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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Manche Dinge sind dazu bestimmt, vergessen zu werden. Und dazu gehört dieses Jahr. 2025 war ein Jahr des Totalitarismus. Warum wir einen radikalen Strukturwandel und weibliche Führung brauchen, um die Stagnation zu durchbrechen.
Öffentliche Einrichtungen können mit der Geschwindigkeit, in der sich unsere Welt derzeit verändert, kaum Schritt halten. In diesem Spannungsfeld erleben wir aktuell die Renaissance eines nahezu ungezügelten Kapitalismus – besonders im Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz.
Wie organisieren wir in Berlin progressive Mehrheiten? Als Parteimitglied bei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen ziehe ich Lehren aus Obama, AOC, Sanders – und einer schonungslosen Analyse von Grünen und Linken in Berlin.
Marques Brownlee on the problems with 1x new humanoid robot Neo and the tendency of many companies to announce a vision and deliver something (bad) much later ...
If you haven’t seen the video from Figure’s latest robot yet, you should definitely do that right now. The robot takes care of household tasks like laundry, cleaning, and doing dishes, all autonomously. While it is still quite slow, it is clear that humanoid robots working for or side-by-side humans will become reality very soon.
Just as oil and water need an emulsifier to truly combine, East and West Germany still require active bridging efforts — education, dialogue, and mutual respect — to overcome divisions that persist 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
With this latest OS update featuring the new “Liquid Glass” design language, it becomes apparent that Apple is trying very hard to keep up with the competition while adding layers of visual complexity that ultimately sacrifice the user experience for aesthetic appeal.
Very compelling take on the current state of Apple: “Now, however, Apple is increasingly on the periphery, and I think that, more than anything, is what bums people out: no, Apple may not be a sugar water purveyor, but they are farther than they have been in years from changing the world.”
We need to stop celebrating either burnout or dropout and start celebrating depth.
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