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iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype

Every so often, we find ourselves in the middle of a massive technological wave that starts to upend our presumptions and our ideas about the past, present, and future. These waves come with excess—optimism, excitement, hype, and speculation. Since non-believers don’t invent the future and speculators are always on a hustle, I often turn to practitioners to get a fix on the coordinates of reality. It has always helped me maintain a sense of pragmatic optimism when the rest of the world around me

Visualizing Automorphisms of S6

The Weird Symmetry of Shuffling Six Items Visualizing the Exceptional Automorphism of S 6 When shuffling around items, there's something strangely unique about shuffling precisely six items. In fact, it's so weird, that mathematicians refer to it as "exceptional" or "exotic". This is an interactive post exploring this exceptional property, and trying to visualize just what the heck is going on. We're going to build up to the following diagram, along with the concepts needed to understand it.

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, Sept. 30

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

OpenAI Adds Instant Checkout to ChatGPT, Starting With Etsy and Shopify

If you ask ChatGPT for gift ideas, the AI chatbot won't just suggest products anymore -- it can now help you buy them right then and there. OpenAI announced that US users will be able to buy products directly within the program using a new feature called Instant Checkout. The rollout starts with Etsy sellers and will soon extend to more than a million Shopify merchants. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, alleging it infringed

Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes

As the world’s oceans undergo a dramatic rise in temperature, jellyfish blooms have become a regular occurrence, threatening both beachgoing tourists and coastal infrastructure around the world. But experts are also scrambling to explain a rise in reporting of jellyfish blooms in one of the last places anyone would expect: the freshwater lakes of middle America. In the dog days of summer this year, local news outlets began reporting on sightings of rare freshwater jellyfish drifting in all man

While you’re asleep, ChatGPT Pulse will be preparing for tomorrow

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive daily feed of personalized updates. Pulse works overnight using your chats and optional app connections. It’s previewing for Pro subscribers on mobile, with wider rollout to follow. Instead of waiting for your next question, your chatbot now wants to get proactive. OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Pulse feature works overnight and lets you wake up to a fresh set of personalized updates without you asking. Don’t wan

UPDF’s AI superpowers on every Apple device make it faster and smarter than Other PDF Tools

Superace’s PFD editor UPDF brings AI superpowers to all your Apple devices – iPhone, iPad, and Mac – whether or not it supports Apple Intelligence. UPDF already costs 1/6th as much as Adobe Acrobat, but right now 9to5Mac readers can benefit from a special dual-pronged discount: 43% off a 1-year subscription, with an additional two months thrown in free. UPDF aims to be the best PDF editor for personal and educational use. It offers all of the features you’d expect, including OCR and document o

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OpenAI will reportedly release a TikTok-like social app alongside Sora 2

In a development that should surprise no one, OpenAI is preparing to release a standalone social app powered by its upcoming Sora 2 video model, Wired reports. The app reportedly "closely resembles" TikTok, with a vertical video feed and swipe-to-scroll navigation. The catch? It will only feature AI-generated content; there's apparently no option for the user to upload photos or videos from their phone's camera roll. Wired adds OpenAI will limit Sora 2 to generating clips that are 10 seconds lo

OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT’s Ability to Buy Stuff for You

OpenAI just made it possible to buy things directly from ChatGPT. Starting today, all ChatGPT users in the U.S. can use a new feature called Instant Checkout to purchase items from Etsy sellers without leaving the chat. OpenAI says more than a million Shopify merchants, including Glossier, SKIMS, and Spanx, are coming soon. For now, Instant Checkout only supports single-item purchases, but OpenAI plans to add multi-item carts and expand to more merchants and regions. The company also announce

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 30, #1564

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

Japan's largest brewer suspends operations due to cyberattack

Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd (Asahi), the brewer of Japan’s top-selling beer, has disclosed a cyberattack that disrupted several of its operations. According to the company, the incident has affected its ordering and shipping activity, which have been completely suspended. Call center operations and customer service desk are currently unavailable to the public due to the cyberattack. Asahi is one of Japan’s largest breweries, holding roughly one-third of the domestic market share. It employs 30,0

