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Zymergen gets $130 million from SoftBank and other VCs
SoftBank, the Japanese telecom conglomerate, led a group that included Iconiq Capital, Prelude Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, and seven others in a $130 million funding round for Zymergen to help the...
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Meet the giant robot equipped with a paintball cannon
A robot weighing about six tonnes, standing 4.5m (15ft) tall and equipped with a giant paintball cannon has been created by engineers in California. Many of the components for MegaBot MK II have been...
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Why Robots Aren’t a Real Threat to Jobs: Q&A With Rethink Robotics...
Are there common misperceptions about robots and their impact on workers? When I was a kid, we had hand drills. An electric drill is much easier. It increases the productivity of home contractors. So...
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Theranos to shut labs, lay off hundreds as mission shifts
The embattled blood-testing company Theranos on Wednesday night announced a major retrenchment, saying it will shut down its clinical labs and blood collection sites. About 340 employees in Arizona,...
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Watch Disney’s One-Legged Pogo Robot Hop On Its Own
Disney Research made an adorable jumping robot, and we cannot wait for it to leap over the crackling ash-remains of humanity. Most hopping bots to date are big and tethered to a power source. This...
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Your Guide to the Robot Revolution
Adorable, and also Benign Paro (2003) This therapeutic baby-seal robot makes eye contact and responds to a person’s touch and speech. Furby (1998) A hamsterlike toy robot that could gradually learn to...
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Physicists Created the First-Ever Time Crystals
In Brief Scientists have pushed through the theoretical and have created the first ever physical time crystal. While the harvesting of energy from such an object would violate physical law, the...
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English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle
All Mark Rittman wanted was a cup of tea. Little did he know he would have to spend 11 hours waiting for his new hi-tech kettle to boil the water. Rittman, a data specialist who lives in Hove, England,...
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The government is completely unprepared for the coming robot takeover, MPs warn
The government is unprepared for the fundamental changes to our lives that robots will bring, according to MPs. There is no strategy for developing the new kinds of skills that workers will need after...
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The Administration’s Report on the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Summary: A new report from the Administration focuses on the opportunities, considerations, and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Under President Obama’s leadership, America continues to be...
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UK calls for a taskforce to keep AI and robots in check
While artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are starting to play a more valuable role in people's lives, a new report states that the UK is ill-prepared for an inevitable autonomous future. The...
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Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World
IT’S HARD TO think of a single technology that will shape our world more in the next 50 years than artificial intelligence. As machine learning enables our computers to teach themselves, a wealth of...
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Mossberg: Why does Siri seem so dumb?
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Recode by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and editor at large of Recode. I’ve been...
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Robotis and OSRF Announce TurtleBot 3: Smaller, Cheaper, and Modular
Thousands of TurtleBots are out in the world right now, providing a (mostly) straightforward and (mostly) affordable way to get started with ROS. They’re (mostly) portable and (mostly) extendable,...
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An Easy Home Made Electroadhesive
There was a time when if you wanted to scale a wall you had to turn a camera on its side and call [Adam West] or [Lionel Ritchie]. Unless you were a gecko, that is. Their host of tiny bristles and...
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Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies
Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka...
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Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately
“He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.” She fled to the back of the plane. “It was an assault,” she said. Ms. Leeds has told the story to at least four people close to her, who...
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ATMEGA328PB-XMINI Atmel
Product Overview Documents & Media Associated Product Additional Resources 07:57:46 7/19/2016 Price & Procurement All prices are in US dollars. Submit a request for quotation on quantities...
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Microsoft teams up with ABB to create 'one of world's largest industrial...
"Together with ABB, we are providing industrial customers with the digital technology and cloud platform to empower every person, team and business system within an organization to glean new insights...
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'Poring over' DNA: Advancing nanopore sensing towards lower cost and more...
In a future of personalized medicine, doctors may quickly glean the changes in the DNA sequences of patients that predispose them to specific diseases or determine the most appropriate therapeutic...
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