Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Mitsubishi's bragging rights for designing the world's fastest Rubik's cube-solving robot have officially been stolen by a team of undergrads in Indiana. Earlier this month, Purdue University announced four collaborators in its Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) successfully designed and built a bot that not only set the new Guinness World Record--it absolutely demolished the multinational company's previous time. Meet Purdubik's Cube: a machine capable of completing a randomly shuffled Rubik's cube in just 0.103 seconds. At 1-2 times faster than the blink of a human eye, the feat is difficult to see, much less comprehend.

Within seconds, you've been scanned, stored, and tracked--before even reaching airport security. Without ever handing over your ID, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) already knows exactly who you are. This is happening at 84 airports across the US. And chances are, you didn't even notice. Marketed as a tool to enhance security, TSA's facial recognition system is drawing criticism for its potential to track Americans from the terminal entrance to their final destination.

Good Job is Slate's advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? I am a hard-line hater of generative AI (ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc.). I think it's bad for the environment and bad for society. It burns water resources, exploits workers in the global south, plagiarizes art and writing, and eliminates badly needed entry-level jobs.

The supplementary material consists of the following. Additional Results of the DomainNet dataset for 5 and 10-shot settings with Resnet34 as backbone network are shown in Table 1. Results are reported in Tables 2 and 3 Discussion on Limitations and Societal Impacts. The architecture of the network is similar to [2]. All other hyperparameters used in our framework are described in the main paper.

In an AI-powered economy, data security is not just a box-checking exercise. Instead, security is the catalyst for trust and innovation within your organization and with your customers. That's the conclusion from the State of IT report from Salesforce, which surveyed over 4,000 IT decision-makers worldwide, including more than 2,000 professionals specializing in security, privacy, or compliance. The survey aimed to understand fast-evolving cyber threats and security priorities, suggesting how to build customer trust in an AI-driven world and use AI to improve security postures. According to the State of IT survey, the top five most concerning security threats are cloud security, data poisoning, malware, phishing, and ransomware. The top five most effective security tactics are data encryption, data backup and restore, identity and access management, zero-trust strategies, and data masking.

Monte-Carlo planning, as exemplified by Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), has demonstrated remarkable performance in applications with finite spaces. In this paper, we consider Monte-Carlo planning in an environment with continuous state-action spaces, a much less understood problem with important applications in control and robotics.

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There has been one pressing question about the Roborock Saros Z70 since it was announced at CES 2025: Could a robot vacuum with a robotic arm possibly be a practical purchase for a normal person? The Saros Z70 takes the "robot" in robot vacuum to a whole new level. Past referring to the brains of the automated cleaning operation, "robot" also refers to a whole ass robotic arm that unfolds from the vacuum to move pesky obstacles out of the way. This is cool in theory for anyone whose home has random stuff lying around on the floor at any given time, but the practicality bubble is quickly burst when you realize that the Saros Z70 costs 2,599. That's a full 1,000 more than Roborock's other two CES flagship releases, the Saros 10 and 10R, that I also happen to have at home right now. Multiple friends who have come over recently have literally laughed in my face when I told them that one of those three costs 2,599.

Google I/O 2025 is nearly upon us. The tech giant's annual developers conference begins Tuesday, May 20, in Mountain View, California, and all things AI are on the menu. As in years past, Google I/O is set to open with a company keynote (likely led by CEO Sundar Pichai) followed by a developers keynote. The company is expected to drop its biggest I/O news and announcements during these presentations. If you're not attending I/O in person, here's how you can watch both keynotes live from the comfort of your own couch.

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