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These Tiny Liquid Robots Merge and Split Like ‘Terminator’

Singularity Hub

The gummy-candy-like blobs are controlled using sound waves and can slip through grated fences, chomp up debris, and skim across solid and liquid surfaces. Ice, Ice, Baby First, the team searched for the best ratio of Teflon dust to water. The team used sound waves to steer the robots around for more difficult tasks.

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Save 20% on the Soundcore Sleep A20 earbuds and finally get restorative rest

Mashable Tech

"They're not without some quirks, but on the whole, they offer the best feature to price point ratio." SEE ALSO: I tried the sleep earbuds featured at CES Allard points out the Sleep A20s give you the ability to stream from the Anker library of sleep sounds or from your own audio with a Bluetooth connection.

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HP’s new Spectre x360 14 laptop has a 3:2 aspect ratio plus a Thunderbolt 4 port hiding in the corner

The Verge

More impressively, it’s the first Spectre to include a 3:2 aspect ratio display with 20 percent more vertical real estate than the 16:9 screens we’ve had before — and you can pay for an OLED version of the 13.5-inch HP says the new laptop should be up to 34 percent faster than last year’s Spectre x360 13 model. in October.

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Samsung’s Odyssey Neo G8 4K gaming monitor is $600 off in Amazons Spring Sale

Mashable Tech

This is the world’s first 4K monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate, and yes, it’s as intense as it sounds. That brings the 32-inch 4K display down to just $699.99, saving you a hefty $600 during the Spring Sale. This deal disappears after March 31. Price: $699.99 $1,299.99

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Corsair reveals 45-inch OLED gaming monitor that can bend from flat to curved

TechSpot

It sounds pretty impressive even without the headline-grabbing feature, boasting LG W-OLED tech (it was built in partnership with LG), a peak brightness of 1,000 nits, 1,350,000:1 contrast ratio, a 240Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms. Corsair's Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 joins the ever-growing list of large-screen OLED monitors to hit the market.

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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

An upward spiral certainly sounds better than a downward spiral, right? Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio. Here are a few simple ways to improve your positivity ratio: Set your mind on success.

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How to Use AI for the Right Ask (Without Being Creepy)

sgEngage

You can also have AI analyze recordings of past pitches to review metrics like listening ratio, speaker engagement, and overall emotional tone of the meeting. If you recite the script—cringe alert—you will sound unnatural, even robotic.

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