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Wednesday November 19, 2025. 06:00 PM
I want to preface this by saying this isn't a sponsored post — I don't do those — but I do think this is cool as hell. While I may generally prefer the original PlayStation over its distant cousin, there's no denying that the Nintendo 64 remains one of the most iconic...
Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get to know Palantir CEO Alex Karp and dive into what his answers in a recent WIRED interview reveal about the larger beliefs driving the tech industry today.
Boston Dynamics' Spot robot is now deployed by more than 60 bomb squads and SWAT teams across the US and Canada. The 75-pound four-legged machine starts at around $100,000 and has been used in armed standoffs, hostage rescues and hazardous materials incidents since its...
A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 The Trump administration is so eager to get extra power into the grid that it is offering a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to help it restart the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear facility.…
Yesterday, we looked at how Macs can provide on-premises AI services for you; today we’re going to speculate a little more. Consider this: millions of people use iPhones to access public generative AI (genAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and others. When you use those...
Digital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil locals The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) are suing the City of San Jose and its police department over alleged abuses of...
Gaming auteur Hideo Kojima has long described himself by saying '70% of my body is made of movies,' which shows in the cinematic approach he's taken to constructing his games since the 80s. Kojima may need to bump that figure up, though, given that a third Death...
In mid-October, the Xubuntu download site was compromised and had directed users to a malicious zip file instead of the Torrent file that users expected. Elizabeth K. Joseph has published a postmortem of the incident, along with plans to avoid such a breach in the future: ...
The Linux kernel supports a large number of architectures. Not all of those are supported by Linux distributions, but Debian does support many of them, officially or unofficially. On October 26, Bastian Blank opened a discussion about the minimum version of these...
You may have noticed that yesterday ChatGPT, X and a number of other websites -- including BetaNews for a while -- were unavailable due to an issue with online security service Cloudflare. So what went wrong? According to the company the problem occurred after a...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Federal health officials have linked two massive US measles outbreaks, confirming that the country is about two months away from losing its measles elimination status, according to a report by The New York Times. The Times obtained a...
I'm a big fan of Jakob Grosse-Ophoff's kinetic sculptures, which tap into human movement and experience in ways that are sometimes humorous, sometimes beautiful, sometimes extremely disturbing, and always captivating. His sculpture 'The Driller,' which Popkin featured here...
Donald Trump has spent years benefiting from the QAnon's Jeffrey Epstein obsession. That’s all changing.
Recordings from the GStreamer Conference 2025, held in London in late October, are now available on the GStreamer Conferences Archive site. Includes the GStreamer State of the Union talk by Tim-Philipp Müller, State of MPEG 2 Transport Stream (MPEG-TS) by Edward Hervey, and ...
In her own words, Congressperson Nancy Mace has 'no friends,' only a dog. Proving that bad people do suffer the consequences, but dogs will love anyone who feeds them. An 'Island of One,' Mace has very publicly aired accusations against former lovers from the floor of...
Vegemite is a thick brown slime derived from leftover brewers' yeast. Similar to Marmite, and especially popular in Australia, it is famed for the intensity of its flavor and how completely repulsive it is to those yet to acquire the taste. — Read the rest The post...
Tsinghua University collected 4,986 AI and machine learning patents between 2005 and the end of 2024. The Beijing institution has received more than 900 patents last year alone. The total exceeds the combined patent count from MIT, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard during the...
Target, which made a big song and dance of ditching diversity, equity and inclusion programs to please President Trump, isn't faring any better with its new CEO. The third quarter saw profits 'tumble' and it admitted today that the holiday season may not go well. — Read the...
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