Bye, Bot Alphabet just kneecapped its own bipedal robot research division. Now, Nikkei reports, Alphabet — that’s the parent company behind Google, Waymo, and DeepMind — will dissolve Schaft, the bipedal robotics company that Google…
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Music fans rejoice – if you’re tired of listening to radio stations with overly-enthusiastic DJs and a million ad breaks, then you’ll be glad to know that Spotify has finally launched in the MENA region. The launch is across thirteen…
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No Dumb Ideas! By 2020, the Russian military claims it will have nuclear missiles capable of gliding across the upper atmosphere — too low for most satellite detection systems — before plummeting back to Earth at 20 times the speed of…
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What You See… We put a lot of thought into what robots can do. But maybe we should pay a bit more attention to how the machines look and act. Madeline Gannon thinks so, anyway. She’s the artist/coder/designer behind Manus, an installation…
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  Radio has long been the mode of choice when it comes to searching for aliens, and potentially conversing with them. But radio’s not the only game in town. A recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal suggests a different tack. In it, two…
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A 70-year-old in Taiwan has been dubbed “Pokémon Grandpa” for playing Pokémon Go on 15 mobile phones at once while riding his bike. Chen San-yuan learned about the game from his grandson and has been playing since 2016. With his impressive…
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“It’s important for medical reasons. We’re able to do a lot of different procedures, such as giving injections, doing blood draws,” says Beth Geraldene from the carnivore department of Melbourne Zoo. All kinds of residents, like Lloyd, are…
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As humans develop more powerful machines that increase productivity and improve life, modern technologies have also taken over some occupations previously performed by humans. A 2017 study by the McKinsey Global Institute predicts that by…
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  The kilogramme is one of the most important and widely used units of measurement in the world, a solid presence in kitchens and bathrooms everywhere. And yet the very definition of the kilo is about to change radically. On Friday 16…
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