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Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. The Dreame L20 Ultra isn’t the company’s newest model, but it’s still a great robovac / mop hybrid that offers strong performance while requiring very little
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Technology transforms smart cities' disaster resilience through IoT, AI, smart infrastructure, and communication systems, enhancing preparedness, response, and public-private collaboration for future emergencies. CIO Review Europe | Tuesday, May 26, 2026 FREMONT, CA: Technology is pivotal in shaping resilient smart cities and enhancing disaster response capabilities. As urbanisation accelerates, cities
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Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been acquired by OneRobotics, the parent company of SwitchBot. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, Nanoleaf CEO Gimmy Chu says the company will remain independent and that he and his cofounder and COO, Christian Yan, will continue to run it. “Nothing is changing operationally,
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Handheld vacuums fill a niche that full-size cordless models simply can't -- tackling stairs, upholstery and car interiors with a precision and ease that bigger machines struggle to match. And with summer on the way, keeping dust and pollen out of those tight, overlooked spots (yes, including your
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When the Linux Foundation released version 1.1 of its OpenMDW license on May 28, the name that carried was Nvidia's. The chip-maker plans to adopt the license across future releases of its Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising and Nemotron open model families, spanning agentic AI, quantum computing, robotics
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NVIDIA's growing focus on "Physical AI" is beginning to extend beyond robotics and industrial automation into aerospace, with Indian electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) startup ePlane emerging as one of the companies highlighted during CEO Jensen Huang's COMPUTEX keynote. The Chennai-based company said
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The Cambridge clinic has regulatory approval to triage, treat and discharge patients without a human in the loop. Now it wants to do the same for hip, knee and pelvic-health conditions. The unusual thing about Flok Health is not that an AI runs a physiotherapy appointment. It is that the
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On these pages, we tend to push back on the so-called SaaSpocalypse. But that doesn't mean ERP vendors don't need a different, modern vision. Because of agentic AI, you say? Perhaps. But I'd argue that the impetus comes not from tech alone, but from
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Humanoid robots are finally starting to become remarkably capable — at least in some ways. If you’ve seen any demos in the past few years, you’ll know that they can dance, flip, and fold laundry with the best of them. But behind those perfectly edited video clips, there is
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For the past 10 years, Uber’s annual Lost & Found Index has provided a rather quirky anthropological snapshot of its riders — and even a few insights into society. The annual catalogue of millions of forgotten items ranges from mundane modern-day tools such as smartphones and laptops, to more eyebrow-raising
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* Ukraine deploys robotic units to reduce frontline soldier exposure * Ground robots now handle logistics and combat battlefield roles * Commanders see machines replacing nearly a third of the infantry More than four years into this grinding war, remote-controlled ground robots are fundamentally reshaping the battlefield. Ukrainian commanders and engineers now assert
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Solving for the future International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence. Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as
