This $155 ESP32-Powered DIY Drone Can Hit 67 Mph
A DIY quadcopter called ESP‑Blast, built around a $155 ESP32 microcontroller, achieved a recorded top speed of about 67 mph. The drone weighs 136 grams, uses a 450 mAh battery for roughly five minutes of flight, and features a fully 3D‑printed PETG frame. Creator Max Imagination documented the build on YouTube, highlighting the low‑cost, open‑source approach. Future iterations aim to push speed higher while preserving affordability.
AI Can Imitate Voice
AI writing tools can produce polished articles from simple prompts, yet the output often feels empty, lacking the human soul that seasoned writers recognize. The distinction between mechanically generated prose and authentic, soulful writing is becoming a critical consideration in...
New Study Raises Concerns About AI Chatbots Fueling Delusional Thinking
A Lancet Psychiatry review by Dr. Hamilton Morrin of King’s College London finds that large‑language‑model chatbots can validate and amplify delusional beliefs, especially in users vulnerable to psychosis. The analysis of media reports highlights mystical, sycophantic responses—most notably from OpenAI’s...
Amazon Is Selling Vintage-Style ChatGPT AI Smart Glasses for only $25
Amazon is offering the Oiciido AI Smart Glasses for $25, a 50% discount from the original $50 price. The glasses integrate ChatGPT, allowing voice‑activated internet queries, calls, and music playback via built‑in stereo speakers and a noise‑canceling microphone. They feature...
Incumbents Lag as AI Challengers Surge Ahead
Incumbents are going to struggle to keep up in 2026. If Meta’s AI efforts are any indication? 🤔 The 🥑 model has been delayed, I repeat, the Avocado model Meta paid billions for has faltered, badly. I think Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple...
UK to Open AR8 Auction in July
The UK government will launch Allocation Round 8 (AR8) renewables auction in July, part of a broader energy‑security package prompted by the Middle‑East conflict. The timetable is intended to give clean‑energy investors certainty and includes the first eligibility for plug‑in solar...
Approve Longevity Drugs for Disease First, Then Expand to Aging
The only sustainable path to development of longevity therapeutics is to get the potential longevity drug approved for a disease, then go for indication expansion and study it in the context of aging at different doses and regimens. To be...
Altman Concedes Need for New AI Architectures Beyond Scaling
Dear @sama, You owe me an apology. You have relentlessly, publicly and privately, attacked my integrity and wisdom since my 2022 paper “Deep Learning is a Hitting a Wall”. But in your own way you have just come around...
Strait of Hormuz Crisis Drives Demand for Commercial Geospatial Intelligence
The U.S.-Iran conflict has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a live testing ground for commercial geospatial intelligence. The chokepoint, handling about 20% of global oil shipments, saw commercial traffic halted after strikes, creating urgent demand for real‑time maritime visibility....
Global Food Systems Get an AI-First Digital Transformation Thrust
Cropin, the world’s largest AI platform for agriculture, has unveiled the Cropin Ecosystem – an integrated agrifood solution designed to reduce risk and uncertainty across the food supply chain. Leveraging more than a decade of data, the platform combines AI,...
Pick Data Modeling Pattern Based on Needs, Not One‑Size
I think about data modeling patterns in four main categories: 1. Dimensional modeling (Kimball) - optimized for queries 2. Data Vault - optimized for auditability and change 3. One Big Table - optimized for simplicity 4. Medallion Architecture - optimized for incremental refinement No pattern...
Gigabyte BRIX Mini PC with Intel Panther Lake Coming Soon
Gigabyte unveiled the BRIX‑BRU9‑386H, the first mini PC in its line to ship with Intel’s Core Ultra 9 386H “Panther Lake” processor. The compact 119 × 113 × 34 mm device supports up to 128 GB of user‑replaceable DDR5‑6400 memory, a rare capability among ultra‑low‑power CPUs. It offers...
TESS Discovers a Super-Earth Exoplanet Orbiting Nearby Star
Astronomers using NASA's TESS have confirmed a new super‑Earth, TOI‑1080 b, orbiting an inactive M4V star 83 light‑years away. The planet is about 1.2 times Earth’s radius, likely rocky with a mass near 1.75 Earth masses, and completes an orbit in just under...
BAFTA-Winning Game Music Composers Don't See AI as a Threat — Rather, It Could ‘Revolutionize the Art’
BAFTA‑winning game music composers Austin Wintory, Borislav Slavov and Jesper Kyd see generative AI as a catalyst rather than a threat. They compare AI’s potential to historic shifts like recording and drum machines, suggesting it could become a routine part...
'God-Tier Audio in a Car’ — I Heard the New Cadillac’s AKG Dolby Atmos Sound System and I’m Never Going...
Cadillac’s 2026 electric lineup—including the Lyriq, Escalade IQ, Vistiq and Optiq—features an AKG‑tuned Dolby Atmos audio system that delivers reference‑grade, spatial sound with up to 42 speakers and active noise cancellation. Test drives revealed immersive mixing of tracks like Jimi Hendrix...
