New labor economy data paints a fuller - and bleaker - picture of the economy.

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How autonomous robots in the underground scavenger hunt pick up points for their teams

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Robots that can control puppets could one day learn to manipulate complex physical objects like clothing and flexible sheets

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It'll take more than having its fingers chopped off to stop this robot hand

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With four legs but no back or front, ALPHRED 2 can run, jump, and punch through boards in any direction

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Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone

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Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development

John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company

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Researchers in Brazil are developing a drone that scouts for evidence—and want to use its footage to reconstruct crime scenes

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As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference

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In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough

The fastest, safest, and most exciting way to launch a quadrotor may be ballistically

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OpenAI’s GPT-2 program churns out natural language that’s remarkably coherent—and that’s a problem

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DJ D-Nice, Miley Cyrus, Ben Gibbard, and a lot of Diplo.

Temuera Morrison is appearing on the next season of the show.

The Platform, What Lies Beneath, The Witch, and more.

“I didn’t ‘sell out’ by making my dreams come true.”

“Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fischbacher said in a statement.

Hindsight is 20/20, even if you’re smizing.

His cause of death is unknown.

Record low bond yields are pushing superannuation funds and insurers into alternative investments.

Former engineering high flyer Ausenco has become the latest mining services company to be swallowed by private equity.

This is a video of the result of Youtuber Lil'Alien [Agentalex9 Alt.] feeding Rick Astley's rickrolling classic 'Never Gonna Give You Up' into the Jukebox neural network developed by OpenAI to create more song lyrics for the song. The music video consists of AI upscaled gifs from the original video. If you're really interested in the technology utilized and just what the hell is going on, there are a bunch of links on the video's Youtube page HERE. I just managed to watch the whole video and I can attest that, uh, that was really something. "Something good?" Haha, now let's not get ahead of ourselves. Keep going for whatever this is.

Because with enough time spent at home you can accomplish anything, no matter how incredibly inconsequential, this is a video of a guy with a dog bed full of golf tees successfully flipping one into a bottle's pour spout. I wonder how many tries it really took. And, wait -- is that olive oil? It's not even liquor?! So let me get this straight -- you're spending quarantine trying to flip golf tees into a bottle pour spout sober? Well thank God we didn't get trapped in the same house when the rona hit. "Why's that, GW?" You can't get drunk on olive oil. "Nope, no matter how much you drink." Or balsamic vinegar, I've tried. Keep going for the actual video (with a much more respectable frame rate), complete with "Let's go! Let's go!" celebration, although I'm fairly certain this guy isn't actually going anywhere.

This is a video of musician and Instagrammer nathanleighsays performing Saria's Song (the Lost Woods theme) from The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time on 24 partially empty wine bottles. How about that! Of course this would never work at my aunt's house on account of the bottles all playing the same note because they're empty. And the cats! Soooooo many cats. Keep going for the performance as well as a clip of Link learning Saria's song from the actual game.

This is the Popcorn Popping Lid with Butter Vents available from Uncommon Goods ($11). You just fill a microwave-safe 10-inch bowl with your choice of popping corn, set the lid on top, add a pat of butter to each of the lid's butter vents, and let the microwaving begin! Of course if you're anything like me you'll balance as much butter as you can atop each of those vents because, I don't know if you knew this about me, but I love butter. I don't really like it cold but *microwave beeping* sometimes when I'm really feeling down I'll just melt two sticks and drink it. Keep going for a couple more shots because they exist.

Undercover E. coli act as updated invisible ink.

The first clinical uses of whole-genome sequencing show just how challenging it can be.

Skimming system tripled previous best effort at oil collection.

Faked 'entanglement' result challenges cryptographic technique.

Today, Microsoft and Ebb Studios revealed that Xbox Series X would be getting the launch exclusivity for Scorn

The makers of Blair Witch, Observer and Layers of Fear today announced a new psychological horror game - The Medium.

The Lovecraftian inspired adventure game will launch on Xbox Series X, Xbox One and PC in late 2020 and will be available on Xbox Game Pass

Codemasters next racing game, DIRT 5 has been announced.