(MENAFN- Asia Times) 2025 is drawing to a close, so here's one last roundup of interesting econ-related items from around the web. I don't have any podcasts for you this week, but an episode of“Doom ...

Walmart spent years telling shoppers that scanning their own groceries was the future of retail. Now the company is quietly ...

A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

Robots can be finicky learners. Historically, they've required precise, step-by-step directions to complete basic tasks, and tend to call it quits when things go off-script, like after dropping a tool ...

For a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project, Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Jasmine Li worked with robotic arms in the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab to analyze the ...

When a robot cop tells you to stop, do you listen? China is now finding out Hangzhou is the latest city in China to take traffic control to a new level, rolling out a new AI-powered robot police ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate cluttered spaces, and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

The president stumbled through a word salad as he tried to reassure Americans that robots and AI would not replace their jobs. Night News Reporter President Donald Trump went off on a confused tangent ...

Oversonic Robotics, an Italian company specializing in cognitive humanoid machines, has signed an agreement with STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) to integrate custom-built humanoid robots into the ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Sean McLain reported Sunday on the recent Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California held earlier this month. McLain seems to have come away with the impression that ...

The eastern Caribbean island has plenty to offer older kids, from snorkelling to DIY mud baths. Beach escapes with ocean access and a coastal promenade like that of Rodney Bay are an easy win with ...