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John Fowler - Scientist of the Day
Sir John Fowler, an English civil engineer, was born July 15, 1817.
Scientists have long assumed that farming began among one group in the Mideast. But a new study suggests a more diverse origin story.
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This image shows one slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. This image contains 48,741 galaxies, about 3 percent of the full survey dataset. Each dot in this picture indicates the position of a galaxy 6 billion years into the past. The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the universe 6 billion light-years wide, 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick. Color indicates distance from Earth, ranging from yellow on the near side of the slice to purple on the far side. Galaxies are highly clustered, revealing superclusters and voids whose presence is seeded in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Grey patches are small regions without survey data.
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Pics After ten years of work by hundreds of scientists, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III has produced the most complete map of our nearby universe covering over a million galaxies.…
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Decided to go home from work via Waterloo Bridge this morning and was treating to some very decent light despite the clear outlook. I had originally planned to visiti Millenium Bridge again but as i drove over Waterloo Bridge this view caught my eye. Im not keen on London during the day but at Dawn its just fine :-)
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How much water does your lawn really need? A University of Utah study re-evaluated lawn watering recommendations by measuring water used by lawns in Los Angeles. Scientists study how much water plants lose so that landscape managers can know how much water they need to put back in. Water evaporates in a straightforward physical process that depends primarily on the temperature and humidity of the air. But plants also lose water through transpiration, breathing out water vapor as part of their metabolism. Researchers attempt to determine a crop's evotranspiration rates by placing a large greenhouse-like chamber over an area of plants and measure how temperature and humidity changed within the chamber. But the presence of such a large chamber changes the plants' environment so much that the method is far from ideal.
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Dallas Morning News | Q&A: Michael Horowitz on banning killer, artificial intelligence robots Dallas Morning News In that when we imagine a lot of the sort of worst-case scenarios from artificial intelligence, beyond the ones from the movies, they tend to involve, say, robotic systems, like the Boston Dynamics system, substituting for a soldier on the ground and ... and more » |
Can a robot mend a lonely heart? CNET Now, a few doll makers and researchers would like to add artificial intelligence to the mix, creating erotic dolls that would do a lot more than just lie around. When that happens, it could isolate Nukeno and others like him even more -- or it could ... and more » |
Quartz | Did a robot just solve a prevailing mystery of evolution? Quartz Many see the decision to exit the European Union as driven by national anger against politicians in general, as much as against the EU specifically. Speaking outside her new home at Number 10 Downing Street, May—who earlier in her career had ... |
Trump demands an apology from Ginsburg, Loretta Lynch under fire, and China loses in Court CainTV o Former U.S. Army Reserve, Micah Johnson gunned down the officers in an ambush last Thursday after expressing anger over recent police killings of black people. o Johnson then was killed by an explosive-laden robot sent in by police. o Johnson, who ... |
Haaretz | Israeli Tech Could Offer Non-lethal Alternatives to Dallas' Killer Robot Haaretz But, it seems, the future is here. The use of a police robot loaded with explosives to kill Micah Xavier Johnson, who shot and killed five police officers during a protest march in Dallas last week, has brought an international ethics debate over the ... and more » |
War on the Rocks | This is Not the Killer Robot You're Looking For: Dallas Police Used a Precision-Guided Munition to Kill the Shooter War on the Rocks There, they would engage in a spinning whirlwind of predictive doom, calling for new regulations, stoking fears of hordes of government-controlled killer robots, and speculating on the future of civilization. But all the hyperventilating over this by ... |
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Gasp! Mastercard has gone and messed with one of the most iconic logos in corporate history and, shockingly, the new one isn't absolutely terrible. Far from it, in fact, as the old payments processing giant has done a fine job of modernizing its signature interlocking circles and integrating them into a modern, cohesive brand identity that keeps the logo looking great even at small sizes on mobile screens.
A less obvious difference is the dropping of the camel case, so from here on out it's going to be Mastercard or, as above, mastercard, and not MasterCard. Basically, the company's casting off many of its aging facets and looking to start afresh, which is why it's tied this identity redesign to the re-announcement of...
