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As the Apple car is no longer in the works, it's worth looking back at the company's history of its shelved projects, from AirPower to a TV.

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

New data shows a rising tide of coders in Bangladesh and Nigeria.

Benin-based Spiro exchanges old bikes for electric models across four African countries, but the experience has been a mix of pain and success.

The cheap web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first real “new” thing since the Apple Watch, and arguably its most notable release since the iPad or iPhone. Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few truly reliable Apple analysts, estimates that the Vision Pro

A flood of cheap Chinese imports is upsetting the global industrial order.

Caltech researchers are experimenting with a space-based solar power system that would assemble itself after being launched by rockets.

Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for

Find could point to new ways to prospect for material in high demand for batteries.

Why the tech giant is so high on Heirloom Carbon

Introducing Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a novel vision-language-action (VLA) model that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control, while retaining web-scale capabilities. This work builds upon Robotic Transformer 1 (RT-1), a model trained on multi-task demonstrations which can learn combinations of tasks and objects seen in the robotic data. RT-2 shows improved generalisation capabilities and semantic and visual understanding, beyond the robotic data it was exposed to. This includes interpreting new commands and responding to user commands by performing rudimentary reasoning, such as reasoning about object categories or high-level descriptions.

For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.

Armed with new technology, botanists are proposing what was once thought impractical: reviving long-lost plant species by using seeds from dried specimens in collections. The challenges remain daunting, but researchers are now searching for the best de-extinction candidates.

Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a next-generation of AirPods Sensor System wherein the housing and tips of AirPods could include a number of active and reference electrodes configured to measure biosignals and electrical activity of a user's brain.

Tesla Electric customers in Texas are reporting making as much as $150 a day during the heat waves as Tesla’s...

This week, generative AI hit a new milestone: The first fully AI-generated drug reached clinical trials in human patients.

Reaching commercial production won’t be easy.

Norge Mining hopes to open first mine in Norway within next five years