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US chip champion Intel was so confused by the US government ban on foreign-made robots that it requested and received a waiver “out of an abundance of caution.” The tech company wanted to make sure that it could continue using certain robotic vehicles in its US chip fabs.
The uncertainty surrounding the Federal Communications Commission ban on certain foreign-made robots was revealed in the agency’s decision to grant Intel’s waiver request. On October 22, the FCC published its order allowing Intel to continue using the foreign-made robots in US semiconductor manufacturing facilities for a period of one year.
The robots in question are automated guided vehicles operating on “tracks or predefined paths” while often requiring operator oversight, according to Intel’s website. They help to move materials and items around within warehouses and factory floors.
Hugging Face's Carbon-X AI model lets researchers analyze DNA using natural language, with lower reported costs and local deployment options for labs.
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Nvidia and Agile Robots unveiled Agile ONE SN, a compact humanoid with Jetson Thor computing and Isaac GR00T training tools. Here's what it can do, its specifications, and when it launches.
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Nvidia and Hugging Face show how a $399 duck-shaped robot learns to walk using AI simulation. Here's how Microduck works, what it costs, and when buyers may get one.
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China's Unitree unveils the H2-X humanoid robot with kung fu moves and rescue demonstrations, but questions remain about its autonomy, safety and endurance.
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Apple's new three-band AirPods equalizer supports select models, while Headphone Accommodations remains available on a wider range of headphones.
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Synaptics' Astra SR200 processors target wearables, cameras, and industrial AI, while the separate Coralboard SL development kit is available now.
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Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected. In general, the more hardware qubits you dedicate to each logical qubit, the better the chances are of identifying errors. But, given that the hardware qubits are prone to errors, adding more of them also increases the probability that errors will occur. If the hardware error rate is too high, then growing the logical qubit will only make matters worse.
Fortunately, several companies have demonstrated hardware where the error rate is not too high. Several demonstrations show logical qubits are beyond the breakeven point, where adding more qubits improves performance. The problem is that the improvement isn't very dramatic. To lower error rates to levels we'll need to run complex algorithms, we'd have to add a completely impractical number of qubits to each logical qubit.
On Monday, Quantinuum announced that its current generation of hardware is capable of scaling well beyond the breakeven point. Each step up in the size of logical qubits improved some measures of their performance by a factor of over 10.
The new Kindle Colorsoft brings updated hardware and optional page-turn accessories, while Kobo Libra Colour offers built-in buttons and stylus support for less.
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Kindle Scribe combines ebook reading with handwritten notes, while reMarkable Paper Pure focuses on writing and document workflows. We compare features, costs, and usability.
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The RTX 5080 offers more processing power, but the RTX 5070 Ti shares its 16GB VRAM and DLSS capabilities. Here's how performance, power, and 2026 pricing compare.
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Faraday Future unveiled a $2,490 humanoid robot and $299 mini model for developers and students, with robotics training, AI tools and phased availability.
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Walmart's $60 Onn 4K Pro challenges Google's $150 TV Streamer. Here's what the extra $90 buys — and which streaming box offers better value.
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Le Snyderverse n'en finit pas de sortir ses cadavres du placard. Alors que la saga du Chevalier Noir sous l'ère Matt Reeves et Robert Pattinson traverse des turbulences, un autre Batman refait surface. Celui de Ben Affleck.
Daredevil: Born Again s'arrêtera à l'issue de sa troisième saison, attendue en mars 2027 sur Disney+. Interrogé en octobre 2026, Brad Winderbaum, patron de Marvel Television, assure que cette fin était prévue de longue date et parle déjà de la suite pour le super-héros.
Sony's new gold-plated Walkman costs $5,900 and promises premium audio. Here's what its upgraded hardware offers and whether it's worth the price.
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The Liberty Bell, with its famous crack, hasn't been rung in 180 years, but that hasn't stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation's 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data collected from one of the bell's replicas. The work was first presented at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Philadelphia earlier this year, followed by an article in Physics Today.
Historians aren't sure exactly when the Liberty Bell acquired its distinctive crack, just that it occurred sometime between 1817 and 1846. An 1846 account in the Public Ledger described the ringing of the bell on February 23 that year and mentioned that the bell had developed a crack, which someone had attempted to fix by filing the sides down. But it didn't work: The February 23 ringing extended the crack even more, so much so that "the old Independence Bell ... now hangs in the great steeple irreparably cracked and forever dumb." Nobody has heard it ring since.
