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Amazon doesn't advertise its Labor Day sale as heavily as Prime Day and Black Friday, but the Amazon 2026 Labor Day Sale still offers some of the best deals of the year on an assortment of tech and home gear ranging from half off WIRED's previous
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* Meta continues to test data center robots for tasks like power cycling and network connections * The company already has a number of models being tested at different campuses * One worker worries robots could replace 80% of data center technicians Meta is now said to be exploring whether it can perform
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday. It sits in
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Right now, you can score the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones for a huge 50% off. You can also get the Ring Floodlight 2K camera for 25% off. Finally, you can grab the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 robot vac for 30% off, all at Amazon. I’ve been tracking the prices of
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The Ice Dart is a quadcopter designed by researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec to solve a problem that has quietly limited drone science for years: there's almost nowhere safe to land in the harshest environments on Earth. Ice is especially bad. Standard rubber-footed drones start
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As noted on diginomica passim the value of AI in Life Sciences and Healthcare has been seen. That value and the policy and regulatory challenges that underpin that, were the subject of a recent Westminster Health Forum policy conference in London. The event highlighted a consensus among delegates that, while
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Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on single country supply under the Critical
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Prominent solo investor Lachy Groom has backed a Bengaluru startup attempting an ambitious feat: keeping an aircraft in the sky for more than a year by harvesting energy from ocean winds. Alteon, founded by 20-year-old Samay Sanghvi, announced Tuesday that it raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led
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In Brief 4:14 PM PDT · August 31, 2026 Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm added another $1.75 billion since the fund launched in January with $6.75 billion. The firm’s announcement comes just days
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I've spent 20 years designing machines and the processes that build them, first in China, then in the United States. In that time, I've watched three or four waves of "the future of manufacturing" arrive with a keynote and leave with a shrug. Lights-out
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Historically, there have been two key metrics by which robot pool cleaners are measured: suction power and battery life. More recently, smart navigation, cameras and sensors — let’s call it AI — have become more integrated and have shifted the balance of power in what we consider the most important aspects
