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This $30M startup built a dog crate-sized robot factory that learns by watching humans

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-23 00:00:00

While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small. San Francisco-based MicroFactory built a general-purpose, tabletop manufacturing kit that’s about the size of my Siberian Husky’s dog crate. This compact factory includes two robotic arms and can be trained by human demonstration, as well as through AI. “General purpose robots are good, but it’s not necessary [to] be humanoid,” s

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60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 14:43:54

Six decades have now passed since some of the most iconic Project Gemini spaceflights. The 60th anniversary of Gemini 4, when Ed White conducted the first US spacewalk, came in June. The next mission, Gemini 5, ended just two weeks ago, in 1965. These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased. However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying

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Need to modify user accounts in Linux? This is the command for you

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-23 14:00:36

Trevor Williams/DigitalVision via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The usermod command is short for user modification, and, as the name implies, allows you to modify various aspects of a user account. For a Linux administrator, this command is crucial. For Linux users, the command most certainly comes in handy, especially given what it can do. Let's dive down this rabbit hole and see what's what with the Linux usermod command. 1. Change user details When you crea

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William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 19:28:01

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer The author Ray Bradbury is one of the early science fiction authors that moved science fiction into a literary form. As a writer Bradbury constructs beautifully written stories and novels. Bradbury's writing is in stark contrast to Bradbury as a speaker. The first time I heard Ray Bradbury speak was at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) yearly conference in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Hearing Bradbury speak is an almost painful experience. The pictures

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William Gibson Reads Neuromancer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 00:28:01

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer The author Ray Bradbury is one of the early science fiction authors that moved science fiction into a literary form. As a writer Bradbury constructs beautifully written stories and novels. Bradbury's writing is in stark contrast to Bradbury as a speaker. The first time I heard Ray Bradbury speak was at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) yearly conference in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Hearing Bradbury speak is an almost painful experience. The pictures

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When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 03:05:45

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots. It's only the latter, however, that's anticipated to one day be a multitrillion dollar market, with big firms like Tesla leading the charge. In March, Tesla CEO Elon Musk boasted that his automaker would build 5,000 Optimus robots by the end of this year. Responding to Musk's claim, so did the Shanghai-based startup Agibot. Norwegian robot m

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Don’t Expect One ‘Penguin’ Star to Appear in ‘The Batman, Part II’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-25 08:00:58

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre could head to TV with an assist from Glen Powell. Filming has wrapped on Practical Magic 2. Plus, could even more be on the way from Matt Reeves’ Batman universe? To me, my spoilers! Clayface In response to a fan on Threads (via Comic Book), James Gunn stated the decision to decorate the set of Clayface with stickers, graffiti, and fliers referencing Robert Pattinson’s Batman movie “never came across [his] desk” and was likely done over his head. Although the trash

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iPhone 17 demand strong, says Kuo, with the Pro Max the star performer

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-25 11:48:43

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that demand for the new iPhone 17 lineup is strong, with initial orders beating out those for last year’s iPhone 16. He points to a clear indication that the iPhone 17 Pro Max is the star performer, although does acknowledge that demand for the iPhone Air may become clearer over time … To conduct his analysis, Kuo looked at two factors. First, what he believes he knows about production volumes for each model via supply chain sources. Second, how quickly ship

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Why is Sam Altman losing sleep? OpenAI CEO addresses controversies in sweeping interview

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-09-25 19:40:31

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, testify during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled "Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation," in Hart building on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images In a sweeping interview last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed a plethora of moral and ethical questions regarding his company and the popular ChatGPT AI model.

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Readers still love this legendary Files by Google alternative, but why?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 19:00:21

Andy Walker / Android Authority In a recent article I wrote about alternatives to Files by Google, several users mentioned a name I hadn’t heard in ages: Total Commander. Launched back in 2012, the app still has a strong following on Android, even though I remember it best as my preferred Windows file manager back in the day. You all intrigued me, so I installed it on my main phone and started using it as my primary file manager. But is it any good compared to the many alternatives available? I

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OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

wired.com Will Knight 2025-09-25 20:00:00

OpenAI appears to be ramping up its efforts in robotics, hiring researchers who work on humanoid systems as it explores new ways to advance artificial intelligence. The company has recently recruited a number of researchers with expertise in developing AI algorithms for controlling humanoid and other types of robots. Job listings show that the company is putting together a team capable of creating systems that can be trained through teleoperation and simulation. Sources with knowledge of the c

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Is the humanoid robot industry ready for its ChatGPT moment?

