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* Tornyol's drone tracks mosquitoes by their wingbeat and takes them down mid-flight * Can autonomously patrol areas of up to 5 acres * Preorders are open with a refundable $100 deposit, ahead of a targeted 2027 US launch Tornyol, a San Francisco-based startup backed by Y Combinator, has built an
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Engineers at Northwestern University have built a drone that vanishes without camouflage or transparent panels. Its trick is spinning so fast that your eyes simply give up trying to focus, a stealth edge that could turn surveillance into something almost invisible. The aircraft, nicknamed Phantom Twist, rotates up to 25
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Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot facility to train its humanoid robots in Fremont, California, just up the highway from the factory where Tesla is expected to start manufacturing its Optimus robots this year. Tesla has increasingly bet on Optimus. Elon Musk recently said he expects it to be
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Are we living through a small car renaissance? There’s the Slate Truck, Amble’s dune buggy, and the Fiat Topolino, as well as a whole galaxy of kei cars and trucks from Japan that have their own built-in fan base. While microcar sales in the US are still as
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. First look: Nvidia is working with Japan's newly formed Noetra consortium to build a 140-megawatt AI factory that will serve as the compute backbone for the government's FRONTia program, which
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Autonomous robots are rapidly moving beyond research labs and into warehouses, factories, stores, and other real-world environments. But running the sophisticated AI models needed to perceive surroundings, understand instructions, and make decisions requires a lot of computing power. NVIDIA is attempting to address that challenge with two new Jetson modules
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Made from the stuff of blurry UFO sightings, engineers at Northwestern University have unveiled a drone that nearly vanishes in mid-air and not by using advanced camouflage or light-bending materials, but simply by spinning too fast for the eye to track. Presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems 2026 conference
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Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its
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Jul 17, 2026 6:34 AM The Best Gifts for Cooks Who Love Cooking From the best air fryer to frying pans to knife sharpeners anyone can use, these ideas will keep the curious home chef in your life tinkering away. Featured in this article All products featured on WIRED
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* Watch Ann Droid for free on BBC iPlayer (UK) * Use NordVPN to watch your free streams when abroad * All six episodes arrive on iPlayer on July 17, 2026 Ann Droid is a new BBC sitcom created by and starring Diane Morgan, best known for her roles as Philomena Cunk and
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! The first potential steps toward another profession being wiped out by AI are being taken in New York. When students in the Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York return to
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Last year, the most powerful people in technology told you, in plain language, that AI was coming for your job. Whole categories of work, gone. This year, quietly, those same companies started hiring again. Amazon cut about 16,000 people, leaned hard into the story that AI was making it
