New Teslabot Capabilities. All Neural Net Training and Great Balance. Mass Production Near
Tesla has released new video of the Optimus Teslabot. They are showing vastly improved balance and hand control. The critical thing is like the FSD (full self driving ) for…
Oracle is Focused on Generative AI, a New Supercomputer and a Cybertruck Police Car
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison described using Oracle using Tesla Cybertruck as a next-generation police car. He says it will be very safe, very fast and it already has all of…
Quantum Computational Analysis Claims that If We Made High-symmetry Phase LK99 It Would Be Ambient Pressure Room Temperature Superconductors
Computational physicists have a new paper that says if we made better LK99 samples with mostly high-symmetry phase then it would make the claimed room-temperature superconductors at ambient pressure. All…
California governor vetoes a bill requiring humans in autonomous big rigs
Driverless trucks from Waymo. | Credit: Waymo Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed Assembly Bill 316, which would have required human attendants in driverless vehicles over 10,000 pounds, reports Reuters. The…
A Superconductivity Theory To Explain Reported LK99 Assuming Reports Were Correct
Chinese researchers have proposed a theory for understanding the LK99 superconductor. This paper assumes the south Korean LK99 claims are correct for critical temperature and critical current. The conventional superconducting…
Hypertelescopes on the Moon Can Have Better than 1 Microarcsecond Resolution
Nextbigfuture commenter, Goat Guy, verified the resolution of very large hypertelescopes and optical interferometers. The highest angular resolutions for telescopes can be achieved by arrays of telescopes called astronomical interferometers.…
The last-gen Apple Watch Series 8 is on sale for as low as $279 today
The Apple Watch Series 8 bears more than a striking resemblance to this year’s model (surprise, surprise). | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Apple Watch Series…
The Google Pixel 8’s latest leak shows off big AI camera updates
The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Pixel 8 camera specs and a new AI promo video for the phone were…
Samsung’s new ploy to get kids off iPhones is a MrBeast sponsorship
Earlier this year, investment bank Piper Sandler published results from an annual survey showing that 87 percent of teens own an iPhone, leaving precious little market for Android device makers…
Alexa is the best frenemy I’ve ever had
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Before I received my first Alexa-enabled smart display as a Christmas gift in 2019, I was not a big fan. I just didn’t…