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Is Local AI the Unexpected Fix to the Obsolescence of Robot Vacuums?

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-12 13:00:25

During a presentation at IFA 2025, Deebot parent company Ecovacs (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Ecovacs, but Gizmodo did not guarantee any coverage as a condition of accepting the trip) said repeatedly that its new X11 OmniCyclone robot vacuum‘s AI smarts are all on-device. Or the bulk of them are, anyway. I returned to the booth later and spoke with a couple of the company’s representatives to try to figure out exactly how divorced from the cloud the Deebot X11 OmniCyclone tr

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This New Ecovacs Robot Vac Uses AI for Something Useful, but It Doesn’t Come Cheap

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-15 19:38:18

AI is in seemingly every new technology product at IFA 2025. Just look at the Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone, a new Matter-compatible robot vacuum that uses AI to automatically adjust its cleaning schedule to suit you. The cleaning bot also has more robotics packed into it, with a sticky-outy bit for better edge cleaning, and it can climb low transitions. And it’s available in the U.S. today for a collar-tugging $1,499.99 ($1,299.99 if you buy it in the next 10 days as of this writing). Ecovacs

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Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job?

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-10-21 18:00:00

Who are they for? Delphi, a startup that recently raised $16 million from funders including Anthropic and actor/director Olivia Wilde’s venture capital firm, Proximity Ventures, helps famous people create replicas that can speak with their fans in both chat and voice calls. It feels like MasterClass—the platform for instructional seminars led by celebrities—vaulted into the AI age. On its website, Delphi writes that modern leaders “possess potentially life-altering knowledge and wisdom, but thei

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The future of large files in Git is Git

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Cipriani 2025-11-17 16:07:06

If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone , and wreak havoc on Git forges. In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around problems with large files. But Git LFS added new complications and storage costs. Meanwhile, the Git project has been quietly working on large files. And while LFS ain’t dead yet, the latest Git release shows the path towards a future where LFS is, finally, obsolete. What you can do today: replace

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The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Cipriani 2025-11-18 04:07:06

If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone , and wreak havoc on Git forges. In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around problems with large files. But Git LFS added new complications and storage costs. Meanwhile, the Git project has been quietly working on large files. And while LFS ain’t dead yet, the latest Git release shows the path towards a future where LFS is, finally, obsolete. What you can do today: replace

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AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-21 00:23:50

Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy and resources to dedicate to this process, and they’re at the whims of the digital distribution platforms these games exist on. Wren Brier, Unpacking’s creative director, says that since the game’s release in 2021, developer Witch Beam has reported over 80 clones. “It feels like whack-a-mole sometimes,” Brier says. These are games that are not just similar in nature, but “blatant copyrigh

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Hurricane Swarms Are a Thing We Have to Worry About Now

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-27 00:50:35

In early October 2024, hurricanes Milton, Kirk, and Leslie churned in the Atlantic Basin—the first time on record that three Atlantic hurricanes were simultaneously active after September, according to NOAA. New research warns that tropical cyclone “clusters” are becoming more common in this part of the world, compounding the hazards of hurricane season. Tropical cyclone clusters occur when two or more hurricanes are active within the same basin at the same time. The western North Pacific has h

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Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 23:21:53

Tilf — Pixel Art Editor Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential tools, live preview, undo/redo, and export options. There are several Pixel Art Editors that do the same things and even much more, but many require an account registration or the insertion of an e-mail or have a certain business model. I'm not interested in all that, my goal is to be able to create sprites freely,

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Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 21:27:33

Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python The standard Mac filesystem, APFS , has a feature called space-saving clones. This allows you to create multiple copies of a file without using additional disk space – the filesystem only stores a single copy of the data. Although cloned files share data, they’re independent – you can edit one copy without affecting the other (unlike symlinks or hard links). APFS uses a technique called copy-on-write to store the data efficiently on disk – the cl

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The Coolest Hasbro Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ Reveals of San Diego Comic-Con 2025

