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

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

Argonne will use the CS-1 to help discover cancer therapies and understand colliding blackholes

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

Bosch SoundSee combines deep learning with mobile microphone arrays to identify problems on the ISS before they happen

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

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

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

A new contest aims to help first responders leverage computer vision algorithms and drone imagery during a search

An exclusive look at the world’s most dynamic robots

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

MIT conference considers companies that have implemented job-friendly AI

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

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.

She’s also learning to iron.

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

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

Not every actor is Linney-caliber.

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?

We can’t stop him because we must know what happens next; our curiosity is his source of power.

If Stephen King keeps writing ‘em, we’ll keep seeing ‘em.

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

His cause of death is unknown.

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

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

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

झारखंड के मुख्यमंत्री हेमंत सोरेन ने देश में लॉकडाउन लगाने के मामले में केंद्र सरकार पर निशाना साधा है। उन्होंने कहा कि लॉकडाउन लगाने से पहले केंद्र ने राज्यों को भरोसे में नहीं लिया और उनसे कोई बातचीत नहीं की।

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

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.

It could be a matter of time before a Chinese airline tries to buy a strategic stake in Qantas.

The auction for the Port of Melbourne has come down to a three-way race with bidders lodging indicative bids.

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

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।

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.

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.