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GeekSpin - 1 day 9 hours agoA video went viral last week of what appeared to be a robot employee at a McDonald’s in Shanghai uniformed, standing at the counter, greeting a customer. The coverage that followed treated it as a glimpse at the future of fast food labor. McDonald’s ended up spending the next few days explaining that it […] Read the original article here: No, McDonald's isn't replacing staff with humanoid robots...
A courtroom controversy and the blowback from a book are exposing how systems meant to catch Al-generated content are failing. NBC News' Kathy Park reports on how both the legal and publishing spheres are dealing with trust issues in the AI age.
Observer - 1 day 9 hours agoAs pharmaceutical companies lean more heavily on A.I. to accelerate drug discovery, model biological interactions and optimize clinical trial design, QuantHealth's Siwar El Assad argues that the compliance frameworks most organizations rely on to signal security maturity were built for a technological era that A.I. has already left behind.
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. ICRA 2026 : 1 5 June 2026, VIENNA RSS 2026 : 13 17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July 4 August 2026, PRAGUE Enjoy today's videos! "Roadrunner" is a new bipedal wheeled robot prototype designed for multi-modal locomotion...
The changes will see the recommended retail price of the PS5 rise from 479.99 to 569.99 in the UK.
Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area...
The San Francisco office of Anthropic, which won a temporary reprieve in federal court on Thursday.
We're all familiar with mixing red, yellow, and blue paint in various ratios to instantly make all kinds of colors. This works great for oils or watercolors, but fails when it comes to cans of spray paint. The paint droplets can't be blended once they are aerosolized. Consequently, although spray cans are great for applying even coats of paint to large areas very quickly, spray-paint artists need a separate can for every color they want to use until now. Back in 2018, when I first saw professional...
PlayStation will increase the price of its PS5 gaming console in the U.S. to $650 beginning April 2, part of a global price hike across several Sony gaming console products. “With continued pressures in the global economic landscape, we've made the decision to increase the prices of PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal remote player […]...
Vox - 1 day 14 hours agoCan Google guess what I want to say before I do? | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images I first noticed it when, a few months ago, I opened an email from Ian, my literary agent. Before I'd had a chance to read anything he'd written, Gmail was recommending a full, fleshed-out, AI-generated reply, ventriloquizing ideas for a book and even my feelings about the job transition I'd recently made. It had mined my inbox to infer why Ian was writing to me and ingested bits of my style, even signing...
In a landmark case, a jury found Meta and YouTube guilty of creating products that were addictive. Ryan Mac explains the outcome and what it could mean for tech companies going forward.
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Air and Space - 1 day 15 hours agoThe beloved musical is loosely based on a Eurasian schoolteacher's accounts of her time at King Mongkut's court. These memoirs masked her mixed-race status and unfairly portrayed the monarch as a tyrant...
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Air and Space - 1 day 15 hours agoA new experiment is testing the commercial success of fish traps in Washington and Oregon. Even as some conservationists embrace the technique, its return has reopened old wounds among local fishers...
In a letter to the Treasury Select Committee, Lloyds apologised and said some compensation has been paid.
Vox - 1 day 15 hours agoThe ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude AI, and Perplexity logos are displayed on a smartphone screen on February 21, 2026. | Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto via Getty Images Just how much is AI poised to change our world? Unless you've been in hibernation, the flurry of attention surrounding the latest AI models coming out of Silicon Valley has been hard to miss. AI has gone beyond a chatbot merely answering your questions to doing stuff that only human programmers used to be able to do. But we've...
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin has temporarily blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic.
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GeekSpin - 2 days 2 hours agoDell is rolling out a major refresh of its commercial PC lineup, introducing a redesigned portfolio that spans laptops, workstations, desktops, monitors, and accessories. The new lineup centers around the Dell Pro brand, with a clearer naming structure and a focus on thinner designs and stronger performance for modern work environments. The announcement reflects a […] Read the original article here: Dell unveils new PC lineup for professionals...
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