Roborock is launching an updated Qrevo Curv robot vacuum that offers an impressive 25,000 Pa of suction power — topping the 18,500 Pa available with last year’s model. That’s not all that’s new with the Qrevo Curv 2 Pro, either, as the newly announced robovac comes with a dual-spinning mop system that automatically detaches before […]
Roborock, a company best known for its robovacs, is entering a new product category: robot lawnmowers. During the IFA 2025 tech conference, Roborock took the wraps off a trio of robot mowers, with its premium RockMow Z1 featuring an all-wheel drive system to handle steep slopes of up to 80 percent, or around 38.66 degrees. […]
Erin Pañgilinan discusses the future of frontend and backend engineering, where XR and AI converge. She explains how the XR tech stack is evolving with foundation models and AI agents, enabling new use cases in spatial intelligence, code generation, and automation. She shares insights on the shift toward accessible, low-code tools. By Erin Pañgilinan
Huawei has announced the Mate XTs, its second-generation trifold phone, which is available to order now in China. It’s only a minor upgrade on the first edition, but comes with new colors, stylus support, and a slightly lower price tag. The biggest addition is the ability to use a stylus on the folding screen, though […]
After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and early employee Ric Weiland to run on the 6502 CPU that […]
If you've been eagerly awaiting Samsung's long-teased trifold phone or Project Moohan XR headset, the company's IFA launches may feel a little prosaic: an affordable spinoff of its flagship phone line, and a pair of Android tablets. The Galaxy S25 FE and Tab S11 series may not be Samsung's most exciting launches of the year, […]
The company unpacked two new flagship Android tablets at IFA 2025, alongside a fifth entry in the Galaxy S25 series.
I’ve never been quite sure what to call the category Samsung’s Galaxy FE belongs to. Upper midrange? Midrange plus? Low flagship? Whatever we’re calling it, Samsung is bringing the concept back again this year in the Galaxy S25 FE, which continues to stand for Fan Edition. It’s still $650 like the S24 FE before it […]
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one […] The post What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Aspirin is commonly prescribed to patients with coronary artery disease to prevent heart attacks and strokes, but a new analysis has found that another drug, clopidogrel, is more effective and just as safe.
