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A London surgeon has performed what may be a preview of medicine's future, operating on a patient over fifteen hundred miles away using a Chinese-built robot called Toumai. The system has now earned EU approval, meaning it can be marketed freely across Europe — a milestone that raises real questions about latency, liability, and who holds the scalpel when something goes wrong.
Closer to the world of open video standards, Dolby has filed the first patent lawsuit under the Unified Patent Court targeting the AV1 codec, going after subsidiaries of TPV Technology. AV1 was built by an industry coalition specifically to avoid royalty entanglements, so this case could reshape the economics of video streaming for years to come.
And researchers at ETH Zurich have developed what they're calling a new type of pixel — one that can both emit and capture light simultaneously, effectively turning any display into a camera. The potential applications range from seamless video calls to, as the internet was quick to note, surveillance built invisibly into every screen you own.
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