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AROS, an Amiga-inspired OS, now runs natively on Raspberry Pi in 32- and 64-bit versions, offering fast boot times without Linux virtualization. Software support is currently limited but expected to expand.
YouTube is paying top creators millions to keep their content exclusive and off platforms like Netflix, with those who refuse being cut from marketing campaigns.
Walmart will begin accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at select stores on August 24, expanding chain-wide by year-end and to fuel stations by mid-2027, after years of pushing its own failed payment system.
Photoloset is a Python tool that generates sewing patterns from video footage, using user-supplied measurements and identified garment features—never assumptions—to draft three pattern pieces while flagging any conflicting data.
Transistors, invented in 1947, replaced vacuum tubes with tiny semiconductor switches, enabling modern electronics. Today's iPhone packs 30 billion transistors, powering everything from smartphones to AI.
UT Dallas researchers slashed 3D-printed zirconia crown processing from 100 hours to under 30 minutes using porous graphite felt and vacuum technology, backed by a $550K NSF grant, enabling potential single-visit permanent crown...
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AI consciousness can neither be proven nor disproven because consciousness is purely subjective. Claiming machines are conscious requires extraordinary evidence we can't provide, and asserting humans have created consciousness...
Upload a logo and make selected colors glow up to 7.5x brighter on HDR screens by embedding a gain-map layer into a standard JPEG—which displays normally on non-HDR screens.
China successfully landed a reusable Zhuque-3 rocket stage on land using deployable legs, following a sea-platform recovery in July, narrowing the gap with SpaceX and Blue Origin's decade-long rocket reuse programs.
Bilibili, China's 376M-user video platform, is going global with a new international Android app (iOS coming soon), relaxed ID requirements, and community manager hires in LA, London, and Tokyo.
China's Unitree Robotics has unveiled "Superman," a humanoid robot that outperforms world-record human athletes, clearing a two-meter high jump and running 13 m/s, powered by 40+ joint motors and advanced AI—available on Amazon...
Payday: Aces High is a VR co-op heist shooter from Fast Travel Games featuring stealth or action gameplay, randomized security elements, and intuitive mechanics that make it a strong must-play VR experience.
The upcoming MacBook Ultra may feature a thinner build, M5 Pro/Max chips, OLED touchscreen, Dynamic Island, and optional cellular connectivity via Apple's C2 modem.
SanDisk's first 3D Matrix Memory prototype chips, built on 300-mm wafers, store multiple gigabits and could offer 4x DRAM capacity at half the cost per bit, though commercialization is still years away.
Adobe Firefly now generates music, voiceovers, and sound effects directly in-platform, with controls for mood, pacing, and emotion. All audio is commercially licensed, removing the need for third-party tools.
Bilibili is relaunching its international app, dropping identity verification, and hiring globally to attract Western users. Success could pressure YouTube but may trigger TikTok-style U.S. security scrutiny.
NASA-backed picture book You Will Go to Mars takes young readers on a scientifically accurate Mars mission, covering launch windows, seven-month travel, resource recycling, and blue sunsets—all sourced from real NASA research.
SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage with its launch tower arms within months. Combined with the already-proven booster catch, this could enable full reusability and cut orbital launch costs by 100x.
ATDev, backed by ARPA-H and Meta, is developing an FDA-approved AI wheelchair with a robotic arm to help paralyzed users eat, open doors, and retrieve items independently, targeting 3.5 million U.S. users within five years.
Google's Discover feed is getting a chat-based tool that lets users type natural language requests to instantly customize their content preferences, which the feed will then remember going forward.
SpaceX's proposed 1-million AI satellite constellation could permanently remove critical materials from Earth's resource cycle, with ~200,000 annual decommissions losing ~1,000 tons of copper, 170kg of gold, and ~1% of global...
Meta's Pocket app lets US users create and share AI-generated minigames and interactive experiences without coding. It's a mobile platform designed to make generative AI accessible to everyday users.
The Bambu Lab A1 Mini is a compact, self-calibrating 3D printer ($224.10) that's ready in under 20 minutes. It prints at 300mm/s, supports PLA, PETG, and TPU, and runs quietly at under 48 dB.
Researchers engineered five bacterial strains into living transistors that perform binary logic via chemical signals on agar plates, completing computations in 8 hours—with the goal of deploying them on crops to detect stress and...