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The robots of CERN
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Buried in the bedrock beneath the Franco-Swiss boarder, it whips protons through its nearly 2000 magnets 11,000 times every...
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I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike...
I was working the polls on election day, handing people ballots and explaining how to fill them out properly. I made it my mission to come up with interesting uses for the removable tabs and entertain...
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Hydraulic muscle makes for tougher, stronger disaster-site robots
RoboticsThe idea of using robots as the go-to for handling disaster situations isn't new, but part of the problem has been how to build robots light enough to move about easily, yet are strong enough...
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Robots and drones take over classrooms
Classrooms are noticeably more hi-tech these days - interactive boards, laptops and online learning plans proliferate, but has the curriculum actually changed or are children simply learning the same...
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Microbots: Microsoft's multi-pronged robotics play takes shape
In the early 2000s, Microsoft was all-in on robotics. By the middle of that decade, the company seemingly had all but abandoned robotics space. But this may be the year that Microsoft may be ready to...
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LIVE NOW! CircuitPython Hack Chat Friday 1/27 3pm ET @Hackadayio @hackaday
CircuitPython Hack Chat • Hackaday.io. Block out your calendar for noon PST (3pm ET) on Friday the 27th for a Hack Chat about CircuitPython Beta. Adafruit will be leading a discussion about...
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Turn Your Smartphone Into a Mousetrap
Editor's Pick Like virtually all New York City apartment dwellers, I am occasionally visited by a mouse looking for a new home. However, I was still surprised to hear a familiar scratching sound...
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California Could Cut Off Feds In Response To Trump Threats
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – The state of California is studying ways to suspend financial transfers to Washington after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities,...
View ArticleWhen being a woman in robotics gives you the edge
Robotics isn’t gender neutral, it’s gender blind. And that means that there are a lot of hidden opportunities for savvy investors and entrepreneurs. One of the first robotics companies I followed was...
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Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms
Furious hotel managers at the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, a luxurious 4-star hotel with a beautiful lakeside setting on the Alpine Turracher Hoehe Pass in Austria, said they decided to go public with...
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Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges to Trump’s...
It was unclear how many refugees and immigrants were being held nationwide in the aftermath of the executive order. The complaints were filed by a prominent group including the American Civil Liberties...
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Forget Autonomous Cars—Autonomous Ships Are Almost Here
Editor's Pick It’s midnight on the North Atlantic, where a massive container ship receives the latest weather report. There’s a nasty storm brewing ahead. Quietly, the ship changes course and speed, to...
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Pulmospheres could serve as personalized, predictive model for assessing...
Pulmospheres, three dimensional multicellular spheroids composed of lung cells from individual patients, were shown to be effective in predicting the efficacy of medications for idiopathic pulmonary...
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France's Hollande warns Trump against protectionism
left right left right PARIS French President Francois Hollande on Saturday warned U.S. President Donald Trump against taking a protectionist approach, which he said would have economic and political...
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Trudeau says Canada will take refugees banned by U.S.
TORONTO – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will take you. RELATED LINKSTrump ban affects all non-U.S. citizens,...
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Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban
The federal court for the Eastern District of New York issued an emergency stay halting President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to the US from seven majority-Muslim countries tonight,...
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Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Already Harming American Science
Samira Asgari had been preparing for the trip for months. She had just earned her PhD from a Swiss university and was ready to start a postdoctoral fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston,...
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Who Hasn’t Trump Banned? People From Places Where He’s Done Business.
A look at other nations with large Muslim populations only reinforces this troubling pattern. Turkey, India and the Philippines could all pose similar risks as the banned countries of origin that...
View ArticleTrial Balloon for a Coup?
The theme of this morning’s news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field. But this clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw...
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