This wasn't the first time the bell had cracked; the rim cracked shortly after it arrived in Philadelphia in 1752, the first time the clapper struck while testing the sound. It was recast by two local foundry workers, John Pass and John Stow, not once but twice, because the first recast produced a sound that one bystander likened to coal scuttles banging together.
One reason plastics are used so often is that they’re chemically inert, meaning bags, food containers, and cups don't react with what we put in them. Yet they can still break down into microplastics, which turn up in drinking water, human blood, arteries, and brains. The consequences of that are uncertain.
“Whether microplastics can directly cause human disease is still being researched,” said Wei Min, a chemist at Columbia University. In a new Nature study, Min's team took a step toward answering this question by demonstrating that microplastics are likely not as chemically inert as we might expect.
Min's lab has spent years working on microdroplet chemistry, studying how water broken into tiny droplets behaves at its boundary with air. These droplets have been reported to generate reactive oxygen species, or ROS, a family of harmful, oxygen-containing molecules. “ROS will essentially bump into proteins, lipids, DNA, and cause damage,” Min said. “You could break a DNA strand into segments. You could mutate DNA; you could misfold proteins.”
This Grade B MacBook Air has an M2 chip, a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display and up to 15 hours of web use.
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German police seized a humanoid robot after it allegedly groped a teenage girl in Cologne, raising questions about human control and criminal responsibility.
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This Grade A Latitude has an 11th Gen Intel Core i5, Thunderbolt 4 and Windows 11 Pro for your business work.
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HomePod mini 2 can serve as a Mac speaker for movies, gaming, and video calls. Here's what Apple confirms about compatible Macs, stereo pairing, setup, and microphone limitations.
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Apple's fourth-generation Apple TV 4K supports four HomePods in surround sound. Here are the confirmed speaker combinations, total hardware costs, and remaining setup questions.
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Apple's new $200 indoor camera automatically turns away when residents return home. Here's how its privacy feature works and what remains unconfirmed.
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Honey bees are known to leave their stingers embedded in tender flesh once they sting you and fly away. Scientists have now determined that the stinger is able to continue pumping venom into its unfortunate victim even after the bee flies away, thanks to a unique double-piston pump-like mechanism, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Different species have evolved different mechanisms for delivering venom, which involves piercing the skin and then pumping venom from a gland or reservoir. Spiders, for instance, have muscles surrounding their venom glands, which contract and eject venom through hollow fangs. Bees, wasps, and ants deliver venom via their stingers, either by contracting muscles around the venom reservoir or through stiff elements called lancets working together to pump venom.
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) add a unique feature: Worker bees fly away after inserting their stingers in the target, leaving the stinger behind. The stinger continues to penetrate the tissue and pump venom on its own, a rare phenomenon known as autotomy. A honey bee's stinger has three main interlocking elements that form the venom canal: a stylet that widens to form the main pumping chamber and two sharp-tipped lancets that slide back and forth, piercing the tissue and pumping venom into the target. But the precise mechanism by which the pumping action is achieved has never been directly observed.
Anthropic’s new Claude policy prohibits extreme, repeated abuse. Learn what remains allowed, how enforcement works, and what changes for workplace users.
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UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen plan new humanoid robot trials for factory logistics in China, building on earlier tests as manufacturers explore automation.
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OpenAI's firing of three safety researchers has sparked a dispute over misconduct allegations, independent AI evaluations, and protections for safety research.
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No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working in warehouses around the clock to make tens of millions of same-day and one-day package deliveries happen on a daily basis—and Amazon is poised to significantly grow that robotic fleet in the coming years as it establishes new factories to churn out increasingly more capable robot workers.
Despite deploying so many robots, Amazon is also the second-largest corporate employer in the world, with more than 1.5 million full-time and part-time human workers, according to its 2025 annual report. Amazon executives say that the growing robot fleet has eased the burden on its human workforce by taking on the toughest fulfillment center tasks that carry the greatest risks of physical fatigue and injury. But labor advocacy groups and independent researchers point to evidence suggesting that warehouse automation driven by AI is not all upside for the humans who work alongside robots.
