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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 …

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 …

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 …

The ARM version of Windows 11 on Apple Silicon can now be run on Macs using VMware Fusion 13 in a virtual machine that supports OpenGL 4.3. VMware Fusion 13 is now on sale and works with Apple Silicon on Intel and Mac computers. Deployment is straightforward because it ships …

Whether we like it or not, computers and supercomputers control our lives. Every aspect of society has been transformed by them, and we now depend on their technology to go beyond our capabilities. What about their limitations, though? When will we encounter them, what are they, and can we avoid …

It’s the end of an era for Facebook: starting on December 1, the “interested in” section from users’ profiles will be eliminated. The website was initially created as a method for bored college bros to rank the relative hotness of their friends. The change signals the end of the social …

Twitter Blue has once again been announced by Elon Musk, who tweeted that he was “pushing back the relaunch of Blue Verified until November 29th to ensure that it is rock solid.” However, engineers and developers from Twitter and elsewhere have expressed their concern that the platform could start to …