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Uber, Lucid Motors, and Nuro unveiled a production version of their joint robotaxi at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show. TechCrunch took a peek at some of it ahead of its announcement. The vehicle, which has been in development for more than six months, is part of a deal in which Uber has invested $300 million in Lucid and pledged to buy 20,000 of the company’s electric vehicles. The companies announced Monday that the robotaxi is already being tested on public roads ahead of the planned launch of commercial service in the San Francisco Bay Area later this year. Based on…
Nvidia released a new stack of robot foundation models, simulation tools, and edge hardware at CES 2026. It’s a move that signals the company’s ambition to become the default platform for generalist robotics, much like Android became the operating system for smartphones. Nvidia’s move into robotics reflects a broader industry shift as AI moves from the cloud to machines that can learn how to think in the physical world, enabled by cheaper sensors, advanced simulations, and AI models that can generalize across tasks. Nvidia on Monday revealed details of its full stack ecosystem for physical AI. This includes a new…
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially announced the company’s new Rubin computing architecture, calling it the state-of-the-art in AI hardware. The new architecture is currently in production and will be further enhanced in the second half of this year. “Vera Rubin is designed to address a fundamental challenge we have: the rapidly increasing amount of computation required for AI,” Huang told the audience. “Today, I can say that Vera Rubin is in full operation.” First announced in 2024, the Rubin architecture is the latest in Nvidia’s continuous hardware development cycle that has turned it into…
Robotics company Boston Dynamics has partnered with Google’s AI Research Institute to accelerate the development of the next generation of humanoid robots, Atlas, allowing it to act more human-like around people. The partnership, announced Monday at a Hyundai press conference at CES 2026, focuses on robotics research using Google DeepMind’s AI-based models. The first test case will be Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot, said Carolina Parada, senior director of robotics at Google DeepMind. “We are exploring the integration of our cutting-edge AI-based model with Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot, with the goal of developing the world’s most advanced robot-based model…
At CES 2026, Nvidia announced Alpamayo, a new family of open-source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets for training physical robots and vehicles designed to help self-driving cars make decisions in complex driving situations. “The ChatGPT moment has arrived for physical AI, when machines begin to understand, reason, and act in the real world,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. “Alpamayo brings reasoning to self-driving cars, allowing them to think through rare scenarios, drive safely in complex environments, and explain their driving decisions.” At the core of Nvidia’s new family is Alpamayo 1, a 10 billion parameter chain…
Lego announced its new Smart Play System on Monday at CES 2026, adding interactive and responsive Lego to its famous analog series. The Smart Play System includes 2×4 blocks, smart tag tiles, and smart minifigures. Smart bricks and minifigures can sense nearby smart tags. Smart Tags are 2×2 studless tiles with unique digital IDs that tell Bricks and Minifigures how to behave. For example, if a smart tag is included in a helicopter building set, the smart bricks will light up and make propeller sounds to help bring the helicopter to life. A built-in accelerometer allows Brick to sense when…
Atlas, meet Atlas Image credit: Hyundai Motor Group Boston Dynamics unveiled a prototype of its humanoid robot Atlas at CES 2026, demonstrating its movements as it walked across the stage. But the audience also got a glimpse of the production Atlas, shown above. Zach Jackowski, vice president and general manager of Atlas at Boston Dynamics, and Aya Durbin, product lead for humanoid applications at Boston Dynamics, shared some of the Atlas specifications. For example, this version has 56 degrees of freedom, most with fully rotating joints, and a human-scale hand with tactile sensors in the fingers and palm for dexterity.…
January 5, 2026Ravi LakshmananCyber Spy / Windows Security A Russian-aligned attacker known as UAC-0184 has been observed leveraging the Viber messaging platform to distribute malicious ZIP archives and target military and government agencies in Ukraine. “The organization will continue its high-intensity intelligence-gathering operations against the Ukrainian military and government sectors in 2025,” the 360 Threat Intelligence Center said in a technical report. The hacker group, also tracked as Hive0156, is known for delivering hijack loaders in attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations, primarily using war-themed decoys in phishing emails. The malware loader then acts as a vector for Remcos RAT infection. This…
January 5, 2026Ravi LakshmananIoT security/mobile security According to Synthient’s findings, the botnet known as Kimwolf infected more than 2 million Android devices by tunneling through residential proxy networks. “The primary actors involved in the Kimwolf botnet have been observed monetizing the botnet through app installations, selling residential proxy bandwidth, and selling DDoS capabilities,” the company said in an analysis published last week. Kimwolf was first publicly documented by QiAnXin XLab last month, with documented connections to another botnet known as AISURU. Kimwolf has been active since at least August 2025 and is assessed to be an Android variant of AISURU.…
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.Since researchers first established the link between diet, cholesterol, and heart disease in the 1950s, heart disease risk has been assessed in part based on a patient’s cholesterol levels, which can be routinely measured through blood tests in the doctor’s office.However, accumulating evidence over the past two decades has demonstrated that a biomarker called C-reactive protein, which indicates the presence of low-grade inflammation, is a better predictor of heart disease risk than cholesterol. you may like As a result, in September 2025, the American College of Cardiology announced new…