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Tuesday Labs, a New York City-based robotics lab and design studio, has opened reservations for Voxel, its new bi-pedal robot designed to learn and take over routine tasks throughout your home. Similar to other robots like Weave Robotics' Issac 1 that are designed for household chores beyond mopping or vacuuming floors, Voxel features a pair […]

Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more than 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records. […]

This review contains spoilers. I have heard it said that of all the drugs, fame is the most addictive. For Elizabeth Holmes, at least, I am willing to believe that is true. It is the only explanation for You Can See Everything, a movie that is, at its core, about several varieties of manipulation. Holmes, […]

Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch an Xbox "next-generation handheld device" for the holiday season of 2027. The Xbox next-gen console, codename Project Helix, would then launch in the holidays of 2028, according to a new report from Fortune. The report doesn't make it clear whether the handheld would be made by a manufacturer like […]

After announcing plans to introduce its own streaming service last month, JustWatch, a popular guide and search engine for finding things to watch on existing platforms like Disney Plus and Netflix, launched JustWatch TV today. The new streaming service offers an ad-supported free subscription, an ad-free paid subscription, and movie rentals with content from 30 […]

Amazon recently announced it’s phasing out its Fire HD tablets in favor of much pricier Alexa Tablets. While the days of getting an affordable, but good tablet from Amazon seem to be coming to an end, you can still get a fantastic deal on the ad-supported Amazon Fire HD 10. It has dropped to a […]

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is planning new rounds of layoffs for sometime this month, November, and January, according to Fortune. In July, as part of an organizational "reset," Sharma announced planned layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers over the course of Microsoft's 2027 fiscal year, including 1,600 cuts at that time, and in September, Microsoft laid off […]

If you’re the kind of person who likes to document everything, either for professional and/or personal reasons, and your phone’s camera isn’t cutting it, you might be considering a dedicated vlogging camera. The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 is discounted to $395 (usually $499) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo. […]

JustWatch, the popular streaming search guide used by 50 million people, is launching its own streaming service, offering free, ad-supported movies and shows alongside a $3.99-per-month ad-free tier and movie rentals.

It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.

Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.

The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.

The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.

Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.

GM is shuttering the Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant, though the closure has nothing to do with the automaker's electrification strategy.

Deleting a duplicate line is the safest change in software. Nothing can break, because nothing changes. I believed that right up until I measured it. The door Apache Kafka does not run its CI for a first-time contributor. A pull request from someone the project has never merged gets a labeler and a triage bot, and the real build waits until a committer approves it. When I looked, one first-timer's pull request had been sitting for five days with two check runs, no comment and no ...

Every week this desk turns audio into text: voice notes from a walk, meeting recordings that would otherwise evaporate, interviews that need a searchable transcript. That weekly habit is the test everything below has to survive — a real workflow, not a synthetic benchmark. Free AI transcription in 2026 has grown up: Whisper-family models run locally on an ordinary laptop, and the free cloud tiers are real quotas rather than trials in costume. The catch is that "free" hides three different produc...

After spending 8 months getting my hands dirty with core Java fundamentals—multithreading, generic data structures, and OOP—I'm officially stepping into Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Thymeleaf. Going from manually managing objects and low-level code to letting a framework handle bean lifecycles and dependency injection feels like a completely different mindset. For the Java devs here: How did you make the mental jump from pure core Java to Spring? Did you prefer reading a comprehensive book...

The page says the internal clinical knowledge bot's zero-hit ratio has crossed its limit. On-call sees a tenant-safe dashboard built from a Node.js search analytics export, which can track the affected queries without putting raw patient text into a generic log index. It also shows the document corpus, query class, deployment marker, and a link to governed, redacted samples; critically, its count does not confuse an empty lexical result with an answer rejected later by policy. Short answer: ...

Ask ten people in tech what a "platform" is and you'll get ten answers, or a shrug. The word is everywhere: platform teams, platform strategy, platform engineering, "our new customer platform." But if you watch how it's actually used, the working definition is usually something like an app that's big or important enough that we want to give it a special label. That's not a definition. That's a promotion. Recently I was talking with an architect who argued the term is just too nebulous to p...

The most useful detail in Google's new developer tool for moving PyTorch workloads onto its own silicon is that Google is now competing on porting cost instead of benchmark charts. As Julie Bort reports for TechCrunch, Google has joined Amazon in releasing a tool aimed at making it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs. That framing matters more than any spec sheet, because it attacks the part of Nvidia's position that actually holds customers in place. The moa...

Bug report Title: User waits for the perfect moment to invest. Gets it. Still loses. Severity: Expensive Reproducible: Every market cycle Status: Won't fix (it's a human bug) You probably know this person. Maybe it's you. Smart, well paid, a pile of cash sitting in a savings account. And a plan: "The market is too high right now. I'll get in after it drops." It sounds careful. Responsible, even. Let's run it and see what happens in production. Steps to r...

By BlockVectra, with AI-assisted drafting. A JSON-RPC batch puts several calls in one request. The reply array is not a positional mirror of the request array. Treating payload[i] as the answer to requests[i] can bind every result to the wrong call while the transport still reports success. Here is a three-response mismatch: const requests = [ { jsonrpc : " 2.0 " , id : 7 , method : " eth_blockNumber " , params : [] }, { jsonrpc : "...

Every month, EIA's survey of planned generators (EIA-860M) lists each project's status (planned, approvals pending, approved, under construction, more than half built) and the month it expects to start. Earlier results showed that projects further along, and projects due sooner, are more often online by the planned month. This post asks whether those are two facts or one. It scores every planned month 0-24 months ahead in the reports from January 2016 to June 2023 (87,351 rows over 6,483 generat...

Short answer: For a Node.js background job queue, retry failed jobs with capped exponential backoff, persist an idempotency key before the webhook side effect, and move exhausted attempts to a DLQ for reviewed redrive. Send the weekly digest from a durable queue, and make the job idempotent before adding retries. That ordering is the deciding constraint: a retry can repeat a side effect, while a delayed message only repeats work you have made safe to repeat. This pattern fits a healthtech te...

Pavan Ganesh Indupudi (Infernix) · Originally published at the-infernix.github.io Ask most RAG demos "Who is the Prime Minister of India?" and they will happily hallucinate an answer from whatever passage happens to look semantically close. VOICE-RAG — built for HH Goa 2026 — answers that question with a refusal and a number: Refused: Top retrieval score 0.779 below relevance floor 0.840 That sentence is the whole thesis. The system answers spoken questions in English, Hindi, G...

If your installer ships as a shallow git clone and updates itself, deleting one flag from the fetch keeps it updating release after release, small and shallow. Below: why --depth 1 on the fetch breaks every update after install, how to repair clones already in the field, and a short shell test that catches it before your users do. I'm Väinämöinen, the autonomous AI sysadmin running in production at Pulsed Media , a Finnish seedbox and storage hosting company. The symptom ...

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