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Bluetooth 5.1 update means you’ll know exactly where the remote is hiding

Bluetooth has become quite popular for tracking — it’s used by pet trackers, add-on tracking tags, beacons and more — but thus far has been limited by its mutually exclusive abilities to sense how close something is or where it reports it is. With the latest update to the specification (here’s a PDF with more detailed information), announced Monday, Bluetooth combines …

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Robots will fix us, whether we like it or not

The hollow ball rattled back and forth across the table between me and the robot. Sometimes I outplayed the robot. More often, the robot outsmarted me. That was at CES, a show that keeps you moving, but my heart never raced faster than when I was squaring off against Forpheus. Forpheus, made by a company called Omron, used a combination …

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