Capsule Robot Endoscopy Simplifies Exams, Reduces Patient Pain
#WhatsNext? This endoscopy in a capsule robot, makes it easier for doctors to fully examine patients. It also makes examinations less painful to patients. (GiGadgets) #Robotics https://t.co/IQr2WTjyj6
Austria to Add 1.63 GW Solar by 2025
Austria deploys 1.63 GW of solar in 2025 #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/V6RpszBQVH
U.S. Humanoid Robots Depend on Chinese Component Suppliers
Under the Skin of America’s Humanoid Robots: Chinese Technology—Tesla and others turn to suppliers in China for components in industry seen as strategic in Washington and Beijing @raffaelehuang https://t.co/bV8wAN3UMO https://t.co/bV8wAN3UMO
OpenAI, SpaceX Deals Echo Localized ZIRP Phenomenon
OpenAI buying a podcast for a few hundred million and SpaceX IPOing for a $2 trillion feels like a wierdly localized form of ZIRP. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-acquires-tbpn-buys-positive-news-coverage/
Four Simple Settings to Speed Up Windows 11
Is your Windows 11 computer running more slowly than when you first got it? There are some simple tweaks to regain some of that speed. Here are 4 key settings to check and potentially disable for maximum boost: https://t.co/6HaGfPZLFs #windows...
German High‑Payload Multicopter Accelerates Rescue Missions
Grille: High-Payload German Multicopter Built for Rapid Rescue Operations by @DefenseTrends #Drone #Engineering #EmergingTech #Innovation https://t.co/VWMr6QbOOh
AI Poised for Paradigm‑shifting Breakthroughs Beyond Human Knowledge
Now this is really interesting. It gets at whether AI models will be able to not just push at the edges of human knowledge but actually take a leap beyond the current human understanding into paradigm shifting breakthroughs. No clear...
Use AI Defensively To
Cyber attacks launched by malicious humans using AI are a very real AI risk. The best way to guard against them is to use AI to proactively find vulnerabilities in our systems and harden them, along with parallel efforts in...
Qcells Launches Leasing-Focused Solar Platform for US Homes
Qcells rolls out leasing-led solar platform for US residential sector #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/mRqH87tM2B
AI Builders Lack Understanding—Founders Must Know This
This #AI Researcher Says the People Building AI Don’t Understand How It Works. Here’s What Every Founder Needs to Know by Daniel Robbins @Inc Learn more: https://t.co/dD0s2X0KKc #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MI https://t.co/aMys4ndHl9
Ask AI What Must Be True, Not Just Answers
"The system no longer asks what the answer is. It asks what must be true for that answer to hold across structure, time, ethics, and context simultaneously," Will Burns writes here. Over the years I've had many conversations with Will. He...
Auto‑close MyQ Garage Door Nightly for Added Security
Have a smart home garage door controlled by the MyQ app? You can program it to close automatically late every night for improved security. Here's how to set this automation up, step by step... https://t.co/QPxiWALNch #smarthome #security @Chamberlain https://t.co/n6z9CiRG9e
Apple Bans App, Developer Pivots to iMessage
Well done, Anything - making lemonade from lemons. Apple removed Anything from the App Store, so they shifted app building to iMessage.
GStack Overhaul: Streamlined and More Useful Than Ever
If you haven't been following, I've been pretty busy tidying up GStack and making it more useful https://t.co/xCo9sVsIxF
Romanian Platform Opens BESS Financing to Retail Investors
Romanian investment platform looks to open up BESS project financing to retail investors #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/FYd9JLWdC7
Dyson's Extreme Stress Tests Ensure Long‑Lasting Products
How Dyson’s Extreme Stress Testing Builds Products That Last by @lukas_m_ziegler #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/YN5HdRMlXY
Which Company Will Fund AI's Scientific Breakthroughs?
Which company’s dollars are more likely to lead an advance in AI for science? 🤔
Swapped Earbuds Deliver Surprising Audio Improvement
It's inexplicable but true: The Unique Melody UXUE Hybrid Dynamic Hi-Fi Earbuds sound better when I switch ears so that the L goes in my right ear, and the R goes in my left. Here's how that works out in...
