Eli Lilly and Purdue at RoboBusiness. Taking HRI research onto a live factory floor
Most human-robot interaction (HRI) research is done in university labs, and the data it produces rarely holds up on a…
Oregon Data Centers. A grassroots revolt against tax breaks hits the ballot box
Oregon has long been one of the quiet engine rooms of the cloud. Its cheap power, cool climate and generous…
National Portrait Gallery Star Power. George Hurrell’s glamor gets an encore
Long before ring lights, beauty filters and AI retouching, a single photographer working with 8 x 10 cameras, hard light…
BPI Counterfeit Vinyl Warning. The dark side of the record revival
Vinyl's long comeback has attracted the wrong kind of fan. On September 18, 2026, Rehan Ahmed, 40, of Southall, west…
Foxlink and Luminys Robot Dog. Physical AI Joins the Night Shift on Security
Fences, badge readers and CCTV walls were built for a world in which physical and digital threats lived apart. In…
WhatsApp Restricted Chat. Locking a conversation to your main phone
WhatsApp has started testing a stricter version of one of its privacy controls. Restricted Chat, an upgraded and renamed version…
Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98. A Wi-Fi 8 router that speeds up today’s Wi-Fi 7 gear
Wi-Fi 8 routers are arriving before any Wi-Fi 8 devices exist to connect to them. Asus beat every other manufacturer…
National Portrait Gallery. Half a century of photographic portraits
In 1976, the year of the U.S. bicentennial, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery widened its collecting mandate to include photography.…
Sky OS Redesign. A top navigation bar, a recordings hub and a chattier assistant
Sky is reworking the software that runs its Sky Glass TVs and Sky Stream boxes, and the changes go deeper…
OMRON LD-150 and LD-300. The new LD Series AMRs focus on software and fleets
For years, buying an autonomous mobile robot came down to payload, speed and battery life. That is shifting, according to…