Five Things Tech: Manhattan Project, Boring, Soft Robots, Nvidia, Fridge Ads

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Here we go again - welcome back to Five Things Tech!

This week’s selection takes us from the mind-boggling scale of the Manhattan Project - where unlimited budgets and ruthless urgency drove some of the most ingenious, messy, and ultimately world-changing engineering efforts in history - to the inevitable taming of breakthrough tech, as AI quickly gets to be boring, indispensable infrastructure. Meanwhile, robots squish ever closer to biology, crawling around with brains and muscles grown in petri dishes, while Nvidia’s odd little investment in Intel raises fresh echoes of classic industry power plays, and Samsung’s $3,500 fridge just wants to sell you stuff when all you wanted was some yoghurt or a cold beer. Isn’t progress wonderful?

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