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How Boston Dynamics Is Redefining Robot Agility

An exclusive look at the world’s most dynamic robots




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Robot Gift Guide 2019

Over a dozen robots that we promise will make fantastic holiday gifts




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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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Skydio 2 Review: This Is the Drone You Want to Fly

Flying this $999 obstacle-dodging drone is a magical experience




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AI and the Future of Work: The Prospects for Tomorrow’s Jobs

MIT conference considers companies that have implemented job-friendly AI



  • 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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Map: Confirmed coronavirus cases, worldwide

More than 3.9 million people have been sickened and more than 270,000 killed by the coronavirus around the world. This map is updated daily.





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13 Going on 30 Was Almost, Uh, Not Very Good

A YouTube search unearths deleted scenes shot with a different cast.





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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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Laura Linney Shading Lesser Actresses Won Late Night This Week

Not every actor is Linney-caliber.



  • this week in late night
  • vulture section lede
  • the late late show with james corden
  • tv
  • comedy

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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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The Eddy Recap: Sad Songs Say So Much

“Amira” invites us to two very different Eddy celebrations, each with Farid at their center.




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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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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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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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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 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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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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CoronaVirus in Jharkhand: बोकारो में कोरोना संक्रमण का एक और मामला, राज्य में कुल संक्रमितों की संख्या 14 हुई 

झारखंड के बोकारो जिले में चंद्रपुरा प्रखंड के तेलो गांव में कोरोना वायरस संक्रमण के एक और मामले की पुष्टि हुई है




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बोकारो में मिले कोरोना वायरस के दो नए मरीज, झारखंड में 19 लोग Covid-19 की चपेट में

झारखंड में कोरोना वायरस महामारी से संक्रमित होने वाले मरीजों की कुल संख्या बढ़कर 19 हो गई है




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Coronavirus in Jharkhand: कोरोना के संक्रमण में आया दो दिन का बच्चा, रिम्स के आइसोलेशन वार्ड में भर्ती

रांची प्रशासन ने कहा कि सदर अस्पताल के कर्मचारी जिन्होंने महिला को अटेंड किया था उनका अब परीक्षण किया जाएगा।




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Advertising adds up to $40bn

Advertising spending contributes about $40 billion a year to the Australian economy, or 2 per cent of GDP.




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Merger windfall for Waislitz

Billionaire Alex Waislitz stands to make millions after two financial services companies agreed to merge.




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Fairfax-APN fears outlined

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




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‘ALP’s NBN needs extra $10bn’

Labor’s NBN policy could require a further $10 billion in taxpayer funding, says a telecommunications analyst.




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SBI के दो बड़े फैसले: MCLR में की कटौती, FD पर घटाई ब्याज दर, आप पर पड़ेगा असर

देश के सबसे बड़े सरकारी बैंक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक (एसबीआई) ने मार्जिनल कॉस्ट ऑफ फंड बेस्ड ब्याज दर (एमसीएलआर) में कटौती की है। एमसीएलआर के अतिरिक्त आज एसबीआई ने फिक्स्ड डिपॉजिट (FD) पर मिलने वाले ब्याज में भी कमी कर दी है।




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वरिष्ठ नागरिकों के लिए SBI ने लॉन्च की खास FD योजना, आपको होगा फायदा

देश के सबसे बड़े सरकारी बैंक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक (एसबीआई) ने आज वरिष्ठ नागरिकों के लिए 'एसबीआई वीकेयर डिपॉजिट' स्कीम की शुरुआत की है।




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SBI ने दिया ग्राहकों को झटका, 12 मई से FD पर आपको मिलेगा इतना कम ब्याज

देश के सबसे बड़े सरकारी बैंक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक (SBI) ने फिक्स्ड डिपॉजिट (FD) पर मिलने वाले ब्याज में भी कमी कर दी है। दो करोड़ रुपये से कम की फिक्स्ड डिपॉजिट पर एसबीआई की नई दरें 12 मई 2020 से लागू होंगी।




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Star Wars Character Hydrating Beauty Masks

These are the Star Wars hydrating face masks from Japanese beauty product manufacturer Isshin Do. They come in Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Darth Maul, C-3PO and Chewbacca varieties, and each contains water, glycerin, hyaluronic acid, collagen, and vitamin C to make your face feel softer than a baby Yoda's butt. For those living in Japan, you can pick up the masks for around $4 apiece from a variety of beauty retailers. For those of us not living in Japan, you can buy a 3-pack of any character for $31 from the Japan Trend Shop which, I wouldn't even kid myself, my face is not worth. I don't even buy sunscreen, I just use old spray paint I find in the garage. Also, how long you think it'll take before these are being used by couples for lewd sex acts? "Already happened." FACT. Keep going for a shot of each while I try to pretend I didn't just imagine some Chewbacca on C-3PO bedroom role playing.




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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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Darth Vader With Lightsaber Pool Float

In there's no way Vader signed off on this news, this is the 'Nino Star Products Pool Float Black Outdoor' available from Amazon. It costs around $25, kinda looks like a Darth Vader a kid drew, and I can't imagine Darth doesn't wish they all melted in the destruction of the first Death Star. "What am I, a joke to you?!" I imagine him demanding as he Force-chokes the commander who signed off on using his likeness for a cartoony pool float as the other who signed off on the line of upcoming Vader sex toys casually backs out of the room intending to catch the first dropship to Tatooine. Keep going for one more shot of Vader at his most humiliated.



