ee The US Army has a 3D printer for ultra-strong steel gear and weapons By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 06:00:34 +0000 A high-speed 3D printer is being tested by the US Army for producing spare steel parts near the front lines – it could also make weapons or aircraft parts Full Article
ee AI can distinguish between bots and humans based on Twitter activity By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 05:00:29 +0000 Artificial intelligence can tell whether a human or a bot is posting on Twitter based on how regularly they post and how much they reply to others, which could help identify fake accounts Full Article
ee Robot with pincers can detect and remove weeds without harming crops By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:07:03 +0000 A robot that uses artificial intelligence to find and remove weeds could eventually be used as an alternative to chemical insecticides Full Article
ee Retro computers reveal three decades of technological evolution By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000 In a new photography book, the home computer revolution of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s is told through nostalgic industrial-design images Full Article
ee Papa John's is Doing an English Breakfast Pizza for This Weekend Only By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 17:30:25 +0000 Get an all day breakfast on a pizza before you go on your killing spree. Only psychopaths will order this, is what I'm saying. Full Article
ee Why Temperature Screenings Alone Won't Protect People From Covid-19 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 18:00:46 +0000 While such a plan might sound appealing, it’s likely to provide a false sense of security Full Article
ee Calculator Hacked for Cheating Includes a Secret OLED Screen, Wifi, and Even a Chat Function By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:00:57 +0000 But can you still write "BOOBS" on it? Full Article
ee Teenager Accused of Leading Ring of 'Evil Geniuses' on £19.3 Million 'Cybercrime Spree' By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 10:00:17 +0000 The hacker in question hasn't even graduated high school yet. Full Article
ee Everything You Need to Start Your Own Podcast on the Cheap By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 11:00:05 +0000 If you think you’ve got something of value to share with the world – or maybe you just want a project to tackle to fill the hours – then we’ll take you through what you need to know. Full Article
ee Teenager Ran Away to Be With Boy She Met on Dating Site. A Week Later She Was Dead. By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:14:12 GMT Moorcraft Police Department/Meade County Sheriff’s OfficeA South Dakota teenager has admitted to slaying a 16-year-old girl who “ran away” from home to live with him after they met on an online dating website, authorities said.Michael Campbell, 17, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter on Thursday for the death of Shayna Ritthaler, a 16-year-old from Moorcroft, Wyoming, who was reported missing from a local coffee shop on Oct. 3. Less than a week later, her body was found in the basement bedroom of Campbell’s home.“We got into an argument and then I shot her,” Campbell said during a change-of-plea hearing on Thursday, before referring to the teenager as his girlfriend, according to the Associated Press. “I shot her in the head.”Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article U.S. News
ee The Queen’s Coronavirus Message to Britain: ‘Never Give Up, Never Despair’ By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 02:11:53 GMT via YouTubeThe Queen gave a 75th anniversary VE Day speech Friday night that doubled as a rallying cry against coronavirus. “Never give up, never despair, that was the message of VE Day,” she told the British people. Second World War heroes would “recognize and admire,” the sacrifices the British were making today in the fight against coronavirus, the Queen added. It was her second major coronavirus-themed speech to the nation.“It may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. Instead we remember from our homes and our doorsteps. But our streets are not empty,” the Queen said, “They are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other.” Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Arts and Culture
ee Australian Apple Stores Are Re-Opening This Week By feeds.gizmodo.com.au Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 09:00:12 +1000 Back in early March Apple announced that it would closing the majority of its physical stores worldwide. Roughly seven weeks later Australian Apple stores will be re-opening their doors around the country later this week. More » Full Article
ee Australian Scientists Discover 'Virgin' Bees That Don't Have Sex And Only Give Birth To Females By feeds.gizmodo.com.au Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:20:47 +1000 Researchers at a Sydney university have discovered how some female bees have managed to reproduce despite never doing the deed with another. More » Full Article
ee State pension age changed this week – this is when the next rise will occur By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:11:00 +0100 STATE pension age is continually being reviewed and altered by the government. The latest change occurred earlier this week. Full Article
ee FRENCHIC: eco paint maker sees 500 percent DIY sales surge By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 11:56:00 +0100 FRENCHIC, the British paint brand with eco-friendly formulas for breathing new life into furniture, homes and garden decor, has seen sales surge 500 percent recently as lockdown sends DIYers into overdrive. Full Article
