Unlike Amazon’s other robots, Sparrow doesn’t need items to be boxed before it can move them. | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced a new robot, dubbed Sparrow, which the company says is its first warehouse robot that can “detect, select, and handle individual products.” The company says the machine is capable of recognizing and handling…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
A rendered version of the MK30 drone. | Image: Amazon Amazon is building a better drone that should help chart a course for the company’s Prime Air delivery service after the project was reportedly hampered by multiple malfunctions, crashes, and even fires. The new MK30 drone will go into service in 2024 and is designed…
Enlarge / Let’s see, you landed on my “Google Ads” space, and with three houses… that will be $1,400. (credit: Ron Amadeo / Hasbro) Google is slowly loosening its grip over billing on Google Play. In March, the company announced a pilot “User Choice Billing” plan, which would give users the option to buy things…
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The FTC has telegraphed what appears to be a now-inevitable investigation into Twitter’s internal data handling practices, as the company continues to shed important staff and improvise new features. “No CEO or company is above the law,” the agency said in a statement — and if Elon Musk’s Twitter continues its current spree, they may…
Hours after news broke that Twitter lost top cybersecurity executive Lea Kissner, another round of departures deepened the company’s ongoing crisis. Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer first reported that Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth quit the company Thursday after just two weeks under Musk’s leadership. Robin Wheeler, who was elevated to lead Twitter’s marketing…
Microsoft has begun the rollout of iCloud photo library integration within Windows 11, in the form of an update to the Photos app. The announcement on the Windows Experience Blog from Dave Grochocki, Principal Product Manager Lead for Windows Inbox Posts, follows the company’s initial unveiling of the feature at its Surface event in October…
Your iPhone can get excessively hot for a number of reasons. Chonticha Vatpongpee / EyeEm / Getty Images You can fix an overheating iPhone by restarting it, closing apps, or removing the charging cable. If your iPhone is in direct sunlight or other hot conditions, you should remove it right away. You can also update…
U.S. President Trump hosts Hanukkah reception at the White House in Washington Reuters Over the 2010s, there was arguably no prominent American family that changed more than the Trumps. They transformed from having a presence in the real estate, business, and reality TV worlds to becoming the most powerful force in American politics.Trump’s large immediate family…