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Most robots are pretty good at seeing, but touching? That’s been a much tougher problem. While humans instinctively know how hard they’re gripping a coffee mug or pressing a button, robots have traditionally relied on complex arrays of tiny sensors to estimate the same thing. Now, researchers at Queen Mary University of London believe they’ve found a much simpler solution: make touch visible. A sensor that turns touch into color As per the study published in Science Advances, their new tactile sensor changes color whenever pressure is applied, allowing a standard camera to “see” exactly how an object is being…

The race to blanket Earth with satellite internet has unlocked faster connectivity for millions. But according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO), it could also make one of humanity’s oldest hobbies, and one of its most important sciences, a whole lot harder. The organization warns that the rapid growth of satellite mega-constellations could severely disrupt observations made by some of the world’s most powerful telescopes. Astronomers say the night sky is reaching its limit According to the ESO, the number of satellites orbiting Earth has exploded in recent years. Starlink alone now accounts for roughly 10,400 satellites, while before 2022,…

I have been testing Radial for the past week, and it’s quickly become one of those apps I didn’t know how I could live without. It’s a radial menu for macOS that puts your shortcuts, scripts, and automations right where your cursor is, so you never have to go hunting through menus to find what you need. The app just received its 5.0 update, adding AI actions powered by Claude, window layouts, variables, a redesigned settings interface, a new Atmosphere background effect, and a squircle menu shape. I got to try most of these, and here’s what I found. How…

If you’re big on taking road trips with your Tesla, you’re in for a treat. Tesla just updated its shop with a new Summer Collection of camping and outdoor gear built specifically for your car, and a few of those products solve problems you may have actually run into on the road. Keeping it cool in your Model Y The most notable addition is a $595 Dual Zone Fridge designed to fit inside the Model Y‘s frunk. It runs off the 12V outlet and lets you set different temperatures for the two compartments anywhere between 0 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit,…

Every June, after Apple wraps up its annual WWDC keynote, I install the latest iOS beta on my iPhone, watch the progress bar crawl to completion, and wait for the inevitable restart. For years, picking up my phone afterward felt almost identical to how it did before the update.  I saw the same grid of icons, the same Control Center, and the same version of Siri until iOS 26 finally broke that pattern in 2025. iOS 26 raised the bar. iOS 27 didn’t clear it It was the first major update in years that made compatible iPhones feel genuinely different,…

Android 17 desktop mode has a very simple pitch. Plug your phone into a monitor, add a keyboard and mouse, and watch the slab in your pocket pretend to be a computer. I wanted to give that pitch a fair shot, so I tried using it for an actual workday instead of a cute demo. The goal was boring on purpose: write an article, edit it, build the page in WordPress, upload whatever needed uploading, and publish the thing without running back to my laptop like a coward. For a little while, the illusion held together. That’s where the trouble…

Xbox has shared its rundown of next week’s releases, and the list includes 24 new games arriving between July 6 and July 10. The lineup is headlined by two major AAA titles, three notable additions to Game Pass, and a long list of smaller indie games. Two AAA pre-orders lead the week Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced arrives on July 9, with the standard edition priced at $59.99 and a $69.99 Deluxe tier. The release follows a rocky rollout that included a delayed reveal and months of leaks before Ubisoft confirmed the remake. EA Sports College Football 27 arrives the…

Parents who post pictures of their kids online are being told to rethink the habit. The UK’s National Crime Agency and the Internet Watch Foundation have issued new guidance urging families to lock down their social media accounts, warning that publicly shared photos are increasingly being pulled and altered by AI tools to create child sexual abuse material. The two organizations say most parents have no idea this is happening. Criminals no longer need to contact a child directly to generate such material. They can scrape an ordinary photo and run it through widely available nudify apps. What the guidance…

Android 17 finally separated the Wi-Fi and mobile data buttons, and I hate how much that improved my mood. For years, Android treated internet access like one mysterious blob, as if Wi-Fi and cellular data were emotionally codependent. In Android 17 Beta 3, Google split the old combined Internet button into separate Wi-Fi and mobile data tiles, making each connection easier to switch off with a single tap. That’s a good change, which is also why it’s a little damning. When one of the cleanest wins in a major OS update is “the buttons make sense again,” the celebration gets…

With laptops, brands are constantly in a balancing act between portability and workspace productivity. The ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8407AA tries to dodge that choice with a design that brings a whole setup in a compact form factor. I used the Zenbook Duo as a creative machine, mainly with design apps, illustration work, writing, and multitasking. The model I tried runs on Intel’s Core Ultra 7 355, paired with 32GB of memory and a 1TB SSD. That gives it enough horsepower to handle Photoshop and Animate, for sketches and animations, and a lot more without breaking a sweat. But the real…