journal, Foundation Future Industries. #azatell #azatellnews #technews #viral

Nigeria Anti-Narcotics Agency Intercepts Synthetic #Cannabis From UK, Finds Drugs Hidden In Speakers In Lagos

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (#NDLEA) have intercepted two shipments of synthetic cannabis, popularly known as #Colorado or Colos, concealed in consolidated cargoes from the United Kingdom.

“Colos” is #Nigerian street slang for Colorado, a form of synthetic cannabis.

The agency also recovered two other consignments of #Colorado hidden inside music speakers at two motor parks in Lagos, with at least seven suspects arrested in connection with the seizures.

The #NDLEA disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday by its Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.

At the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (#MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, NDLEA operatives intercepted a UK-bound consignment containing 27 parcels of Colorado weighing 32.20kg.

According to the agency, a real estate agent, Abideen Jide Salami, was arrested on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, after he arrived to collect a large luggage containing the illicit substance using a secret collection code reportedly relayed by his brother based in the #UK.

In a follow-up operation linked to another shipment from the UK, NDLEA operatives traced and arrested the designated recipient of a second consignment containing 12.25kg of Colorado.

The suspect, 44-year-old Nurudeen Abiodun Kadiri, reportedly told operatives that the consignment had been sent to him by his brother in the UK.

Meanwhile, operatives of the agency’s Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) intercepted a music speaker containing three packs of Colorado at a motor park in Maza Maza, #Lagos. #azatellnews #viral #latestnews

“My guy cancelled his girlfriend's flight to Canada one hour before departure, right there at MMIA Airport.

I've been offline since, bcoz I had to drop my guy off at the MMIA airport today.

Bro had worked more than two jobs for three years to save for his relocation and had bought two economy tickets because he planned to take her with him, they've been dating for 5 years.

Then she looked at the tickets and said....

"Economy? After all the money you've saved?

How am I supposed to post us leaving in economy? It looks cheap, how can I post that on snap, I don really make mouth o"

He didn't argue...this guy stepped aside, opened the airline app and cancelled her booking.

I thought he was joking...

She thought he was joking too until the cancellation email hit her phone.

"What did you do?!"

He picked up his luggage and said

"You're right...You deserve business class and I can't afford it, so I'm going alone…” - A #Nigerian man reportedly cancelled his girlfriend’s flight to #Canada shortly before departure after she complained about the economy-class ticket he had booked for her. #latestnews #nigerianews #azatellnews #viral

YouTube Shopping 🤝 Amazon

Exciting news: Amazon is coming to YouTube Shopping #affiliate program!

Eligible U.S. #YouTube creators will now be able to tag #Amazon products in their Shorts, long-form videos and livestreams, making it even easier for viewers to buy the #products they love from the #creators they trust. #azatell #technews #azatellnews #google #viral

MTN Nigeria has stated that the shocking inconsistent data-usage figures reported to some subscribers were caused by a temporary system glitch and not a data consumption as people might think. The controversy began after some customers received SMS reports, that shows unusually high usage, including one report claiming that 58.83GB had been consumed in a single day. #MTN said the error occurred because some usage figures were displayed in gigabytes instead of megabytes, creating wildly inflated numbers. Although the #telecom giant says the problem has been fixed and affected records corrected, many subscribers are still asking questions. #viral #azatell #azatellviral #viralnews

🦎 Meet the olm — the “dragon” of the underground! 🐉

Deep inside the flooded caves of the Dinaric karst, across #Slovenia, #Croatia, #Bosnia and #Herzegovina, and #Italy, one of the strangest creatures on Earth: the olm (Proteus anguinus) lives. 🌑💧

Unlike most #salamanders, the #olm never grows out of its larval form. It keeps its external gills for life and spends its entire existence underwater. 🫧

Its pale pink skin makes sense in the darkness — there’s almost no need for pigment underground. Its eyes are undeveloped and covered by skin, making it effectively blind. Instead, it relies on smell, water movement, and even weak electrical signals to navigate. 👁️❌⚡

After heavy rains, floods sometimes wash olms out of their caves. Local people once believed these mysterious creatures were baby #dragons emerging from the mountains. 🐉⛰️

But perhaps the strangest thing about the olm is how little it needs to survive. 🍽️

With almost no food available in cave waters, it has evolved an incredibly slow metabolism. It can survive years without eating, with laboratory observations reporting survival for up to a decade. 😳

And it takes “slow living” to another level. A long-term study recorded one olm remaining in essentially the same position for 2,569 consecutive days — nearly 7 years! 💤

#Researchers describe its lifestyle as being almost entirely about doing nothing. 😂

Some estimates suggest olms can live for around 100 years, making them remarkably long-lived amphibians. 🕯️

🇸🇮 Slovenia has even featured the olm on a coin. The species is protected, but its underground habitat faces growing threats from groundwater #pollution. 💧⚠️

A blind, ancient, pink “dragon” that can barely move and can survive years without food — nature is unbelievable. #storybee #viralstory #viral #todaystory #azatellng

🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran claims the US violated the MoU that was signed between the #US and #Iran days ago.
Following the announcement, some ships sailing through non-approved maritime routes near #Oman made U-turns

Many of these vessels tried to defy #Iranian control and attempted to pass the Strait of Hormuz by sailing south, near Oman, and not submitting an application to the Persian Gulf Strait Authority. #worldnews #middleeast #azatell #viral #horuzstrait

"I reported my boyfriend to #EFCC and I don’t feel gu!lty about it. And if I had the chance, I would do it over and over again.

I’ve been dating this guy for four years. I met him in my first year at the #university. When I met him, he was so broke to the point that sometimes I was the one feeding him.

I come from an average family, and sometimes from the little amount of food or money my parents sent me, I would divide it into two and give some to this guy because I loved him.

There were even days he would come to me telling me there was a particular school project he wanted to do, that he needed to buy handouts. Not that I had much, but because I believed in him. I would take from the little I had and give it to him.

Now, there was a particular period when one of his friends cashed out from Yah&&. After that, I told my boyfriend, “Why don’t you try this thing?” When I first mentioned it, he wasn’t interested, but I kept pushing him.

Then he told me that even if he wanted to, he needed a laptop and didn’t have money for one. Because I still loved him, I gathered the savings I wanted to use for something else, put my feelings aside and took the money to buy him a laptop.

When I gave him the laptop, there was nothing this guy didn’t tell me. He sang praises and showed me off to all his friends as his wife. He said a whole lot of things, that he was never going to leave me, this and that.

Long story short, he went into it, and his first cash-out was $25,000. When he got that money, my boyfriend started changing. The guy I knew became somebody else.

He started cheating. He wasn’t even doing it behind my back. He did it right in my face. He was carrying different women around, and when I complained, he told me I just had to deal with it because that is who he is. I’m like, okay.

When he finished talking, I didn’t shout. I didn’t throw any t@ntrum. I just left. Then I went and reported him to EFCC because how d@re he? When he had nothing I carried him. I even bought the laptop that led to the $25,000 cash-out, and now he thinks he can treat me like I’m nothing?

About two days after I reported him, they busted his place and picked him up. They first seized his car and emptied about 95% of the money in his bank account.

Ever since then, he has gone back to square one. Yes, I did it, and I don’t feel guilty. In his next life, he will learn not to bite the finger that fed him..."

Lady recounts why she reported her ex-boyfriend to EFCC following a $25,000 cash out. #nigerianews #azatellng #viralstory #viral