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Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-12 06:15:00

Intuitive Surgical, an American biotechnology company, introduced DaVinci surgical robots in the late 1990s, and they became groundbreaking teleoperation equipment. Expert surgeons could operate on patients remotely, manipulating the robotic arms and their surgical tools based on a video feed from DaVinci’s built-in cameras and endoscopes. Now, John Hopkins University researchers put a ChatGPT-like AI in charge of a DaVinci robot and taught it to perform a gallbladder-removal surgery. Kuka sur

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How WIRED Analyzed the Epstein Video

wired.com Lauren Goode 2026-01-12 11:54:08

Michael Calore: Go to the movies. Lauren Goode: Just go to the movies. Katie Drummond: I like that. Michael Calore: This is the worst time of year to go to the movies. Lauren Goode: No, it's the best time of the year because air conditioning and comfy seats. Michael Calore: Yeah, but it's- Katie Drummond: I'm with Lauren, that's great advice. Lauren Goode: No, I've been three times this year and every time, very last minute. A friend invited me last minute to go see the 40th anniversary o

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The Qrevo S5V is half the price of Roborock’s best robot vacuums, but it’s still a top-tier cleaner

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 16:00:21

Roborock Qrevo S5V The Roborock Qrevo S5V is a well-priced robot vacuum and a highly-capable autonomous floor cleaning system. It cleans hard floors and carpets very well, and gets into the corners and underneath furniture with ease. Higher-end models boast greater capacities, but this bot can get the job done in the average home without breaking the bank. I’ve tested the very best robot vacs that Roborock has to offer — from the do-it-all Saros 10R to the all-that-plus-a-robot-arm Saros Z70 —

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Why I highly recommend the M4 MacBook Air to most people (and now it's on sale)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-12 15:59:16

ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is on sale at Amazon for $850, a competitive price for Apple's latest ultraportable. The M4 Air supports up to two external monitors with the lid open, and scales up to 32GB of unified memory. There are still only two USB-C ports on the left side, and I wish there were a nano-texture display option. View now at Amazon View now at Bhphotovideo View now at Apple more buying choices The MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is on sale at Amazon, starting

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers Are Up Against an Aug. 1 Deadline. Here's What Experts Suggest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 15:00:26

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET If you're a student loan borrower enrolled in SAVE, do you have to switch to a new repayment before interest payments restart in August? That's the question on millions of borrowers' minds, but the answer depends on your forgiveness options and financial situation. "It's crucial for borrowers to act based on their own personal situation," said Elaine Rubin, a student loan policy exper

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Xbox cloud games will soon follow you across Xbox, PC, and Windows handhelds

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-12 16:28:41

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to test updates to the Xbox PC app and Xbox consoles that will allow cloud games to follow you across devices. A new play history section of the Xbox PC app and Xbox console home UI will display cloud games as part of the recently played titles list and this will roam across Xbox consoles, PCs, and handhelds. Cloud-playable games are now starting to show

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Quip is a smart clipboard management app for iOS and Mac

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-12 16:14:39

Developers of Unite, an app that offers customized web app management on Mac, on Monday released a new app called Quip, a clipboard app for the Apple ecosystem. The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things. Its goal is to offer users more control and customization compared with the traditional clipboard, making it a more productive alternative. Quip is non-intrusive — on Mac, i

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Phones with both a cooling fan and water resistance don’t exist, until now

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 05:27:10

OPPO TL;DR OPPO has announced the K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Pro in China. These new phones have cooling fans and are water-resistant. The OPPO K13 Turbo series starts at ~$251 in China. We’ve seen a few gaming phones over the years with built-in cooling fans. Unfortunately, the need for a cooling fan vent means these phones aren’t water-resistant. Thankfully, OPPO’s latest phones buck this trend. OPPO announced the K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Pro in China today, and both of these budget gaming ph

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HP OmniBook X Flip 14 Review: Flip Flop

wired.com Christopher Null 2026-01-13 06:00:00

Convertible laptops continue to grow in popularity, likely because of the exceptional flexibility they offer to folks who want to switch up their use—shape-shifting among traditional notebook, tablet, and tappable entertainment device forms. The latest device to enter this fray is HP’s OmniBook X Flip, available in both 16-inch and 14-inch versions, the latter of which is what I was sent to review. Its poor battery life and awkward design, however, make it fall short of being among the best 2-i

