
GeekSpin - 1 day 2 hours ago
Once hailed as a pioneer of smart-home technology, the company that brought robot vacuums into everyday households is now facing a harsh reality. iRobot, the maker of Roomba, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as a Chinese firm steps in to take control. The collapse marks a stunning reversal for a brand that once dominated […] Read the original article here: iRobot Roomba goes bankrupt as China firm takes over...

Vox - 1 day 2 hours ago
When it comes to artificial intelligence, few fears loom larger than the idea of robots coming to take our jobs . But if you talk to the AI evangelists among us, that could be a good thing. Not in the Elon Musk robots-will-babysit-your-kids way, but in a way that helps us make better use of our resources and handles our busy-work. If the doom doesn't come to fruition and that is a big if we could get the one thing there never seems to be enough of: time. There's actually a name for this...

Air and Space - 1 day 3 hours ago
This year marks the English novelist's 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters both real and fictional offer valuable insights into her imaginative wit and enduring appeal...

NY Post - 1 day 3 hours ago
"What I want to do is get you more results in less time," biohacker Dave Asprey told The Post.

New York Times - 1 day 5 hours ago
The energy needs of data centers used for artificial intelligence are forcing utility companies to spend billions of dollars to upgrade the power grid, the lawmakers said.

NPR - 1 day 5 hours ago
School districts from Utah to Ohio to Alabama are spending thousands of dollars on these tools, despite research showing the technology is far from reliable.

NPR - 1 day 5 hours ago
New Orleans is the first US city with real-time facial recognition: If you're wanted and walk past one of the system's cameras, it could flag you. The twist: it's a private system, and even though the new mayor and police chief are at odds about facial recognition, this non-profit says it's able to establish its own "guard-rails" as it feeds real-time tips to the police, side-stepping the debate about government regulation and privacy.

New York Times - 1 day 9 hours ago
OpenAI's newest technology comes after Google claimed it had topped its young competitor.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 17 hours ago
Roomba maker IRobot files for bankrupcy, Chinese supplier to take control...

New York Times - 1 day 17 hours ago
Meta is investing billions in new data centers, like one being constructed in Eagle Mountain, Utah.

Observer - 1 day 18 hours ago
Reports of a SpaceX public listing boost partner and investor stocks as the company prepares to pitch banks and target a $1.5 trillion valuation.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 19 hours ago
Spain's grid operator, Red El ctrica , proudly declared that electricity demand across the country's peninsular system was met entirely by renewable energy sources for the first time on a weekday, on 16 April 2025. Just 12 days later, at 12.33 p.m. on Monday, 28 April, Spain and Portugal's grids collapsed completely, plunging some 55 million people into one of the largest blackouts the region has ever seen. Entire cities lost electricity in the middle of the day. In the bustling airports...

Huffington Post - 1 day 20 hours ago
If the latest iOS 26 update is killing your battery quicker than you'd like, this settings tweak might help.

Sky News - 2 days 13 hours ago
British astronaut Tim Peake has urged the US and China to de-escalate talk of a space race and instead return to the moon with a "spirit of collaboration."...