Amazon has started delivering prescription medications by drone in a Texas city, broadening its still-experimental effort to deliver goods by air. The online retailer recently began listing drone delivery as an option for Amazon Pharmacy customers who are participating in a test program in College Station, one of two US Read more…
Amazon says it’s testing two new technologies to increase automation in its warehouses, including a trial of a humanoid robot. The humanoid robot, called Digit, is bipedal and can squat, bend and grasp items using clasps that imitate hands, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. It’s built by Read more…
According to a report from Jefferies analysts, Huawei has overtaken Apple’s iPhone as the smartphone market share leader in China. The analysts said smartphone sales in China have showed positive growth year over year, driven primarily by high double-digit growth in Android sales led by Huawei, Xiaomi and Honor devices. Read more…
Baidu’s founder Robin Li declared his company’s large language model has finally caught up with OpenAI’s advanced GPT-4, claiming the lead in his country’s race to develop AI that can rival the US. The billionaire took the stage in Beijing Tuesday to run Ernie 4.0 through a Q&A designed to Read more…
“Australian design student Alexander Burton has developed a prototype kit for cheaply converting petrol or diesel cars to hybrid electric,” reports Dezeen magazine, “winning the country’s national James Dyson Award in the process.” Titled REVR (Rapid Electric Vehicle Retrofits), the kit is meant to provide a cheaper, easier alternative to Read more…
Scientists in China say their latest quantum computer has solved an ultra-complicated mathematical problem within a millionth of a second — more than 20 billion years quicker than the world’s fastest supercomputer could achieve the same task. The JiuZhang 3 prototype also smashed the record set by its predecessor in Read more…
One e-toy for every person on Earth — that’s the staggering amount of electric trains, drones, talking dolls, R/C cars, and other children’s gadgets tossed into landfills every year. Some of what most consumers consider to be e-waste — like electronics such as computers, smartphones, TVs, and speaker systems — Read more…