Mar 31
Chris Wallace Hammers Kellyanne Conway On Exoneration Claims: ‘Just Not True’
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Fox News host took the White House aide to task over Trump’s lies about the Mueller report.
Mar 31
Mar 31
Danai Gurira Celebrates African Diaspora As ‘Black Panther’ Wins NAACP Award
Posted in: Today's ChiliGurira joined fellow cast members on stage to accept the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture.
Mar 31
“Fox & Friends” appeared to struggle with geography while discussing Trump’s plan to cut aid to Central America.
Mar 31
Mar 31
NASA and the European Space Agency have teamed up on a study that aims to see if artificial gravity can help keep astronauts remain healthy on extended space missions, where bone and muscle loss can occur. To test this out, NASA wants 12 people to lay in bed and do nothing for 89 days.
The actual in-bed portion of the study will span 60 days. Participants will lay with their heads down 6-degrees to simulate weightlessness. The other days will be used for examinations. The study notes you can watch TV, read, and do whatever you want while laying in bed. You will get spun in a centrifuge for 30 minutes each day.
Other than being located in Germany, it appears that only female participants are needed for now. The study team is seeking healthy women between 24 and 55 years-old that are non-smokers, are 153-190cm tall, and have a BMI or 19-30 kg/m2. Participants in the program will receive about $19,000 for the three months of no work. That’s a pretty good wage increase from a similar study NASA conducted back in 2013, which paid just $5,000 per month.
Mar 31
We first saw Boston Dynamics’ Handle robot rolling about and balancing like a boss back in 2017. Now, the robot has been reimagined as a “mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics.” All I know is that this robot looks like trouble. It’s huge, inspired by a bird and carries boxes.
“Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after initialization and localizing against the pallets. The on-board vision system on Handle tracks the marked pallets for navigation and finds individual boxes for grasping and placing.” In other words, it carries boxes to and fro as it complains about all of these Amazon orders.
It is actually pretty good at its job, since it uses force control to nestle each box up against its neighbors perfectly. This version of Handle can carry boxes up to 33 pounds using a powerful vacuum system, and works with pallets that are 1.2 m deep and 1.7 m tall (appx. 48″ deep and 68″ tall).
This robot has a creepy shape and a creepy way of moving. Very bird-like indeed. You can see two of them working in the warehouse in the video and that makes them seem even creepier. I’m pretty sure they killed the last human worker so they could fill those palettes themselves. I say we give these robots some feathers just so they look sillier. Go ahead, picture them with feathers. It’s fun.
[via Geekologie]
Mar 31
Following a rumor claiming as much comes confirmation from the man himself: Mark Hamill is the voice of killer doll Chucky in the upcoming Child’s Play reboot. The movie was revealed in a trailer last month alongside the announcement of a summer 2019 premiere; it comes from Orion Pictures, which has teased a futuristic twist on the retro horror movie. … Continue reading
Mar 31
Mar 31
Epic Games has announced plans to bring mini battle royale games to the Creative mode in hit game Fortnite. The revelation was made during an official AMA on Reddit’s Fortnite Creative subreddit, where an Epic team member provided a few details in response to a user’s question. The miniature battle royale games would introduce an entirely new experience in Creative. … Continue reading
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