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Eufy Omni C28 Robot Vacuum‑Mop Packs Premium Features at $810
The Eufy Omni C28 robot vacuum‑mop retails for £649 (about $810) and delivers high‑end specs such as 15,000 Pa suction, a self‑cleaning mop and LiDAR navigation. Its automated dock handles dust emptying, mop washing and drying, offering a full‑service cleaning solution for busy homes.
Foundation sent two Phantom humanoid robots to Ukraine for frontline reconnaissance, backed by $24 million in U.S. defense contracts. The trial pits cutting‑edge AI‑powered exoskeletons against ethical and strategic concerns about autonomous warfare.
Moondream 3 doesn't work on Apple MPS out of the box but a a couple of tweaks can make it work. 1. use float16 on MPS 2. disable flex decoding on MPS (and CPU fallback) You can also make it work on...
Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity, Water & Renewable Energy announced that it has restored multiple overhead transmission lines damaged by falling debris from recent air‑defence activities. Seven high‑voltage lines were taken offline on 24 March, but most have been repaired, with two...
Developers at LINBIT are synchronizing the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) driver with the Linux kernel after roughly 15 years of divergence. They have staged a patch series of about 7,260 lines of code to bring the out‑of‑tree implementation up...
China’s semiconductor industry has set an ambitious goal to achieve 80% domestic self‑sufficiency by 2030. The target was announced by a coalition of 13 leading Chinese chip firms, signaling a coordinated effort to close the technology gap with the United...
Safety by Design: Scaling solar and storage in Australia with prefabricated EBOS #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/iqwB1jk9tY https://t.co/tMoCWWh6vE
Samsung has been named the Official Art TV provider for Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, debuting its 2026 Samsung Art TVs in a dedicated lounge. At the same time, the fair’s flagship Encounters sector has been overhauled by a four‑person...
Agile Robots SE announced a collaboration with Google DeepMind to integrate the lab's Gemini Robotics foundation models into its Agile ONE humanoid platform. The partnership will run a series of development and deployment phases in high‑value manufacturing environments, seeking to...
A Finnish startup claims it has created a commercially viable solid‑state battery delivering over 500 Wh/kg energy density and a full charge in roughly ten minutes, promising a 400‑mile driving range. The company says the pack can be produced at costs...
Microsoft opened the Denmark East datacenter region, with sites in Høje Taastrup, Køge and Roskilde, delivering low‑latency, secure cloud services and a strong sustainability focus. Over the next four years Microsoft and its partners will invest roughly $4.5 billion, creating up...
The EAS* hood, shot with DJI Avata 360. Two 1/1.1-inch sensors capturing 8K resolution 360 videos. At just US$480 for the drone, low-key best value drone right now.
Meta Platforms will debut two new Ray‑Ban smart glasses next week, specifically engineered for prescription wearers. The devices are the first Ray‑Ban models built with prescription lenses integrated at the factory, extending Meta’s existing AR hardware line. The launch leverages...
Researchers have demonstrated an all‑optical neuron built from a thin tellurium film that melts in under 260 picoseconds, breaking the nanosecond barrier for photonic activation. The device operates with threshold energies as low as 0.4 picojoules and occupies less than 5 µm², enabling...
Xreal One Pro AR glasses are now $599, a 22% discount from the regular $769 price. The headset uses flat‑prism optics to achieve a 57‑degree field of view, currently the widest in consumer AR. Reviewers report that its ultra‑wide mode...
HIVE Digital Technologies announced that its BUZZ HPC subsidiary is expanding its liquid‑cooled AI data‑center footprint into British Columbia, Canada, quadrupling the company’s Canadian critical IT load to 16.6 megawatts through a colocation partnership with Bell Canada AI Fabric. Phase 1 will...
American Bitcoin Corp. announced the purchase of 11,298 new ASIC miners, expanding its owned fleet by 12% to 89,242 units and adding roughly 3.05 EH/s of hash power. The new hardware, slated for delivery in March 2026, will be installed at...