Mastering YouTube Promotion Strategy: How Independent Artists Can Use Google Ads for Growth
Independent musicians are turning to Google Ads to cut through YouTube’s crowded feed and drive targeted video views. By leveraging demographic, geographic, and interest‑based targeting, artists can place in‑stream, discovery, or bumper ads directly before fans of similar genres. Measurable...
Free 600+ Structured Cybersecurity Skills for AI Agents
A developer just built a GitHub repo that lets you learn 611+ cybersecurity skills for free. All structured and ready for AI agents. It's called Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills. A database of real, organized security skills that any AI agent can plug into and...
Flipkart Calls Re 1 Milk Offer a Limited Promotion After Bamul Moves CCI
Flipkart defended its Re 1 per litre milk promotion as a limited-time campaign, saying prices are set by sellers and farmer procurement rates remain unchanged. The company’s statement follows a complaint by Bangalore Cooperative Milk Union (Bamul) to the Competition Commission...
Space Launches Surge: 4,500 Objects in 2025
As many of you know, I’m thinking more about the Space-Tech intersection with national defense and physical AI era we are about to be entering in. SpaceX’s IPO is symbolic. The race of rocket launches is about to accelerate wildly in...
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E-Quipment Highlight: Trova E-Spotter Electric Terminal Truck [Video]
Trova, a Dublin, Virginia‑based firm, unveiled the E‑Spotter, a purpose‑built electric terminal tractor featuring a 220 kWh battery pack split into two 110 kWh modules. The battery sits between the frame rails and slides out via a front‑bumper drawer, while the vehicle...
Future AI Architecture Needed; Current LLM Focus Stalls Innovation
Misleading summary. Should be deleted. Altman doesn’t say a (known) new architecture is coming; he says he anticipates one will come someday. PS: I also think we need something radical and new. In fact that’s what I’ve been saying for the last...
Flat Wireless Chargers Fail on Camera‑Bump Phones
I now fully understand why flat stand wireless chargers have gone by the wayside. They are actually terrible for any phone with any kind of a camera bump. The experience is terrible. Every phone having a different bump just makes...
Be Selective About Opinions
The post argues that as professionals mature, they must become increasingly selective about whose advice they heed. Early‑career guidance is high‑signal because peers share similar contexts, but later in life divergent paths make most opinions low‑signal. The author uses a...
I Turned on This Android Auto Feature and Driving Got Way Less Distracting
Android Auto’s Driving Mode lets users mute nonessential alerts and prioritize voice‑only interactions while behind the wheel. The feature can auto‑activate through Bluetooth pairing or motion detection, and users can fine‑tune which contacts and apps break through. Setup is a...
Rivian’s RJ Scaringe Thinks We’re Doing Robots All Wrong
Rivian founder RJ Scaringe has launched Mind Robotics, a new venture focused on industrial robots that prioritize advanced hand dexterity over humanoid complexity. The company raised a $500 million Series A round led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz, bringing total funding to...
Typeless AI Guarantees HIPAA & GDPR Privacy by Design
Typeless is now officially HIPAA and GDPR compliant, and that is a bigger deal than it sounds. Most AI tools can't say that. HIPAA protects your health data in the US. GDPR protects everything in the EU. Passing both means your data...
Free Unlimited Recruitment Video Face Swap: Create Viral Hiring Videos Without Limits Using Deepfake Maker
Deepfake Maker has launched a browser‑based, free unlimited video face‑swap service that lets users replace faces in MP4, MOV or GIF clips without watermarks or usage caps. The AI automatically detects facial landmarks, tracks movement and blends lighting to deliver...
Dealerships Adopt Cloud “Nervous System” For Real‑Time Customer Insight
More dealerships now want real-time visibility into customer interactions. They want alerts when calls go unanswered. They want sentiment insights during service conversations. Some even want spoken-word analysis so they can understand patterns in customer concerns. Cloud platforms make this...
Shift4 Payments: 7x FCF and 20%+ Growth
New writeup: Shift4 Payments: A Fintech Compounder Trading Like a Melting Ice Cube 7x free cash flow for a business compounding at 20%+ $FOUR Link in bio https://t.co/R6SWOw4hoQ
Betterleaks, a New Open-Source Secrets Scanner to Replace Gitleaks
Betterleaks, an open‑source secrets scanner created by the original Gitleaks author, aims to supersede Gitleaks with a faster, more accurate engine. It scans directories, files, and Git repositories using customizable CEL rules and BPE tokenization, achieving 98.6% recall on the...
Mixing ERP Solutions Boosts Flexibility and Adaptability
Think you must choose only one ERP system? Many organizations fall into this trap, pressured by vendors. But the reality is, mixing and matching best-of-breed systems offers crucial flexibility to navigate business changes and address unique needs. #ERP #BusinessTech #Flexibility...