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The frenzied, gamified chase for Labubus

theverge.com Mia Sato 2026-01-12 22:00:00

On Thursday night, I toggled endlessly between a TikTok Live stream and a shopping app in anticipation of 9:30PM. For 30 minutes, I hunted for an available listing; many expletives were uttered. I exhibited bot behavior and got iced out of the app multiple times. I tapped so many times my thumbs got sore. This is Labubu drop night. Something that’s lost in the Labubu mania is that actually buying one from the source is, in one word, maddening. There are, of course, countless fake options (“Lafu

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These are our favorite cyber books on hacking, espionage, crypto, surveillance, and more

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-11 18:00:00

In the last 30 years or so, cybersecurity has gone from being a niche specialty within the larger field of computer science, to an industry estimated to be worth more than $170 billion made of a globe-spanning community of hackers. In turn, the industry’s growth, and high-profile hacks such as the 2015 Sony breach, the 2016 U.S. election hack and leak operations, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, and a seemingly endless list of Chinese government hacks, have made cybersecurity and hacking

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Laminar Flow Airfoil

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 02:54:27

Laminar Flow is the smooth, uninterrupted flow of air over the contour of the wings, fuselage, or other parts of an aircraft in flight. Laminar flow is most often found at the front of a streamlined body and is an important factor in flight. If the smooth flow of air is interrupted over a wing section, turbulence is created which results in a loss of lift and a high degree of drag. An airfoil designed for minimum drag and uninterrupted flow of the boundary layer is called a laminar airfoil. The

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Hacking a Toniebox

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 08:16:36

Hack all the things - Toniebox 17. Jun 2025 Continuing my Hack all the things series, I’m doing something slightly different today. So far I’ve hacked my PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS, but this time I want to talk about my Toniebox. Or rather…my kids’ Toniebox. If you’re unfamiliar with the thing, it’s a little music box with a built-in speaker, two little “ears” to raise or lower the volume and an NFC reader at the top. Instead of putting in cassettes or CDs (yes, I’m old!), you instead put litt

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Why Cartken pivoted its focus from last-mile delivery to industrial robots

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-01-13 08:00:00

Autonomous robotics startup Cartken, known for its four-wheeled robots that deliver food on college campuses and through Tokyo’s bustling streets, has found a new area of focus: industrials. Cartken co-founder and CEO Christian Bersch told TechCrunch that applying its delivery robots to industrial settings was always in the back of his mind as they built the startup. When companies started reaching out about using their robots in factories and labs, Cartken took a closer look. “What we found i

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This Bonkers 100 MPH E-Scooter Is a Ludicrous Safety Hazard

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-13 09:45:13

Designed by former F1 engineers. Pure danger. Turbo Mode A company made up of former F1 racing engineers has unveiled an outrageous e-scooter that can reach a top speed of north of 100 miles per hour — and covers a whopping 150 miles on a single charge. The bizarre contraption, dubbed The Turbo, was developed by UK-based e-scooter company Bo, whose existing lineup targets the more premium end of the last-mile — or last 150 miles, in this case — mobility market. The Turbo's specs are borderli

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Larq Bottle PureVis 2 Review: Drinking Water as a Video Game Isn’t as Dumb as It Sounds

gizmodo.com Claire Maldarelli 2026-01-13 06:00:22

There’s something I learned about hydration that I can never forget: if you are thirsty, you are already dehydrated. It’s a rule of thumb that can come in handy if you are out on a long hike or on the beach in the middle of summer when the risk of becoming dehydrated is pretty high. But day-to-day, I rarely pay attention to how much water I drink or how dehydrated my body could be. Despite the ever-growing popularity of mega-sized water bottles and counting the number of glasses people should d

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My 9 Favorite Pickleball Paddles From 3 Years of Testing (2025)

wired.com Martin Cizmar 2026-01-13 11:06:00

I was not sure what to expect from Diadem's new BluCore paddle, which is among a handful of new paddles that have replaced the standard honeycomb polymer core with closed-cell foam—they sent me a sample of the stuff, and it looks like you could make a gas station cooler out of it. That foam is substantially more durable—it has a lifetime warranty, in fact—over the long haul and is also not at risk of delaminating in extreme temperatures if, for example, you leave the paddle in the car on a scorc

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Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 03:43:05

Your support helps us to tell the story Read more Support Now From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need

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Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation

news.ycombinator.com The Associated Press 2026-01-09 04:25:30

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation toggle caption Bela Szandelszky/AP PANNONHALMA, Hungary — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history. The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is a sprawling Benedictine monastery that is one of Hungary's oldest centers of learning and a UNESCO World Herit

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Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 09:43:05

Your support helps us to tell the story Read more Support Now From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need