ee PTC: Pokemon Go-style tech used to speed up ventilator production By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:07:00 +0100 COMPUTER services company PTC is using augmented reality , the enhanced visual technology seen in Pokemon Go smartphone games and Iron Man movies, to produce ventilators in record time for the NHS. Full Article
ee Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp reveals private meetings with Steven Gerrard during lockdown By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:41:00 +0100 Jurgen Klopp never got to manage Steven Gerrard at Liverpool but the pair still have a strong relationship given their connections to the club. Full Article
ee Meeting the NASA Mars rover that might find life on the Red Planet By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:08:59 +0000 NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of life on Mars, and New Scientist’s Leah Crane visited it in the clean room where it is being assembled Full Article
ee Mercury’s outer layers may have been stripped off by a young Venus By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 10:00:13 +0000 Mercury is mostly iron, which may be because a series of close encounters with a young Venus billions of years ago stripped away its rocky outer layers Full Article
ee Mysterious radio signal from space seems to have suddenly vanished By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:00:19 +0000 Strange blasts from space called fast radio bursts continue to puzzle astronomers with their odd behaviour, as they seem to come from a variety of galaxies Full Article
ee Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:00:00 +0000 At the centre of our galaxy, six strange clouds that look like dust and gas orbit a black hole so closely that if they were really just clouds they should have been sucked in by now Full Article
ee Chinese Chang’e 4 engineer explains how to garden on the moon By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:43:13 +0000 The brains behind the first plant ever to germinate on the moon explains how the Chinese mission succeeded Full Article
ee A planet could have been stolen from the solar system as it formed By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:00:52 +0000 Stars like our sun formed in a dense cluster with thousands of others, during which time they may have swapped planets Full Article
ee First private space rescue mission sees two satellites latch together By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:39:13 +0000 A private satellite that is low on fuel could survive five more years because another satellite has come to its rescue – a technique that could be used by future service spacecraft Full Article
ee Pluto formed quickly with a deep ocean covering its entire surface By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 23:59:17 +0000 Pluto’s ancient oceans may have come about just after the icy world was born, melting from ice in a process that suggests the dwarf planet took just 30,000 years to form Full Article
ee Weird magnetic threads in sun's corona seen for the first time By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000 New images reveal threads of ultra-hot gas woven throughout the sun's corona, in the most detailed look at previously unseen parts of the atmosphere of our closest star Full Article
ee Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:00:00 +0000 The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all. Mathematicians think they can help, but their first attempts have thrown up some eye-popping conclusions Full Article
ee NASA has selected three lunar landers to bring humans to the moon By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:59:28 +0000 NASA has awarded $967 million to three space flight companies – Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX – to build lunar landers that will be part of the Artemis programme to send humans to the moon by 2024 Full Article
ee You can 'see' the closest known black hole to Earth with the naked eye By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 13:00:38 +0000 Astronomers found a star that appeared to be orbiting nothing at all – but it’s actually the closest black hole ever at just 1000 light years away Full Article
ee A large chunk of Mercury may have been blown away by the sun By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 10:00:04 +0000 Mercury is much denser than the other rocky planets in the solar system, and that may be because a collision vaporised its surface and the debris was blown away by the sun Full Article
ee Obama, Biden WH Meeting Key to Anti-Trump Operation By www.realclearpolitics.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:01:45 -0500 In light of the newly declassified documents, it is clear that understanding what happened in that January 5 Oval Office meeting is essential to understanding the corrupt operation against the Trump administration. Full Article AM Update
ee Russian Humanoid Robot to Pilot Soyuz Capsule to ISS This Week By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:40:00 GMT Skybot F-850 will spend a week on the ISS charming astronauts with its sense of humor Full Article robotics robotics/space-robots
ee ANYbotics Introduces Sleek New ANYmal C Quadruped By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 22:00:00 GMT The latest version of ANYbotics' four-legged robot can do useful real-world inspection tasks Full Article robotics robotics/industrial-robots
