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💥 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Science,Science / Physics and Math,Dot Physics ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: It was almost 100 years ago, Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto. This was the last planet discovered until 1992, when humans discovered another planet. But this new planet was not in our solar system, but was orbiting another star. We call this an exoplanet, or an "exoplanet" for short.Since then, astronomers have cataloged more than 6,000 exoplanets. If you think it's hard to remember the names of our planets, try everyone Planets, with names like HD…

🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Robotics,TC,Carlyle Group,iRobot,rodney brooks,Roomba,Shenzhen PICEA Robotics 📌 Key idea: There's something painfully American about the arc of iRobot, the company that taught your vacuum how to navigate around furniture. Founded in 1990 in Bedford, Massachusetts by MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks and his former students Colin Angell and Helen Greiner, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday, ending a 35-year run that took it from the dreams of artificial intelligence researchers to your kitchen floor and, finally, to the mercy of its Chinese suppliers. Brooks, founding director of MIT's Computer…

🔥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Apps,Government & Policy,WhatsApp,Meta,signal,Telegram,whatsapp business,WhatsApp Web 💡 Key idea: WhatsApp, the meta messaging app that millions of Indians rely on daily, is facing a critical moment in India as recent government directives threaten to disrupt how the platform works for everyday users and businesses. Issued late last month and announced earlier this month, the guidelines require some app-based calling services to keep accounts continuously linked to an active SIM card and impose stricter controls on how apps work across devices. New Delhi says these measures aim to reduce the increasing cyber…

✨ Check out this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Parenting,Product Review 📌 Main takeaway: Photo: Nicole KenningThe home display can be powered wirelessly and charged via a USB-C cable. It relies on your Wi-Fi network to connect to the camera, so while you can carry the monitor around your house, you can't take it completely "off the grid" or use it outside of your home network (which isn't a deal-breaker for many families, but I think it's worth mentioning).The flexibility comes with some limitations: the battery doesn't last a full day, so…

✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: AI,Social,Grok,X 📌 Main takeaway: Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk's xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today's mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia. Gizmodo pointed to a number of posts in which Grok misidentified the bystander - 43-year-old Ahmed Al-Ahmed - who disarmed one of the gunmen, and in which he questioned the authenticity of videos and photos capturing Al-Ahmed's actions. In one post, the chatbot misidentified the man in the photo as an Israeli hostage, and…