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🔇 Deveillance unveils device that blocks microphones within a 2-meter radius
Startup Deveillance introduced Spectre I, a portable device designed to protect conversations from nearby microphones. The system creates a privacy zone of about 2 meters around the user.
The device scans the environment for microphones and emits signals humans cannot hear. Microphones capture the signals, which overlay speech and turn recordings into noise.
Spectre I uses AI-based signal processing instead of traditional radio jamming and runs entirely on the device. No data is sent to the cloud.
The product is currently available for preorder with a $1,200 deposit, with first deliveries expected in August 2026.
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😜 Perplexity introduces always-on local AI system called Personal Computer
Perplexity launched Personal Computer, a local AI setup built around a Mac mini that acts as a proxy for Perplexity Computer.
The system connects the Perplexity agent with a continuously running local environment. The AI can move between tools, execute tasks autonomously, and continue work without user interaction.
It also supports remote access from any device, persistent memory, and connectors to external services. The agent can work directly with local files and projects.
Personal Computer is currently available through a waitlist.
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🧪US tech offices experiment with nicotine pouches for productivity
Some US tech companies have started placing free nicotine pouch dispensers in their offices. Employees over 21 can take a daily portion from the machines.
According to executives behind the program, nicotine can increase employee productivity by 20–30%. They say workers take fewer coffee breaks and stay focused longer.
The idea is being framed as part of workplace “biohacking” trends spreading through parts of Silicon Valley.
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🔋 Google Play starts penalizing apps that drain battery in background
Google Play began enforcing new rules on March 1 for apps that consume too much battery while running in the background.
The system focuses on wake locks. These keep the CPU active when the screen is off. If an app holds a wake lock for more than 2 hours on average with the screen off in over 5% of sessions during a 28-day period, the app may face penalties.
Google can add warnings on the app’s store page and reduce its visibility in search and recommendations.
Battery usage is now treated as a technical quality signal alongside crashes and freezes.
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🧠 Cortical Labs connects 200,000 human neurons to play DOOM
Cortical Labs placed about 200,000 human brain cells in a petri dish and connected them to a computer running DOOM.
Game data is converted into electrical signals and sent to the neurons. Their activity is translated back into commands for movement, aiming, and shooting. Through feedback the neural network gradually learns to navigate the 3D environment.
The system uses biological neurons instead of digital neural networks. Human brains consume far less energy than modern AI systems.
Energy limits remain a major constraint for scaling AI.
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🧠 Eon Systems runs first digital brain that controls a virtual body
Researchers at Eon Systems say they built the first full digital emulation of an animal brain that can control a body inside a simulation.
The team copied the brain of a fruit fly and reconstructed its connectome. This is a full map of neurons and the connections between them. The model includes about 140,000 neurons with their synaptic links.
The key step was connecting this brain model to a simulated body. The system runs a full loop: environment → sensors → brain signals → motor commands → movement. The virtual fly shows several basic behavior patterns.
The approach uses a biological brain map instead of training a neural network. Scaling it remains the main challenge. A human brain contains about 86 billion neurons.
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💡Taara shows 25 Gbps internet link over light between buildings
Taara, a former Google X project, introduced Taara Beam at MWC 2026 in Barcelona. The device sends internet traffic through a beam of invisible infrared light and reaches speeds up to 25 Gbps over distances up to 10 km.
The unit weighs about 8 kg and mounts on rooftops or poles. Inside is a silicon photonics platform with an optical phased array that contains more than 1,000 tiny emitters. They form and steer the light beam electronically, with no moving parts.
The system carries the same type of optical signal used inside fiber cables, but through open air. The module that controls the beam is about the size of a finger.
The key advantage is deployment time. Fiber rollout can take months. A Beam link can be installed in hours.
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🤖 One of the best prompting cheatsheets ever
After interviewing 12 AI researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, this guy noticed they all use the same 10 prompts.
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🛞 Nokian Tyres builds tires with temperature-activated retractable studs
Nokian Tyres introduced Hakkapeliitta 01, a tire with studs that extend in cold conditions and retract when temperatures rise.
The mechanism relies on a special rubber compound. An inner layer changes stiffness depending on temperature, which pushes the studs outward in frost and pulls them back in warmer weather.