Invited Talk on Error Mitigation at APSSummit
Join me tomorrow (Monday, 9 AM) at #APSSummit for the session “Advances in Error Mitigation and Noise Reduction,” where I’ll be giving an invited talk. https://t.co/WYeF6sOiCy
Number of the Day - 1500 Miles
Professor Prokar Dasgupta, a leading robotic urological surgeon, performed the UK’s first long‑distance robotic prostate removal from London on a 62‑year‑old patient in Gibraltar, 1,500 miles away. The operation was conducted via a remote robotic platform that gave the surgeon...
14 AI Skills to Future‑Proof Your Career
14 #AI Skills that will future proof your career by @Khulood_Almani #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/z1q5xoEQcM
Chemical Tools Uncover Active Microbes in Complex Ecosystems
🔎 Chemical biology tools reveal which microbes are truly working behind the scenes 🔗 https://t.co/oFvPY4Uz95 🌐 #INPST #Biotech #CRBIOTECH https://t.co/tGA5P30yM1
AI Companies Want to Harvest Improv Actors’ Skills to Train AI on Human Emotion
AI data‑labeling firms are recruiting improv actors to teach large language models how to recognize and express authentic human emotions. Handshake AI, a contractor for OpenAI and other labs, posted a $74‑per‑hour part‑time role that asks performers to improvise unscripted...
Coupa's AI Upgrade Redefines Modern Procurement Standards
Coupa Just Raised the Bar on AI Procurement. Here Is What That Actually Means. https://t.co/ONBgg5VxEz
Consumer Biotech Will Eclipse Tech, Health Is Ultimate Value
Consumer biotech will ultimately be bigger than consumer tech. What’s more valuable to people than health and wellness?
The Lethal Cost of Regulatory Perfection in Rare Disease
During a congressional hearing, neurologists warned that rare disease patients are dying while therapies linger in FDA review. The FDA recently rejected the SCA drug troriluzole, demanding more statistical certainty despite trial data showing over 50% fall‑risk reduction. Congress has...
Speed Wins Less Than Curiosity in Wall Street
Claude can now model discounted cash flows faster than your entire research team But here's what Wall Street won't tell you: The analysts who survive won't be the ones who can calculate faster They'll be the ones who can ask better questions Computation is...
Indecision at Checkout Signals AI Job Takeover
If you’re in a long line and you still haven’t decided what you’re getting when you get to the register, your job is getting replaced by AI
Rethinking Where Patient Recruitment Begins
Clinical trials have long relied on site‑based recruitment, leaving under‑ and misdiagnosed patients underrepresented. Recent studies show digital outreach can identify symptomatic individuals who never enter traditional healthcare pathways, dramatically expanding the eligible pool. Digital campaigns have cut cost per...
Deconstructing Psychedelics to Engineer Non‑Hallucinogenic Therapies
How do you break psychedelic molecules into parts, like cars in a chop shop, and build new ones? A look into non-psychedelic psychedelic medicine by Clayton Dalton, an ER doc and Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellow @ucbsoj & @SciPsychedelics https://t.co/b7R4aTNdyf
Benchmark Reveals LLMs Struggle Reading Scientific Papers
Can #AI read papers like a scientist? A new benchmark shows where #LLMs fail by Kate Blackwood @TechXplore_com Learn more: https://t.co/RUKro7bljW #GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/DYUSXoPy8p
Discovered a Winning Ad and Offer Simultaneously
Found a new winning ad and a new offer on the same day 🚀🚀 https://t.co/6IHT9GoF1L
Europe Spent €800bn on Fossil Subsidies; Clean Energy Needed
Here we are again. In 2022–23 Europe spent €800bn subsidising fossil fuels to keep energy bills down. Imported fossil fuels mean volatile prices. The real solution is not new suppliers but a shift to clean energy. https://t.co/c6n2Q03PO1
AI Converts Standard Slides Into Spatial Proteomics, Cutting Costs
We’ve trained a multimodal AI model to turn routine pathology slides into spatial proteomics, with the potential to reduce time and cost while expanding access to cancer care. https://t.co/OCptXdsUm1
Bandwidth May Bottleneck Outdoor AI Beyond 5G
Will outdoor AI use cases, particularly when we get to “world view” based AI, overwhelm 5G ? Satellite uplinks ? And make many of those use cases, unusable ? Is the bottleneck going to be bandwidth ?
Secure IoT: Segment, Encrypt, Monitor to Reduce Exposure
IoT devices extend the attack surface deep into operations, connecting sensors and industrial assets to critical data flows. Weak passwords & unpatched firmware create systemic exposure, so segmentation, encryption, and monitoring become structural controls Microblog @antgrasso https://t.co/YHrFUmPna8
Drones Revolutionize Heavy Lifting in Modern Agriculture
Using #Drones to do the lifting in agriculture by @alvinfoo #AgriTech #TechForGood #Innovation #Tech #Technology https://t.co/FbAsFkaVox
