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The Tesla Optimus, also known as the Tesla Bot, is one of an entire catalogue of humanoid robots that manufacturers have unveiled in the last few years. Humanoid robots may look the part, and while they may be a few years away from maturation, executives like Tesla CEO Elon Musk are adamant they’re a direct substitute for human labor. “[The Tesla Bot] has the potential to be a generalized substitute for human labor over time. The foundation of the economy is labor. Capital equipment is essentially distilled labor… The fundamental constraint is labor. There are not enough people. I can’t…

After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28, seeking access to the data. In the litigation filed in Denver District Court, Nine PBS says that its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), used one of Iron Mountain’s Denver data centers to store the channel’s data. However,…

We think it’s kind of neat. Wongsakorn 2468/Shutterstock Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 can already track your heart rate, sleep and workouts. But that’s not enough information about you, apparently. Its Antioxidant Index turns a five-second thumb scan into a score from 0 to 100. The watch isn’t measuring all of the antioxidants in your body. Instead, it estimates carotenoids, pigments with antioxidant properties found in yellow, orange and green fruits and vegetables that can build up in your skin. Samsung uses that reading as an indicator of fruit and vegetable intake, though the company says UV…

Disney Kingdom Hearts fans made their joy known during D23’s Entertainment Showcase when a 90 second trailer popped up amid the parade of film and TV announcements, revealing some new details about the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 4 game. But the good news wasn’t limited to the big showcase. During the 25th Anniversary panel for Kingdom Hearts at D23 the game’s Director, Tetsuya Nomura, revealed the original trailer was actually 4 minutes long. He then showed everyone the trailer, and the crowd went truly wild. There’s a lot going on in this trailer, and it reveals quite a bit about the…

USS Theodore Roosevelt is now the Navy’s first carrier ready for MQ-25 operationsUS Navy spent years developing infrastructure needed to operate unmanned aircraft aboard carriersRonald Reagan is expected to join the MQ-25 carrier fleet in August 2026The US Navy has completed a major step toward operating unmanned aircraft from carriers with dedicated facilities for controlling them.The USS Theodore Roosevelt is now the service’s first carrier with a fully operational Unmanned Air Warfare Center supporting MQ-25 operations.Another carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, is expected to have its own center ready for operational deployment by August 2026.Latest Videos FromTechRadarTheodore Roosevelt leads the…

The Nexode Pro 300W Desktop Charger (model X783) is the flagship unit in UGREEN’s newly released Nexode Pro Series. This is a powerful charger packed with tech, housed in a relatively compact, somewhat flawed design. Here’s the bottom line: If you want a stationary charger for all your devices and are willing to use two hands to plug in and unplug a cable, the UGREEN X873 is an all-in-one option worth its $199.99 suggested retail price—street prices are often lower. Alternatively, if you want something wall-mountable, consider the Sabrent Voltik. Power Output and Performance Pros Up to 140 power output…

Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been observed on multiple systems on which port 5900 was accessible from the Internet,” the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centrum warned earlier this week. “In all these cases, root had been accessed on the affected system and a Monero crypto miner had been placed.” Do you know if your screen sharing is on? The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, received a patch from Apple last week for…

Waymo has announced that it’s received permission from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to expand its robotaxi service across more counties in California. The company says the decision will allow it to offer rides in Sacramento and San Diego for the first time, and expand service in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. As spotted by Electrek, the CPUC’s approval appears to be in response to a letter Waymo filed in January asking for approval on a safety plan so it can offer rides in the expanded service area it announced in November 2025. Waymo received feedback…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and Codex coding agents have had access to memories, the company’s term for context (background information) derived from previous chat activity, since April 2024. A new Computer History feature builds on that to include (if you opt in) logging your interactions with websites and applications, so it can essentially follow your footsteps to extrapolate where you want to go.  The feature launched this week on MacOS for subscribers to its Pro, Business and Enterprise plans (but not yet for users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the United Kingdom). According to the documentation, admins for the…

This is a major steal if you’re looking for a webcam for work from a trusted brand, with the Lenovo 310 webcam dropping to $30 (was $40) at Amazon.It’s a full HD webcam, but what I think makes this ideal for business use is the physical privacy shutter. Slide it over the lens and you’re protected.In my experience, Lenovo knows what makes a laptop camera usable, and that experience shows in a simple, well-built accessory that’ll beat most built-in laptop webcams hands-down. I can’t argue at this price.Why we recommend itA lot of budget webcams in this price range come…