“For the last 100 years, most of the automation that we've seen usually happens away from workers—you're taking that high-risk task away from the worker, and you're doing so in a way that is not physically proximate,” Brad Greenwood, professor of business at George Mason University, told Ars. “The rise of collaborative robots really changes that dynamic for two reasons: one is that it is physically proximate, and two, the robot has the ability to dictate the pace of work.”
Tesla's Optimus robot production reportedly increased in 2026. Here's what to know about Elon Musk's 2027 sales target, manufacturing challenges, and rollout.
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For about a decade, the mainstream understanding has been that psychedelics cause chaos in the brain. Brain networks—the stable patterns of communication that handle vision, attention, or our sense of self, and more—loosen and start talking to each other all at once. EEG traces get noisier and more complex. “Think of the networks of the brain as highways,” says Devon Stoliker, a neuroscientist at Monash University. “Under psychedelics, these highways break down into many different directions.”
In a recent Nature study, Stoliker’s team designed an experiment to test whether these directions are truly chaotic and random. Researchers gathered 62 people who had never taken a psychedelic before, gave them 19 milligrams of psilocybin, a common psychedelic found in certain fungi, and scanned their brains. Then, they used AI to analyze the drugged and sober brain scans. What emerged was not exactly chaos.
Stoliker thinks chaos is not a satisfactory explanation for psychedelics’ effect on the brain. “It never really explained why an individual would have a meaningful experience, why they might have insight, why they might experience clarity, and why these might translate into positive psychological changes,” Stoliker says. To investigate if there are other explanations, he and his colleagues designed a study called PsiConnect.
DEEP Robotics tested waterproof DR02 humanoid robots directing traffic and helping tourists in Hangzhou, China, raising questions about safety and reliability.
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OpenAI says its AI produced more than 370 families of mathematical results, raising questions about proof verification, originality and credit for human research.
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Ring’s $249 Smart Lock adds a hand-powered dial for dead-battery backup. Explore its features, connectivity requirements, and planned early 2027 US release.
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Explore the latest tech news, from ChatGPT's interactive AI tools and Microsoft's new hardware to cybersecurity threats, robotics, and Big Tech shakeups.
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Samsung expects a nearly ninefold profit increase as AI memory demand drives chip prices higher, putting pressure on enterprise hardware budgets.
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Investors bullish on AI data centers may be fueling Nvidia’s multitrillion-dollar market capitalization, but the AI chipmaker has also bet billions of dollars on physical AI technologies such as robotics and self-driving cars. Part of that gambit has involved developing a full-stack safety system that companies can build upon to reduce the risk of their machines harming nearby people.
Nvidia's Halos system launched in 2025 with hardware and software tools to help developers implement guardrails in self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles. Then the company expanded its safety architecture to more physical AI technologies by announcing Nvidia Halos for Robotics in June 2026—with the goal of enabling safe deployments of autonomous mobile robots in warehouses, humanoid robots walking around inside a factory, or even surgical robots.
“Now the AI models are getting capable, the robot hardware is getting capable, and a thing we thought is going to be the next bottleneck is safety,” Amit Goel, head of robotics ecosystem and edge computing at Nvidia, told Ars. “So that's why we launched our Halos for Robotics to unlock the capability of these systems.”
Plus d'un an après la sortie du Superman de James Gunn, premier film du nouveau DCU, David Corenswet confirme que l'Homme d'Acier portera un costume retravaillé dans la suite, Man of Tomorrow, attendue le 7 juillet 2027 dans les salles françaises.
Samsung's S95H and LG's G6 share a $2,499.99 55-inch MSRP but differ on brightness, reflections, HDR formats, gaming latency, and warranty.
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We compare current Ring, Nest, Arlo, and Eufy outdoor security cameras by video quality, AI features, storage, subscriptions, and long-term cost.
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Apple and LG are reportedly developing smart home locks, cameras and other accessories. Here’s what buyers should know about compatibility and timing.
