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MIT Technology Review

This piece is from the forthcoming print issue of MIT Technology Review, which is celebrating 125 years of the magazine! It’s set to go live on Wednesday August 28, so if you don’t already, · A new system lets robots sense human touch without artificial …

CNN

You get a modest increase in battery and screen size over the Pixel 8. The most notable improvements come in the form of 12GB of RAM and a 48-megapixel ultrawide camera sensor. Speaking of that new ultrawide sensor, let’s talk about the cameras.

Space.com

That launch will send AstroForge’s 440-pound (200 kilograms) Vestri probe to dock with a metallic near-Earth asteroid — an unprecedented leap for a commercial spacecraft. “If …

CBS News

It can be really hard to find a great laptop backpack that is able to fit laptops larger than 15 inches. Don’t worry though, we found one and it’s very affordable. The Matein extra-large travel backpack from Amazon is equipped with a padded laptop sleeve …

BBC News

OpenAI and global magazine giant Condé Nast have announced a partnership to allow ChatGPT and its search engine SearchGPT to display content from Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ and other well known publications. The multi-year deal is the latest such …

The Ohio State University News

An international team of scientists is the first to report incredibly small time delays in a molecule’s electron activity when the particles are exposed to X-rays. To measure these tiny high-speed events, known as attoseconds, researchers used a laser …

The Straits Times

COLOGNE – Hundreds of thousands of video game fans and industry figures are converging in Cologne, Germany, for the sector’s biggest trade show. Gamescom kicked off late on Aug 20 with the surprise announcement of a new edition of the Borderlands …

Nielsen

Driving returns is crucial, and having the data to back it up is essential. Join us to uncover how marketers from EMEA and Asia are identifying, measuring and optimising ROI through the entire customer journey. With the proliferation of platforms and …

Amazon EU

Fitness enthusiasts in the UK, Austria, and Germany can now read their Kindle books how they want, whenever they want on their Peloton Bike, Bike+, Tread, or Tread+. For avid readers and fitness enthusiasts, the struggle to balance a good book with a …

insideucr.ucr.edu

A UC Riverside research team has won $250,000 as a runner-up in NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, an international competition challenging participants to develop systems to produce food on the International Space Station.