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Home News Appliances (Image credit: Ecovacs) Robot vacuum cleaners can be incredibly expensive gadgets, but a new, affordable option from Ecovacs has just arrived on Australian shores, and it will clean your floors for just AU$399 – that’s less than half the price of most rivals. The Deebot U2 has…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A pair of spacewalking astronauts completed a four-year effort to modernize the International Space Station's power grid on Monday, installing one last battery. Over the weekend, flight controllers in Houston used the space station’s big robot arm to replace the last pair of old-style batteries…

Technology 1 February 2021 By David Hambling This small drone is learning to fly and land like a honeybeeCC BY-SA 4.0 license Honeybees move quickly from flower to flower, landing easily on each one in turn – but a study involving small drones suggests that the undertaking is more difficult…

British scribe Joe Barton has been hired to pen the script for another entry on the monster-fuelled “Cloverfield” film franchise for Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot. While it’s the fourth film overall set in this universe, this will serve as much more of a direct follow-up to the original J.J.…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have given a fascinating new insight into the next steps to develop fast, energy-efficient, future computing systems that use light instead of electrons to process and store information—incorporating hardware inspired directly by the functioning of the human brain. A team of scientists, including Professor C.…

While I keep changing my mind about how much I personally enjoy Dyson Sphere Program, there’s one thing I can say without hesitation: this is a bloody impressive piece of work. Despite being new into early access, it’s got a honkingly broad feature set already, and the sort of wildly…

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This story is part of a weekend column featuring translations from respected Chinese media outlets, as selected and edited by Sixth Tone. All are reproduced with the outlets’ permission. A version of this article was first published in Caijing ELaw. SHANGHAI — As the evening’s frigid winds force pedestrians to…

Disney XD’s “Big Hero 6: The Series” will conclude with the currently airing third season, the network announced Thursday. The final run of episodes will begin airing Monday, Feb. 1, with the series finale set to air on Feb. 15. The finale, titled “Krei-oke Night / The Mascot Upshot,” will…

NewsWritten by Song Jingli Published on 28 Jan 2021 The city says it hasn’t issued an appropriate license yet. AutoX announced on Thursday that its driverless robotaxis are now available to the public in Shenzhen, one of the largest cities in China, on a trial basis. Individuals need to sign up for…