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Quick Charge Podcast: May 8, 2023

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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NewsSpace

JPL’s Snake-Like EELS Slithers Into New Robotics Terrain

How do you create a robot that can go places no one has ever seen before – on its own, without real-time human input? A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that’s creating a snake-like robot for traversing extreme terrain is taking on the challenge with the mentality of a startup: Build quickly, test often, learn, adjust, repeat. Called EELS (short for Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor)…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI ethics for ad professionals: 10 rules of engagement

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More AI isn’t coming to the workplace. It’s already here. Many of us already use tools that have AI under the hood, and both Google…
MobileNews

Samsung's Galaxy Watch will soon be able to alert wearers to irregular heart rhythms

Samsung has revealed that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved the Health Monitor app’s irregular heart rhythm notification (IHGN) feature for Galaxy Watch devices. The company says that, along with the wearable’s electrocardiogram (ECG) capabilities, the feature can help to identify signs of atrial fibrillation (AFib), a type of arrhythmia. AFib is widely believed to be an…
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MobileNews

Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky is having a moment

Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social network, isn’t publicly available yet but it’s already become one of the buzziest Twitter alternatives. Scoring an invite to the service, which has been in a closed beta for barely two months, has become a sought-after…
DefenseNews

US-Finnish defense pact could bolster Nordic F-35 footprint

MILAN — U.S. forces could gain access to a number of military bases near Russian borders if ongoing negotiations with Finland on a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) prove successful. Finnish newspaper Helsinki Sanomat reported this month that the proposed agreement may allow for military infrastructure investments in the country, which could benefit the region’s fleet of Lockheed Martin-made…
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