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Olly Moss, a graphic designer and illustrator and one of the artists for indie game Firewatch, has made a name for himself doing stylized and cherubic renderings of pop culture characters. He has them Giclée printed on high-quality 5 x 5-inch watercolor paper and sells them in limited time windows for a voracious community of fans. Now, Moss has gone ahead and released a set of six prints for the hugely popular Blizzard shooter Overwatch. They're available over at Moss' web store for 24 hours, with the clock ticking presumably from when Moss tweeted his store link at approximately 12PM ET on Thursday, July 14th.
According to his store, the "set is printed to fulfill the number of orders received within these 24 hours." So long as you...
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Scientists have evidence that the epidemic in Latin America may have started to subside. But the U.S. isn't out of the woods yet.
The Cyber Mission Force is the largest single unit dedicated to operating in computer networks, both for defense and offense. It will reach "initial operating capability" by the end of September.
After last week's police shootings, Facebook received a flood of complaints, with users calling out posts as hate speech. According to Facebook insiders, the company was not prepared.
A recent federal court ruling has advocates, researchers and the dissenting judge worried that sharing passwords, even in seemingly innocuous circumstances, could be considered unlawful.
Black police officers live on both sides of the debate over race and policing. In this week's episode, they weigh in on the limits of force diversity in bridging gaps between black people and cops.
Iowa health officials recently discovered it wasn't against state law for a nursing home worker to share a photo on Snapchat of a resident covered in feces. They are trying to change that.
Politicians, police officers, and media personalities have all gotten blow-back for inflammatory social media posts about the shooting of officers in Dallas.
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Kim Kardashian will air out her bad blood with Taylor Swift on the episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians airing Sunday. (Welcome to your Game of Thrones replacement.)
Kim explains to her robotic ally Kourtney why she decided to talk about Taylor Swift in her GQ profile. In the article, Kim claims Kanye West filmed his conversation about "Famous" with Swift that both parties went on to describe very differently — Yeezy is a true Karadashian.
The fallout is especially juicy considering that in Swift's GQ profile in 2015, she just couldn't stop talking about her friendship with Kanye.
In the preview, Kim laments Tay's choice to go back on her alleged plan to divulge that she was in on the joke at the Grammys was a calculating move. Read more...
If you really want to know where we are as a world, rather than a tiny and bamboozled nation, turn away from the news and towards Mr Robot, the award-winning US drama that has just entered its second season. It follows the adventures of Elliot Alderson, an emotionally troubled young computer security engineer turned vigilante hacker. He is recruited by the eponymous character, the leader of a New York-based anarchist group, to destroy the largest conglomerate in the world.
Related: Mr Robot's season two is proof the show refuses to play by the rules of TV
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Habitat destruction has reduced the variety of plants and animals to the point that ecological systems could become unable to function properly, with risks for agriculture and human health, say scientists
The variety of animals and plants has fallen to dangerous levels across more than half of the world's landmass due to humanity destroying habitats to use as farmland, scientists have estimated.
The unchecked loss of biodiversity is akin to playing ecological roulette and will set back efforts to bring people out of poverty in the long term, they warned.
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It's difficult to be a senior citizen with limited resources in New York City. Mantai Chow's short documentary, The Forgotten Ones, profiles elderly people who've lived in the city for decades, but who are struggling as they grow older alone. Abandoned by many, they cling to one another.
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba and Tom Hiddleston are all vying for the same top prize at this year's Emmy Awards, following a strong British showing in today's nominations.
All three will be up for Best Leading Actor in a Limited Series at the ceremony in September, for ‘Sherlock', ‘Luther' and ‘The Night Manager' respectively.
FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS BELOW
Other British nominees include ‘Downton Abbey', with its final series given a nod in the category of Outstanding Drama Series, and for Writing and Directing.
‘The Night Manager' also gets a nod in the Outstanding Limited Series category, with Tom's co-star Hugh Laurie also in the running for Supporting Actor.
‘Luther' and ‘Sherlock' will be competing for honours in the Limited Series category.
‘Game of Thrones' once again takes the lead in these nominations, garnering 23 in total for its sixth series - close behind is the ham-tastic ‘The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story' - a Limited Series that also scooped nominations for cast members Cuba Gooding Jr, Sarah Paulson, David Schwimmer, Courtney B Vance, Sterling K Brown AND, last but not least, John Travolta.
