Losing an election is associated with lower social trust among polarized voters. Following a national election, voters whose preferred political party loses tend to experience a noticeable decline in their generalized trust of other people in society.

Water covers most of Earth’s surface, yet it behaves in ways that set it apart from nearly every other liquid. One of its most unusual traits is that it expands instead of contracts when it freezes. Scientists have long linked these odd behaviors to changes in water’s microscopic structure as temperature and pressure vary, but…

Robots are already proving their worth in the textile industry, logistics, and industrial maintenance. Robotic arms have been welding in the automotive industry for decades, but this technology is only slowly gaining a foothold in certain sectors. These include some of the world’s most labor-intensive sectors, such as textile and apparel manufacturing, logistics, and security….

Here is a number that should bother you: 80% of US warehouses operate with little to no automation. Not because warehouse owners do not want robots, they do, but because the robots that exist are built for the wrong customer. Six-figure sticker prices. Six-month deployments. Rigid systems that break the moment your SKU mix changes….

Hi everyone, I'm planning to build a local AI server for business automation and would appreciate some feedback on the hardware before I buy the remaining parts. The workflow will use n8n for orchestration, Ollama + Qwen3-30B-A3B (Q8) for local inference, PostgreSQL + pgvector for RAG, and maybe later Open WebUI as the interface. A…

I often wonder whether I make my projects unnecessarily difficult by choosing concepts that are simply too large and complex. Many of my concepts contain a huge number of components, surfaces, materials, colors, mechanisms, and technical details. This means that creating a convincing final rendering takes an enormous amount of time. When I compare my…

2-year-old UK startup Humanoid has raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation. Here is the company’s HMND 01 humanoid robot. Humanoid Europe has a new billion-dollar startup, and it’s Humanoid, a two-year-old company headquartered in London that developed its humanoid robot, HMND 01, in near-record time. Today, London-based Humanoid announced that it has raised…