Boston Dynamics has given Spot a new robotic arm that can grasp, carry, place, and drag a variety of objects. The secretive firm today showed off Spot moving tools, pulling levers, opening doors, and closing valves at a launch event for a new lineup of the robots. The arm can manually or semi-autonomously perform physical work or act on data insights at construction sites, underground mines, power plants, and offshore rigs....

Before you buy an ebike, you should learn the difference between a ‘cadence’ and ‘torque’ sensor. These sensors are what tell an ebike’s motor how much pedal assistance to provide. The sensor type is one of the most important aspects of a bike’s ride quality, so it’s unfortunate this spec often goes ignored in favor of attention paid to power or battery size. For some riders, the difference between a cheaper cadence sensor and a fancier torque sensor is massive, and can significantly affect ride quality....

But did it? It turns out that legal ownership in the metaverse is not that simple. The prevailing but legally problematic narrative among crypto enthusiasts is that NFTs allow true ownership of digital items in the metaverse for two reasons: decentralization and interoperability. These two technological features have led some to claim that tokens provide indisputable proof of ownership, which can be used across various metaverse apps, environments and games....

But today, Canon announced the EOS R5, and it seems to address virtually every complaint people held about the EOS R and RP. It can shoot up to 12 frames per second with the mechanical shutter, or 20 with the electronic one (especially useful for silent shooting). Canon says the camera is capable of capturing athletes and fast-moving objects, perhaps alluding to the 2020 Olympics. It has IBIS, meaning the camera will perform better both in low light and with telephoto lenses, as well as offer smoother video....

The eco-friendly car was created in 2016 after a funeral transport firm, Vander der Lans & Busscher BV based in the Netherlands, commissioned a Tesla Model S to be turned into a hearse so that it could offer zero emmision funeral transport, obviously. Well now, just three years later, it’s up for sale on Norwegian used car site Finn for Kr 1,999,000 ($207,000), Eletrek reports. According to the listing, the hearse has done less than 1,000 km....

The drone has a 12-megapixel camera that can record video at 1080p. Which is pretty nice if you want to shoot some recreational videos. It can fly for 16 minutes on a single charge at the maximum speed of 50 km/hour. Let’s take a look at its specs: Specifications: 16 minute flight time 50 km/hour speed 2-axis gimbal 1.93 km transmission distance 30 meter VPS range 12-megapixel camera 1080p video shooting capability...

Are you sick of vacuuming your house? If the answer is yes, you’ll be delighted to know there’s a pretty sweet deal on the Roomba i7. Yep, that’s right. At $499 ($200 off its original price of $699), the Roomba i7 has never been cheaper before. And you can grab one right now. While older robot vacuums used to struggle with sucking up dust around the corners of your house (and would often get stuck roaming about), the i7’s improved suction tech ensures you’ll never have to pick up a hoover again....

Playing games alone can be a wonderful experience. You can be part of an epic story, explore virtual worlds, and lose yourself for hours. But, one of the key aspects of gaming is the multiplayer experience. As good as it is to play against the computer, little beats testing your skills against a human opponent. That’s exactly what Microsoft Xbox’s Live Gold membership allows you to do. Currently, its 12-month subscription is selling for just $49....

For a long time I wasn’t really a fan of smart speakers. The idea was cool, but relying only on audio seemed like a clumsy way to interact with technology. Then, I started using smart speakers with screens. It changed everything. Smart speakers now finally made more sense to me. You could use voice commands to get visual results. Browsing music and watching videos was possible. Basically, screens made smart speakers useful....

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but you suck. I know, it’s hard to hear, but you do. You suck. I suck. Everyone sucks. One of the pleasant parts about technology though is we can use it to make us suck less (we can also use it to make us suck more, but that’s a story for another day). Anyway, one of the companies making products to help us suck less is FitBit....

