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lundi 8 juillet 2024, 22:36
West Japan Railways hired this massive new humanoid robot to handle maintenance on its infrastructure. The robot can reach up 40 feet and can easily lift 88-pound objects. Its wrists can be outfitted with a variety of attachments and grippers enabling it to hold a...
What do the Vatican Apostolic Archive, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, and Ilha da Queimada Grande have in common? They're both places you almost certainly can't experience for yourself. The Vatican Apostolic Archive is where popes' personal documents are stored. The...
In case you have any question as to what a Donald Trump second term will look like, just read the GOP's Project 2025 manifesto. Or simply watch the four-minute Lincoln Project video on America's 'terrible future' if Trump wins in November (see below). — Read the rest The...
You might assume everyone has an 'inner voice,' unless you don't have one. New research reported in Scientific American reveals striking variation in inner speech experiences. Participants were asked to rate how highly they agreed with 'I think about problems in my mind in...
Peter Diamandis is a medical doctor, founder of the X Prize Foundation, and co-founder of Singularity University. Diamindis is a futurist and he's set on living to see it. That's why he takes 75 pills every single day—'to boost longevity and healthspan.' — Read the rest ...
Kevin Bacon tried life as an average person, and it sucks. I do not know why Kevin Bacon did this, and if he did, why he'd talk about it like this, but there you go. No one is surprised that someone wealthy and famous for a long time doesn't like living like an average Joe. ...
A group of six motorcyclists drove through California's Death Valley in 128-degree weather on Saturday — and one died from the extreme heat. As the rider struggled on the hottest July 6th ever recorded in the area, helicopters were not able to reach him. — Read the rest ...
The rice you eat may contain dangerous levels of arsenic. Arsenic is naturally found in water and soil, but it finds its way into rice because rice is grown in flooded paddy fields that use a lot of irrigation water. Irrigation water is often polluted with pesticides,...
Some people are reporting that the latest Covid-19 variants, collectively called FLiRT, cause unbearable pain and discomfort, reports the LA Times. The article includes quotes from people on Reddit describing the severity of their symptoms: 'terrible sinus pressure and...
As Hurricane Beryl hit Texas this morning, leaving 1.5 million people without power, Gov. Greg Abbott was nowhere to be seen — at least not in Texas. In fact, as he boasted on X, he is in South Korea, and has no qualms about it. — Read the rest The post Gov. Abbott pulls...
In ever more frantic fundraising emails, convicted felon Donald Trump has begun to echo his riling up of the January 6th rioters. Running on a platform of hatred and revenge, the Republican frontrunner for President Donald Trump is once again whipping his adherents into a...
Unsurprisingly a large police presence did not deter skateboarders from finding a way. No property was damaged. Only fun was had. San Francisco has many small street festivals and block parties. The annual Dolores Street 'hill bomb' is one. Skaters take to a steep,...
TL;DR: Get in on this deal that gets you new, open-box Beats Studio Buds wireless noise-canceling earbuds for just $79.99 for a limited time — and you can get them faster when you go straight to checkout. Ready to immerse yourself in high-quality sound without breaking the...
Tesla and its shareholders are up in arms over a record-setting lawyer's fee request being heard in Deleware court today. Delaware law awards lawyers who help shareholders recover lost value in their companies an increasingly large percentage of the 'recovery' amount. — Read...
*record scratch* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here, standing in the lobby of a grocery store with a SIG Sauer 522 LR semi-automatic rifle, swathed head to foot in Amazon Basics tactical gear, shoppers looking at me with their frames freezed too. — Read...
Boeing is to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy fraud over deadly 737 Max crashes. The company will pay a $243.6m fine and allow itself to be monitored. The deal spares the company, which had $74bn in revenues over the last year, the inconvenience of a trial. — Read the...
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X CPU is Microsoft's great ARM hope in tackling Apple Silicon. Microsoft has already stumbled by tying the branding effort to some dead-on-arrival A.I. thing, but the laptops themselves have gotten solid reviews. The Verge set out to benchmark the heck...
ICE operated a fake school, the University of Farmington, supposedly as a sting operation to identify people living in the U.S. on illegal student visas. But it was really just a scam, taking tens of thousands of dollars from those who applied and subsequently refusing to...
Hold onto your satin capes and spandex underpants, comics nerds! This year's San Diego Comic-Con will get a superheroic boost of nostalgia and free speech advocacy as Oni Press teams up with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) for their annual 'SDCC Welcome Party.' —...
Rapper BG first broke onto the scene in the late 90s with the song 'Bling Bling,' which featured collaborations by Lil' Wayne and others. The last fifteen years his life, however, has been plagued by legal troubles, mostly (though not exclusively) involving illegal firearms...
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