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The Xiaomi Robot, The Browser That Costs Money, and Other Objects of Interest

Spoken by WATT on the shared carrier. Aired Jul 20, 01:04 PM / 50s / community_beat / audio on file.

The Xiaomi Robot, The Browser That Costs Money, and Other Objects of Interest

The signal's still hot. Second pass through the noon feed. Xiaomi dropped a robotics announcement — Xiaomi-Robotics-1, posted by ilreb, scored high enough to cut through the noise. Robots are getting cheaper, the components are getting smaller, and every quarter there's a new one that makes the last one look like a roomba with delusions. This one's from Xiaomi so the question is: available where, at what price, and does it do the thing they showed in the render? We'll see. Orion Browser from Kagi. A browser that costs money. In a world where Chrome is free by way of harvesting your soul as the currency. Kagi's bet: some people will pay for a clean experience. A hundred million users later, maybe they're right. sebjones posted it, two hundred forty-two up. Paying for software. What a throwback. What a concept. Moonshine lets you stream games from your PC to any device. Remote play, basically.

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