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UGREEN Uno 30W USB-C Compact Robot GaN Fast Charger

UGREEN Nexode Uno 30W USB-C Compact Robot GaN Fast Charger is Designed to Charge Up Your Day

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UGREEN Uno 30W USB-C Compact Robot GaN Fast Charger
Wall adapters have been quietly getting the job done for years, stuck in the bottom of a bag or tucked away in some corner. But every now and then one comes along that’s worth taking a longer look at, for reasons that go beyond just being functional. The UGREEN Nexode Uno 30W fast charger, priced at $17.98 (was $29.99), is one of those. It resembles a small robot, with a pop-out socket and an LED display that flashes the charging status in simple little images, which is about as near as you can come to making paying attention to how long something is charging entertaining.

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Blue Origin NG-2 New Glenn Mission Launch Mars

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Clears the Pad, Delivers NASA’s Twins to Mars’ Doorstep

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Blue Origin NG-2 New Glenn Mission Launch Mars
On Thursday afternoon in Florida, a roar echoed over the Atlantic as Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 36. Liftoff was at 3:55 p.m. Eastern, right in the middle of an 88-minute window that had been clear of previous issues. The vehicle, painted white and blue, rose steadily on clouds of fire from its seven BE-4 engines, carrying two small, but mighty, spacecraft from NASA.

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3D-Printed Chainmail Armor Experiment

3D-Printed Chainmail Armor Experiment Goes Right, Pits Plastic Rings Against Steel

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3D-Printed Chainmail Armor Experiment
A single bed on a Bambu Lab 3D printer whirs away for hours, layer by layer, building up a strong PLA filament mat, strand by strand. When the platform has cooled down, the interlocking rings lift loose, revealing a flexible mat of plastic chainmail ready to be draped over a test dummy. The guys over at Screen Tested wanted to know if you could genuinely make decent armor on one of these fancy home 3D printers – could it resist real-world violence?

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Russia AIdol Humanoid Robot Fall

AIdol Debacle in Moscow is What Happens When Humanoid Robots Trip Over Their Own Ambitions

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Russia AIdol Humanoid Robot Fall
Humanoid robot researchers say we’ll be living alongside machines as if it were second nature, but a recent presentation in Moswcow reminded us that, more often than not, these promises are built on shaky ground. That was the case last week when AIdol – billed as Russia’s attempt at cracking the market for upright, thinking robots – made its long-awaited debut. For a fleeting moment, it looked as though this was going to be some kind of smooth first impression.

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Google DeepMind SIMA 2 AI Learn 3D Game

Google DeepMind’s SIMA 2 Steps Into the Game, Virtual 3D Worlds That Is

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Google DeepMind SIMA 2 AI Learn 3D Game
Google DeepMind has just unveiled SIMA 2, an AI agent that dives headfirst into 3D video games and handles them like a pro in no time. Last year’s SIMA 1 could handle some basic directions in virtual settings, but until recently, it was only succeeding about 31% of the time when things got tricky, whereas humans were able to crack it at a rate of 71%. With SIMA 2, they’ve approximately quadrupled that success rate by combining it with Gemini’s language intelligence, which essentially allows it to take raw commands and transform them into a meticulously plan, along with all the back and forth communication.

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ChatGPT 5.1 Release Features

OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 Just Landed, and It Talks Like a Friend Who Actually Listens

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ChatGPT 5.1 Release Features
GPT-5.1 was released by OpenAI today, and the first thing you notice is the tone. Not the voice on your phone, which will be accessible soon, but how it speaks. Say goodbye to those inflexible, textbook responses that made conversing with it feel like talking to a friendly but awkward acquaintance. In its place, you get someone who sounds more like an intelligent buddy, remembering what you said five minutes ago and genuinely asking about your day.

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Even Realities G2 Smartglasses

Even Realities G2 Smartglasses with AI Prompts Become the Quiet Challenger to Ray-Ban Meta

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Even Realities G2 Smartglasses
Ray-Ban Meta glasses contain cameras and speakers that project sounds directly into your ears. Even Realities takes a different approach. Their new G2 smartglasses, which go on sale today for $599, do not have any of these extras. There is no camera, thus no awkward recordings. There are no speakers, so talks remain private. Instead, a vivid green display appears in front of one eye, bringing information straight into your vision without turning your face into a billboard.

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Astronomer SN 2024ggi Supernova Explosion Very Large Telescope

Astronomers Catch a Supernova Explosion in an Unexpected Form

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Astronomer SN 2024ggi Supernova Explosion Very Large Telescope
Yi Yang, an assistant professor at Tsinghua University, had barely touched down in San Francisco from a long flight when his phone started blowing up with alerts. A massive star – all 22 million light years away in the galaxy NGC 3621 – was going out in a blaze of glory at the end. What we now know as SN 2024ggi started lighting up on April the 10th, 2024. Within a few hours, Yang was on the phone to the European Southern Observatory, begging them to get a look at it. And by the next day, the ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile is swinging round to get a glimpse of the distant supernova explosion.

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Tapo HybridCam Duo C246D Security Camera

Tapo HybridCam Duo C246D Boasts Two Cameras in One Body, No Subscriptions Required

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Tapo HybridCam Duo C246D Security Camera
Indoor / outdoor security cameras often leave you with a tough decision – go high and you’ll miss out on what’s happening right by the house, or go low and everything beyond the driveway is out of view. Tapo just threw up its hands and decided to give people the best of both worlds – the HybridCam Duo C246D, priced at $49.99 after redeeming the on-page coupon (was $69.99), offers both views at once from a single sleek dome.

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