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Xiaomi delivers on Tesla’s decade-old robot charger vision with new home robotic arm

Xiaomi delivers on Tesla’s decade-old robot charger vision with new home robotic arm

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Xiaomi has unveiled a home robotic arm charger that autonomously plugs and unplugs your EV — delivering on a concept that Tesla prototyped over a decade ago but never brought to market. The compact device, only 152 mm wide, is designed to fit in tight home garage parking spaces and integrates into Xiaomi’s smart home ecosystem for smartphone control. Tesla’s unfulfilled promise In December 2014, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla was working on “a charger that automatically moves out from the wall & connects like a solid metal snake.” He added: “For realz.” By August 2015, Tesla showed a functional prototype — a multi-segmented robotic arm that slithered snake-like toward the charging port, aligned itself, and connected automatically. It looked like the future. But a decade later, the product never shipped. Tesla quietly abandoned the snake charger concept, and the last we heard about it was in 2020, when it was still supposedly “not dead.” It’s dead. Advertisement – scroll for more content Tesla instead pivoted to wireless charging, acquiring German startup Wiferion in 2023 …

The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech

The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech

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The UK government has laid out a $1.47 billion plan to shake its dependence on foreign-made artificial intelligence hardware. Under the measures, announced Monday, the UK will spend more than $1 billion on a national AI supercomputer. It will be stocked with $530 million worth of hardware, including $200 million that will go toward specialist inference chips for processing AI tasks. Priority will be given to up-and-coming British firms in the procurement process; the government pointed to Olix and Fractile, two UK startups developing new styles of inference chip, as potential beneficiaries. British researchers and startups are expected to be able to use the supercomputer starting in 2030. The new measures are part of a broader effort by the UK government to minimize dependence on foreign powers for access to AI products and services—a move made more urgent by the apparent souring of the relationship between the US and its European counterparts. The European Union outlined a similar “tech sovereignty” proposal last week. This year, European leaders have found themselves in confrontation with the Trump …

Nvidia RTX Spark May Light a Fire for Windows on Arm

Nvidia RTX Spark May Light a Fire for Windows on Arm

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Buckle up: Nvidia is “reinventing the personal computer,” according to CEO Jensen Huang. Microsoft and Nvidia have been cozying up to one another in preparation for Nvidia’s highly anticipated launch of the RTX Spark. It’s a new Arm-based system-on-chip (or “SoC”) platform that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture to thin and light Windows laptops and mini desktops. The goal is to provide high-power processing performance for running personal agents, creative work and gaming, but without the space, power needs and cooling requirements usually imposed by discrete graphics. The RTX Spark joins Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X processors running Windows on Arm, with similar claims of “all-day battery life.” Snapdragons achieve that, but one thing to remember about Nvidia’s chip is that it’s intended for far heavier workloads than Snapdragon processors.  Those aren’t meant to “render ultralarge 90GB-plus 3D scenes, edit 12K 4:2:2 video, generate 4K AI videos, run 120B-parameter LLMs with up to 1 million tokens context using agents locally, and play AAA games at 1440p and over 100 frames per second,” all of which can tank your …

Discord just got a big boost on Arm PCs

Discord just got a big boost on Arm PCs

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Summary Discord now offers an Arm-native desktop app for Windows Arm PCs. A native app avoids the overhead of the Windows Prism translator and the limitations of the web app. Discord for Arm PCs is available for download now. Good news for Discord fans using Arm PCs — the popular communication app now has an Arm-native version. This should translate to better performance if you prefer the desktop app. Related Discord is secretly one of the best note-taking apps I’ve ever used Try it before you judge me. Native Discord for Arm is a big deal No more Prism There was no big announcement — Discord quietly snuck the addition into the download menu on its website. However, the change is significant for users on Arm PCs (think Snapdragon X chips). Until now, you’ve been able to use it on Arm PCs, but you’d have to run the x64 version through Windows’ Prism translator (which allows you to run x64 apps on Arm devices) or rely on the browser version. Prism technically works, but there …

Boost the calorie burn of your walks by adding these three trainer-recommended arm exercises

Boost the calorie burn of your walks by adding these three trainer-recommended arm exercises

Published by Jenni Sidey

One of the most effective and often overlooked strategies for weight loss is to simply walk more frequently, or farther. NASM-certified personal trainer Peter Conroy has another idea. The founder of The Difference App suggests adding a variety of arm exercises into your walks to make them more effective. “Adding additional exercises to your walks can add a new dimension that is both challenging and fun,” he explains. Latest Videos From You may like “These exercises can also help you reach weight goals more quickly, if you have them.” Adding dumbbells, wrist, or ankle weights is not necessary, but can make your walk—and these exercises—even more challenging, strengthen your muscles and further boost your calorie burn. Conroy recommends a basic rep count of 10. But as you become stronger, he suggests gradually increasing the number of reps in each set from 10 to 20, or even to 30. He suggests three sets during your walk but feel free to reduce or increase the number of sets, depending on the length of your walk. Start your …

US Navy official says Taiwan arm sales on ‘pause’ over Iran war

US Navy official says Taiwan arm sales on ‘pause’ over Iran war

Published by Sam Flores

The acting US Navy secretary said Thursday that arm sales to Taiwan had been put on “pause” to ensure that the American military had sufficient munitions for its Iran operations. Asked at a congressional hearing about the stalled $14 billion weapons purchase by Taiwan, acting secretary Hung Cao said that “right now we’re doing a pause in order to make sure we have the munitions we need for Epic Fury — which we have plenty.” Ahead of his recent state visit to China, Donald Trump said he would speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the arms sales, a departure from Washington’s previous insistence that it will not consult Beijing on the matter. Source link

DOJ Sues DC Bar Over Its Prosecution Of Former Trump Lawyer, Calls It “Partisan Arm Of Leftist Causes”

DOJ Sues DC Bar Over Its Prosecution Of Former Trump Lawyer, Calls It “Partisan Arm Of Leftist Causes”

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Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint on May 13 against the D.C. Bar, alleging it has acted as a “partisan arm of leftist causes.” The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on April 27, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times According to the DOJ, the agency seeks to advance President Donald Trump’s directives to end the weaponization of the federal government while nullifying the D.C. Bar’s prosecution of former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark. D.C. Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton P. Fox III, the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, the D.C. Court of Appeals, the District of Columbia itself, the D.C. Bar, and others are named as defendants and accused of unlawfully prosecuting Clark based on his internal deliberations of potential fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The Epoch Times reached out to the D.C. Bar for comment and was referred to the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Clark wrote a draft letter for his litigation …

NASA Rover Gets Arm Stuck Inside Mars Rock, Struggles to Break Free

NASA Rover Gets Arm Stuck Inside Mars Rock, Struggles to Break Free

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech NASA’s Curiosity rover got stuck in a rock, and consequently found itself in a hard place. Last month, the Mars robot was drilling into a rock sample using its robotic arm, as is routine in its scientific investigations. But when it tried to move on, the persistent rock got stuck to the drill and wouldn’t shake off.  New images released by NASA depict Curiosity’s struggle to detach itself. Far from a momentary inconvenience, it took six days before the rover’s drill was liberated from the clingy rock. The images were captured in black and white by the rover’s hazard cameras, which the agency strung together into a rudimentary video. Got something weighing you down? Shake it off (like Curiosity)! The Martian explorer unintentionally picked up a rock while drilling a recent sample, but the team was able to dislodge it by having the rover move its robotic arm and vibrate the drill until the rock fell off. pic.twitter.com/LnLYjIBW2H …