As Americans celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, we are seeing more disagreements about science. Debates over vaccines, climate change, artificial intelligence, public health and scientific expertise have become deeply entangled with politics. In some cases, expertise itself is treated with suspicion, and debates about science increasingly reflect broader disagreements about institutions, authority and trust. Americans…
In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, its first consumer home robot. Astro used cameras and other sensors to map and navigate your home and workplace, and could proactively patrol, check up on loved ones, and transport small items using its built-in cargo bin. While there was a…
Manufacturing has always been a cornerstone of global economic growth, but today’s factories face increasing pressure to produce more… Continue reading on Medium »
Demaerre/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When shopping for a new television, the primary focus is usually on the display technology (OLED, LCD, QLED), resolution, high-dynamic range (HDR) quality, and sports or gaming support. Some of these things are even features you…
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google has slashed the Pixel 10 Pro by $300 and the Pixel 10 by $200 ahead of the Pixel 11 launch. The discounted prices bring the Pixel 10 Pro down to $699 and the Pixel 10 to $599 on the Google Store and Amazon. The deals are expected to…
A Bengaluru startup called Vimag Labs just secured its fifth Indian patent for an electric motor that runs without any rare-earth magnets, using software and power electronics to generate its magnetic field instead. It’s a small, $5-million company taking a swing at a problem that has stumped Tesla, GM, and every major automaker for years:…
David Gewirtz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways OpenAI added agentic tools and removed everyday features. ChatGPT Work arrived, but the ChatGPT desktop app got worse. ChatGPT still works best in the browser for most users. Plans change. My initial plan for this article was to write a comparison between…
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, the race to the Moon is on. While the Apollo 11 astronauts were still on the surface of the Moon, Luna 15 crashed into a lunar mountain. Credit: NASA On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, an unmanned spacecraft seen as a…
The parent company of The Robot Report, WTWH Media, today announced that it has rebranded as Arrowfly. The company said the new name and identity reflect its transformation from a specialized trade publisher into an omnichannel business-to-business (B2B) media, events, and marketing company where hard-to-reach professional decision-makers gather for trusted journalism, industry intelligence, and high-impact…
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start…