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ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation
11/8/2026
💻 Code | 📊 Data | 🤖 Models | 📖 Documentation Robots are learning to fold laundry, sort parts, and handle unfamiliar objects. But those demonstrations are often rather narrow and don't explain what a robot has learned or why it fails. To…
AI · Design · iOS · Performance
SaaS & Product
The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
11/8/2026
On the move Genes and archaeology are revealing how Bantu speakers spread across much of Africa. The dry-stone wall ruins of Great Zimbabwe—an ancient African capital that once presided over a thriving kingdom across much of modern-day Zimb…
AI · Design
AI & Platforms
After the midterms, things are looking rocky for Elon Musk and data centers
11/8/2026
Democrats’ historic victory in this week’s midterm elections could also have a dramatic effect on the tech industry. In dozens of local ballot measures, voters rejected data centers. And even when they weren’t voting on the issue directly, …
AI · React
Mobile
Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking
11/7/2026
Open-weight artificial intelligence models are now almost as capable of hacking into computer networks as the best closed ones, according to new research that heralds a much-anticipated turning point in the cybersecurity landscape.Vals, a c…
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Web Development
Doctors pull knife from man's eye that went through his brain—and he's fine now
11/7/2026
The man then moved to intensive care, where he recovered rapidly. A day after surgery, doctors were able to remove his breathing tube. He developed some minor right-side weakness, but it resolved two days later. Scans of his brain showed st…
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AI & Platforms
Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering
11/7/2026
Writing code got faster. The work around it didn’t. See how you can plan, write code, review changes, and investigate production issues with GitHub Copilot, and what work still needs your judgment. November 6, 2026 | 8 minutes Share: This O…
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Blue Origin says it is building a higher-performing rocket engine at 1/4 the cost
11/6/2026
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—Blue Origin announced two significant upgrades to its New Glenn rocket on Thursday, reducing the cost of manufacturing the vehicle and expanding its capacity for payload delivery to geostationary orbit and the Moo…
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Web Development
Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture
11/6/2026
GitHub’s new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here’s how it works. November 5, 2026 | 16 minutes Share: Last week at GitHub Universe, we announced our new Git storage architec…
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SaaS & Product
Don’t Build the Reusable Component Yet
11/6/2026
Everyone who ever worked in frontend knows what kind of advice they are going to receive: to make things reusable. Find similar screens, create an abstracted component. Now, enjoy the little pleasure of deleting extra code. However, sometim…
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