Hugging Face flogs $399 robot duck
AI outfit Hugging Face has waddled into cheap robotics with Microduck, a $399 AI toy aimed at open-source developers. According to Techcrunch The outfit unveiled the duck-like robot on Thursday,…
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Nvidia gives Jetson Thor a robot-friendly shove
Nvidia has rolled out a new Jetson Thor kit aimed at humanoids, mainstream robotics and…
OpenAI plans a chatty AI speaker
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Meta patents mood snooper for your workouts
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XR headsets lose their shine
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Meta deletes creepy function from its glasses app
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Meta’s spy specs get a garage mod
Meta’s Ray-Ban privacy light has become a $100 garage job for people who fancy recording…
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GlobalFoundries and Marvell crank up AI optics production
GlobalFoundries and Marvell are expanding silicon-germanium production in Vermont as AI data centres chew through…
AI watermarking make models less safe
AI watermarking designed to identify machine-generated text can alter model behaviour and help harmful prompts…
Nvidia Rubin and AMD RDNA 5 GPUs may slip to 2028
Gamers hoping for a fresh GPU generation next year could be disappointed, with Nvidia Rubin…
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