Bright Machines says its new hybrid robot cell could help solve a major AI infrastructure bottleneck

Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line.The San F [...]

Upwork study shows AI agents excel with human partners but fail independently

Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world's most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking re [...]

Male fruit flies drink more alcohol to get females to like them

Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier by stimulating the production of sex pheromones. [...]

The best Bluetooth trackers for 2025

Cold weather is an especially rough time for keeping track of one’s keys — so many more layers with so many more pockets — really, they could be anywhere. Stick a Bluetooth tracker on your keyri [...]

Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video ga [...]

Rapidata emerges to shorten AI model development cycles from months to days with near real-time RLHF

Despite growing chatter about a future when much human work is automated by AI, one of the ironies of this current tech boom is how stubbornly reliant on human beings it remains, specifically the proc [...]

OpenAI says more women than men now use ChatGPT, flipping an 80-20 male split at launch

More women than men now use ChatGPT regularly, according to OpenAI's own data. The company also estimates China's AI spending at up to $125 billion and argues that computing power is becomin [...]

Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets

Every new gadget you buy comes at a cost to your wallet, but there’s a hefty environmental price to pay as well. Every phone and laptop out there is a non-compostable mass of metal and plastic, and [...]

The best Prime Day TV deals still available on day 2: Take up to $500 off sets from Samsung, LG, Sony and more

While Black Friday remains the best time to grab a new TV at a discount, Amazon’s latest October Prime Day sale is a decent opportunity to take the plunge if you need to upgrade right away. We' [...]