Robert Bosch GmbH released a technical paper that embeds error propagation theory into the FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis) framework. The authors demonstrate how to calculate confidence intervals for the Single Point Fault Metric (SPFM) and Latent Fault...
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg’s veteran Apple reporter, fielded a live Q&A on March 26, 2026, outlining Apple’s strategic priorities for its pivotal 2026 year. He detailed a push toward higher‑margin services, a refreshed product slate including a new AR/VR headset and upgraded iPhone...
A new Systematization of Knowledge paper from Ruhr University Bochum and the Max Planck Institute surveys 187 peer‑reviewed hardware reverse engineering (HRE) studies spanning ICs, FPGAs and netlists. The analysis reveals that only seven papers (4%) supplied reproducible artifacts, underscoring...
Japanese electronics giants Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba and Rohm have signed a memorandum of understanding to begin talks on merging their power semiconductor businesses. The three firms, which together will hold about 11% of the global market by 2025, aim to...
Sony’s PlayStation Portal, a handheld remote‑play device for PS5 launched in November 2023, lets users stream high‑fidelity games away from the TV. Early adopters reported frequent disconnections, low resolution, and frame‑rate drops on congested Wi‑Fi networks. After upgrading to dedicated 5 GHz...
Sony announced a second price increase for its PlayStation 5 within a year, raising the standard model to $649.99 and the digital edition to $599.99, while the new PS5 Pro will cost $899.99. The hikes represent roughly a 30% rise...
Amazon’s Echo Studio and select Echo Show models now support spatial audio, a 3‑D sound experience that uses seven beam‑forming microphones and crosstalk cancellation to create immersive soundscapes. The feature is disabled by default and must be activated through the...
Omnissa’s 2026 State of Digital Workspace report, based on global telemetry, finds Windows PCs crash 3.1 times more often than Macs and freeze 7.5 times more frequently. Windows devices are typically refreshed every three years, compared with five years for Macs, leading...
The Denon DP‑500BT is a mid‑price turntable priced about $900 that adds Bluetooth streaming to a traditional belt‑drive design. Reviewers found its sound quality on Bluetooth virtually indistinguishable from a wired connection, delivering warm, detailed audio across 33 ⅓, 45 and...
Amazon's Big Spring Sale slashes JBL prices, with the Boombox 3 now $299.95—a $200 discount—and the Tour Pro 2 earbuds at $139.95, 44% off. The promotion also includes deep discounts on PartyBox, Charge 6, and a range of JBL headphones...
The Strategist’s Michael Zhao recommends the Urevo CyberPad Office as the top walking pad, despite its $450 price tag, because of its all‑metal construction, quiet dual‑motor system, and 400‑pound weight capacity. The pad offers a 39.4‑by‑16.5‑inch walking surface, 14% electronically...
NZXT recently released the Player Two Prime, a high‑performance pre‑built gaming tower aimed at users who prefer a ready‑to‑play PC over assembling their own. The system packs top‑tier CPUs, GPUs, and ample storage, while featuring modular cable management and advanced...
AI chip memory bandwidth has accelerated to 70 million terabytes per second, representing a 4.1× annual growth since 2022. This capacity dwarfs global internet traffic by a factor of roughly 300,000, highlighting the massive data movement required for modern inference. The...
Insta360’s Link 2C webcam is on sale for $119.99, a roughly 20% discount from its regular $149 price. The device delivers 4K video at 30 fps and uses AI‑powered auto‑framing to keep subjects centered without a motorized gimbal. It attaches magnetically to...
Georgia Tech researchers released a paper exposing how CPUs, not GPUs, often throttle multi‑GPU large language model (LLM) inference. Under‑provisioned CPU cores cause delayed kernel launches, stalled communication, and tokenization lag, leaving GPUs idle even when they have capacity. Adding...
Apple Product Segment Contribution to Revenues A 20-year Perspective Stage 1: Apple Inc. Mac + iPod Stage 2: iPhone (+iPad) iOS devices grows to be > 50% of Apple Revenue Massive growth, risk of concentration Stage 3: Wearables Watch, AirPods Applying the Cook Doctrine Stage 4: Services Recurring revenue, Diversified What...
