Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK … Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As more enterprise organizations look to the so-called agentic future, one barrier may be how AI models are built. For enterprise AI developer A121, the answer is clear, the industry needs to look to other model … Read more
AAWireless/ZDNET While the AAWireless Android Auto dongle has been available for years now, it’s still one of the most elusive, highly recommended adapters on the market. The 4,000+ ratings of over four stars on Amazon are a testament to its quality. How the dongle works is fairly straightforward: You plug it (instead of your phone) … Read more
The soundtrack to the spider-bot-crawling 1997 Ghost in the Shell game adaptation is coming to the West for the first time. Titled Ghost in the Shell: Megatech Body (as an ode to the Fuchikoma mech you pilot in the game), the soundtrack was produced by Takkyu Ishino. It’s available to pre-order on iam8bit ahead of … Read more
$19 at Amazon Energizer TacR-1000 rechargeable LED flashlight: $19 Save $21 The October Prime Day sale is over, but we’re still seeing tons of great items that are still decently discounted. And even better? So many items currently cost less than $50, including tech, home essentials, health and beauty products and more. It’s the perfect opportunity … Read more
Private Internet Access is no stranger to awesome VPN discounts. This time, the VPN is a whopping 83% off, so its 2-year plan dropped to only $2.19 and you get 2 FREE months. No doubt, it’s an ideal moment to save big on one of the best-rated VPNs. PIA VPN Is Now 83% Off: Grab … Read more
Note: Xbox Cloud Gaming is not to be confused with Xbox Remote Play, which is free and lets you stream Xbox games you own from a console to your phone, PC, or another Xbox over your home network. This service was only available in Colombia and Ireland, and it enabled up to five friends and … Read more
The first thing to know about Community Notes on Elon Musk‘s tweets: there ought to be a lot more of them. Community Notes, the Twitter/X fact-checks formerly known as Birdwatch, are often touted as one of the few good things to have survived the first chaotic year of Musk’s ownership. These notes are user-generated, usually … Read more
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Google plans to resume the Wear OS 5 rollout for older Pixel Watches “later this year,” as previously reported by Droid Life. If the update bricked your watch, there are ways to get it working again. Google’s support site has a bunch of general troubleshooting steps for getting out of a frozen watch, as well … Read more
How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new paper making the rounds Friday suggests that the answer is, at least for now, a pretty clear “no.” A … Read more