Huge Proportion of Young Americans Report Serious Cognitive Issues

If you don’t feel as mentally sharp as before, you’re not alone. People from the ages of 18 to 39 have experienced a significant increase in cognitive issues such as “serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions” in the span of about a decade, according to a startling new study published in the journal Neurology. A team of American scientists analyzed data from 4.5 million Americans who took part in phone surveys between 2013 and 2023; the overall proportion of respondent

OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos

OpenAI is preparing to launch a stand-alone app for its video generation AI model Sora 2, WIRED has learned. The app, which features a vertical video feed with swipe-to-scroll navigation, appears to closely resemble TikTok—except all of the content is AI-generated. There’s a For You–style page powered by a recommendation algorithm. On the right side of the feed, a menu bar gives users the option to like, comment, or remix a video. Users can create videoclips up to 10 seconds long using OpenAI’s

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OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system

ChatGPT users in the U.S. can now make Etsy and Shopify purchases within conversations, marking a next step towards the future of online shopping – both for consumers and the platforms that control product discovery, recommendation, and payments. In other words, OpenAI might be on the path to reshaping who holds power in e-commerce. OpenAI’s new “Instant Checkout” feature is available to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Free logged-in users buying from U.S.-based Etsy sellers, with more than 1 million Sh

Anthropic's New Claude Sonnet 4.5 AI Model Promises to Be a Coding Beast

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is out today and brings major coding improvements, including checkpoints, code execution, file creation and a refreshed terminal to the AI model, Anthropic said in a press release on Monday. Claude Code gains a much-requested feature with the addition of checkpoints, allowing coders to save their progress or roll back to a previous state. Claude can now execute code and create files, such as spreadsheets, slides and documents. On the agent side, the Claude API lets agents run

ChatGPT's New Parental Controls Will Issue Alerts About Kids' Safety Risks

OpenAI is giving parents more control over how their kids use ChatGPT. New parental controls come at a critical moment, as many families, schools and advocacy groups voice their concerns about the potentially dangerous role AI chatbots can play in the development of teenagers and children. Parents will have to link their own ChatGPT account with their child's to access the new features. However, OpenAI said that these features do not give parents access to their child's conversations with ChatG

Amazon’s Echo Pop and Dot speakers are the cheapest they’ve been in months

is a commerce reporter for The Verge writing about the best deals and gadgets. He previously wrote for Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Futurism, and Popular Science. The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon’s entry-level smart speakers, and both are currently on sale ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days), which officially kicks off on October 7th. Both speakers are currently discounted to their lowest prices since the middle of June, which means they’re beating their summer

`std::flip`

std::flip is a little-known utility from the C++ standard library header <functional> : it is a higher-order function that accepts a Callable and returns an equivalent Callable with the order of its parameters reversed (or “flipped”). To understand how it can be useful, let’s start with a simple example. Consider the following tree node class: struct node { int value ; node * parent = nullptr ; node * left_child = nullptr ; node * right_child = nullptr ; }; Let’s write a function that takes t

Physicists Smash Record With Magnetic Field 700,000 Times Stronger Than Earth’s

Under the right conditions, superconducting magnets allow electricity to flow essentially undisturbed, producing intense magnetic fields for a variety of uses, including nuclear fusion experiments. Naturally, a larger magnetic field gives scientists more room to explore—something that may soon be available to physicists in China, thanks to the creation of a record-setting superconducting magnet. In a September 28 statement, the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS

‘Superman’ Is HBO Max’s Biggest Movie Launch Since ‘Barbie’

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a streaming smash: Superman, which performed more than fine in theaters, has continued to draw fans’ attention now that it’s on HBO Max. As Variety reports, the James Gunn-directed, David Corenswet-starring Superman pulled in 13 million views in its first 10 days on the streamer. It earned “the platform’s biggest 10-day audience for a movie debut since Barbie began streaming in 2023.” The trade doesn’t note the numbers for Barbie—the 2023 comedy is still Warner

Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

loadmo.re is a mobile websites gallery showcasing the best design inspiration for unconventional web. To keep up with updates, follow us on Instagram . From its earliest days, digital design practice has been focused on creating interfaces for computers. Screen-based interactions are now mainly happening through smartphones and mobile-first experiences have become the norm. However, as digital designers, we still use computers as our main working tool and continue to browse desktop websites whe

Trump Shares Bizarre AI Video Promising Magic ‘Medbeds’ for Everyone

President Donald Trump seems to have gone off the QAnon deep end. In a post on his Truth Social account published over the weekend, Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself announcing the arrival of “medbeds,” a speculative technology that can supposedly heal all injuries. Trump’s post, since deleted, was published Friday. The video featured a fictionalized Fox News segment that included the fake Trump proclaiming that every American would soon receive their own medbed card, providing them

Anker's latest Prime charging devices are already on sale

Anker has a bunch of new Prime charging devices available and some of them are already getting solid discounts. The lineup includes a laptop-compatible Prime Power Bank (26,250mAh, 300W). The device's Amazon page currently features a clippable coupon that will take $46 off the price, reducing it by 20 percent. That means you'll be able to snap this powerbank up for $184. This portable charger delivers a whopping 300W of total output between its two USB-C ports and single USB-A port. Anker says

Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool

Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the world’s highest performance FPGA synthesis tool. Cambridge, MA – September 17, 2025 – Zero ASIC, a U.S. semiconductor startup on a mission to democratize silicon, today announced the release of WildebeestTM, the world’s highest performance FPGA synthesis tool. Background The software world has largely moved away from proprietary, vendor-locked compilers in favor of open source alternatives such as LLVM1 and GCC. Early on, these open source compilers lagged b

Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

The Trump administration is pressuring Taiwan to rapidly move 50 percent of its chip production into the US if it wants ensured protection against a threatened Chinese invasion, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told NewsNation this weekend. In the interview, Lutnick noted that Taiwan currently makes about 95 percent of chips used in smartphones and cars, as well as in critical military defense technology. It's bad for the US, Lutnick said, that "95 percent of our chips are made 9,000 miles

Fortnite disables Peacemaker emote that might resemble a swastika

If you watch this for a full hour, leave a comment to receive absolutely no prize. Epic Games has disabled a Fortnite emote based on the HBO show Peacemaker after the second season finale cast the dancing animation in a potentially different light. The remainder of this post contains spoilers for Season 2 of Peacemaker. The "Peaceful Hips" emote, which was first introduced to the game on September 15, mirrors the dance motions that John Cena's character Christopher Smith makes during the open

OpenAI’s ChatGPT parental controls are rolling out — here’s what you should know

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has rolled out some long-awaited parental controls for ChatGPT to all web users, with mobile coming “soon,” according to the company. The controls, announced last month, allow for reducing or removing certain content — like sexual ro

ChatGPT tests free trial for paid plans, rolls out cheaper Go in more regions

OpenAI is offering some users a free trial for ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20. In addition, $4 GPT Go is now available in Indonesia. As spotted on X, some users see a "start free trial" nudge when they visit the pricing page on ChatGPT.com. It's rolling out and may not appear on newer accounts to prevent abuse, but if you've been using GPT for a while, you might see the alert. In addition, OpenAI released $4 GPT Go in Indonesia. Previously, it was limited to just India. Now, OpenAI is expandin

Everything You Need to Know About USB Ports and Speeds (2025)

The modern world runs on USB, also known as Universal Serial Bus. Whether it's the old-school USB-A ports built into hotel lamps or high-powered Thunderbolt powering entire workstations, USB is still how we all charge and connect our devices. Unfortunately, as its importance has grown over the years, so has its complexity. What's USB4? How about Thunderbolt? Is it the same as USB-C? Knowing the subtle differences between these will help guarantee that you're getting the most out of your devices

Ford’s CEO isn’t impressed with Apple CarPlay Ultra

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The list of car companies looking askance at Apple’s newly release, all-encompassing version of CarPlay is growing longer. In an interview on Decoder, Ford CEO Jim Farley said he is taking a wait-and-see approach about whether to autho