Oct 26
The fast-food giant is giving free Whoppers to people dressed like clowns at some locations.
Oct 26
Donald Trump never apologized for promoting the conspiracy theory.
Oct 26
Electrified cars may be increasingly popular, but one of the big questions is what happens when the batteries aren’t holding enough charge for use on the road? BMW is showing off one of its solutions, officially opening its battery storage farm at the grounds of BMW Plant Leipzig in Germany today. Inside the facility, a next-door neighbor to the plant … Continue reading
Oct 26
The folks at AOC have a new monitor they want to add to your backpack of goodies. This display is a 15.6-inch panel that connects to a computer with a single USB-C cord. That cord acts as both power and video source, allowing for the most mobile-friendly display add-on for a laptop basically ever invented – with a wire, that … Continue reading
Oct 26
Perhaps only second to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and very possibly second to none), Super Mario Odyssey is the most anticipated Nintendo game of the year. We’re now less than a day out from its release, and this morning, many publications began publishing their reviews. So, what’s the critical consensus? Is Super Mario Odyssey a worthy … Continue reading
Oct 26
When NASA first named Boeing and SpaceX as recipients of the Commercial Crew Program, they originally aimed to end the agency’s dependence on Russia by 2017. But developing space technologies is hard, and both companies had to push their first crewed…
Oct 26
When the Sky Store’s “Buy & Keep” option first launched in 2014, it offered the best of both worlds: A digital copy of a film (and later, TV box sets) to download and watch immediately, followed by a physical DVD copy to add to your collection wh…
Oct 26
Google launched Science Journal for Android last year as an easy way to measure light, sounds, motion and more. While it already sounded like a great tool, it’s now more useful than before: Google has turned it into a full-fledged digital notebook st…
Oct 26
Samsung’s C-Lab (Creative Lab) program is basically its in-house program to foster new business ideas and opportunities. Today, the company announced that seven C-Lab projects have graduated and are being spun off into separate startups on October 31…
Oct 26
Despite what science fiction movies tell us, real world robots aren’t all creepy and trying to murder us. They build cars, assemble electronic gadgets, disarm bombs, and take on tasks humans don’t want to do. But this robot really does want to kill. Fortunately, it only has an appetite for crabs. At least so far.
The nasty looking apparatus you’re looking at is designed to take on the task of separating crabs from their legs and pluck out their meaty insides. The Canadian Center for Fisheries Innovation developed this robot to explore the possibility of using machines to take on a gory task mostly done by humans today.
It’s definitely the stuff of nightmares if you’re a crab or just think crabs are adorable. But if you love the way they taste, then you have no right to complain about the unfeeling torture this thing inflicts on its victims. Fortunately, for the crabs, they’re actually already dead before they go under the spinning blades of this thing.
While I can definitely see the value in these robots with taking on jobs which are getting harder and harder to fill with humans, I’m still concerned that one day our robot overlords will build use machine learning from this project to realize they can build a human-size version.
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