Channel 4 comedy ‘Catastrophe' gets a nod in the Writing category, actor Kit Harrington will be a popular nominee for the role of Jon Snow in ‘Game of Thrones', vying with his own co-star Peter Dinklage, while Maisie Williams also gets a nod.
FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS BELOW
The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will air live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on 18 September.
OUTSTANDING DRAMA
The Americans
Better Call Saul
Downton Abbey
Game Of Thrones
Homeland
House Of Cards
Mr. Robot
LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA
Kyle Chandler, Bloodlines
Rami Malek, Mr Robot
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA
Claire Danes, Homeland
Viola Davis, How To Get Away With Murder
Taraji P Henson, Empire
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Keri Russell, The Americans,
Robin Wright, House of Cards
SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul
Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline
Peter Dinklage, Game Of Thrones
Kit Harrington, Game Of Thrones
Michael Kelly, House Of Cards
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones
Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones
Maura Tierney, The Affair
GUEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Max von Sydow, Game of Thrones
Michael J. Fox, The Good Wife
Reg e. Cathey, House Of Cards
Mahershala Ali, House Of Cards
Hank Azaria, Ray Donovan
GUEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Margo Martindale, The Americans
Carrie Preston, The Good Wife
Laurie Metcalf, Horace And Pete
Ellyn Burstyn, House of Cards
Molly Parker, House Of Cards
Allison Janney, Masters Of Sex
WRITING, DRAMA
The Americans
Downton Abbey
Game Of Thrones
The Good Wife
Mr. Robot
UnReal
DIRECTING, DRAMA
Downton Abbey
Game Of Thrones
Homeland
The Knick
Ray Donovan
OUTSTANDING COMEDY
Blackish
Master Of None
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt
Veep
LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY
Anthony Anderson, black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Masters of None
Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth
William H Macy, Shameless
Thomas Middleditch, Silicon Valley
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY
Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Laurie Metcalfe, Getting On
Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish
Amy Schumer, Inside Amy Schumer
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie
SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
Louie Anderson, Baskets
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Keegan-Michael Key
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Tony Hale, Veep
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
Niecy Nash, Getting On
Kate McKinnon, SNL
Gaby Hoffmann, Transparent
Allison Janney, Mom
Judith Light, Transparent
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
GUEST ACTOR, COMEDY
Bob Newhart, The Big Bang Theory
Tracy Morgan, SNL
Larry David, SNL
Badley Whitford, Transparent
Martin Mull, Veep
Peter MacNichol, Veep
GUEST ACTRESS, COMEDY
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live
Amy Schumer, Saturday Night Live
Christine Baranski, The Big Bang Theory
Laurie Metcalf, The Big Bang Theory
Melora Hardin, Transparent
WRITING, COMEDY
Catastrophe
Master Of None
Silicon Valley
Veep
DIRECTOR, COMEDY
Master Of None
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep
OUTSTANDING MOVIE OR SPECIAL
A Very Murray Christmas
All the Way
Confirmation
Luther
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES
American Crime
Fargo
The Night Manager
The People v. OJ Simpson
Roots
LEAD ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
Kristen Dunst, Fargo
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Audra McDonald, Billie Holiday: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Lili Taylor, American Crime
Kerry Washington, Confirmation
LEAD ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
Bryan Cranston, All The Way
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Ibris Elba, Luther
Cuba Gooding Jr, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Tom Hiddleston, The Night Manager
Courtney B. Vance, The People V OJ Simpson
SUPPORTING ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
Jesse Plemmons, Fargo
Bokeem Woodbine, Fargo
Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager
Sterling K. Brown, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
David Schwimmer, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
John Travolta, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
Niecy Nash, Getting On
Allison Janney, Mom
Kate McKinnon, SNL
Judith Light, Transparent
Gabby Hoffmann, Transparent
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
WRITING, LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
Fargo
The Night Manager
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
DIRECTING, LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
All The Way
Fargo
The Night Manager
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
OUTSTANDING VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
Documentary Now!