ee AI at the Speed of Light By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:34:00 GMT Lab demoes of an all-optical neural network could lead to more powerful and less power-hungry AI Full Article semiconductors semiconductors/optoelectronics
ee AI Agents Startle Researchers With Unexpected Hide-and-Seek Strategies By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:00:00 GMT The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing Full Article robotics robotics/artificial-intelligence
ee This "Useless" Social Robot Wants to Succeed Where Others Failed By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:45:00 GMT The creators of Kiki believe they can build an emotionally engaging social home robot that is also "completely useless" Full Article robotics robotics/home-robots
ee Swappable Flying Batteries Keep Drones Aloft Almost Forever By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:57:00 GMT Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone Full Article robotics robotics/drones
ee NASA Hiring Engineers to Develop “Next Generation Humanoid Robot” By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:59:00 GMT Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development Full Article robotics robotics/space-robots
ee AI Faces Speed Bumps and Potholes on Its Road From the Research Lab to Everyday Use By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:00:00 GMT Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think Full Article robotics robotics/artificial-intelligence
ee Want a Really Hard Machine Learning Problem? Try Agriculture, Says John Deere Labs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:52:00 GMT John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company Full Article robotics robotics/artificial-intelligence
ee Watch Astrobee's First Autonomous Flight on the International Space Station By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:35:00 GMT For the first time, NASA's Astrobee robot has demonstrated autonomous free flight in space Full Article robotics robotics/space-robots
ee Harvard's UrchinBot Is One of the Weirdest Looking Robots We've Ever Seen By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 20:15:00 GMT The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin Full Article robotics robotics/robotics-hardware
ee Video Friday: Invasion of the Mini Cheetah Robots By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:55:00 GMT Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Full Article robotics robotics/robotics-hardware
ee Boba Fett Might Just Jetpack in to Meet Baby Yoda on The Mandalorian Season 2 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:40:44 -0400 Temuera Morrison is appearing on the next season of the show. Full Article boba fett the mandalorian tv casting disney+
ee Laura Linney Shading Lesser Actresses Won Late Night This Week By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:45:00 -0400 Not every actor is Linney-caliber. Full Article this week in late night vulture section lede the late late show with james corden tv comedy
ee Doctor Sleep’s Mike Flanagan to Breathe Life Into Stephen King’s Revival By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:24:34 -0400 If Stephen King keeps writing ‘em, we’ll keep seeing ‘em. Full Article mike flanagan stephen king adaptations movies horror revival
ee Three in race for port sale By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:00:00 GMT The auction for the Port of Melbourne has come down to a three-way race with bidders lodging indicative bids. Full Article
ee ‘ALP’s NBN needs extra $10bn’ By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:00:00 GMT Labor’s NBN policy could require a further $10 billion in taxpayer funding, says a telecommunications analyst. Full Article
ee Peekaboo!: Home Air Vent Dragons With Light-Up Eyes By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 11:00:23 -0500 These are the vent dragons made and sold by artist David Lee Pancake. The dragons are available in a variety of dragony colors, cost $200 apiece, and are made to be hung on the wall, NOT cover an actual air vent. "But--" Hey, if you want to be hot all summer because the A/C isn't blowing in the living room, that's up to you. Vent Dragons comes with a little remote control to light up the eyes of the two little monsters and surprise your guests and friends. The lights are powered by 3 AA batteries and should burn for 150 hours before you need to replace them. To replace the batteries unscrew the grate and lift off, the batteries are in a small pack inside. The lighted eyes have 8 different settings from fast blinking to continually glowing and there is a timer to turn them off in 6 hours. Enjoy! Size: 12x7 inches. Do NOT install in an actual heating/AC vent. Gosh, just think how much you could save on home heating and cooling costs if you had ACTUAL fire and ice breathing dragons living in your air vents. I mean granted they'd have to be trained, but I have seen all those movies. Keep going for a few more shots of some of the different colors. Full Article a/c aircon! i need aircon! (that was supposed to be ed from 90 day fiance: before the 90 days) baby dragons dang i wish i had $200 to spend on vent dragons dragons heating and cooling light effects sure why not that's cool i'm into that
ee Trick Shot, Take 2,000: Guy Flips Golf Tee Into Bottle Pour Spout By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 13:00:58 -0500 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. Full Article against all odds and they said it couldn't be done dare to dream feats of boredom oh wow so how are you spending your quarantine? so that's what that looks like try and try again trying hard and believing in yourself video