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🔍 Daily insights into the world of technology — from gadgets to AI and future trends.
🇨🇳 China is making AI education mandatory from childhood.
China’s State Council has unveiled a five-year plan that makes AI literacy a core skill for every student. Beginning at around age 6, AI will be taught throughout primary and secondary school, then continue into universities and colleges.
The initiative goes far beyond teaching students how to use chatbots. It is part of Xi Jinping’s long-term strategy to build AI leadership, strengthen national competitiveness, and challenge the United States in the technologies expected to define the next generation.
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China’s ultra realistic bionic robots make their stage debut, with prices from $16,700 to $138,000, over 13,000 pre orders already, and deliveries starting in September.
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🔥 This is the Scorpion Hexapod, a six-legged robotic scorpion created at Ghent University UGent Campus Kortrijk in Belgium.
It was built by students Stephan Flamand Robbe Terryn and Pieterjan Deconinck as part of an Embedded Prototyping / Mechatronics Design project.
What it is:
• A biomimetic robot inspired by the body and movement of a real scorpion
• A hexapod, meaning it walks on six legs
• A university prototype, not a commercial robot
• Built to test animal-inspired movement, sensors and interactive behavior
• Designed more for robotics research and education than real-world work
Main hardware:
• 6 walking legs for crawling movement
• 2 front claws for the scorpion look
• Moving tail with a stinger-style mechanism
• Sensors in the body, legs and claws
• Arduino-based electronics for control
• Front camera and proximity sensing
• Battery pack for mobile operation
• 3D-printed modules for legs and tail
• Laser-cut ABS body parts
• Thermoformed shell for the white outer body
What it can do:
• Walk across the floor using its six legs
• Move its tail like a real scorpion
• React when a person gets close
• Detect when someone covers its front sensors
• Strike with its tail in the demo
• Leave a red mark using a marker pen attached to the stinger
• Operate through remote control
• Perform some simple autonomous reactions
Why it was created:
• To explore bio-inspired robotics
• To show how digital fabrication can produce complex moving robots
• To combine 3D printing, laser cutting, Arduino electronics and sensors
• To teach students how to design a complete mechatronic system
• To improve on an older robotic ant project that had weak autonomy, short battery life and motor problems
• To create an interactive robot that reacts to humans in a visible way
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🇨🇳 China has started making its own rain
In central China’s Shanxi, a residential community has drawn attention for its “rooftop rain”. This is a mist cooling system that drops surface temperatures by 5–8°C in minutes.
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🤖 US Allows Anthropic Access to Mythos 5
The US government cleared Anthropic to expand access to Mythos 5 after a security review. The model was previously restricted due to concerns under the Trump administration.
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🇨🇳 The scale of China’s electricity projects is just on another level.
A hillside in rural Guizhou, China covered in solar panels. Thousands of them stretched across mountain ridges to the horizon, transforming bare rock into terawatt-hour electricity.
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Bill Gates talking about investing in the computer in 1992..
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🔔LG has unveiled the LG Cloid home robot at CES 2026 as part of its vision for a Zero Labor Home, where robots handle everyday household tasks.
The robot can assist with cooking, laundry, and control smart home devices through LG ThinQ while using AI to understand and interact with its surroundings. LG also introduced its new Axium robotic actuator, aiming to make AI-powered homes more capable and reduce household work.
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Ⓜ️ Meta released a new Meta Glasses collection with EssilorLuxottica, expanding its AI eyewear beyond the Ray-Ban and Oakley brands.
The collection launches with 26 combinations of frames, colors and lenses across three designs:
• Meta Adventurer
• Meta Fury
• Meta Glasses by Kylie
The glasses support prescription lenses and start at $299.
They include hands-free photo and video capture, open-ear audio, multiple microphones, more than eight hours of battery life and up to 40 additional hours through the charging case.
Meta Glasses are also the company’s first AI glasses to ship with Meta AI powered by Muse Spark from day one.
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Elf-Xuan, developed by AheadForm, a Shanghai-based startup backed by AGIBot.
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🍏 Apple’s new AI photo tool just got stress-tested and the results are wild.
iOS 27 introduces Spatial Reframing, a feature that can subtly adjust a photo’s angle after it’s been taken, helping rescue imperfect shots with AI. But creator itsjackington decided to ignore the word “subtle.”
By pushing the feature far beyond its intended limits, he revealed just how aggressively Apple’s AI can reshape an image. The transformations range from impressively convincing to downright uncanny, offering a glimpse into a future where photos may no longer be as fixed as they seem.