Drunk History
Inside Amy Schumer
Key & Peele
Portlandia
SNL
OUTSTANDING VARIETY TALK SERIES
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Real Time With Bill Maher
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon
WRITING, VARIETY SERIES
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee
Inside Amy Schumer
Key & Peele
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Portlandia
SNL
DIRECTING, VARIETY SERIES
Inside Amy Schumer
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
The Late Late Show With James Corden
SNL
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
REALITY COMPETITION
The Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
Top Chef
The Voice
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The 2016 Emmy nominations were announced Thursday morning, with shows like Game of Thrones — the most nominated show this year — and The Americans and making a strong showing.
A list of nominations from the major categories is below:
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The Americans
Better Call Saul
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
Homeland
House of Cards
Mr. Robot
Comedy Series
Black-ish
Master of None
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Veep
Transparent
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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Rami Malek, Mr. Robot
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Each Overwatch hero is a special snowflake.
Different guns, different abilities, different movement speeds, different quirks. Learning to excel with one hero doesn't mean you've mastered Overwatch.
Playing a hero the "right" way only gets you so far, of course. Positioning, team formation (on both sides) and overall skill level are still important; you can play a hero perfectly and still lose. But you probably won't win until you learn to play whoever you're using right.
We've got you covered. Read on for tips, strategies and ideal maps/modes to help you suck less at using Overwatch's stalwart transforming robot defender, Bastion. Read more...
The star of the most prescient show on TV has killed capitalism, torched the web and sparked a haircut trend
“I went to the barber's yesterday and the barber burst out laughing,” says Rami Malek. “She said, ‘Sorry for laughing it's just that everybody comes in asking for your haircut. And now you're here yourself.'”
Malek shouldn't sound so shocked. Since Mr Robot burst on to our screens last summer, the hacktivist thriller has been one of TV's most talked about shows and given us a new trim for our time. It's already won a Golden Globe and is tipped to dominate the Emmys, with Malek among the favourites to land best actor.
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Today on In Case You Missed It: Georgia Tech overhauled its DURUS robot to walk with a human-like gait that makes it the most efficient bipedal robot. Scientists at the EPFL did some solid research into the pomegranate fruit that shows it can cou... Slate and Future Tense are discussing Mr. Robot and the technological world it portrays throughout the show's second season. You can follow this conversation on Future Tense, and Slate Plus members can also listen to Hacking Mr. Robot, a members-only podcast series featuring Lily Hay Newman and Fred Kaplan.
Mr. Robot, which returns Wednesday night for a second season on the USA Network, is a remarkable TV show: funny, edgy, suspenseful, subversive, and a piercing probe of the modern social fabric. In short, it's about a world controlled by computers and the hackers—especially our anti-hero and narrator, a lonely hacker named Elliot Alderson (brilliantly played by Rami Malek), who finds himself the kingpin of a secret society of hackers—plotting to bring down that world, the mainsprings of which only they understand.
At Season 1's fade-out, the hackers, who call themselves Fsociety, launch their massive cyberattack on E Corp., the evil megabank that seems to run the global economy (more on this later), wiping out all its data, erasing the debt of hundreds of millions of people, and thus fomenting revolution.
As the new season opens, the world is in chaos. In one scene, E Corp.'s general counsel walks into her smart home and, suddenly, all the Internet of Things runs amuck: the shower turns scalding hot, the stereo turns blaring loud, lights flash off and on, the burglar alarm's pass code doesn't work. Fsociety has hacked into her home's main computer, and she doesn't know what to do. “It's all inside the walls!” she screams into the phone, when a tech-support staffer advises her to check the wiring. That's the way her smart home was packaged.
What a metaphor for modern life—and only a slight extension of its reality. Nearly all the pieces of our critical infrastructure—banking, transportation, energy, waterworks, government, the military, and of course information technology—are wired into computer networks. With the Internet of Things, so, increasingly, are our appliances and cars. If these systems break down, whether due to a technical flaw or a hacker's keystrokes, most of us don't—and won't—know what to do. In a DARPA-financed experiment last year, a pair of computer specialists, one of whom used to work at the National Security Agency and is now the security chief of Uber's driverless-car program, hacked into a Jeep Cherokee and commandeered its steering wheel, accelerator, brakes, GPS receiver, windshield wipers—everything.
