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Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks
Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.
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AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code ba…
MIT Technology Review
The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by…
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Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major…
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Ledger Confirms How ‘Spy Implants’ Steal Crypto From Its Devices as Cases Spread
The attackers also apparently don’t know how to properly hide their tracks with Tornado Cash and Zcash.
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Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient
Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).
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International tech
Home-robot startup Ola Dimensions raises hundreds of millions of RMB in fourth funding round
Chinese home-robot startup Ola Dimensions has completed an angel-plus funding round worth hundreds of millions of RMB, National Business Daily reported on October 12. New and existing investors participated, including Tuobang and Hony Capital. The round is the company’s fourth fi…
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Apple bets its smart home comeback on Siri AI and new smart hub ‘HomeView’
Apple's first smart home hub, HomeView, arrives alongside a refreshed Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini — though Siri AI isn't ready on all of them yet. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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[Update] Blume, Speciale Invest & 11 Other AIFs Selected For Deploying ₹7,131 Cr Under RDI Fund
Original | Oct 14, 02:37 IST The government has selected Blume Ventures, Speciale Invest, Chiratae Ventures and 16 others as…
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Tsinghua's SRHarness Helps AI Agents Find Formulas, While MechBench Tests Whether They Grasp Why
Tsinghua researchers released SRHarness, an open-source runtime for agentic symbolic regression, and MechBench, a benchmark that tests whether AI can recover the mechanisms behind formulas.
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China’s five-ton-payload robot debuts at Shanghai’s CIIF, but real-world performance is what counts
Industrial robots have traditionally competed on precision, speed and repeatability. But as the rated payload of a single robot exceeds five tons, a new set of technical challenges emerges: how to handle and process large industrial components reliably and consistently. The 26th …
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Huawei, once hobbled by US sanctions, passes 100 million Kirin chip milestone
Huawei Technologies has shipped more than 100 million devices powered by its Kirin processors since 2023, when it returned to the smartphone market with a new generation of premium handsets. The company says testing of its next-generation Kirin 2027 chip is also progressing in li…
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Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free cho…
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How to Build Models Without Language, with Logical Intelligence
Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.
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OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141 Points: 499 # Comments: 429
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Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
Main thread: Gemini 4 Argon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869 Points: 206 # Comments: 48
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ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit
Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, …read more
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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: USBSID-Pico has Two SIDs, Many Inputs
We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are, and two don’t count. Yes, there’s a Raspberry Pi Pico, and a pair of …read more
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 Points: 652 # Comments: 623
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Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash
Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the …read more
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Does It Run… Duke Nukem 3D?
When id Software released DOOM back in 1993 it helped define the genre, but it was hardly the only hit first-person shooter of that decade. There was also 3D Realms’ 1996 Duke …read more
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