E-Power Inc. and Raytel Electronics have formed a strategic alliance to co‑launch 800‑gigabit and 1.6‑terabit optical modules for U.S. AI data centers. The partnership blends Raytel’s high‑speed optical technology with E‑Power’s microgrid and anode‑based storage solutions, creating a combined data‑flow...
Mezmo Technologies unveiled Bridge, a plug‑and‑play device that adds AI‑driven, real‑time captioning to standard desk phones and computers. The box streams captions to an iPhone or iPad and can route audio to Bluetooth hearing aids while preserving full call controls....
Samsara reported Q4 2026 results showing a rebound in annual recurring revenue, adding a record $145 million net new ARR and an 8.3% sequential growth rate. Emerging product lines now represent 23% of net new ACV, expanding the company’s data moat...
Samsung’s Odyssey OLED G8 32‑inch 4K 240 Hz monitor is now $849 on Amazon, a $450 discount from its recent $1,300 price. The QD‑OLED panel offers deep blacks, DCI‑P3 colour coverage and HDR10+ support, while a 240 Hz refresh rate targets competitive...
Anker’s Nano 45W Smart Display charger is on sale for $28, a 30% discount on the black and white models, with blue and orange versions at $30. The compact charger features a tiny touchscreen that shows real‑time power delivery and battery...
Supermicro sold AI‑focused servers equipped with Nvidia A100 GPUs to four Chinese universities, including two with direct military ties. Reuters documents show two additional universities attempted similar purchases, citing ties to the People’s Liberation Army and missile‑technology programs. The sales...
Generative AI was all about GPU bursts. Agentic AI changes everything - it's continuous orchestration, coordination, and real-time decisions. That's why the CPU is becoming the new bottleneck. Arm just placed a massive bet with its first-ever production AGI CPU, claiming 2x...
New Zealand port demonstrates battery storage potential amid complex tariff landscape #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/BgKIOSa08H
Memory‑chip equities lost roughly $100 billion in market value as the AI‑driven supply shortage trade reversed. After a surge in demand for GPUs and generative‑AI workloads, inventory levels rose and pricing pressure returned, prompting investors to unwind long positions in DRAM...
The VT100 came out in 1978 but I get your point on CLIs. (VAX 11/780 was the computer for the 80s in 1978.)
CPU vs GPU vs TPU vs NPU vs LPU https://t.co/SdMvlqSkSK < that's a lot of three letter acronyms. The visual explanations in here helped me. https://t.co/JMCeP5384p
The High‑Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) hosted its inaugural Future Computing Workshop on March 16‑17, 2026, bringing together more than 65 hardware vendors, researchers, and HPC center operators. Attendees examined emerging paradigms such as quantum, neuromorphic and specialized accelerators, alongside...
The Ameru Smart Bin is an #AI-powered waste management solution by @ameruai #ArtificialIntelligence #EmergingTech #Innovation #Tech #Technology https://t.co/swsZvDS6oK
If you've already received a Panther Lake machine, you can run the dev build of Omarchy 3.5 to have everything work out of the box. It might still have some sharp edges, but it's way better than not running Linux...
SEMI Europe participated in the European Commission’s Implementation Dialogue on the Chips Act, supporting the upcoming revision known as Chips Act 2.0. The association highlighted its Chips Act Report, which contains 30 recommendations covering regulatory simplification, faster permitting, targeted investment,...
🏭@CrusoeAI Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure New dedicated campus designed to support large-scale AI workloads; combined with Crusoe’s existing Abilene infrastructure, the full site is expected to reach approximately 2.1 GW...
#WhatsNext? A compact e-bike that could serve as a spare tire or be carried in a book bag. (Cheddar Gadgets) #EV #Transportation https://t.co/L66vDnbpue
$NVDA Hopper GPUs, which were announced 4 years ago are seeing highest spot price in 18 months. The whole AI chips are worthless after a year argument is beyond ridiculous. 😬😮💨
