2026-07-22

$50,000 T800 robot decapitates fellow android in world's first robotics MMA fight

A $50,000 T800 robot lost its head during Shenzhen's first humanoid robot fighting tournament, but continued fighting using its remaining systems. [...]

2026-07-22

Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick

The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc. [...]

2026-07-22

IBM cuts full-year sales outlook after mainframe demand drops 42 percent in Q2

IBM cut its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday after reporting a sharp drop in demand for its mainframe business, lowering its revenue growth target to four to five percent from a prior forecast of more than five percent. The company also trimmed its software unit guidance, with CFO Jim Kavanaugh telling Bloomberg that annual software […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-22

OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation

OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 “pretty good” in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, a rare public acknowledgement from a US frontier lab that a Chinese rival has produced a competitive model. Brockman said it is “too early” to determine whether Moonshot trained K3 by distilling outputs from OpenAI’s own systems, a […]<br /> This story continues at The [...]

2026-07-22

I’ve been gaming with 8BitDo's Xbox mobile controller grip and I’ve never used my Game Pass subscription more

The 8BitDo Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller - Xbox Edition nails the cloud gaming experience but falls short in a few basic areas [...]

2026-07-22

Did you know you can use an AirPod to make an 'over-engineered frisbee stat tracker' that calculates spin and speed? No, of course you didn't — but someone's done it, and it works really well

Paul Tracer has created a smart Frisbee that records performance via an attached AirPod [...]

2026-07-22

'There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home': Quote of the day by Digital Equipment Corporation co-founder Ken Olsen on the future of smart homes

The technology executive from yesteryear issues a seemingly stunning miscalculation regarding the proliferation of consumer-grade computing devices [...]

2026-07-22

What happens when 12,000 tech employees become millionaires overnight

Financial planners who serve newly liquid tech employees describe a predictable sequence of freeze, tax shock, real estate temptation, and slow diversification [...]

2026-07-22

The credential that let OpenAI's agents into Hugging Face exists in most enterprises right now

When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent's sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the whole thing had happened autonomously.The two OpenAI models that broke into Hugging Face last week did not breach it [...]