  • cartoon
  • could you have made it any shittier looking though?
  • fun in the sun
  • pool
  • real products that exist
  • sadness
  • star wars everything
  • summertime
  • things that look like other things
  • womp womp
  • yeah you did

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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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A Champagne Bottle Sized 'My Personal Bottomless Mimosa' Glass

Just in time for Mother's Day/continued at-home quarantine comes this 750mL 'My Personal Bottomless Mimosa' glass from BigMouth, Inc and available on Amazons. The surprisingly all-glass drinkware (but still hand-wash only on account of the decorations) combines the shape of a champagne bottle with a mimosa glass to holds 8 (read: 2-3) servings, and is perfect for letting the rest of your family know you're not to be bothered for the rest of the day because it may still be early here but, dammit, it's 5 o'clock somewhere that's nine and half hours ahead. Thanks to Tracey H, who informed me she can't count the number of times she's been asked to leave a bottomless brunch for really putting its bottomlessness to the test. Heck yeah, that's called doing God's work.




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The Circle Of Life: Praying Mantis Eating The Brain (And Rest) Of A 'Murder Hornet'

Because we don't have enough on our plates as it is, now we've got 'murder hornets' flying around the United States. Murder hornets (actually Asian Giant Hornets, but that name didn't strike enough fear into the masses) have a sting powerful enough that China recommends medical treatment if stunk more than ten times, and emergency treatment if stung more than 30. *pours out a little liquor for Macaulay Culkin in My Girl*. And where is his glasses?! He can't see without his glasses! Put his glasses on! Here's a video of Coyote Peterson getting stung by one (the Japanese Giant Hornet was previously believed to be a subspecies of the Asian Giant Hornet, but has since been recategorized as a color morph). This is a video of a praying mantis eating a Giant Asian hornet until it's just a pile of limbs. So yeah, praying mantises -- start breeding them. And make sure to selectively breed them too so we can produce them bigger and bigger until they're preying on us because the way things are going how is that not how this ends? Keep going for the video while I surround my Animal Crossings town with preying mantises to protect my villagers and keep my five-star rating (okay, three).




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What Does A Fan Do In A Vacuum Chamber?

This is a video from The Action Lab where they've set up a vacuum chamber with a fan inside along with a number of tiny Styrofoam balls to see if the fan is capable of blowing the balls around after the air is pumped out of the chamber. Well, can it? SPOILER: Only if you turn the fan up past 11 since there's still a tiny amount of air in the chamber on account of it not being a perfect vacuum like my roommate. So yeah, if your spaceship design relies heavily on a fan for propulsion it may be time to head back to the drawing board and hopefully draw something impressive enough for your mom to hang on the fridge because you belong at home. Keep going for the video, but the fun bit starts around 1:50.




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Ocarina Of Time's 'Saria's Song' Performed On 24 Partially Empty Wine Bottles

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.




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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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Sure, Why Not?: A Lid For Dripping Melting Butter On Microwave Popcorn As It Pops

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.




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Aarogya Setu एप जल्द जियोफोन यूजर्स के लिए होगा लॉन्च, MyGov India के सीईओ ने की पुष्टि

बीते बुधवार को सरकार ने फीचर फोन और लैंडलाइन यूजर्स के लिए आईवीआरएस सेवा लॉन्च की थी। वहीं, अब सरकार जियोफोन यूजर्स के लिए अलग से आरोग्य सेतु मोबाइल एप को पेश करने की तैयारी कर रही है।




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Mother's Day 2020: अपनी मां को ये शानदार स्मार्टफोन करें गिफ्ट, हो जाएंगी खुश

Mother's Day 2020 Best Mobile Under rs 10000: इस मदर्स डे आप भी अपनी मां को उपहार में स्मार्टफोन देकर विश कर सकते हैं। इन स्मार्टफोन की कीमत 10,000 रुपये से कम है। साथ ही इनमें आपको दमदार फीचर्स मिलेंगे।




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Unacademy का डाटाबेस हुआ हैक, डार्क वेब पर बिक रही है 2.2 करोड़ छात्रों की निजी जानकारी

सिक्योरिटी फर्म Cyble की रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक Unacademy के 21,909,707 डाटा लीक हुए हैं जिनकी कीमत 2,000 अमेरिकी डॉलर है। बता दें कि Unacademy को बाल हाल ही में फेसबुक, जेनरल अटलांटिक और  Sequoia की ओर से 110 अमेरिकी डॉलर की फंडिंग मिली है।




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Jio, Airtel और Vodafone के ये हैं लंबी अवधि वाले प्लांस, नहीं कराना पड़ेगा हर बार मोबाइल नंबर रिचार्ज

कोरोना संक्रमण के कारण पूरे देश में लॉकडाउन लगा हुआ है और यह कब खत्म होगा इसका अंदाजा लगाया जाना मुश्किल है। ऐसे में आप भी हर महीने मोबाइल नंबर रिचार्ज करा कर परेशान हो गए हैं, तो यह खबर आपके लिए है।