Artist's impression of delivery robots

We know Google can build phones, tablets, laptops, thermostats, watches, smart glasses (sort of) and driverless cars, but can they build a city Over the next few years, we’ll find out: Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, was last year selected by Toronto officials to create an 83-acre smart neighborhood just east of do

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Tesco stores might soon let you pay using an app rather than a tillTesco stores might soon let you pay using an app rather than a till

Paying for your supermarket shopping at a till can take time, especially if there’s a queue, and for manned tills it’s also an expense for the store, but Tesco might soon solve all those problems, as it’s trialling shops without tills.

Instead, you’d use a smartphone app to scan the barcodes of the products you want and then pay for them in-app. A

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Best mining PC 2018: the best desktop PCs for mining Bitcoin, Ethereum and more

Amid the mining of blocks and chains currently keeping PC components alive, you’re best off to refrain from building your own computer for the time being, so if you're keen on getting into mining, you'll want to check out our list of the best mining PCs that you can buy right now.

Because the demand for the best mining GPUs is so high, it means

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Samsung Galaxy Book 2018 spotted: but is it Qualcomm or Intel insideSamsung Galaxy Book 2018 spotted: but is it Qualcomm or Intel inside

Not long after Qualcomm teased a Windows 10 device from Samsung using its latest Snapdragon 850 chipset, a Samsung Galaxy Book that uses the operating system has been disclosed through a Russian Inspection Bureau EEC certificate.

First published on June 27, the certificate directly mentions a “Samsung Galaxy Book Windows tablet” and possible model n

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OnePlus 6 in red may be coming soonOnePlus 6 in red may be coming soon

Update: The red edition of the OnePlus 6 looks set for July 2. In the video below, posted on Twitter, OnePlus gives us a sci-fi meets Rocky themed reveal, as a ninja/boxer, robe clad figure exits a secure chamber with a vial of red liquid.

Original story: A few months after the launch of the OnePlus 5T, the company revealed a new red color edition

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The surgical robot davinci

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Da Vinci isn’t like other surgeons. He has four arms, for starters. That’s because he’s a robot, and he’s capable of even greater precision than human surgeons. That makes him particularly well suited to one of the trickier kinds of surgery: gender reassignment. As Wired reports: “the process people go through is at the p

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