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Nvidia Expands Physical AI Safety Push to Robotaxis and Humanoid Robots
Nvidia expanded its Halos safety system to robotics in June 2026, aiming to make robotaxis and humanoid robots safer.
Nvidia expanded its Halos safety system to robotics in June 2026, aiming to make robotaxis and humanoid robots safer.
Dyson launches Total Restore, a £99.99 door-to-door clean and repair service for vacuums and wet cleaners in Britain.
The Traffic Management 12123 Alipay mini program launched electronic driver's license, rental vehicle violation handling and inspection booking on Sept. 28, expanding online traffic services, Leiphone reported.
TechRadar has described Sigma's 50-120mm F2.8 as an APS-C classic in the making and a tempting full-frame alternative, in an article published on 8 October 2026 that carried the site's Cameras Editor byline.
TechRadar Pro opinion: cyber resilience is measured in response minutes, not firewalls, citing Grant Thornton UK research.
TechRadar recommends Anycubic's Photon P1 Max for large resin prints, citing an 18.3L build volume and a $849.99 Amazon price.
Lenovo opened blind preorders for the YOGA Pro 15 RTX Spark on Oct. 8. The laptop is among the first local-agent AI PCs powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X superchip and targets AI creators, developers and researchers.
A Shaoshupai review says Apple's folding iPhone Duo moves controls to a right-side strip, cuts effective content width, keeps multitasking basic and puts the charging port on the left half.
A TechRadar article says global employee engagement has dropped to 20%, its lowest level since 2020, and argues that companies must adopt broadcast-style visual storytelling to hold employee attention and execute strategy.
Lenora Thaker's debut The Pearl of Tagai Town won the A$30,000 Queensland premier's award for a work of state significance, topping the 2026 Queensland Literary Awards announced at Brisbane Powerhouse.
Jaguar unveiled the Type 01, a four-door electric luxury GT with more than 1,000 hp and a new design language, in New York on Oct. 6. The car is priced from £130,000 in the UK and is set to launch in early 2027.
Magico has fully reworked its A3 floorstanding speaker as the A3 2027, with new drive units and cabinet damping drawn from its M9 flagship. It is priced at $25,000 a pair in the US and £28,998 in the UK.
Asos says a hacker impersonated a trusted contact to access customer names and contact details; shares fell about 10% after a push alert.
Google has added live UK petrol and diesel prices to Google Maps and Waze, drawing on the government's Fuel Finder service. Prices appear in searches and station listings, and forecourts must update changes within 30 minutes.
TechRadar: 60 Amazon Prime Day deals still live, including AirPods, Sony headphones and Pixel 11.
TechRadar reports that although Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale has ended, 27 of the event’s best deals are still available. They include a £24.99 Blink Outdoor 4 camera and Video Doorbell bundle, a record-low Nintendo Switch 2 price, and discounts on Oral-B, Shark, Kindle, Blink, Inui and Ring products. Most are set to end early next week, or sooner if stock runs out, and are likely the lowest prices until Black Friday in November.
Sherrod Brown, the Democratic former Ohio senator, is making datacenter opposition a central issue in his midterm Senate campaign, blaming Republican Senator Jon Husted for tax breaks and rising energy costs. Husted’s campaign denies the charge, and the race remains tight.
MIT Technology Review released its 2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, highlighting firms in China, next-generation batteries, geothermal and nuclear power for data centers, and long-duration energy storage.
Manus parent Butterfly Effect raised over $500 million and is rebuilding a Beijing team for China AI agents.
Leiphone published a seven-layer cross-domain AI transfer governance codex, while QbitAI reported that UniPat AI's PaperBenchX benchmark found GPT-6 Astra fully reproduced only 13.98% of 93 research papers.
Hu Han, formerly of Tencent Hunyuan, has a new multimodal startup that plans to raise tens of millions of dollars at a target valuation of hundreds of millions, Leifeng reports. Yuanshi Capital is the financial adviser.
Geely Auto Group launched its AI-powered Smart Charge system on Sept. 23, 2026, claiming a 2,250 kW single-gun peak, battery temperatures held below 65 C and 20 percent longer cycle life, along with new batteries, charging robots and a 2027 county-coverage plan.
Apple has told developers it is adding new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac, the permission that lets an app read nearly everything on a user's drive, according to 9to5Mac.
Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, a router that auctions every LLM request across competing providers and locks a maximum price before generation begins.