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The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 05:27:50

Written 2025-07-18 Among the 2010's cohort of programming languages, Rust is probably the most widely lauded. The main selling point of Rust is that it manages to combine speed and low-level control with a high level of bug-resistance, more commonly referred to as safety. The main innovation of Rust - really, its claim to fame - is its borrowchecker: the part of its compiler that enforces Rust's ownership rules and thereby allows Rust to achieve all the memory safety that garbage collected lan

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Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-13 04:45:40

Under the hood of a huge amount of artificial intelligence is an immense amount of human labor. This can take many forms, but a particularly prominent one is "data labeling": the process of annotating material like written text, audio, or video, so that it can be used to train an algorithm. Fueling the multi-billion dollar AI industry is a vast army of remote contract workers, often from less wealthy countries like the Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and India. Most data labelers are typically o

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Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 23:43:35

Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease 3 days ago Share Save James Gallagher • @JamesTGallagher Health and science correspondent Share Save Watch the moment DNA from a mum and dad is injected into the egg of another woman - the critical step in the creation of a baby made from three people Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions, doctors say. The method, pioneered by UK s

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Mapping the Margins: The Internet's Invisible Hand in Reproductive Care

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 02:00:00

We don’t often think about the internet as being good for our health. In fact, “internet” and “health” are primarily related in a negative context in online spaces -- we’re getting too much screen time, we’re “chronically” online, etc. It may come as a surprise, but access to the internet is commonly recognized as a "super" determinant of health. Limited internet access has been linked to high mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, and having the internet in easy reach means we can stay

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How to Delete All of Your Social Media Accounts: Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, and More

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2026-01-13 02:30:00

Here’s an evergreen take: There has never been a better time to get off social media. Social services have evolved even further into becoming sticky traps for doomscrolling and AI-generated slop, and are hitherto unprecedented frontiers for rage bait. Bummed out about all the misinformation and being part of a profit machine that funds one increasingly unhinged billionaire or another? Well, there’s a way out. Unfortunately, social media companies don’t always make it very easy to rescind their

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Robot Vacuum Tips to Help You Keep a Tidy Home (2025)

wired.com Adrienne So 2026-01-13 04:30:00

In the past few years, no other gadget—headphones, electric bicycle, literally anything at all—has improved as dramatically as the humble robot vacuum. The hardware and software have improved beyond all imagining. There are self-emptying bins, multilevel mapping abilities, and all sorts of bells and whistles, like an automated robot arm! Prices on the entry-level models have dropped significantly, to the point where robot vacuums are now an accessible household tool instead of a statement of bou

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Fast Fusion scratches the hyper fast F-Zero itch

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-13 04:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The Switch 2 technically launched with an F-Zero game, as F-Zero GX was available on Nintendo Switch Online’s premium tier as part of the GameCube lineup. But if you’re looking for a new F-Zero or Wipeout, the console has a spiritual successor that costs just $14.99: Shin’en’s Fast Fusion. Fast Fusion pits you in futuristic sci-fi hovercraft races where you fly forward at hun

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This HP EliteBook I tested is one of the most versatile work laptops of 2025 - and it's on sale

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-01-13 03:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The HP EliteBook Ultra G1i is on sale for $1,949. I highly recommend it to people looking for a laptop with top-performing hardware, a vibrant screen, and a high-quality webcam. However, because of its limited port selection, some might find its usability limited without supplementary accessories. View now at HP View now at B&H Photo Video more buying choices Work laptops don't have to be boring hunks of gray metal. There are plenty of eye-catching models providing engag

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This split keyboard offers deep customization - if you're willing to go all in

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-13 03:00:22

ZDNET's key takeaways The Naya Create keyboard is available now starting at $500, with additional modules sold separately. It's very well-built and well-designed, with a breadth of customization options that let you go as deep as you want. It's expensive, and the learning curve requires dedication. View now at Naya I've tested a few split keyboards over the past year, and they all have one thing in common: You really have to be committed to the cause. Rewiring your brain to an all-new keyboar

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This $269 Chromebook couldn't be more portable - here's why it's my pick for students

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-13 03:45:12

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Duet Gen 9 is available now for $399. It's a versatile and highly-portable device that's as useful at home as in the office. Some of the most buzzworthy features are tied to subscriptions, and the keyboard and trackpad are very small. $399 at Best Buy $379 at Lenovo $325 at Amazon more buying choices The ninth-generation Lenovo Chromebook Duet is an 11-inch 2-in-1 laptop/tablet that combines a nice display, a versatile form factor, and accessible ha

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