🗝 Enhanced privacy and control

WhatsApp unveils "Silence Unknown Callers" and "Privacy Checkup" features →

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🤖 Calico: A Wearable Robot for On-Body Interaction

Researchers at the University of Maryland's Small Artifacts Lab (SMART LAB) have developed Calico → a miniature wearable robot with fast and precise locomotion. It consists of a two-wheel robot on an on-cloth track mechanism. By embedding neodymium magnets as markers, Calico can estimate its location and navigate your body. With various applications, it can listen to organs, guide dance routines, and provide workout feedback.

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❤️Like-share-download

Instagram enables downloading → of public Reels. However, at the moment this feature will only be available for U.S.-based users.

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🚗 Pass or stop?

Driving down the road and approaching an intersection, you see a traffic light. What if the navigator can show you how much time is left until the traffic light signal changes.

In China there is such a thing. The local traffic department has its own API which provides data about 235 intersections.

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🏆 XPrize competition

In 2018, the XPrize Foundation launched a global challenge, sponsored by the Japanese airline ANA, to develop an avatar system that allows real-time human presence in remote locations. The goal is to create robotic systems enabling humans to interact with the world anywhere.

The final event in Long Beach, Calif., gathered 17 teams competing for $8 million. This competition showcased the potential of humans paired with robots, bridging the gap between physical and virtual worlds. The XPrize Foundation → envisions practical applications, including instant care, disaster relief, and critical repairs.

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📣Tech Titans Clash

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to face off in epic cage fight →

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😎 Following the presentation

Some major experts of the tech-savy community have already tested Apple's highly anticipated mixed reality headset. Here is a brief summary → of their opinion on the matter.

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🤖 RoboCat, a self-improving robotic agent by Google DeepMind

It combines the power of Gato (Spanish for ”cat”), a multimodal AI model processing language, images, and actions, with a large training dataset of various robot arms solving hundreds of tasks.

RoboCat → can analyze and act on text, images, and events. With just 1000 human-controlled demonstrations, RoboCat achieved an 86% success rate in picking up gears.

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🤩 What brings design and development closer together

Figma unveils game-changing updates → to enhance design and development workflow at Config 2023 .

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