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The first promo for the new season of Game of Thrones is here, and kings and queens and guillotines are ready to take some lives. Only stop, it’s Winter Time.
Twitter was already really bad, but the brain trust over on Market Street just figured out how to make it worse. In the olden days (yesterday), when you included someone’s username in your tweet, it deducted from your 140 character limit. Now, for some inexplicable reason, it doesn’t. Which means you can tag a…
German industrial automation company Festo has another creepy creature to add to its menagerie. The Octopus Gripper. The origin of Doctor Octopus, Spider-Man’s foe, is right here people.
Octopus tentacles are a “muscular hydrostat,” like your tongue. This robotic tentacle is designed to flex and bend without a hard “bone,” or metal, structure inside. In place of water-based muscle, compressed air bends the robot tentacle and controls its pliability. Then passive and vacuum-powered suction cups provide grip. Right now, it can hold smooth, cylindrical items, like a rolled-up magazine or a tube, and I’m sure it will grip many other objects after they work on it some more. Check it out in action:
The octopus tentacle is actually attached to flexible arm called the Bionic Motion Robot, a flexible mechanical arm inspired by the trunk of an elephant. So basically what we have here is a half-elephant, half-octopus hybrid. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s pretty darn creepy. It won’t be long until they unleash a robotic elephant with eight octopus trunks, ready to rip us all apart.
[via Motherboard]
Once Samsung decided to discontinue the Galaxy Note 7 last year there was speculation about the future of its phablet. Many claimed that the company was going to end the Note lineup altogether but Samsung later confirmed that it’s going to release another Note handset in 2017. It will presumably be called the Galaxy Note 8. Word on the street is that Samsung’s much-rumored foldable smartphone might actually arrive before the Galaxy Note 8 this year.
It has long been rumored that Samsung is working on a foldable smartphone. The company has dozens of patents protecting the designs and plans that it has come up with to bring such a device to reality.
However, the company hasn’t shown off anything concrete as yet and hasn’t even confirmed if there’s going to be a foldable smartphone this year.
The latest whispers from China suggest that Samsung is aiming to launch its foldable smartphone – possibly codenamed Galaxy X – in the third quarter of 2017 while the Galaxy Note 8 isn’t expected to arrive until Q4.
If this is true, it means that the foldable smartphone will be out up to three months before the next flagship phablet. Whether or not this is exactly how it happens remains to be seen. After all, rumors aren’t always true.
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Uber is one of the most widely used ride-hailing services across the globe. Millions of people rely on it every single day to get to where they need to go. However, there has always been an issue with Uber that has irked users. Once a ride has been booked, it’s impossible to change the pickup location. Uber is finally changing that today. It will now allow users to adjust their pickup location even after the ride has been booked.
It’s all too common to request an Uber when you think that you’re at one place but in reality, the actual pickup location is somewhere else, either in the vicinity or on another block altogether. If you realize that late you have to incur a charge if you cancel the ride. Uber is finally addressing this problem.
Riders on iOS in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom will now be able to adjust their pickup location if they happened to request a ride from a wrong place. Uber says that it has tested out this feature in several cities and found that this results in fewer cancellations.
This feature will be rolled out to all riders in the aforementioned countries over the coming weeks. To adjust the pickup location, tap edit next to your pickup location once the driver is en route, enter the correct address and tap confirm.
The driver will immediately be notified of the new location and will have their route updated. It remains to be seen when Uber brings this feature to users on Android as well.
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There is some good news today. Enjoy it while it lasts.
1. Hawaii gave us Obama and now it’s giving us awesome judges who stop our president’s racist laws. Mahalo. More here.
2. North Carolina is moving to repeal the horrid HB2 bill that former Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law last year. The new deal isn’t perfect but it’s a start. More here.
3. Brexit isn’t looking pretty. Who would have guessed? More here.
4. The Energy Department climate office has banned the use of phrase ‘climate change’. Jesus Christ, that dumpster fire spread fast. Great. More here.
5. Turkey ends its seven month military campaign in Syria but is not ruling out future military operations. Countdown to Trump getting involved starts now. More here.
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Hyundai’s Ioniq initiative is more than just a green flare rising up from the sea of increasingly electrified automotive options. The decision to introduce a family of not one, not two, but a trio of new environmentally-friendly automobiles – the Ioniq Hybrid, the Ioniq Electric, and later this year, the Ioniq Plug-In Hybrid – is the second wind for Hyundai’s … Continue reading
The University of Pittsburgh Law School is bringing the real life lessons from HBO’s classic series “The Wire” to the classroom.
The 3-credit course, “Crime, Law and Society in ‘The Wire,’” will use the Baltimore-based drama to analyze many of the contemporary issues in the criminal justice system. According to the course description, these include, “drug enforcement, race, confessions, police manipulation of crime statistics, mass incarceration, use of force, gender, criminal organizations, gun violence, and honesty and accountability in law enforcement.”
The class, taught by David A. Harris, will lead group discussions on episodes from the first two seasons as well as additional assigned topics. Students are also required to “invest a significant amount of time outside of class watching the series” and to submit two papers focusing on issues “The Wire” tackles.
“The Wire,” created by David Simon, first aired in 2002 and lasted for five seasons. The show starred Wendell Pierce, Michael K. Williams, Idris Elba, Mack Wilds, Michael B. Jordan, Andre Royo, Dominic West, among others. It explored riveting themes that are still relevant today, such as the city’s relationship with law enforcement, the drug trade, politics, corruption and the media.
And it’s still heralded as one of the greatest TV shows of all time. “The Wire” was raw, un-cut and ahead of its time at taking a deep dive into actual issues plaguing inner cities.
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A GOP congressman on Thursday offered a strange defense for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and his questionable handling of the investigation into President Donald Trump’s administration and its ties to Russia.
When MSNBC host Craig Melvin asked Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) if it was appropriate for Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, to meet with a source on White House grounds the day before announcing he had reason to believe the Trump team was subject to “incidental” surveillance, Yoho insisted it was fine because Nunes “works for the president.”
“You’ve got to keep in mind who works for,” Yoho said. “He works for the president. He answers to the president.”
But Nunes, as a congressman, should actually be working for his constituents. When Melvin asked Yoho to clarify, Yoho claimed that Nunes does both, as chairman of the committee.
“You do both. When you’re in that capacity, if you’ve got information, I’m OK with what he did,” he said.
Yoho’s spokesman later clarified that he “misspoke.”
“He knows that every member is here because of the people that voted them into office,” spokesman Brian Kaveney told Talking Points Memo. “Members work for their constituents, whether they are rank and file or if they have the honor of serving as a committee chairman. The congressman stated that he works for his constituents and not for the President. The same reasoning is applied to all members. As I said before, the congressman misspoke plain and simple.”
Nunes, who served on Trump’s transition team, is increasingly facing questions about his credibility and transparency and whether he can conduct an independent investigation. Earlier this week, Nunes insisted he would not reveal his source, even to members of his own committee.
Many Democratic lawmakers, including committee members, have called for him to recuse himself from the investigation or even step down as chair.
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