Caption:“Perception is a big bottleneck toward getting robots to help us in the real world,” Luca Carlone says. “If we can add elements of cognition and reasoning to robot perception, I believe they can do a lot of good.” Credit: Bryce Vickmark Robots have come a long way since the Roomba. Today, drones are starting … Read more
Apple today released iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, the third major updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 software that came out last year. iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 come six weeks after Apple released iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2. The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going … Read more
Robots have come a long way since the Roomba. Today, drones are starting to deliver door to door, self-driving cars are navigating some roads, robo-dogs are aiding first responders, and still more bots are doing backflips and helping out on the factory floor. Still, Luca Carlone thinks the best is yet to come. Carlone, who … Read more
Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Google Pixel 9 series is only a few months old, and its successor isn’t expected until late 2025. Despite this, we already have substantial information about the Pixel 11 series, courtesy of a significant Google Chips division leak from the Android Authority team. Will the Pixel 11 bring noteworthy … Read more
The release of Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model on January 20 triggered a surprise nuclear event in American tech markets this week. The model’s ability to outperform OpenAI’s industry-leading language model, o1, on key benchmarks at a fraction of the cost implied that artificial intelligence companies could do much more with much less. Stock … Read more
We’re not Barbie girls, but we live in a plastic world. Microplastics, tiny specks of broken-down plastic, are all around us. They hover in the air, float in our water, and are sprinkled in the food we eat. These particles have even been detected in relatively pristine ice sheets in Antarctica—a continent with minimal human … Read more
It wasn’t that long ago, October 11, 2021, when the great Windows 11 migration began. In truth, the majority of devices still run on Windows 10, but that will undoubtedly start to change as we hurtle toward its inevitable end date. However, like the die-hards of Windows 7 before them (we’re ignoring 8 on purpose), … Read more
Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. Tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears. And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek. DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on Monday as one of its accomplishments … Read more
Joe Fay Technology Reporter Daniel Stenberg Daniel Stenberg first released his open source software in 1996 Many of us have prepared instructions and critical information for our family in the event of our sudden demise. For Daniel Stenberg, that includes passwords for his Google and GitHub accounts. That’s because he’s the founder of curl, an … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that’s just over a year old, has stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley after demonstrating breakthrough artificial-intelligence models that offer comparable performance to the world’s best chatbots at seemingly a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek’s emergence may offer a counterpoint to the widespread belief that … Read more