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-28 15:45:38

Hasbro always brings out the big guns at Comic-Con, and this year’s convention was no exception. Quite literally, in fact, as both Marvel and Star Wars got some reveals that you could ostensibly count as big guns for Marvel Legends, Black Series, and Vintage Collection, and also some reveals that did actually include some actual Big Guns. This year’s reveals included a ton of X-Men goodness for Marvel (anchored around a new wave of X-Men ’97 figures), as well as the latest made-to-order deluxe

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# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 18:31:59

use std::sync::Arc; struct NoClone ; struct WrapArc <T>(Arc<T>); fn main () { let foo = WrapArc (Arc:: new (NoClone)); let foo_ = foo. clone (); } Do you think this code should compile? What about the following code: struct AlwaysEq <T>(T); impl <T> PartialEq for AlwaysEq <T> { fn eq (& self , _other: & Self ) -> bool { true } } impl <T> Eq for AlwaysEq <T> {} struct NotEq ; struct WrapAlwaysEq <T>(AlwaysEq<T>); fn assert_is_eq (_: impl Eq ) {} fn main () { let x = WrapAlwaysEq ( AlwaysEq (No

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One of the Most Surprising Moments in ‘Elio’ Feels Right Out of a Horror Movie

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-03-02 00:00:43

Pixar’s latest is a sci-fi gem that homages the genre in a surprisingly dark way. Elio directors Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian even dip into space horror for one of the film’s most memorable scenes. It was so unexpected for a Disney family film and worked so cleverly in the context of the movie, it left me wanting more of this tone in the future of Pixar films. Early in the film, an Elio clone made by the Comuniverse is sent to Earth so his aunt doesn’t notice the real Elio is gone. The clon

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The GameSir Cyclone 2 Has One Thing That Keeps It From Being a Great Nintendo Switch Controller

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-16 02:00:11

GameSir has made a name for itself over the past few years by building solid gaming controllers with top-notch features, often at lower prices than the competition. One of its latest controllers, the Cyclone 2, offers a lot of great things including support for multiple platforms, several connectivity options and solid triggers and joysticks. But the lackluster buttons and janky software make it hard to recommend when there are dozens of other great controllers for around the same price. What I

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This Muscle-Powered Robot Might Be the Creepiest Thing We've Ever Seen

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-16 22:07:33

Forget valleys; we're now entering veritable Grand Canyons of uncanniness. Behold the robot known as "Protoclone," built by Clone Robotics. It's supposedly the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. But it's mostly just got people extremely creeped out. In a promotional video shared on X this Wednesday, the startup — of which little is known — makes every effort possible to subvert the industry's favored image of robots as servile little helpers there for the good of humankind. Nope.

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Can somebody let this robot down?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 02:20:13

It's not clear that anyone was asking for a company to build a muscular, sinewy robot or to see a video of it dangling, helpless from a hook, but life is full of surprises and this YouTube video of Clone Robotics' "Protoclone" is here all the same. The Protoclone appears to be a prototype version of the "Clone" robot the aptly named Clone Robotics is working to build. The video shows the Protoclone flexing its arms and legs, with visible artificial muscle fibers moving underneath its white "ski

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Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 00:17:50

On Wednesday, Clone Robotics released video footage of its Protoclone humanoid robot, a full-body machine that uses synthetic muscles to create unsettlingly human-like movements. In the video, the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots. Atherton, California-based Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones. The company bui

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Latest Tech News

Is Local AI the Unexpected Fix to the Obsolescence of Robot Vacuums?

This New Ecovacs Robot Vac Uses AI for Something Useful, but It Doesn’t Come Cheap

Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job?

The future of large files in Git is Git

The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git

AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

Hurricane Swarms Are a Thing We Have to Worry About Now

Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python

Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python

The Coolest Hasbro Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ Reveals of San Diego Comic-Con 2025

# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken

One of the Most Surprising Moments in ‘Elio’ Feels Right Out of a Horror Movie

The GameSir Cyclone 2 Has One Thing That Keeps It From Being a Great Nintendo Switch Controller

This Muscle-Powered Robot Might Be the Creepiest Thing We've Ever Seen

Can somebody let this robot down?

Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

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