How filming your chores could train the android butlers of the future

Insider Brief Quanten Technologies has introduced two new electric motor platforms for humanoid robots, expanding its lineup of motion systems for robotic joints and limbs. The new motor platforms are intended to address the power, weight and efficiency demands of humanoid robotics as developers work to improve robot performance and endurance, according to the company. […]

The anticipated surge in memory demand from humanoid robots could reshape the semiconductor industry, driving innovation and supply challenges. The post Micron CEO forecasts multi-decade memory demand cycle driven by humanoid robots appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Insider Brief Bear Robotics announced it has agreed to acquire Kinisi Robotics, a UK-based developer of humanoid robots and manipulation AI, in a deal aimed at expanding Bear’s automation platform into object handling and warehouse work. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The companies expect the deal to close in the coming days. […]

Few things are as delightfully divisive as Android’s dark mode. Some phones now ship with Android’s darker-style interface activated by default. Most reasonably recent devices offer it as a swift ‘n’ simple toggle. And most people, in my experience, have amusingly strong preferences about which approach they prefer — the standard Android “light” mode, in which screens tend to be bright and with shades of white as a foundation, and the dark mode (a.k.a. “dark theme”), where black and dark gray dominate and everything is much more muted and muddy. It really is a night and day difference, so to speak — but no matter where you fall on the light vs. dark preference spectrum, it’s well worth your while to noddle over two pertinent points: Android’s dark mode doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing decision. With the right setup, you can use it as a dynamically activated sometimes switch that enables itself automatically based on different variables and gives you a darker, less glary motif when

A new Android banking trojan is targeting 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps while giving attackers broad control over infected devices. The malware is called Rokarolla and is distributed through malicious websites that disguise it as popular applications such as TikTok and Google Chrome, reports the mobile cybersecurity firm Zimperium. Zimperium says Rokarolla is designed to […] The post Hackers Targeting 217 Android Finance Apps, Draining PINs, Patterns and Passwords: Zimperium appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

Google’s latest and greatest Android version is officially now out in the world and available — but if you’re using any phone other than a Pixel, that doesn’t mean much for you just yet. The reason why is simple: Despite Google officially launching Android 17 and starting to send it out to Android phone-owners this week, it’s up to each individual device-maker to process the software and deliver it to its customers. And outside of Google itself, unfortunately, most Android device-makers are exasperatingly unreliable about making that happen — some of ’em to almost comically bad extremes (insert exaggerated sigh here). Hold the phone, though — ’cause there is some good news here: While we can’t force any Android phone-maker to start treating software support as a priority, we can get creative and find ways to bring interesting new Android features to devices running older Android versions. In fact, all four of the Android 17 features I called out earlier this week can be emulated on any

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