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Transcripts Reveal the Lies of Schiff & Dems on Russia

The Trump-Russia collusion investigation was an elaborate and intentional hoax, staged by the most unscrupulous and power-mad political operatives this country has ever seen.




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There's One Big Reason Why the Economy Can't Reopen

The country faces the same problem today it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.




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Disney Research Makes Dynamic Robots Less Wiggly, More Lifelike

A new computational method allows robotic characters to perform fast motions without excessive vibrations




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Video Friday: This Wearable Robotic Tail Will Improve Your Balance

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Tunnel Circuit Preview

Get ready for the first scored event in DARPA's latest Grand Challenge




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How Robotics Teams Prepared for DARPA's SubT Challenge

Roboticists share what they've learned so far from DARPA's Subterranean Challenge, and how they readied their bots for the next event—the Tunnel Circuit




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Soft Exosuit Makes Walking and Running Easier Than Ever

A lightweight, flexible exosuit pulls on your muscles as you move to make you more efficient




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DARPA Subterranean Challenge: The Scoring Rules

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




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How Robotics Teams Are Solving the Biggest Problem at DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

Supporting long-range communications inside of a mine is extremely difficult, so DARPA SubT teams are trying out some creative approaches




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3 Easy Ways to Evaluate AI Claims

Interrogate the data, consider possible incentives, and look for the dreaded “hype salad”



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All of the Winners in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Circuit

It's about more than just first place as teams look toward more competitions in 2020




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Blue Ocean Robotics Acquires Beam Telepresence Robot From Suitable Technologies

Beam now belongs to a Danish robot venture factory




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New Double 3 Robot Makes Telepresence Easier than Ever

With mapping and semi-autonomous navigation, even you can drive a Double 3




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Video Friday: This Robotic Thread Could One Day Travel Inside Your Brain

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Construction Robots Learn to Excavate by Mimicking Humans

Human movements can teach robots the skills they need to dig holes and—maybe someday—build the first colonies on Mars




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Soft Self-Healing Materials for Robots That Cannot Be Destroyed

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




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How Much AI Expertise Do Thought Leaders and Companies Really Have?

Consultancy firm Certified Artificial, which is offering to certify AI companies, has demonstrated its prowess by rating the expertise of Elon Musk and Henry Kissinger



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AI Agents Startle Researchers With Unexpected Hide-and-Seek Strategies

The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing



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The Ultimate Optimization Problem: How to Best Use Every Square Meter of the Earth's Surface

Lucas Joppa, founder of Microsoft's AI for Earth program, is taking an engineering approach to environmental issues




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AI Faces Speed Bumps and Potholes on Its Road From the Research Lab to Everyday Use

Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think



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Want a Really Hard Machine Learning Problem? Try Agriculture, Says John Deere Labs

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



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From Mainframes to PCs: What Robot Startups Can Learn From the Computer Revolution

In their search for killer apps, robotics companies should look at the amazing evolution of computers




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Video Friday: This Humanoid Robot Will Serve You Ice Cream

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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OpenAI Teaches Robot Hand to Solve Rubik's Cube

Using reinforcement learning and randomized simulations, researchers taught this robot how to solve a Rubik's cube one-handed





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A Path Towards Reasonable Autonomous Weapons Regulation

Experts representing a diversity of views on autonomous weapons systems collaborate on a realistic policy roadmap



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Robot Teaches Kids Hand Washing Skills in Rural India

Pepe helps keep Indian children healthy by reminding them to wash up




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Video Friday: Kuka's Robutt Is a Robot Designed to Assess New Car Seats

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Is it Time for Tech to Stop Moving Fast and Breaking Things?

Leaders in Silicon Valley—both the real one and the fictional one on HBO—started this week by debating the responsibilities of tech companies




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In the 17th Century, Leibniz Dreamed of a Machine That Could Calculate Ideas

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them



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  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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We're at IROS 2019 to Bring You the Most Exciting Robotics Research From Around the World

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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Microsoft's AI Research Draws Controversy Over Possible Disinformation Use

Microsoft's AI could enable its popular chatbot to comment on news, but critics see a tool for spreading disinformation



  • robotics
  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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China Says Its Mars Landing Technology Is Ready for 2020

Spacecraft propulsion systems are ready for China’s daring touchdown attempt on the red planet




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Bipedal Robot Cassie Cal Learns to Juggle

Cassie may not have any arms to work with, but that doesn’t keep it from juggling a ball on its head




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In 2016, Microsoft’s Racist Chatbot Revealed the Dangers of Online Conversation

The bot learned language from people on Twitter—but it also learned values



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SnotBot Drone Swoops Over Blowholes to Track Whale Health

The SnotBot project uses drones, data, and deep learning to tell us about the health of whales and the oceans




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For Centuries, People Dreamed of a Machine That Could Produce Language. Then OpenAI Made One

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



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Japanese Researchers Teaching Robots to Repair Themselves

Whether for maintenance or augmentation, robots that can use tools on themselves are more independent and capable






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Boba Fett Might Just Jetpack in to Meet Baby Yoda on The Mandalorian Season 2

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




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Dead to Me Recap: Hot Rats

What’s going to get Jen first: the discovery of what’s happening in her garage, or the guilt over what she hasn’t told her BFF?





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Dead to Me Recap: Sense of Occasion

What feels like a victory to Jen doesn’t carry the same sense of relief for Judy.




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Siegfried & Roy Magician Roy Horn Dead at 75 Due to COVID-19 Complications

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




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Dead to Me Recap: Mercury in Retrograde

After finding common ground, Jen and Judy split up to spend time with new friends who could end up being something more.




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The Best Video Games of the Year (So Far)

Whether they feature office bumbling, demon slaying, or parcel delivering, these games couldn’t have come at a better time.




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Little Richard, Chief Architect of Rock, Dead at 87

His cause of death is unknown.




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PromisePay changes gear

Fast-growing Melbourne payments company PromisePay is ramping its growth plans in the global platform economy.




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Fairfax-APN fears outlined

New Zealand’s competition watchdog has cited areas of overlap from a Fairfax-APN merger.