AI Must Start Small to Win Mainstreet America
The AI industry needs to reach mainstreet USA and turn around attitudes toward builders. Will this be enough? No. But how do you start an avalanche? One snowflake at a time. I'm not involved, just see the need.
NASA Announces Daily Mission Status Briefings (Schedule Linked)
NASA will have daily mission status briefings. The list is here, but times are subject to change: https://t.co/CR88eAwACM
Media Personalities Remain AI‑proof, Targeting Enterprise Market
If you don't get this deal, it's simple. Media personalities will be one of the last things to be replaced by AI. And, this is a very good way to reach Enterprises, OpenAI's new focus. Smart move by @sama.
UK Battery Storage Surge: SSE Launches 300MWh Unit
UK BESS ROUNDUP: SSE commissions 300MWh unit, Matrix, Drax and Voltaria progress projects #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/2Cf4KJGzIG
From Single‑Box CPUs to Warehouse‑Scale Semiconductor Production
#Technology #Thread #Semiconductor #Manufacturing #Warehouse The Semiconductor Why Warehouse Scale: 1/ - So Far, Computation Was A Single Box Problem. - One CPU, One Memory Space, One App, One “Fast Enough” Machine.
Guardian AI Emerges: Second‑layer Agents Monitor and Secure Systems
The category is called guardian AI, or supervisor agents. The idea: deploy a second layer of AI to watch what the first layer is doing. ServiceNow has the most developed commercial product here, sold as part of its AI Control...
AI Power Race Forces Massive US Grid Overhaul
The Mad Scramble to Power AI Is Rewiring the US Grid by @EddyTheGent https://t.co/h1WvxqsuTM https://t.co/CAErhttqjD
AI Smart Ring Shows Future On‑Finger Tech
Today's newsletter: - A new AI smart ring I really want (cc minafahmi) - Why OpenAI bought @tbpn - A feed check https://sources.news/p/ai-on-your-finger
Grok Heavy Surpasses Opus with Frequent Updates
Current release of Grok is much than beta 1, which beat Opus in this arena. We usually update the model twice a week. Try the current version of Grok Heavy and you will be pleasantly surprised.
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Integrity Crew Shatters Isaacman 1400 Km Record 13 Minutes Post‑launch
Per a question asked in the presser, Integrity's crew broke the Isaacman height record of 1400 km at 2306 UTC Apr 1, a mere 13 minutes after launch.
700 EVs Demonstrate Viable Redispatch Capability in Germany
German pilot shows 700 EVs can provide redispatch services #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/o6EGIKt7Sw
Imagine 2.0 Training Extends for Major Audio, Visual Upgrades
Small improvements to Imagine are happening frequently. Looks like we need another few weeks of training for Imagine 2.0, which will have major upgrades in speech/audio and face/details consistency.
Good Framework Design Yields High Performance with Minimal Effort
JAX is what a well-designed low-level machine learning framework looks like. Good design lets you deliver much greater performance with much lower effort. Bad design is the exact opposite.
AI Now Draws Live Diagrams Directly in Chat
AI doesn’t just write anymore… it draws inside your chat. draw.io’s MCP App Server is a real shift: AI generates a diagram and it instantly renders live, inside the conversation. No copy-paste. No switching tabs. No friction. Tools like Claude are moving beyond text...
Defending Open Source While Rejecting Mischaracterization of Views
Marc, @pmarca, you're welcome to disagree with my views, but not to blatantly lie about them. There are some digital products (say CSAM and AI letting terrorists make bioweapons) that I oppose regardless of whether they are open-source or not,...
