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One of the nicest things about checking out the best speakers at a big trade show, (in this case, Audio Advice Live in Raleigh, North Carolina) is that sometimes you have family nearby. So, when I was doing my second round of some of the vendors that really stood out
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NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne and Melbourne’s Cortical Labs have unveiled a biological data centre prototype in Singapore, built from a 20-unit rack of neuron-powered CL1 computers. The efficiency claim central to the project comes with no published figures. A rack of computers running on living human neurons
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4 / 5Very good pros and cons * Auto-emptying dock. * Great for pet hair. * Strong 10,000Pa suction. * No camera or AI-powered obstacle avoidance. * Basic mopping capabilities. * Dust bags are a permanent cost. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've wanted a robot vacuum since I
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* The US Army is phasing out its relatively new drone and robot assault battalion * The change is part of a "back-to-basics" push from acting chief of staff of the Army Gen. Christopher LaNeve * The battalion will "refocus on its core warfighting tasks as an airborne infantry battalion&
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We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 — TechCrunch’s annual, handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the world. These founders rose to the top from thousands of applications spanning every industry and geography. Their reward? A coveted spot to exhibit at TechCrunch
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The lowest prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end in just a few days, this Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Once that window closes, your chance to save up to $300 on your pass, or get an even larger discount on group pricing, will come to an
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The White House has published a new National Security Science and Technology strategy. It names 15 critical technology areas the United States intends to lead. Artificial intelligence and autonomy is one of them, with 12 subfields listed underneath. Open-weight AI is not among them. Neither open weights nor open-source software
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Chinese quadcopter maker HoverAir (part of Zero Zero Robotics) might have managed to bypass the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) new restrictions on foreign-made drones, launching the HoverAir Versa as a DJI Pocket-like camera with optional wings and propellers. On the surface, the $450 device is packaged as a standalone, handheld
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NVIDIA has announced that the entire Jetson Xavier line-up, including the Jetson Xavier NX and Jetson AGX Xavier system-on-modules, are approaching their end-of-life — and has already officially discontinued their development kit variants. Unveiled around eight years ago, and described at the time as NVIDIA's first computer designed specifically
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As a kid, I always imagined the “black market” would be like the movies: Shady vendors hawking illicit goods along dusty streets. But if you want a banned DJI Osmo Pocket 4 or Pocket 4 Pro camera in the US, you can just reach for your phone. They’re on
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Joseph Casebeer, founder of Takamori Robot, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for an educational spider-like quadrupedal robot kit powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico 2: the H.I.R.O Model TR-01-A Standard Edition, hereafter known simply as HIRO. "[HIRO is] a Raspberry Pi Pico-based robotics platform by Takamori
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The GEN-1.5 robot model from Generalist AI learns new physical tasks from one demo, without gradient updates. The company describes GEN-1.5 as the first model it knows of to show one-shot and few-shot learning of physical skills at scale. That claim points at a specific trade-off: whether teaching