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Victoria Yeo 2025-09-25 20:28:40

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Two humanoid robots are on display at the China Mobile booth at the Mobile World Conference in Shanghai on June 19, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Humanoid robots, which have made significant technological advances this year, may be at the precipice of a ChatGPT-like spike in investment and popularity — or at least, that's what many in the industry believe. So-called humanoid robots are artificial intelligence-power

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Scientists Working on "Smart Dust" That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 12:00:57

In his 1963 scifi story "The Invincible," the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the microscopic beings were powerless alone, but together they could form cooperative swarms to gather energy, reproduce, and ultimately defend their territory from predators with deadly force. Unlike the story’s human protagonists, the "black cloud" of bots was incapable of reasoning beyond the simple

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Man City vs. Man United Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 08:30:03

There's more than just bragging rights at stake on Sunday as fierce city rivals Man City and Man United go in search of a much-needed win, both teams having made poor starts to the new season. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The hosts come into the match looking to avoid a third successive defeat following back-to-back losse

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Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-25 13:00:34

At the center of every empire is an ideology, a belief system that propels the system forward and justifies expansion – even if the cost of that expansion directly defies the ideology’s stated mission. For European colonial powers, it was Christianity and the promise of saving souls while extracting resources. For today’s AI empire, it’s artificial general intelligence to “benefit all humanity.” And OpenAI is its chief evangelist, spreading zeal across the industry in a way that has reframed ho

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James Gunn Slams AI-Generated Batman

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 11:45:50

As generative AI slop is threatening to turn Hollywood on its head, not everybody in the industry is enthusiastic about the tech. In a hilarious counter to a fan's AI-generated image of actor Brandon Sklenar dressed as the DC Comics' Batman, DC Studios filmmaker and "Superman" director James Gunn quipped in a Threads post that "it would be weird to cast an AI Batman with a 14 inch arm." Gunn was alluding to the AI-generated Batman's unnaturally short appendages, pointing out the AI's failure t

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CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 07:45:14

There may be nobody else on Earth more excited about AI than CEOs. Driven by a compulsion to cut overhead costs — and avoid the wrath of similarly AI-fixated shareholders — executive teams across the US can’t wait to force AI onto their workforces, consequences be damned. Corporate executives have become giddy at the thought of automating their workforces, boasting about supposed productivity gains as they lay off human workers, who now face one of the worst job markets in recent history. Even

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Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 10:00:25

Has Sam Altman spent too much time talking with ChatGPT lately, or has he finally taken a break from his delusion-inducing chatbot and smelled the roses? We ask because the man responsible for unleashing the Automated Soulless Text Machine on the world has recently caught on that the internet has started feeling super fake, and he's now pontificating about this novel observation again on X-formerly-Twitter, seemingly mystified at how this all came to pass. Prompting his latest musing was a scr

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Apple @ Work: Apple says it’s past time to get serious about Declarative Device Management

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-09-25 10:00:00

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Charlie Kaufman Holds Hollywood Responsible for Today’s ‘Terrible’ World

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-25 11:30:18

Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman’s got a lot to say about the state of the world—and why he thinks Hollywood is at least partially to blame for it. In a new interview with The Guardian, the mind behind 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and this year’s short How to Shoot a Ghost said the film industry has “everything to do with [why] the world is in a terrible, terrible situation right now.” As part of said industry, Kaufman considers it a personal responsibility to “not put garbage into th

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60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-25 08:15:47

Six decades have now passed since some of the most iconic Project Gemini spaceflights. The 60th anniversary of Gemini 4, when Ed White conducted the first US spacewalk, came in June. The next mission, Gemini 5, ended just two weeks ago, in 1965. These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased. However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying

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Tucker Carlson asks Sam Altman if an OpenAI employee was murdered ‘on your orders’

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-09-25 12:19:28

Carlson: “…he was definitely murdered, I think… there were signs of a struggle, of course. The surveillance camera, the wires had been cut. He had just ordered take-out food, come back from a vacation with his friends on Catalina Island. No indication at all that he was suicidal. No note and no behavior. He had just spoken to a family member on the phone. And then he’s found dead with blood in multiple rooms. So that’s impossible. Seems really obvious he was murdered. Have you talked to the aut

