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Food handling is an area of work that still relies heavily on humans. Fruit, vegetables, meat, and other foods need to be handled quickly but gently. It is also hard to automate because no two pieces of fruit, vegetables, or chicken nuggets look exactly the same.Eka’s demos suggest that the company may be onto something big. I found myself mentally comparing their robots to GPT-1, OpenAI’s first large language model, developed four years before ChatGPT. GPT-1 was often incoherent but showed glimmers of general linguistic intelligence.The robots I saw seem to have a similar kind of nascent physical intelligence. When…

Google’s spent the last few years working with auto manufacturers towards integrating Gemini to newer cars, and it looks like General Motors (GM) is the latest brand to bring Google’s AI-powered assistant to its vehicles. More specifically, GM recently announced that it will gradually roll out Gemini support for around 4 million vehicles within the United States. Tim Twerdahl, Global Vice President of Product Management at General Motors comments: Gemini delivers AI assistance to millions of drivers across every segment and price point for a wide range of everyday needs. That kind of scale is only possible because of the…

During the inauguration, the ICT Minister highlighted that Talabat’s investment in the AI-powered logistics hub reflects strong confidence in the Egyptian market and its growing digital economy. The Minister of Communications and Information Technology , Raafat Hendy, has inaugurated the largest quick commerce (Q-commerce) distribution hub in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for Talabat Egypt. The opening was conducted on behalf of the Prime Minister and attended by several senior government officials, including ministers of finance, investment, trade, industry, and the head of ITIDA. The new logistics facility, developed in partnership with Hassan Allam Utilities, is located in the…

Image Credits: UnsplashWhere AI meets overloadWe’ve officially entered the era where you don’t search—you ask.You open tools like ChatGPT, type “best budget headphones” or “should I invest in crypto right now?”, and expect a clean answer back. No tabs. No rabbit holes. Just clarity.That’s the promise of AI-driven discovery.But here’s the part people don’t talk about enough:Even AI needs a reference point.Because when everything is available instantly, the real challenge isn’t access—it’s orientation.And in crypto, that orientation still starts in one place:Bitcoin.AI can surface options—but it still needs a baselineAI is incredible at compressing chaos.It can:Compare 20 products in secondsSummarize…

The Google Pixel 11 lineup is likely to be announced in August, if the company sticks to its usual launch timeline. CAD-based renders of all models in the series have already surfaced, and now key details about the lineup’s Tensor G6 chipset have also leaked. A tipster has shared a screenshot revealing that the Tensor G6 will adopt a new set of ARM CPU cores compared to the Tensor G5 and feature a 7-core setup. The screenshot shows that the chipset features an ARM C1 Ultra core clocked at 4.11GHz, four ARM C1 Pro cores at 3.38GHz, and two additional…

Even the long-established US program is seeing growth: Interest in and approval for nuclear energy have spiked, and Big Tech is throwing money around to meet rising electricity demand. Companies are proposing (and beginning to receive regulatory approval for) next-generation reactors, which employ different coolants, fuels, and designs. Given all this new interest, and the impending arrival of new types of nuclear waste, it’s time for nuclear companies, as well as their powerful customers, to push for progress on building geological storage facilities. As the richest country on the planet and home to a large chunk of the activity in…

During the meeting, discussions focused on accelerating the adoption of Oracle Cloud services, which are expected to become commercially available from within Kenya in the near future. William Kabogo Gitau has announced that Kenya is stepping up efforts to expand its digital economy through strategic partnerships, infrastructure investment, and skills development. This follows a high-level meeting he hosted with a delegation from Oracle Corporation, led by Annick Sakho. During the meeting, discussions focused on accelerating the adoption of Oracle Cloud services,  which are expected to become commercially available from within Kenya in the near future. Kabogo noted that the planned…

Image Credit: @asha_shar, XTalk about Microsoft Gaming, and I picture Solitaire Collection, Sudoku, and those default PC games—not Xbox. Even though Xbox sat under that label since 2022, reports point to a shift back to the Xbox name under new leadership in 2026. That shift brings a clear signal: Xbox returns to the center of Microsoft’s gaming identity. When the first Xbox hit in 2001, the goal was to keep distance between brands. Back then, people didn’t link Microsoft with gaming at all.A fresh start puts xbox front and centerSeveral reports say Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who took the role in…

Google Translate is now 20 years old, believe it or not. The service launched back in 2006 as a humble experiment, and today supports “about 250 languages”, and more than 60,000 potential language pairs, supporting 95% of the world’s population. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most used language pair is English to Spanish. The most translated phrase is “thank you”. More than 1 billion people use Google Translate every month, and more than 1 trillion words are translated by the service each month. To celebrate its 20th birthday, Google is launching one of the most requested features: pronunciation practice. You can see…

The rollout underscores the growing importance of telecommunications infrastructure in enabling smart mining practices and reflects ongoing collaboration between telecom providers and industry players to build a more connected and technologically advanced mining ecosystem in Namibia. MTC Namibia  has deployed and handed over four dedicated LTE network sites at Rössing Uranium Limited, marking a significant step in advancing digital connectivity within Namibia’s mining sector. The deployment, completed on April 23, was carried out at the request of the Rössing mine to address connectivity gaps across key mining zones that previously experienced limited or inconsistent network coverage. The new LTE sites…