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How Joe Biden Can Defeat Trump From His Basement

If he can win the battle for our screens, he can benefit from the death of the traditional presidential campaign.




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Richard Grenell, a True Hero of Our Times

You may have noticed, as a mere citizen of this country, there are many things you are not supposed to know. You are not mature enough or intelligent enough to handle certain information. You are in, in effect, a child in a supposedly democratic republic.




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The State of Employment in Pandemic America, in 6 Charts

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




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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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Nursing Homes & Veterans' Homes Are Epicenters of Covid-19

The overlooked epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic is our nation's nursing homes, veterans' homes, and other long-term care facilities.




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Obama, Biden WH Meeting Key to Anti-Trump Operation

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.




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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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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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Video Friday: AlienGo Quadruped Robot Can Now Do Backflips

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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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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Electronic License Plates for Drones May Come Soon

New drone standard for remote ID submitted for approval




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U.S. Energy Department is First Customer for World’s Biggest Chip

Cerebras aims to speed deep learning at supercomputing centers




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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



  • robotics
  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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NASA Hiring Engineers to Develop “Next Generation Humanoid Robot”

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




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Skydio’s New Drone Is Smaller, Even Smarter, and (Almost) Affordable

Skydio crams all its autonomous magic into a sleek consumer drone that costs under $1k




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Drones as Detectives: Surveying Crime Scenes for Evidence

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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Next-Gen AR Glasses Will Require New Chip Designs

A Facebook executive challenges the Arm processor community to create tech building blocks for augmented reality glasses




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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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Skydio's Dock in a Box Enables Long-Term Autonomy for Drone Applications

This cozy little box provides a remote home for Skydio's fully autonomous obstacle-avoiding drone




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Drones: For When Medical Intervention Has to Get There Before an Ambulance Can

New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives




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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



  • robotics
  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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Harvard's UrchinBot Is One of the Weirdest Looking Robots We've Ever Seen

The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin




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Andrey Markov & Claude Shannon Counted Letters to Build the First Language-Generation Models

Shannon's said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”



  • robotics
  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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AI and the Future of Work: The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Experts discuss technological inequality and the “reskilling” problem at an MIT conference



  • robotics
  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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Video Friday: Robotic Endoscope Travels Through the Colon

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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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



  • robotics
  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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Video Friday: This Robot Refuses to Fall Down Even if You Hit, Shove It

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos






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Golden Globes Suspend Foreign Language Film Eligibility Rules As Well

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.




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RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: #Methmentum

Given the overall strength of this top six, it’s surprising how messy these one-queen shows turn out to be.





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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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Tyra Banks Admits Some America’s Next Top Model Moments Were Over the Line

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




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The Eddy Recap: The Low End

An overlooked member of The Eddy band steps into the spotlight for a bittersweet—mostly bitter—story about his troubled past and uncertain future.




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Ausenco falls to private equity

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




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Agent payouts to shift stock

Agents are being offered double the normal commission to help shift apartments throughout capital cities.




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Oh, Internet: Artificial Intelligence Attempts To Create Additional Lyrics To Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'

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.




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Peekaboo!: Home Air Vent Dragons With Light-Up Eyes

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.



  • 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

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Yikes!: Russian Helicopter Accidentally Fires Missiles At Journalists

This is a video from Russia's Zapad-2017 military exercises where a KA-52 Alligator helicopter accidentally fired two missiles towards a group of journalists covering the event (allegedly as a result of a short-circuit in the helicopter's electric system according to the Russian military *eyebarrelroll*). Three of the journalists were injured in the incident (amazingly not critically either), including the one seen strolling along the highway to the danger zone the video. Man, those missiles come QUICK. If you think you're gonna outrun one of those things like a tarantula in Animal Crossing, think again. I mean sure The Flash could do it, but he could also pleasure himself infinitely in the time it took you to read this article. "Huh?" How his penis doesn't catch fire is beyond me, there must be other superpowers at play too. Keep going for a couple versions of the video (the second with slow-mos), as well as a news report which includes the copter's gun view.




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Oh Wow: Exploding A Hand Grenade Inside A Safe

This is a video of Youtuber Edward Sarkissian exploding an M67 frag grenade inside an 87-pound steel SentrySafe fire/waterproof home safe to see what will happen. What happens? It gets BLOWN UP. So, if you were wondering if "inside a home safe" would be a secure place to dispose of your extra grenades, the answer is not even for the first one, and definitely none after that. So while this safe may be fireproof, it certainly isn't *lobs dog toy like hand grenade, bounces off wall and back at my feet* fire-in-the-holeproof. Keep going for the video (everything up to 4:15 is prepping the grenade inside the safe), as well as a video of opening a safe with grenades taped to the outside (with $10,000 and a gold bar inside).



  • blowing things up
  • blown up sir
  • explosion
  • fire in all the holes!
  • fire in the hole!
  • fire in your hole!
  • great there go all my valuables
  • grenades
  • having a great time
  • kaboom
  • living the dream
  • safe
  • the opposite of safe
  • video
  • wait what
  • weapons of war

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I'll Take The Stairs: Elevator Starts Ascending Before Man Is Fully Inside

This is a terrifying elevator cam gif from Korea of an elevator that begins ascending before a man enters, tripping him and almost creating a classic horror movie death scene in real life. Thankfully he was able to escape. And this is exactly why I don't take elevators -- or escalators. "So you're a stair guy?" Please *jiggling belly* jetpack or grappling gun only. Thanks to PK, who agrees they always say use the stairs in case of emergency, and what's 2020 if not a nonstop emergency? Besides, how do you social distance in an elevator? I mean if somebody farts everyone smells it.




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#LadengeCoronaSe: फेसबुक और व्हाट्सएप के बाद MyGovIndia ने Likee पर बनाया अकाउंट

शॉर्ट वीडियो एप लाईकी ज्वाइन करने का मतबल लाईकी के लाखों यूजर्स को रियल टाइम में कोरोना के संक्रमण के बारे में जानकारी देना और रोकधाम के उपाय को बताना है।




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Bacteria encode secret messages

Undercover E. coli act as updated invisible ink.




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Human genetics: Genomes on prescription

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




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Brazil cooks up transgenic bean

Approval draws criticism over transparency and safety tests.