In other words, there's more than a patina of authenticity to Mr. Robot.
Most shows that deal with technology lose their footing when they try to go deep or get detailed. The viewers who know the field roll their eyes in derision; those who don't still sense that something's off. The creators of Mr. Robot—showrunner Sam Esmail and his crew of consultants—get these things, small and large, right. When the characters type commands and codes on their laptops, what we see on their monitors is the real deal: no post-production green-screen gibberish here. In the early part of Season 1, before Elliot joins (or realizes that his schizoid self is leading) the revolution, he hacks his few friends, his boss, and his shrink, as well as a few miscreants (a child pornographer, a drug dealer, and his shrink's philandering boyfriend) whom he blackmails or turns in to the authorities. The techniques he uses to crack their passwords or otherwise gain access to their files are real, time-tested tools. It's so easy for Elliot (and for the many hackers in real life) and so shocking to his victims when they realize how wide-open they've left themselves.
These scenes capture a new power equation in the internet era—the control, by those who have mastered the technology, over the rest of us who blithely plaster everything about ourselves online. In one scene, Elliot phones one of his prey, pretending to be a bank officer (he's already found out where the target banks), and asks, as part of a “security review,” for his address, favorite sports team, and pet's name. From that information, Elliot pieces together the guy's password.
It's often as simple as that. When I was researching my book, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, Matt Devost, president and CEO of the cybersecurity firm FusionX, told me about his days running the “red team” in war games that tested the vulnerability of NATO communications systems. In one game, Devost was having a hard time cracking the commanding general's password. So he looked up his biographical sketch on a military website, tried out some of the personal details it cited, and finally hit gold by combining “Rutgers,” where the general's son was attending college, with a two-digit number, which a commercially available random-numbers generator guessed in less than a second.
But what about the show's larger premise: Could a skilled hacker penetrate a megacorporation's computer network; erase all its data; and, as a result, topple the capitalist system—or at least wipe out the debt of the masses? This is where the show goes too far and, in another sense, not far enough.
The irony is that, of all the critical sectors of the American economy, banking and finance are doing pretty well when it comes to cybersecurity. Their entire business, after all, relies on taking your money and earning your trust. They also have a lot of money, which allows them to hire the best engineers to secure their networks. Hackers try to get in all the time, but they rarely succeed, and when they do, they're detected and ejected fairly quickly, and the hole is patched not long after. A major attack, of the sort portrayed in Mr. Robot, is plausible, but its results might not be enduring. (Even if the bank's cybersecurity team couldn't repair the damage, the Department of Homeland Security could send the NSA an official request for technical assistance. And I'm pretty sure that, whatever a backroom of anarchic hackers could do, the elite hackers of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations office could trace and reverse.)
One other feature of the American economy: compared with other industrialized nations, it's decentralized. The cyber-shutdown of a very large bank would send devastating shockwaves across the entire financial system (think Lehman Brothers in 2008), but it wouldn't mean the shutdown of all banks or all bank transactions. Even if hackers jammed or erased Bank of America's data (and its backup files), they wouldn't have touched the data at J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, or the others. The liberation of every indebted citizen isn't so plausible.
Finally, if there really was a firm as monolithic as E Corp., and if hackers really did freeze its data, the chaos would be a lot wilder. We do catch a glimpse of the disorder in one scene, where a woman, after waiting three days for an appointment, tells a banker that she's paid off her mortgage and presents the papers to prove it; but the banker can't get into the computer and doesn't trust the paperwork because, so she says, a lot of counterfeit documents are out there. But in other scenes, we see normal street traffic, open bodegas, routine commerce—when I suspect that, in fact, there'd be rioting everywhere.
Maybe the larger breakdown will erupt in future episodes.
But the basic syllogism of contemporary life, Mr. Robot gets precisely right: Almost everything is hooked up to the internet; almost everything on the internet can be hacked and thus manipulated or destroyed; therefore, almost everything can be hacked and manipulated or destroyed. Should this dynamic take off, should the potential threats that we read about erupt into actual attacks and breakdowns, then up will be down, down up, and the line between madness and order—the line that Elliot walks more and more precariously as the show progresses—could blur into a haze of indistinction.
