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Until today, we’ve seen exactly 40 seconds of Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas in action. The Hyundai-owned robotics stalwart is very much still in the early stages of commercializing the biped for factory floors. For now, however, it’s doing the thing Boston Dynamics does second best after building robots: showing off in viral video form.

Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas can do push-ups

Tesla is employing people to help train its humanoid Optimus robot by wearing motion capture suits and mimicking actions that it will be expected to perform. The position, advertised as a “Data Collection Operator” on Tesla’s career site, pays up to $48 per hour and requires walking for over seven hours a day while carrying up to 30 pounds and wearing a VR headset for “extended periods of time.”

Tesla is hiring people to do the robot

Microsoft says it will release a preview of its new Windows Recall AI capabilities in October to users in the Windows Insider program, after delaying the feature from the rollout of Copilot+ PCs in June due to security concerns. The company provided the new timeframe in an update Wednesday morning...

Microsoft says Windows ‘Recall’ preview will be available in October

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Figure of California has introduced its Figure 02, its second-generation humanoid robot designed for production lines at commercial sites.

The next-gen humanoid robot is knocking at your door

“We saw this and we were like, ‘OK, what kind of video did it send?’ and then we were like, ‘Oh snap, this is a problem,’” Crivello told TechCrunch. The video the AI sent the client was the music video to Rick Astley’s 1987 dance-pop hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” In more familiar terms: the client got Rickrolled. By an AI.

This founder had to train his AI not to Rickroll people

Last year, Amazon launched the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition that could default to displaying owners’ favorite pictures — as long as they paid an extra fee. Now Amazon has confirmed that this plan has been abandoned, with the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition and its accompanying $2 / month PhotosPlus subscription no longer available on Amazon’s website.

Amazon cancels the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition’s main feature — focusing on photos

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Amazon has expanded its grocery delivery subscription service by adding an annual plan for Prime members and extending its discounted subscription to all Prime Access members. These new offerings build upon the success the grocery subscription has seen since its launch in April, Amazon said in a Wednesday (Aug. 21) press release.

Amazon Adds Annual Plan to Grocery Delivery Subscription Service

The Verge, then you probably know your tech, and so it’s likely that you’re sometimes asked to help troubleshoot computer issues by friends, family, and / or neighbors. It can be something as simple as just turning on the Wi-Fi or as complicated as having to update a BIOS. Whatever’s wrong, it’s much harder to sort out if you’re not in the same room as the computer in question — and trying to work with someone over a phone call can be a lesson in frustration.

How to troubleshoot someone else’s computer remotely

Next month, two longtime rivals in social media will face off with major demonstrations of what they think will eventually be the next major computing platform: AR glasses. The first big reveal will come from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, who, sources tell me, is set to unveil the fifth generation of Spectacles on September 17th at his annual Partner Summit in Los Angeles. The following week, on September 25th. I’ve confirmed that Mark Zuckerberg is slated to debut Meta’s first AR glasses, codenamed Orion, at his Connect conference in Menlo Park.

Meta and Snap are about to show off their new AR glasses

Renovate Robotics on Tuesday unveiled its latest rooftop robot, the Rufus V1. The system is a refinement of the prototypes the New York-based firm showcased earlier this year. It automates one of construction’s most common — and dangerous — tasks. The startup has clearly come a long way since we first covered it in May 2023, when its robot was made up of several DeWalt nail guns mounted to a gantry system.

Watch this robot quickly install roof shingles

“Unlike language, where we don’t have mathematical models to describe what the next word should be, when it comes to physics, we do have those models. And what we’re seeing is that machine learning is actually quite good at computation, not just pattern recognition,” said co-founder Darren Garvey.

BeyondMath’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars

Samsung recently rolled out One UI 6.1.1, the latest version of its in-house user interface, for the new Galaxy Z Fold6 and Flip6 foldable phones. As it turns out, there's a new feature that was recently discovered, but not officially mentioned, by Samsung, and it should make it easier for owners of those phones to stream apps to Windows PCs.

Samsung's latest One UI update should make streaming phone apps to Windows PCs easier

Pixel 9 cameras are a treat if you are a photographer or anyone who enjoys capturing photos. These phones offer multiple AI trickery that elevates the photo and video capturing experience on a smartphone. Recently, someone extracted the Pixel 9 camera app and uploaded it to the third-party app store APK Mirror.

The latest Pixel 9.5 camera app unlocks manual Astrophotography mode, here's how to do it

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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The San Francisco Standard reports that Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary, is considering a subscription program that would let teens hail one of its cars solo and send pickup and drop-off alerts to their parents. In a survey, Waymo referred to the program as “Waymo Teen,” and floated prices ranging from $150 to $250 per month for up to 16 rides.

Waymo wants to chauffeur your kids

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

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In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Roblox has quietly become one of the biggest games in the world, with nearly 400 million users logging into the metaverse platform on a monthly basis. This year, brands are taking full advantage. The rise of Roblox as a marketing tool has been readily apparent this year at annual industry...

How brands from Walmart to L’Oreal are stepping up their game in Roblox in 2024

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Ecovacs says it will fix bugs that can be abused to spy on robot owners

At the time, Ecovacs told TechCrunch it concluded that the flaws found by the researchers “are extremely rare in typical user environments and require specialized hacking...

Ecovacs says it will fix bugs that can be abused to spy on robot owners

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