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Studying Marine Life with Seaweed-Based Soft Robots

The upcoming years will witness a remarkable shift towards miniaturization and decentralization. Millions of power-efficient IoT devices will extend computing and sensing capabilities to unexpected places, including the development of small-sized robots capable of operating underwater. However, alongside technical considerations,…

Rants, AI and other notes from Upfront Summit

The venture capital stars were shining in Los Angeles this week at the Upfront Summit, an invite-only VC conference founded by Mark Suster and known for going all-out. For example, there were Coco robots serving drinks and lots of pink.…

Spotify rolls out an audiobook-only subscription

has . This time around, it’s offering a plan that has little to do with music. The Audiobooks Access Tier (which is US-only for now) offers 15 hours of audiobook listening each month for $10. You’ll have access to Spotify’s…

High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics

You’ve seen a ton of videos of humanoid robots – but this one feels different. It’s Sanctuary’s Phoenix bot, with “the world’s best robot hands,” working totally autonomously at near-human speeds – much faster than Tesla’s or Figure’s robots. Canadian…

Poco M6 5G hands-on review

Introduction The Poco M6 is an entry-level smartphone in the company’s 2024 lineup. Slotting in just above the Poco C65, the Poco M6 is, for the most part, almost identical save for a more powerful chipset and minor camera differences.…

UK Home Office Breached Data Protection Law with Migrant Tracking

The UK Home Office has breached data protection law by using electronic tags to monitor migrants, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The regulator said the government department failed to sufficiently assess the privacy intrusion of the continuous collection…