This was part of a bigger test by the People’s Bank of China targeting 500,000 consumers in 11 Chinese regions since April. For those eligible, there is a straightforward app to download which gives them a wallet. Using this to make purchases in thousands of participating stores, they receive discounts. The digital yuan is a version of the normal Chinese currency deployed on a blockchain, which is the tamper-proof online ledger technology that underpins digital coins like bitcoin and ethereum....

The 2020s will have to involve some very big decisions about transport – the UK’s most polluting sector. The UK government’s response so far has been erratic, choosing to intervene to prevent the collapse of Flybe (Europe’s biggest regional airline) and give the green light for the high-speed rail project, HS2. Decarbonizing transport would eliminate 26% of UK CO₂ emissions that come from how people get around. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently said that doing this poses “difficult and complicated” questions....

The existing network is acceptable for many purposes. But chargers are very unevenly distributed; almost a third of all outlets are in California. This makes EVs problematic for long trips, like the 550 miles of sparsely populated desert highway between Reno and Salt Lake City. “Range anxiety” about longer trips is one reason electric vehicles still make up fewer than 1% of U.S. passenger cars and trucks. This uneven, limited charging infrastructure is one major roadblock to rapid electrification of the U....

Deep reinforcement learning leverages the learning capacity of deep neural networks to tackle problems that were too complex for classic RL techniques. Deep reinforcement learning is much more complicated than the other branches of machine learning. But in this post, I’ll try to demystify it without going into the technical details. States, rewards, and actions At the heart of every reinforcement learning problem are an agent and an environment. The environment provides information about the state of the system....

The premium package will give you access to ad-free live sports streaming, and original and licensed shows from Hostar, Disney, Fox, HBO, and Showtime. Earlier, Hostar offered its premium subscription at ₹999 ($13) per year, with the aforementioned content without Disney’s catalog. If you have an active Hotstar premium subscription, you won’t have to pay any extra amount to access Disney’s content till your plan expires. If you’re not interested in watching shows from American studios, the company is offering a ₹399 ($5....

In 1791, for example, US citizens were given the right to carry a single-shot firearm or sword in public. Because, well, that’s all there was. In 2021, however, there exists a vast array of weaponry ranging from easily-concealed handguns to assault rifles capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute with uncanny accuracy. It’s so-far proven pointless to debate whether the US founders would have viewed the right to bear arms differently if they’d been aware of semi-automatic weapons such as the Glock 21 or Colt AR-15....

But how worried should we really be – and what would happen if such a body actually hit us? It has been my experience that killer asteroids tend to strike in the summer months when news is thin on the ground. Maybe we are so tired of grim news about the spread of the omicron COVID variant and associated problems that a killer asteroid (or comet) makes a refreshing change....

This last major geomagnetic reversal triggered a series of dramatic events that have far-reaching consequences for our planet. They read like the plot of a horror movie: the ozone layer was destroyed, electrical storms raged across the tropics, solar winds generated spectacular light shows (auroras), Arctic air poured across North America, ice sheets and glaciers surged and weather patterns shifted violently. During these events, life on earth was exposed to intense ultraviolet light, Neanderthals and giant animals known as megafauna went extinct, while modern humans sought protection in caves....

To gain some insight on the topic, I asked a panel of experts from YEC the following question: What is one thing to keep in mind when working with E2EE systems? Here is what they advise: 1. Choose a Reputable Provider “The last thing you need is malware attacks and data breaches infiltrating your system. You need to ensure that every potential area of failure in your cybersecurity is addressed so that your business isn’t at risk of these attacks....

Enter: the Escobar Fold 1 — a 7.8-incher of a handset, sporting a Snapdragon 8150 chipset with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of space. Its killer feature? Confidence. I’m not kidding. According to the promotional materials, this phone not only scares Steve “Apple Boy Steve” Jobs posthumously, but also commands the attention of women. “Apple Boy Steve once looked into space,” says a Fold 1 commercial, voiced by a Fiverr-tiered replica of Don LaFontaine, “he saw Pablo Escobar with a phone beyond anybody’s imagination....