
The Guardian - 1 day 1 hour ago
Quality wifi bookshelf speaker can go mobile with Bluetooth, long battery life and water resistance, in return to form The Play is a new portable wifi and Bluetooth home speaker that packs the best of Sonos into a jack of all trades that is intended to be a reset point in the company's recovery from its app debacle that lost it faith, favour and a chief executive. It is the first truly new music speaker since Sonos launched its new app in May 2024, which junked fan-favourite features while causing...

The Guardian - 1 day 3 hours ago
I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack By Peter C Baker. Read by Adam Sims Continue reading...

NBC News - 1 day 8 hours ago
Robots raced against humans in Beijing's half marathon and the machines made huge strides. It marks the second time that robots have shared the course with humans. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports on who crossed the finish line first.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 18 hours ago
In 1627, a year after the death of the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon , a short, evocative tale of his was published. The New Atlantis describes how a ship blown off course arrives at an unknown island called Bensalem. At its heart stands Salomon's House, an institution devoted to "the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things" and to "the effecting of all things possible." The novel captured Bacon's vision of a science built on skepticism and empiricism...

NY Post - 2 days 1 hour ago
Not only had the number of participating teams increased from 20 to more than 100, but several robot frontrunners were noticeably faster than professional athletes, beating the human winners by more than 10 minutes.