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A superhuman robot hand that flips between left and right is here.
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Wow. This is crazy…
Researchers built an open-source humanoid robot that learned to walk, run, balance and even perform K-pop dance moves in just 7 days 🤯
ROBOTIS AI Sapiens uses NVIDIA Isaac Sim for training, motion retargeting to transfer human movements to the robot, and reinforcement learning to refine its skills before deployment in the real world.
Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and the new DYNAMIXEL-Q actuators, the humanoid can learn complex full body behaviors in simulation and then execute them physically.
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🇨🇳 Vertical wind turbine in a rural hilly region of China.
These blades allow operation independent of wind direction changes.
China's wind turbines generated nearly 990 TWh of electricity in 2024, almost double the roughly 450 TWh produced in the US.
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🗣️ Mark Zuckerberg says smart glasses are reaching the same point as smartphones
They are already a normal part of daily life for billions of people, which makes them a natural form factor for AI. "In five years, it may feel strange for glasses not to have built-in intelligence".
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🤖 Anthropic launches Claude Science for research
Anthropic introduced Claude Science, an AI agent designed as an end-to-end research infrastructure. It handles literature search, data analysis, computation, visualization, and article preparation in one interface.
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UBTech’s humanoid features remarkably lifelike skin.
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🍏 Apple Is Finally Bringing Touchscreens to the MacBook
Apple is reportedly developing its first touchscreen MacBook, powered by the current-generation M5 Pro and M5 Max chips instead of waiting for the M6 lineup.
The new 14-inch and 16-inch models are expected to launch between late 2026 and early 2027. They’re also rumored to feature OLED displays, a redesigned chassis, and even bring the iPhone’s Dynamic Island interface to the Mac for the first time.
Meanwhile, Apple’s next-generation M7 chips remain under development and are expected to debut toward the end of 2027, with the high-end M7 Ultra likely following in 2028.
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Engineering tests beginning in Austin of the Cybercab with NO steering wheel.
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Meta unveils 'Brain2Qwerty v2' AI system that translates brain signals into text in real-time.
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Engineer Brendan Gregg proved sound waves can crash servers. His method? Just screaming at them.
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🔔Adidas unveils clothing with built-in air conditioning
Adidas introduced a new collection with built-in cooling systems. Oversized jackets and shorts inflate; integrated fans circulate air to cool the wearer. The concept adapts cooling technology from Formula 1 drivers and professional football players for everyday clothing.
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🖥 Microsoft announces price hikes for Xbox devices due to memory chip costs just hours after Apple hiked prices on MacBooks and iPads.
Among the price increases:
1. Xbox Series S 1TB increased +$150 to $599
2. Xbox Series X 1TB increased +$150 to $799
3. Xbox Series S 512GB increased +$100 to $499
4. Xbox Series X 1TB Digital increased +$150 to $749
AI-induced price hikes have begun.
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🍏Apple has raised the prices of its Macs and iPads due to soaring chip costs.
Among the price increases:
1. MacBook Air increased +$200 to $1,299
2. Base MacBook Pro increased +$300 to $1,999
3. Base MacBook Neo increased +$100 to $699
4. iPad Air increased +$150 to $749
5. iPad Pro increased +$200 to $1,199
Tim Cook said soaring chip costs made the price hike "unavoidable."
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Tesla drivers in China discovered that a cheap plastic figurine is all it takes to bypass the car's AI cabin monitoring system.
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🇺🇸 President Trump signs TWO executive orders securing the United States' spot as the WORLD LEADER in Quantum Computing
ORDER 1: Launches a national effort to produce a quantum computer capable of performing important scientific calculations. It also aims to develop quantum-enabled sensors and networks within the next 5 years.
ORDER 2: Directs federal agencies to transition their computer systems to quantum cryptography (post-quantum cryptography standards) by 2031. It positions the U.S. government to lead wider adoption of these stronger security standards to address future quantum computing threats.
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Poor beggar, he is begging for the cost of charging. 😂
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This is just a beginning! “A huge robot army is loading..”
Genesis Al just unveiled Eno, its first general-purpose wheeled robot featuring a human-scale dexterous hands, and an optional "cognitive interface" screen instead of a head.
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Poland just became the frontline for the West's next air war.
Shield AI offered Warsaw its X-BAT, an AI pilot that takes off vertically, ranges 2,000+ nautical miles, and fights without a human in the cockpit.
Poland's PM is already calling it "an unmanned F-35." AI just replaced the fighter pilot and it could roll off Polish production lines.
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