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AI and robotics companies are racing to collect video footage of everyday household chores to train robots to do physical tasks. Startup Shift is offering free home cleaning in exchange for filming its workers in action, while India's Pronto has been secretly recording inside customers' homes. Since the physical world can't be scraped like the internet, high-quality domestic labor footage has become extremely...
Smile if you want, but the AI interviewer won't care. As recruiters buckle under a flood of AI-generated job applications, companies are fighting back with AI-powered interviews, using chatbots and on-screen avatars to screen...
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas calls out big tech for prioritizing profit over humanity, inspiring this satirical list of 40 tech frustrations — from broken tracking codes to unskippable app downloads — arguing...
ElevenLabs partnered with Stan Lee Universe to revive the Marvel icon's AI-cloned voice and likeness. Fans can hear Lee narrate books via the ElevenReader app and see his likeness in AI-generated comic-style images.
Sony's "True RGB" LED TVs use separate red, green, and blue LEDs per pixel for precise color and brightness control, potentially matching OLED picture quality at a lower cost.
Activision has officially revealed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, launching October 23 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and — notably — the Nintendo Switch 2, marking the franchise's first appearance on a Nintendo platform since...
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Microsoft's Surface lineup has shrunk dramatically, now limited to just the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro, both starting at a steep $1,949.99. A potential Nvidia Arm chip partnership could reshape Surface's future, particularly...
Chinese startup LinkerBot is racing to become the global standard for robotic hands, shipping 10,000 units last year — 80% of worldwide demand — at prices starting at $600, with plans to drop to $200. Now valued at $6 billion,...
Paper Mario ReCut brings the classic N64 RPG to Windows natively — no emulator needed — by converting the game's original code to run directly on modern hardware. The build supports real-time texture swapping and graphical...
Waymo's new Ojai robotaxi — a Zeekr minivan retrofitted in Arizona — is now available to select riders in LA, Phoenix, and San Francisco, aiming to scale the fleet beyond its current 3,700 Jaguars at lower cost.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple have transformed from simple email delivery services into active intermediaries that classify, extract, rank, summarize, and even respond to emails on users' behalf. Using machine learning,...
Proton Mail now lets users send emails from their Gmail address within its platform, making it easier to gradually leave Google behind. As privacy concerns grow around Google's AI push, Proton strips trackers, encrypts messages,...
The iPhone Ultra foldable and touchscreen MacBook Pro could squeeze the iPad out of its niche, forcing Apple to significantly reinvent the device to remain relevant.
Donkey Kong 64, Rare's beloved but divisive 1999 collectathon platformer, is joining Nintendo Switch Online's N64 Classics library on June 4 — nearly five years after fans first requested it. Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion...
Siri's Gemini-powered upgrade will depend on cloud processing rather than on-device inference, as iPhones lack the RAM and compute needed to run trillion-parameter models locally — compromising Apple's privacy-first stance.
A fully AI-generated feature film screened at the Cannes Film Market, marking a significant milestone for artificial intelligence in filmmaking. The project cost $500,000 to produce, a fraction of typical Hollywood budgets,...
Kyoto University Hospital is testing a drug called TRG-035 that could regrow real human teeth by reactivating dormant tooth buds the body naturally switches off. The Phase I trial, launched in late 2024 with 30 adult males,...
A bicycle hidden in Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, built entirely from 500-year-old ideas, actually rolls. Andy George of the How To Make Everything channel spotted a bicycle sketch in da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus and decided...
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton confirmed a Zero 3 W is "feasible" but warned it would carry an unusually high price due to costly LPDDR4 RAM. The company is waiting for memory prices to drop before announcing anything, leaving fans...
A new AI startup called Trajectory, founded by former researchers from Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta, wants to solve a major problem: today's AI models stop learning after training ends. Trajectory's platform helps...
Google has updated Gemini for Home, allowing it to trigger smart home routines based on what security cameras detect. Instead of simple motion alerts, Gemini can now recognize specific activity — like a person arriving or a...
Following Google's AI-driven search overhaul, DuckDuckGo saw app downloads surge up to 30% week-over-week, with iOS peaking at nearly 70%, as users seek its traditional, privacy-focused, no-tracking search alternative.
The Zerowriter Fold is a Canadian-made e-ink word processor designed to cut out distractions and keep writers focused. Similar to a Kindle but built for typing, it features a 6-inch e-ink screen, a swappable mechanical keyboard,...
YouTube now auto-detects AI-generated videos, adding labels below the player and as overlays on Shorts—even without creator disclosure—helping viewers quickly identify and avoid AI-generated content.