Soft robots with biological inspiration make a lot of sense in many different contexts, but they are not without drawbacks, just like any other category of technology. These flexible constructions, among other reasons, may find it difficult to move as quickly as their more rigid counterparts. An additional source of …

The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT is working on a challenging effort to create self-assembling robots. Although the team acknowledges that the creation of an autonomous self-building robot is still “years away,” their effort has so far produced promising outcomes. Voxels, a term taken from computer graphics, are …

Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, is launching two updates to its peer-to-peer payments app today, including the capacity to make charitable contributions via Venmo as well as a reworked money-sending interface. The latter aims to improve both the ability to pay or request multiple payments at once and to …

The decreasing size of Twitter’s personnel, which is said to be down to 2,300 from 7,500 when new owner Elon Musk assumed control, has received a lot of attention. Many people are concerned about the random ways the firm has been downsized, even though we hypothesized that the most recent …

The results might aid research into the lingering neurological problems that might occur after a COVID-19 infection. Up to six months after recovery, abnormalities can still be observed in the brains of COVID-19 survivors, according to new research. The team, led by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology in …

The US bankruptcy court has granted protection to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which claims to owe its 50 largest creditors nearly $3.1 billion. Without naming them, the exchange stated in a court filing on Saturday that its top ten creditors are owed approximately $1.45 billion. In one of the most …

In advance of the enforcement of U.S. export curbs on one of China’s biggest NAND flash chipmakers, Apple will turn to Samsung for memory used in iPhones, according to DigiTimes. With the potential to potentially purchase up to 40% of the chips required for all iPhones, Apple originally intended to …

According to the founder of the Taiwanese company, TSMC, an Apple chip supplier, has plans in place to mass produce next-generation 3-nanometer chips at its $12 billion Arizona factory. Morris Chang said the 3-nanometer factory would be situated at the same Arizona site as the 5-nanometer plant while speaking to …

Musk is making some peculiar moves in an effort to entice Trump back to the podium. Elon Musk has reinstated Donald Trump’s Twitter account after utilizing a Twitter poll to choose whether to do so. On January 6, some of Trump’s supporters attacked the Capitol while others used the social …

The sixth annual FIRST Inspire Gala celebrated STEM education, featured remarks from Apple CEO Tim Cook, and raised money to further the nonprofit’s goals. At the FIRST event on November 15, Tim Cook served as the special guest, and there, he was interviewed by a number of tech social media …