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It’s Getting Ugly: Sam Altman Seeks Texts From Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk’s Employee/Mother of His Child

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-25 17:00:59

Last year, Elon Musk sued his rival Sam Altman’s company, tech superstar OpenAI. In his lawsuit, Musk claimed that the company had violated federal racketeering laws because, having once promised to stay a nonprofit research lab, had since converted itself into a for-profit company. Musk, who initially poured tens of millions of dollars into the startup, claims he was deceived. OpenAI and Altman have since countered that Musk also wanted OpenAI to become a for-profit venture. This week, the lega

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How Prehistoric Humans Survived a Supervolcano So Big We Probably Should Have Gone Extinct

gizmodo.com Jayde N. Hirniak 2025-09-26 08:35:08

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is located in what’s now Indonesia, living organisms across the entire globe were potentially affected. As an archaeologist who specializes in studying volcanic eruptions of the past, I often think about how incredible it is that humans survived this extinction-level event that was over 10,000 times larger

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Exxon Says It Invented a New Graphite That Could Boost EV Batteries

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-09-26 08:55:28

ExxonMobil, the country’s largest oil and gas company, says it has developed a more advanced form of graphite that could help extend the lifespan of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. CEO Darren Woods called the technology a “revolutionary step change in battery performance” at the University of Texas at Austin’s Energy Symposium on Friday. He said it’s already being tested by several EV manufacturers, Bloomberg reports. This new synthetic graphite is used on a battery’s anode, its negative elec

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The ‘Chainsaw Man’ Movie Is Hitting Theaters Even Earlier Than Expected

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-09-26 12:50:10

Animation studio Mappa‘s upcoming theatrical release of Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc has bumped up its premiere date. Now, the film arc continuation of the 2022 anime will hit theaters—including select IMAX screens—a few days earlier than initially scheduled. The film will now premiere in theaters on October 24. This date adjustment came with the release of a new English dub trailer of the film. The story, created by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Look Back), follows Denji, a down-on-his-luck young ma

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Henry Cavill Injured While Prepping for ‘Highlander’ Reboot

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-09-27 03:12:55

Super Mario Bros. may head to space for a sequel, MJ and Ned return for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and James Gunn praises Milly Alcock’s Supergirl. Spoilers, away! Highlander According to Entertainment Weekly, Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, Witcher) has been injured during pre-production of the new Highlander film, delaying the start of filming. Deadline reported that production is likely to resume in 2026, with the extent of Cavill’s injuries unknown. Avengers: Doomsday Promotional artwork on

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Performance-focused forks of styled-components

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 22:00:52

Your React app might be 40% slower on first render than it needs to be. Not because you wrote bad code. Not because React is slow. But because styled-components never implemented React 18's useInsertionEffect hook: a feature specifically designed to solve CSS-in-JS performance problems. While React 18 shipped in March 2022 with this optimization path, styled-components remained on React 17 patterns, injecting styles during render instead of between render and layout. This creates a performanc

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Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot

news.ycombinator.com Stanford University 2025-09-27 20:04:25

Acknowledgement The authors would like to express their gratitude to Kaizhe Hu for assembling the second instance of ToddlerBot and assisting with keyframe animation and demo recording. We also extend our thanks to Huy Ha, Yen-Jen Wang, Pei Xu, and Yifan Hou for their insightful discussions on locomotion, and to Sirui Chen, Chen Wang, and Yunfan Jiang for valuable input on manipulation policy deployment. We are grateful to Albert Wu for his guidance on mathematical formulation and notation. Add

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Elon Musk Says an OpenAI Whistleblower Was Murdered

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-27 21:05:59

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that an OpenAI whistleblower named Suchir Balaji, who passed away last year, was actually killed. "He was murdered," Musk posted, in reference to Balaji's death. The late 26-year-old software engineer had gone to the New York Times months before his passing, decrying what he deemed to be illegal copyright violations by his employer. He was also prepared to testify as a witness in the newspaper's lawsuit against the company. A

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This $30M startup built a dog crate-sized robot factory that learns by watching humans

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