CATL bets on RoboParty: China's battery giant enters the humanoid race sideways
The world's largest battery maker takes a stake in a HIT-founded open-source humanoid startup. Not a VC move - an integration play.
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Facial-recognition smart locks work - and that changes the consumer biometrics debate
The Verge tests facial recognition locks and concludes, to everyone's surprise: they work. The real debate is no longer about reliability - it's about what is done with the data.
Jul 19, 2026 at 00:39 7 8
TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS for six years via unauthenticated UDP
A vulnerability researcher documents six years of unauthenticated UDP replies from TP-Link Kasa EC71 cameras that returned the device's GPS coordinates on request - a textbook IoT trust-boundary failure.
Jul 18, 2026 at 11:11 34 8
South Korea: Daum's AI research summary runs on a 100% domestic stack
First "full-stack sovereign" commercialization: the Solar model from Upstage on FuriosaAI's RNGD NPUs, without Nvidia.
Jul 15, 2026 at 10:15 30 6
The first hardware from OpenAI would be a screenless smart speaker
Voice-first, no screen: the device of the agent era is taking shape, and it doesn't look like a phone.
Jul 15, 2026 at 10:14 31 8