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Women in Robotics
Fellow roboticists, it's time to celebrate women in robotics. We're badass. June 24 · 4:00 PM Picnic! Kite or robot flying optional... 8 Roboticists At the Bay Breeze picnic table area - or somewhere...
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Startup soars with LEGO drones
Like many kids, Amir Hirsch ’06, SM ’07 grew up playing with LEGOs. But unlike many adults, is still playing with them as part of his job as CEO and co-founder of Flybrix. Started in 2015, the company...
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The Micro:bit Foundation is a global non-profit organisation making invention...
Get Started Let's Code Micro:bit Educational Foundation is to sponsor micro:bits for the remote Ascension Island Additional inforead The Micro:bit Foundation is sponsoring 2,500 micro:bits in Europe...
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Video Friday: More Boston Dynamics, Giant Fighting Robots, and ANYmal Quadruped
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months;...
View ArticleTIOBE - The Software Quality Company
Programming language Hack has entered the TIOBE index top 50 for the first time. Hack is a dialect of PHP that is introduced by Facebook about 3 years. The main drivers behind the release of Hack are...
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Quick, Draw! The Data
Over 15 million players have contributed millions of drawings playing Quick, Draw! These doodles are a unique data set that can help developers train new neural networks, help researchers see patterns...
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Robot Launch 2017: Call for startups
by News July 14, 2017 The Robotics Hub, in collaboration with Silicon Valley Robotics, is looking to invest up to $500,000 in robotics, AI and sensor startups! Finalists also receive exposure on...
View ArticleHow the NSA caught Satoshi Nakamoto
The ‘creator’ of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is the world’s most elusive billionaire. Very few people outside of the Department of Homeland Security know Satoshi’s real name. In fact, DHS will not...
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🤖 Brisbane Robotics Interest Group
to -27.477144 153.028442 Please come join us for our monthly robotics meetup! Note: time and date has changed! It is going to be a night of informally talking, eating and drinking. We'll be chatting...
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Software development 450 words per minute
"Something's a little bit off here." That's what I predict your first thought to be upon seeing my cubicle for the first time. There's no screen or mouse in sight. Instead there's a guy hammering away...
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How robots could bridge the elder-care gap
Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into special facilities, most elderly people eventually need a hand with chores and other everyday...
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The Tech That Won the First Formula Student Driverless Race
Engineering student Manuel Dangel of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and teammates were walking the racecourse at Formula Student Driverless in Hockenheimring, Germany, earlier...
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How to Store Data on Magnets the Size of a Single Atom
There is an adage that says that data will expand to fill all available capacity. Perhaps 10 or 20 years ago, it was common to stockpile software programs, MP3 music, films, and other files, which may...
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Machine Learning Is Everywhere, But What Is It Exactly?
From Google’s language translation app to autonomous cars, machine learning has become a key ingredient in multiple areas of our lives—but what exactly is it? In the simplest sense, machine learning is...
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Retrocomputing With Open Source FPGAs
A few years ago, we saw the reverse engineering of the Lattice iCE40 bitstream, opening the door to a completely Open Source development tool chain for FPGAs. This was an astonishing amount of work...
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NHC Active Tropical Cyclones
*Spanish translations courtesy of the NWS San Juan Weather Forecast Office. Information about experimental Spanish Tropical Cyclone Forecast Discussions can be found here.
View ArticlePlanetary Protection Officer
About the Agency This position is assigned to Office of Safety and Mission Assurance for Planetary Protection. Planetary protection is concerned with the avoidance of organic-constituent and biological...
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One of the most controversial Kickstarter campaigns in history is dead
The Glowing Plant project was the first and last synthetic biology campaign on Kickstarter. After a series of missteps, the creators gave up on their idea of making genetically-modified glowing plants,...
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Trump removed Obama's flood protection laws just days before Hurricane...
Donald Trump signed an executive order just days before Hurricane Harvey that scrapped many of the flood protections introduced by Barack Obama. Harvey has caused huge damage in Texas as 30 inches of...
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Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now Is The Time to Talk About Climate...
Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes. Turn...
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