Most engineering leadership teams are grappling with the fact that reliability costs too much, teams are burnt out, and they feel something has to change. Typically, teams resort to optimization: smarter alerting, faster runbooks, better dashboards, and more training. Teams invest heavily, see modest gains, and then end up right back where they started when…
Arm drift after long reinforcement training caused by action prefix drift. Source: Humanoid Robotic manipulation is making progress with artificial intelligence. London-based Humanoid last week introduced KinetIQ Ascend, its reinforcement learning, or RL, approach designed to reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond. “The humanoid race is becoming a question of scale, and…
This was where the field had been stuck for some time. Researchers before Adamala had figured out different ways to feed and grow synthetic cells and to replicate their DNA. But cell division is a different beast. A typical cell reorganizes its cytoskeleton — a network of protein fibers that provide structural support — to…
The Ethereum Foundation has laid out new security standards for crypto wallets designed to make transaction approvals much clearer for users and protect them from common phishing attacks. The initiative introduces ‘clear signing,’ a system that replaces confusing hexadecimal code with human-readable summaries of what a transaction actually does before a user approves it. The…
We’re officially through the first half of 2026, and our reward is a massive wave of big ol’ video game releases hitting consoles and PC over the next six months. September is specifically going to be jam packed with new games, while November makes way for GTA 6. Get hyped because the latter half of…
I keep hearing the same frustration when I talk with security leaders. The real problem sitting on their desk isn’t finding vulnerabilities. It’s deciding which ones actually matter. The industry has spent billions on better visibility. We’ve convinced ourselves that if we could just discover more vulnerabilities, collect more data, and ingest more threat intelligence,…
The second day’s play at RoboCup 2026 has drawn to a close with another bumper set of matches. Teams have come from far and wide to take part in the humanoid soccer competition this year, with 17 different countries represented. China is the most represented country, boasting 15 teams across the three divisions. Other countries…
The iPhone Fold’s complexity means production will get off to a slow start. Steve Dent for Engadget Many people who want Apple’s rumored iPhone “Ultra” may not be able to get it at first, according to a recent industry survey from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo believes that demand will be high for Apple’s…
Solo Leveling: Beyond the System | Companion Concept Video – YouTube Watch On The newly-announced Solo Leveling: Beyond the System movie will be a “continuation” of Jinwoo’s story, not a standalone, non-canon adventure. As confirmed at Anime Expo 2026, we’re not getting Solo Leveling season 3. Not yet, anyway. Instead, Beyond the System is going…