Japan’s Remote-Controlled Robot Workers: How an 8-Kilometer Convenience Store Experiment Became a National Labor Strategy A striking video clip has been circulating showing a Japanese convenience store robot restocking drink coolers while the person actually controlling it sits in an office 8 kilometers away wearing a VR headset. It’s a genuinely eye-catching demonstration of remote … Read more
Xynova Flex 2: The Xiaomi-Backed Robotic Hand Built for Next-Level Dexterity in Humanoid Robots A small robotics startup in Hangzhou has just given the humanoid robot industry a fresh reminder that hands, not legs or torsos, are often the hardest part of building a machine that can actually do useful work in the real world. … Read more
MediaTek Launches New Mobile Chip Using TSMC’s Most Advanced 2-Nanometer Technology to Take on Qualcomm MediaTek unveiled a new pair of smartphone chips on Tuesday, marking the Taiwanese company’s first mobile processor built on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s cutting-edge 2-nanometer process, as it pushes harder into the premium handset segment where margins are richer and … Read more
iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate Reportedly Contain Hidden APIs Letting Third-Party AI Models Fully Replace Siri’s Backend A developer poking around inside Apple’s newest operating systems has surfaced something more significant than the AI assistant choices Apple has already made public. According to a post from developer pdfu on X, published September 13, iOS … Read more
Starlink Unveils Router 4, Its First Wi-Fi 7 Router, Promising Faster Speeds and Bigger Coverage SpaceX has officially pulled back the curtain on Router 4, the newest piece of hardware for its Starlink satellite internet service, and it’s the biggest upgrade to the company’s in-home networking gear in years. The announcement came straight from Starlink’s … Read more
Someone Built a Face ID Unlock App for Mac Using an iPhone Apple has spent nearly a decade fielding the same question from Mac owners: where is Face ID? The iPhone got it in 2017, the iPad followed soon after, and yet every MacBook and iMac sold since then has stuck with Touch ID or, … Read more
Zhejiang University Unveils Morphing Ring Drone With Aerial Grasping That Shrinks to Fly Through Narrow Gaps Engineers at Zhejiang University have built a quadrotor that looks nothing like the drones most people are used to seeing. Instead of a central body with four arms stretching outward, the new machine is shaped like a ring, and … Read more
Meta Launches AI Agent That Can Access Other Apps to Send Emails, Make Payments Meta rolled out its long-anticipated autonomous AI assistant on Tuesday, a tool capable of sending emails, booking travel, and even selling a car on a person’s behalf, marking one of the most ambitious attempts yet by a major tech company to … Read more
Teen Reading Scores Hit Worst Level This Century as OECD’s PISA Study Links Decline to Screen Time Teenagers around the world are reading at the lowest level recorded this century, and a major new international assessment points squarely at screen time as one of the primary drivers behind the decline. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation … Read more
Apple CEO John Ternus Faces AI Test as Siri Overhaul and Foldable iPhone Take Center Stage When John Ternus steps onto the stage at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters this week, he will be doing something Tim Cook did nearly every September for over a decade, unveiling the company’s newest iPhone lineup. But this time the moment … Read more