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Si vous avez un dossier blindé de comics / BDs au format CBZ ou en CBR, rangé à "votre sauce" par éditeur, par série ou carrément en bordel (ce qui est mon cas, je suis bordélique...), Issued est un petit serveur à installer chez vous qui va vous rendre de fiers services. En effet, ce soft scannera votre dossier tel quel, ne réorganisera rien parce que c'est pas votre mère, mais par contre, il reconstruira sa bibliothèque autour de vos dossiers, pour que vous puissiez lire tout ça depuis un navigateur ou une appli de lecture, en ayant l'impression que "Oh dis donc c'est bien rangé"
Une seule règle à respecter quand même c'est de ne pas mélanger des comics et des sous-dossiers dans un même dossier puisque pour Issued, un dossier qui contient des comics, c'est une série. Ah et les fichiers aux formats CB7 et les PDF passeront aussi sans souci.
Côté lecture, le lecteur web affiche les derniers ajouts et les comics entamés à reprendre. Et si vous suivez des séries encore en cours de parution, vous les marquez avec le bouton Ongoing, et la page du même nom vous montre le dernier numéro ajouté, le nombre de numéros et ceux qui manquent peut-être à l'appel... Sur mobile, vous pouvez aussi ajouter son catalogue OPDS dans Panels ou Chunky Reader sur iOS, ou dans Moon+ Reader sur Android.
Son dev dit l'utiliser avec environ 4 500 comics (mais quel pirate ^^) et pense que ça tiendra le choc à 10 000 voire 20 000 BDs. Les vignettes, de leur côté, sont générées une seule fois, sur un seul thread, pour ne pas saturer votre serveur qui fait déjà tourner d'autres conteneurs et la surveillance du dossier, qui ajoute les nouveaux comics toute seule, se coupe dans la config si vous préférez laisser roupiller vos disques (un bouton permet alors de relancer le scan à la main).
Attention par contre au mot de passe que vous mettrez car celui que vous pouvez définir dans config.ini ne protègera que le lecteur web. En effet, le catalogue OPDS reste accessible sans session et c'est ce catalogue qui permet de télécharger les archives. Donc pour lire vos comics depuis l'extérieur, n'ouvrez pas le port 8181 de votre box en mode neuneu ! Non, restez absolument sur votre réseau local, ou passez par un reverse proxy qui gère l'authentification ou encore un VPN local type Tailscale (Qu'est ce que j'aime ce truc).
Pour l'installer, le plus simple c'est comme d'hab Docker (l'image embarque déjà unrar pour les CBR) :
Lateo.net - Flux RSS en pagaille (pour en ajouter : @ moi) 
docker run -d --name issued \
--restart unless-stopped \
-p 8181:8181 \
-v /path/to/your/comics:/comics:ro \
-v issued_data:/app/data \
ghcr.io/metalogico/issued:latest
Remplacez alors le chemin par celui de votre dossier de comics, et le lecteur web répondra sur le port 8181, dans /reader/, et le catalogue OPDS dans /opds/. Et si vous n'avez pas Docker, il existe aussi des exécutables pour macOS, Linux et Windows. Voilà... Le tout est sous licence MIT et sachez également que si vous avez besoin de plusieurs comptes, ou de servir aussi des mangas et des ebooks, la bibliothèque Komga et le serveur Kavita en feront un peu beaucoup plus ^^.
Ah et si vous vous demandez pourquoi tout est violet dans l'interface, c'est parce que la fille du développeur s'appelle Viola (pas de "vert caca d'oie" donc, désolé pour les amateurs de treillis ^^).
Source : noted.lol
Moflin leads our robot companion picks, while Loona, Mirumi, Ropet KAMOMO, and Eilik offer mobile, wearable, customizable, and budget alternatives.
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Over decades of research, scientists have built up a partial picture of what specialized cells within the brain and spinal cord do. By studying how the brain develops, they could identify genes that were active in different populations of neurons and where in the brain those neurons resided. In some cases, these genes could then be used to genetically delete the neurons, allowing us to get some indication of what they might be doing, building on the information we've obtained from studies of brains with damaged regions.
But this approach has its limits. The brain is flexible enough to potentially adapt to the loss of some cells, and their loss early in development may alter the development of any neurons they would have normally formed connections with. It would be far more informative to activate and shut down the neurons in an otherwise intact brain.
Today's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewards three people—Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel—who developed our ability to do precisely that. Starting from studies of single-celled algae that are attracted to light, these and many other researchers built an entire field of study that we now call optogenetics: using light to alter the behavior of nerve cells marked by the activity of individual genes.
