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Doctor Who ‘The Robot Revolution’ review: Meet Belinda Chandra
Spoilers for “The Robot Revolution.” The start of any season of Doctor Who is important, doubly so when there’s a new co-star to introduce. “The Robot Revolution” has to get us to fall in love with Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu), ensnare new fans and keep existing ones hooked. Especially since it’s the second of two…
Meet Ponte Labor, a startup matching Hispanic immigrants to jobs using WhatsApp | TechCrunch
While working on their MBAs at Harvard Business School, Colombian immigrants Stephanie Murra and Lorenza Vélez noticed that most of the workers in the cafeteria were Hispanic. In conversations with them, a common theme kept coming up: how difficult it was for people who legally moved to the U.S. from Spanish-speaking countries to find their…
Meet PC-Agent: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework for Complex Task Automation on PC
Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains, propelling their evolution into multi-modal agents for human assistance. GUI automation agents for PCs face particularly daunting challenges compared to smartphone counterparts. PC environments present significantly more complex interactive elements with dense, diverse icons and widgets often lacking textual labels, leading to perception…
Meet AI Co-Scientist: A Multi-Agent System Powered by Gemini 2.0 for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
Biomedical researchers face a significant dilemma in their quest for scientific breakthroughs. The increasing complexity of biomedical topics demands deep, specialized expertise, while transformative insights often emerge at the intersection of diverse disciplines. This tension between depth and breadth creates substantial challenges for scientists navigating an exponentially growing volume of publications and specialized high-throughput technologies….
Meet LOTUS 1.0.0: An Advanced Open Source Query Engine with a DataFrame API and Semantic Operators
Modern data programming involves working with large-scale datasets, both structured and unstructured, to derive actionable insights. Traditional data processing tools often struggle with the demands of advanced analytics, particularly when tasks extend beyond simple queries to include semantic understanding, ranking, and clustering. While systems like Pandas or SQL-based tools handle relational data well, they face…
Meet the Trash-Eating Robots Cleaning Lake Tahoe and Beyond
From the beach to the water itself, machines are helping remove plastic, pollutants and invasive species. We got up close and personal with these trash-eating robots to learn about how they work and how they fight pollution beyond just cleaning. The beach-cleaning BeBot We begin with the BeBot, the fully electric, solar-powered beach-cleaning robot made…
Meet Skyseed, a VC fund and incubator backing the Bluesky and AT Protocol ecosystem | TechCrunch
On November 15, Peter Wang posted a message requesting ideas for a new incubator and fund to support experimental projects built on the burgeoning Bluesky/AT Protocol ecosystem. Four weeks later, Skyseed emerged with an initial commitment of $1 million. This turnaround, a speed underscored by the fact that the fund doesn’t even have a website…