Microsoft’s Z-80 SoftCard Lets Apple II Run CP/M
#ThisDayInTechHistory. April 2, 1980. @Microsoft introduces the Z-80 SoftCard, a circuit board that plugs into the Apple II computer and allows Apple II users to run CP/M applications with only minor modifications. https://t.co/CE9TWnbzxN
Mono Infection Triples Risk of Developing Multiple Sclerosis
New study has strengthened link between infectious mono and Multiple Sclerosis. By analyzing 2 decades of health records, researchers found people who contracted mono as teenagers or adults were 3x more likely to develop MS later vs those who didn’t https://t.co/6DLZMEWyU6
Navigating the Flood of Consumer‑Focused Agentic Platforms
It seems to me that there are so many agentic platforms coming out that it's impossible to keep up with all of them. But I am trying to use as many as I can. I think I'll try to get...
Great Content Fails without Compelling Title and Thumbnail
We posted a video that many people said was our best video in years, yet it was one of our worst performing videos in years. People who watch it love it. The problem is the title an/or thumbnail were not...
Cell‑Free DNA Production Ends Decades‑Old Cloning Bottleneck
Most of synthetic biology has been completely transformed in the last decade. DNA manufacturing? Still running on cloning workflows from the 1970s. That's the bottleneck Jodi Barrientos, CEO of @ribbonbiolabs, is tackling head-on — and she's on the @SynBioBeta Main Stage on...
Royal Caribbean Shows Cruise Industry Embracing Robots
#WhosNext? Cruise Line workers? Royal Caribbean outlines how they are currently using #Robots with no doubt more to follow. (Royal Caribbean) #Robotics #JVGpost https://t.co/OXpvAJYYVT
Bug Bounties Aren’t Universal, AI Hype Is Overblown
Had a great conversation with Mackenzie Jackson from Aikido Security on The Secure Disclosure — we got into some contrarian takes: not every org should run a bug bounty (yes, from the Bugcrowd founder), AI slop is really just 2014...
Know the Difference: Cutting Edge vs Bleeding Edge AI
The most important question before installing any AI tool: Is this the cutting edge or the bleeding edge? OpenClaw is bleeding edge. Here’s why that matters. https://t.co/MFj5pVF0o6
H5N1 Bird‑to‑Cattle Spillover Traced Across US
So pleased to contribute to this preprint on H5N1 spillover from birds to dairy cattle from the Moo Flu Crew, led by the excellent @jepekar. We traced both B3.13 in Texas and D1.1 in Nevada and Arizona to look at...
Solar Battery ‘Daylight Saving’ Cuts Australian Energy Costs
Seize the day: Time to let solar “daylight saving” in batteries reduce our costs in Australia Renewables increasingly bring tight band of lower prices, and batteries, though only small but growing part of NEM supply, reduce volatility displace gas in peak https://t.co/hs477zGk9e...
ROS By-The-Bay Meetup Announced for April 16
We just scheduled our next ROS By-The-Bay meetup for April 16th from 6-9pm PST at @beckhoff's San Jose office. Our speakers will be two recent @ycombinator grads @innate_bot and @Saphira_AI. Emcee @kscottz will also provide an update on ROS 2...
Gemma 4 Proves Hybrid Edge Models Are Mainstream
Gemma 4 is a bigger deal than more people realize... It's an incredible model that fits on most consumer hardware. The future is hybrid hosted/edge models. https://t.co/PF9JpLt9zA
Croatia Commits €40 Million to Home Solar, Batteries, Heat Pumps
Croatia to invest €40 million in household solar, batteries, heat pumps #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/eeevDnbYfO
Anthropic Pays $400M for AI Biotech, Touts 38,500% IRR
Anthropic acquired an AI for biological research startup for just over $400 million. You can read the letter Dimension wrote to their LPs which boasts a 38,513% IRR https://t.co/wneesuT5u7
We Can't Distinguish Human vs AI Writing, Yet Claim Bias
Terrific example of how, when people say “AI doesn’t have that human touch,” what they’re really saying is they don’t actually know what that means or how it’s reflected in the writing. They just don’t like AI. Humans can’t tell...
Rooftop Solar Reaches 20% of Puerto Rico’s Power
Rooftop solar now accounts for one fifth of Puerto Rico’s generation capacity #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/xHeJg8d7b6
