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* Honor has released its latest flagship, the Magic 9 Pro Max, in China * The phone comes as part of a partnership with professional film camera maker Arri and has a dual 200MP rear camera system * It's powered by a proprietary imaging chip, the Honor Imaging Chip H1, and
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Detachable mop heads might be the headline feature of the Roborock Qrevo 2 Pro but where it really stands out is combining no-nonsense cleaning performance with a reasonable price. Excellent mopping and good vacuuming put it on a par with much more expensive rivals, and make it a great choice
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On September 24, 2026, my app SameQ went live on the App Store. Five reviews. Four rejections. One 13-day wait in the Resolution Center where nothing happened at all. I'm not here to complain about Apple. Every rejection pointed at something real, even when the message didn'
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The Battle for the Human Soul in the AI Era Artificial intelligence has escaped the tech bubble. A few years ago, it was pleasant to be amongst the APIs and my engineer brethren, arguing about model capabilities, experimenting with absurd context windows, and wondering what would happen if we just
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Every week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core product workflows. Yet as startup architectures mature, a clear divide has emerged between teams struggling with margins and
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Call it a blend of horror trigger and engineering prowess, but researchers at ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab have trained a robotic hand to operate away from its robotic arm, crawling across the floor using its own digits. We didn't realize disembodied robot hands are such a
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a big price cut on a capable robot vacuum and mop hybrid that
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Moving beyond security details to crop surveillance. A new technology is cropping up in fields and greenhouses across the globe: robotic dogs. The result of explosions in robotic and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, these anthropomorphic rovers have largely made headlines for their use in security details, guarding everything from international
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Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today’s announcement, the judging panel is nearly complete. In just a couple of weeks, 200
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An 8-bit ATmega2560 microcontroller is perfectly capable of blinking LEDs, reading sensors, or controlling a hobby robot. Running a multitasking desktop environment with games, a file manager, and video playback is another matter entirely. But that is exactly what Vladimir set out to do with AVR-Laptop, a tiny homemade computer
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Tesla has increased Optimus production about tenfold in recent months. It is still struggling to build the humanoid robots reliably at scale. Qianer Liu and Grace Kay reported for The Information on Friday, citing people familiar with the project, that the hands, factory equipment and suppliers are holding it back.
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Save up to 43%: Waiting for Amazon Prime Day to upgrade your vacuum? Dreame has already dropped the prices by up to 43% on its wet and dry vacuums as part of its early Prime Day deals. Some deals are live right now, while other deals start today, so if