The design adapts traction to changing road conditions automatically.
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🔍 Google NotebookLM adds cinematic video generation from documents
Google introduced a new feature in NotebookLM called Cinematic Video Overview. It turns user sources into animated video explainers instead of static slides.
The system combines several models. Gemini 3 acts as the director that structures the story. Nano Banana Pro generates visual references. Veo 3 produces the animated video.
The feature is currently limited to Ultra accounts.
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Ⓜ️ Meta smart glasses videos reviewed by data workers in Kenya
A report by Svenska Dagbladet describes how footage from Meta’s AI smart glasses is reviewed by human data labelers. Journalists visited a Sama office in Nairobi, where workers analyze videos to help train Meta’s AI systems.
Workers say they watch recordings captured by users in everyday situations. The tasks include labeling objects in videos and checking chatbot responses. Some clips contain sensitive scenes, including private moments at home or visible financial information.
The investigation also looked at how users can control their data. The glasses require internet connectivity because AI processing happens on Meta’s servers. Journalists say they could not get a clear explanation from Meta on how users can fully prevent their videos or conversations from being used.
The report suggests that most users would likely keep using the device even if they knew their footage might be reviewed.
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⚡️ BREAKING: Apple just announced the launch of their brand new $599 MacBook Neo.
This is Apple’s biggest push yet into low end laptops.
Available March 11th.
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🍏 Apple updates MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Apple refreshed the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips built on a dual-die Fusion architecture. The focus is AI performance and higher memory bandwidth.
Key specs:
🔸 Up to 18-core CPU, around +30% vs M4
🔸 GPU up to +50% faster, Neural Accelerator in every core
🔸 AI tasks up to 4x faster vs M4, up to 8x vs M1
🔸 SSD up to 14.5 GB/s, base storage 1 TB (Pro) and 2 TB (Max)
🔸 Memory up to 64 GB (Pro, 307 GB/s) and 128 GB (Max, 614 GB/s)
🔸 Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 via new Apple N1 chip
🔸 Up to 24 hours battery life
Prices start at $2,200. Preorders open March 4, sales begin March 11.
MacBook Air also moves to M5, with 512 GB base SSD, up to 4 TB storage, 153 GB/s memory bandwidth, and a starting price of $1,100.
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The mysterious story around OpenAI’s headphones didn’t end with that video. Now Airbnb co-founder and chief designer Jony Ive has “accidentally” appeared in them.
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🔍 Google names new London building after AlphaGo’s move 37
Google named its new London building “Platform 37”, referencing the famous 37th move played by AlphaGo against Lee Sedol.
The move became one of the most discussed moments in AI history. This week marks 10 years since the match where AlphaGo defeated the Go champion.
The building will also host The AI Exchange, a public space for talks, exhibitions, and events focused on artificial intelligence.
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🤖 Cloudflare launches site crawler after years of blocking crawlers
Cloudflare introduced a new /crawl endpoint in its Browser Rendering service.
The tool can scan and extract content from an entire website through a single API request.
The feature is designed for RAG pipelines, AI training datasets, monitoring, and research.
Cloudflare is also known as a major provider of bot protection for websites, including tools that block scrapers collecting data for AI models.
The company says its crawler will respect site rules and robots.txt.
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🤖 Figure shows humanoid robot cleaning a living room
Figure released a new video of its humanoid robot Figure 03 tidying a living room. A month earlier the company showed the robot cleaning a kitchen.
The robot runs on Helix 02, a single neural network that processes camera and tactile sensor data and directly controls the whole body, including arms, fingers, legs, and torso.
The system uses one model to handle perception and movement instead of separate control modules.
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🤖 Anthropic launches multi-agent code review tool for Claude Code
Anthropic released a new feature for Claude Code that reviews GitHub pull requests using multiple AI agents. The system analyzes PRs, leaves comments directly in the diff, and posts a summary with the main findings.
Several agents review the same changes in parallel, each focusing on different aspects of the code. Anthropic tested the system internally for several months.
