It might have been a brat summer, but Apple thinks it’s “glowtime” for its iPhone 16 event. The company announced that it will host the event to unveil new devices on September 9 at 10 a.m. PT. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s campus. But for people who won’t […]
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It’s been an infamous year for software updates gone wrong. But what’s the worst-case scenario for a buggy update? Sonos may be trying to find the answer as its mobile app update continues to derail its best laid plans. In its most recent earnings call, the company announced that it had no choice but to
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Researchers at ETH Zürich are very good at keeping robots standing upright. Back in 2022, the school’s robotics team taught the quadrupedal ANYmal robot how to hike up mountains without falling over. New research from the school, published in collaboration with the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, takes a unique approach to the
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It might have been a brat summer, but Apple thinks it’s “glowtime” for its iPhone 16 event. The company announced that it will host the event to unveil new devices on September 9 at 10 a.m. PT. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s campus. But for people who won’t
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Korea’s Institute for Machinery and Materials unveiled a pretty cool robotic wheelchair this week. By creating a compliant wheel that conforms to the terrain around it, these engineers have created an early version of a wheelchair that can climb stairs and traverse rocky terrain. The wheel uses a “smart chain” structure, which means that a
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In 2017, DJI introduced the Spark. With a palm-sized body, gesture control and a sub-$500 price point, the system was firmly targeted at social media. It was, in essence, a selfie-drone. The little quadcopter built up a fanbase, though apparently not one large enough to justify its own continued existence. DJI quietly discontinued the device
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It might have been a brat summer, but Apple thinks it’s “glowtime” for its iPhone 16 event. The company announced that it will host the event to unveil new devices on September 9 at 10 a.m. PT. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s campus. But for people who won’t
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The new Paper Pro tablet from reMarkable moves the company’s vision of combining PC with paper closer to reality, adding color and capability while keeping the philosophy of focus intact. The Norwegian company has been something of an unlikely success story. In a day and age where more and more functionality is crammed into our
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Android introduced five updates on Tuesday as part of its latest release of the mobile operating system. Available for smartphones, tablets, and Wear OS watches, the new features include audio descriptions of images, text-to-speech technology for web pages in Chrome, and the ability to look up songs with “Circle to Search,” among other things. Initially
Meta is now letting preteens with parent-managed accounts explore different experiences in its online virtual reality (VR) platform, Horizon Worlds, with certain restrictions in place. The company announced that parents will soon be able to approve age-appropriate worlds they’d like their preteens (aged 10 to 12) to experience, including hanging out in The Space Station,
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