The newest generation of robots is not here to replace workers — it is here to work beside them. Known as collaborative robots, or cobots, these machines are designed to share a workspace with people, taking on the heavy, repetitive…
The password is dying, and few people have noticed. Passkeys — the login method that uses your fingerprint, face or device PIN instead of a typed secret — are now offered by most major services, and millions of people have…
After years of fragile hinges and eye-watering price tags, the foldable phone is finally becoming a sensible purchase. The latest generation bends flat without a visible crease, survives thousands of folds in testing, and — crucially — costs far less…
That ageing laptop in your desk drawer may be more useful than you think. As artificial intelligence tools move from the cloud onto the device itself, manufacturers and tinkerers alike are discovering that older machines — once written off as…
Deep in the desert outside Phoenix, a new kind of factory is rising. Its clean rooms are sealed tighter than an operating theatre, its workers move in full-body suits, and inside, machines print circuits measured in billionths of a metre.…
After years of being declared obsolete, the personal computer is enjoying an unexpected renaissance. Global shipments of laptops and desktops have steadied, and manufacturers report that buyers are once again willing to pay for quality machines. The reason, analysts say,…
For the past two years, the artificial intelligence industry has been obsessed with scale. Bigger models, more data, larger data centres. But a quieter revolution is under way: researchers and engineers are now competing to make AI models smaller, faster…
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