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South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers

MIT Technology Review·Jul 6, 2026

Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in Sunoo, a matchmaking company based in Seoul,…

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Victims mourned 8 years after western Japan rain disaster

Japan Times Technology·Jul 6, 2026

Residents across the Chugoku region on Monday mourned over 300 people who lost their lives in the incident that hit the area in 2018.

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Noted scientists leave US for China, America turns 250: 5 weekend reads you missed

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 6, 2026

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like…

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Millions in Lalique jewellery stolen in daring French museum raid

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 5, 2026

Burglars stole millions of euros’ worth of jewellery from the museum of French luxury glassmaker Lalique in a daring early-morning raid on…

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Prosecutors to lay out case against Charlie Kirk’s accused killer

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 5, 2026

Charlie Kirk’s widow and parents are expected this week in a Utah court where prosecutors seeking the death penalty will argue that the man…

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‘Catastrophic’ Super Typhoon Bavi hits US island of Rota

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 5, 2026

A “super typhoon” with equivalent force to a category-5 hurricane made landfall on the US island of Rota in the Pacific on Monday, the Nati…

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Humanoid

Humanoid says KinetIQ Ascend reinforcement learning approaches human-level dexterity

The Robot Report·Jul 5, 2026

Humanoid says its KinetIQ Ascend approach can reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond for industrial tasks. The post…

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Fires ravage France, Spain, Portugal forests as Europe’s temperatures rise again

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 5, 2026

Hundreds of firefighters battled forest infernos in France, Spain and Portugal on Sunday as temperatures rose again in heatwave-scarred Eur…

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‘China shock 3.0’ is coming. And it’ll be AI-powered robots

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 5, 2026

The world’s attention is fixed on frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, but China’s robot-making factories deserve just as much att…

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Asian landlords are ready for a hawkish Fed

Japan Times Technology·Jul 5, 2026

The lesson across these markets is the same: Property owners who cleaned up their debt profiles ahead of time are well poised to navigate a…

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Trump seeks to put himself centre stage for US Independence Day

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 4, 2026

President Donald Trump will headline US Independence Day celebrations on Saturday with a speech and a show that seek to place him at the ce…

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Sachiko Kazama’s art bites back at a cruel society

Japan Times Technology·Jul 4, 2026

Sachiko Kazama has made a name for herself as a sharp satirist. Her art from spanning a nearly four-decade long career is now on display in…

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Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots

The Robot Report·Jul 4, 2026

Avride uses vision-language models, or VLMs, to improve the environmental awareness of its delivery robots. The post Context is king: How A…

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The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself

The Verge AI·Jul 4, 2026

{"#text":"Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detecti…

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Humanoid

Japan Pioneered Humanoid Robots—Can It Now Catch China?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 4, 2026

“In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This pre…

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Pope visits Africa-Europe crossing as anti-migrant policies rise in US, EU

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 4, 2026

Pope Leo on Saturday visited Italy’s Lampedusa island, a major port of call for migrants risking the perilous crossing from Africa, in a st…

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‘We won’t tolerate this’: thousands in Germany protest against far-right AfD

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 4, 2026

Thousands of opponents of Germany’s far-right AfD took to the streets of Erfurt on Saturday and blocked roads to the party’s annual confere…

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Micron breaks ground on $9 billion western Japan plant expansion

Japan Times Technology·Jul 4, 2026

The company is building the facility in Hiroshima to make high-bandwidth memory chips, with shipments to start around the summer of 2028.

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As US turns 250, Trump warns American identity under ‘renewed attack’

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 4, 2026

America turns 250 on Saturday – a landmark birthday that coincides with a time of deep national division and a president determined to seiz…

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Heatwave upends Fourth of July events across US, strains power grids

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 4, 2026

A dangerous heatwave upended Fourth of July celebrations across swathes of the central and eastern United States on Friday, forcing officia…

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Nasa launches robotic mission to save space telescope

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 3, 2026

Nasa launched a robotic mission on Friday to try to prevent one of its ageing telescopes from burning up in the atmosphere, a complicated o…

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Humanoid

#RoboCup2026 – humanoid league day 2

Robohub·Jul 3, 2026

The second day’s play at RoboCup 2026 has drawn to a close with another bumper set of matches. Teams have come from far and wide to take pa…

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Research

A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible

MIT Technology Review·Jul 3, 2026

It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve lef…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: An Earthbound Mars Rover for the Moon

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 3, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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