By the end of the year, Stop & Shop will have installed 500 “giant, gray, aisle-patrolling robots” in its chains of stores, reports Mashable, starting in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Jersey. “Attention shoppers: I’ve seen the future of grocery store technology, and let me tell you, we can do better.” Each of the…

In this day and age, production values are everything. Even bottom-rung content creators are packing 4K smartphones and DSLRs these days, so if you want to compete, you’re gonna need the hardware. Lighting is the key to creating good video, so you might find a set of flexible panel lights handy. Thankfully, [DIY Perks] is…

From whitening power to gum care, there’s an electric toothbrush for everyone. Here’s how to choose the best electric toothbrush. …read more Source:: CNet

“Google has finally chopped the ‘www’ from Chrome’s address bar after delaying the controversial move due to a backlash,” reports TechRepublic: The move to remove ‘www’ was initially planned for last year, when Google announced it would cut “trivial subdomains” from the address bar in Chrome 69. Now Google has begun truncating the visible URL…

GNOME and KDE are co-hosting this year’s Linux App Summit (LAS) in Barcelona from November 12th to 15th. An anonymous reader shared the big announcement: LAS is the first collaborative event co-hosted by the two organizations since the Desktop Summit in 2009. Both organizations are eager to bring their communities together in building an application…

Nature magazine’s cover story is about a Chinese chip that can run traditional deep learning code and also perform “neuromorophic” operations in the same circuitry. The work’s value seems obscured by a lot of hype about “artificial general intelligence” that has no real justification. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes IEEE Spectrum: Making smaller, better transistors for microprocessors is getting more and more difficult, not to mention fantastically expensive. Only Intel, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) are equipped to operate at this frontier of miniaturization. They are all manufacturing integrated circuits at the equivalent of what is called the…

A low-cost, no-nonsense pickup resonates with a lot of buyers, it appears. …read more Source:: CNet

Six sports are either making their big debut or returning to the sporting world’s biggest stage. Here’s what you need to know. …read more Source:: CNet

[Tadao Hamada] works for Fujitsu Tokki, a subsidiary of the more famous Fujitsu. In 1956, Fujitsu decided to compete with IBM and built a relay-based computer, the FACOM128. The computer takes up 70 square meters and weighs about 3 tons. By 1959, they’d learned enough to make a FACOM128B model that was improved. [Hamada’s] job…