SwitchBot Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways SwitchBot released details on a new household robot that can handle common chores. The SwitchBot Onero H1 uses an advanced AI algorithm to complete tasks in common household scenarios. The company also announced a new smart lock to its SwitchBot Lock Vision Series,…
Some major retailers and independent stores have introduced AI body scans, CCTV or facial recognition equipment to identify crimes, such as shoplifting on their premises. But civil liberty campaigners are warning the public are being put on “secret watchlists and electronically blacklisted” from their high streets. The government says while commercial facial recognition is legal,…
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles off its east coast on Sunday, Seoul’s military said, its first launch of the year just hours before South Korea’s leader heads to China for a summit. Sunday’s launch follows a US military operation against Pyongyang’s socialist ally Venezuela that snatched President Nicolas Maduro out of his country –…
BBC The course attracts both typical early 20s students and French government spies on day release University professor Xavier Crettiez admits that he doesn’t know the real names of many of the students on his course. This is a highly unusual state of affairs in the world of academia, but Prof Crettiez’s work is far…
Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News Online REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria Many of those who tuned in to US President Donald Trump’s news conference on Saturday were probably hoping to hear dramatic details of how US forces seized Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, in a pre-dawn raid. But arguably a more surprising moment came when Trump announced…
Mark SchlabachJan 4, 2026, 11:09 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia North Carolina coach Bill Belichick has landed a new potential starting quarterback for his second season with the Tar Heels. Former Wisconsin quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. has committed to sign…
After 16 years of studying shoplifting in Japan and testing ways to curb the problem, academic Tomoo Okubo believes he has found the simplest and most effective deterrent: a friendly greeting from a member of staff. Shoplifting has grown steadily worse in Japan in recent years – a trend accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, according…
LG has unveiled its humanoid robot that can handle household chores. After teasing the CLOiD last week, the company has offered its first look at the AI-powered robot it claims can fold laundry, unload the dishwasher, serve food and help out with other tasks. The CLOiD has a surprisingly cute “head unit” that’s equipped with…
Britain’s and France’s air forces conducted a joint operation on Saturday evening to bomb a suspected underground arms cache previously used by the Islamic State (Isis) in Syria, Britain’s defence ministry said. “Royal Air Force aircraft have completed successful strikes against Daesh in a joint operation with France,” the ministry said in a statement, using…
Denmark’s prime minister has told Donald Trump to “stop the threats” about taking over Greenland. Mette Frederiksen said “it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland”, adding: “The US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom”. Her remarks…
