SwitchBot has launched a new retrofit smart lock that gives owners multiple ways to enter European homes without a traditional key. Announced at IFA today, the SwitchBot Lock Ultra Max Vision Pro Combo provides multi-user entry and up to 19 ways to unlock doors, including, fingerprint scans, passcodes, NFC card access, contactless authentication via facial
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SpaceX stock isn’t just falling. It’s hitting every branch on the way down. After surging to a $2.6 trillion valuation on its third day of public trading, SpaceX stock has tumbled 46%, wiping out more than $1.2 trillion of that in the process. The initial wave of selling came as investors balked at lofty valuations.
The frontier of physical AI is a game of Jenga in a warehouse in San Leandro, California. That warehouse is occupied by Encord, a company that builds data tools used to train AI models. Andrew Ceja is a pilot (the company’s term for its robotic trainers) and he’s carefully removing blocks of wood from a
