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Tiny robot can precisely control how high it jumps (opens the original)
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You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Engineers have created DirectHop, a roughly 1-gram robot that can perform multiple hops in sequence and jump high enough to clear a standard stair step. As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the humble hopping robot. Hopping, a popular form of locomotion in the insect and amphibian worlds, is nearly two orders of magnitude more energy-efficient than flying. U
Past emissions will continue warming the planet for decades (opens the original)
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You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. New research shows that past emissions from oil, gas, coal, and cement will continue to affect the environment and increase the odds of extreme weather for decades. If someone leaves the faucet running in your bathroom and the house floods, it’s easy to assign responsibility for the damage. But for other disasters—bigger, costlier, and more complicated ones—the link between cause and effect isn’t as clear. In rec
Some AI browsers come with major security risks (opens the original)
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You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Some agentic AI browsers come with major cybersecurity risks, a new study finds. In the last year or so, artificial intelligence companies have rolled out a spate of web browsers equipped with AI agents. A user might ask one of these agents to plan a vacation and it will open browser tabs to research routes and restaurants, then make reservations and add events to the user’s calendar. How well it does any of this
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