During testing the share of PRs with meaningful review comments rose from 16% to 54%. Fewer than 1% of results were marked incorrect by engineers. In large PRs of about 1,000 lines the tool found at least one issue in 84% of cases, with an average of 7.5 issues per PR.
The estimated cost is about $15–$25 per pull request.
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🦞 China hosts OpenClaw install events that draw 1,000 people
Developers held a public event near the Tencent office in Shenzhen where anyone could get OpenClaw installed. Around 1,000 people reportedly showed up. Similar events also took place in Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities.
The program is tied to a broader rollout of OpenClaw infrastructure in China. The plan includes “Lobster service zones”, physical or cloud locations where OpenClaw is already deployed and maintained.
Operators of these zones may receive funding for hosting. Developers who build applications for priority sectors can get subsidies up to 2M yuan. Projects recognized as demonstration cases can receive one-time grants up to 1M yuan.
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🤖 Chinese police test AI patrol robot that moves at 60 km/h
Chinese police are using a new AI patrol robot with a spherical design. Its top speed reaches about 60 km/h.
The robot moves by rolling on a single large wheel-like body. The shape allows it to accelerate quickly while staying stable on the ground.
The form factor is built for speed during patrol and pursuit.
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POV: your vibe coder friend showing you what he built using his $200 claude code max plan
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Alibaba researchers said a model they were training managed to bypass internal firewall protections and started using part of the GPUs for cryptocurrency mining instead of training tasks.
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🤖 OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source orchestrator for AI agents
OpenAI launched Symphony, a framework designed to run autonomous agent workflows. The project is open source and available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Symphony connects to a task board where agents monitor new items and launch separate runs for each task inside an isolated copy of the repository.
The system handles the full pipeline from task creation to pull request. It plans the work, writes the code, runs tests, and prepares the PR for human review.
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🖥 Windows 12 may launch this year with AI at the core
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to release Windows 12 later this year, around the time support for Windows 10 ends, according to PCWorld.
The new system is built on a modular CorePC architecture. Components are isolated and can be added or removed to fit different device types.
AI is the central focus. Copilot is expected to become a core control layer inside the system rather than a simple assistant feature. A redesigned interface and updated system controls are also planned.
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🎮 This LEGO builder from Japan engineered a fully automated paper-airplane machine
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🤖 GPT-5.4 leak points to massive context window and new reasoning mode
Reports say OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5.4 could bring a context window of up to 2M tokens along with persistent memory. That would allow the model to work with large codebases and long document sets without constant re-prompting.
The model is also expected to support full-resolution image processing for PNG, JPEG, and WebP files. That matters for dense screenshots, technical diagrams, UI layouts, and documents with small text where downscaling usually loses information.
Another addition is a new speed-priority tier plus an “extreme” reasoning mode. This mode reportedly allows the model to spend more compute on difficult tasks, aimed at research workflows and long multi-step jobs.
Mentions of GPT-5.4 briefly appeared in pull requests inside the public Codex repository before being removed. Prediction markets currently assign a 55% chance of release before April 2026 and 74% before June.
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🤖 OpenClaw runs real-time 3D reasoning on Unitree G1 robot
OpenClaw demonstrated real-time 3D reasoning on the Unitree G1. The system builds dynamic voxel maps to track objects and temporal changes.
It embeds spatial data for deep queries, making it suited for drones and quadruped robots.
The future of perception.
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🎙 Claude Code rolls out voice mode to first 5% of users
Voice mode is now live in Claude Code for about 5% of users, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks. Access appears via a note on the welcome screen, and can be toggled with /voice.
It works as push-to-talk. Hold space, speak, release. The transcript streams directly at the cursor position, so users can mix typing and voice in the same prompt.
Voice mode is included at no extra cost. Transcription tokens do not count against rate limits. It is rolling out across Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.
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⭕️ Anthropic adds 1-minute memory transfer to Claude
Anthropic introduced a simple way to move long-term memory from another AI into Claude. The update comes as more users switch from ChatGPT to Claude.
Users can export saved context from their previous assistant and paste it into Claude’s memory settings. The process takes about a minute and avoids re-explaining preferences or project details.
Anthropic provides a ready-made prompt to use in ChatGPT or Gemini, then asks users to copy the response into Claude.
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