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The second season of the beloved Mr. Robot is here, and Willa Paskin wonders how long the “aesthetically polished and intellectually incensed” show can continue to critique capitalism. “[Showrunner Sam] Esmail, having created a cult TV show, is expressing some skepticism about television, a medium that, for much of its life, existed to sell audiences soap,” Paskin observes. “Mr. Robot is like an iPhone with an ‘I hate Apple' ring-tone: both are beautifully designed, powerful products that are superficially conflicted about being beautifully designed, powerful products.”
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Mr. Robot, the aesthetically polished and intellectually incensed USA series about mentally disturbed hacker Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), arrived last year as if out of nowhere—nowhere being an acceptable synonym for the USA Network, which before Mr. Robot was home to a number of indistinguishable and effective escapist procedurals. Created by Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot had style to spare, a logo befitting an '80s arena rock band (a compliment!), intimate and eerie narration, and a riveting performance from Malek, who makes silence and motionlessness—two of Elliot's preferred states—scream with jittery unease. And it had ideas in its head. Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, and the great recession, Elliot led a hacker collective called F-Society, out to erase the world's debt and take down Evil Corp, a powerful and nefarious multinational. Netflix and HBO aside, the predominant business model for television is taking cash from corporations to air their advertisements, yet Elliot excoriated McDonald's, Coke, and consumerism on the medium that sells all three.
With its anti-capitalist talking points, antisocial hero, and world-on-the-brink atmosphere, Mr. Robot felt bracing and bold. But its stylishness and its ideological unrest were soldered to a more standard-issue plot machine. For all its originality, Mr. Robot at first harnessed the appeal of the procedural, allowing us to get to know Elliot as he hacked his way into intimacy with strangers, while getting a complex, technologically precise, season-long storyline off the ground, one that ultimately harnessed the punch of the twist. In the season's climax, Mr. Robot (Christian Slater), the man who brought Elliot into F-Society, was revealed to be a figment of Elliot's own imagination. Among Elliot's many psychological ailments was apparently dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder).
The two-hour Season 2 premiere, airing Wednesday night, is as stylish and well-performed as any episode in Season 1, but it is also confusing, burdened by the series' dense backstory and intricate, time-skipping structure. The new season will surely rev up: Malek's performance remains excellent, there's a devotion to verisimilitude that includes casting someone to play Janet Yellin, and an act of violence that demonstrates the series can still tap into the dystopic, widening-gyre vibe of the present moment at will. But the premiere is a time waster, diligently checking in on the series' supporting players while Elliot tries to stay on the sidelines. Some weeks after the events of the Season 1 finale, Elliot is hewing to a strict routine and avoiding all computers, hoping to keep Mr. Robot from taking over his mind again, with no help at all from Mr. Robot, who is a very loud manifestation of mental illness. Mr. Robot spends the premiere berating and attacking Elliot, trying to rouse him into taking part in the revolution he began. It's strident and tedious. We know Mr. Robot will get his way. There's a show to make.
In the first season, Elliot was consumed by the idea that everyone around him was a sheep, awash in false choices, unknowingly vulnerable, so much less free than they imagined themselves to be. But at the start of Season 2, Elliot is trying to domesticate himself. He eats and sleeps and watches basketball, all in locations with so little detail, color, and advertising they could be from a dream or the USSR. Elliot also keeps making snide comments about television. He insults NCIS (which airs in reruns on USA). The guy he eats his meal with humorously riffs on the nihilistic meaning of Seinfeld. In another storyline, a dopey character can't stop watching Vanderpump Rules. Esmail, having created a cult TV show, is expressing some skepticism about television, a medium that, for much of its life, existed to sell audiences soap. Mr. Robot is like an iPhone with an “I hate Apple” ring tone: Both are beautifully designed, powerful products that are superficially conflicted about being beautifully designed, powerful products. For all that Mr. Robot invites us to think about global financial issues, the unchecked power of technology, and imminent societal collapse, it also demonstrates just how efficiently capitalism co-opts all critiques: It can even turn a criminal hacktivist into the poster boy for a cable network.
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Quartz | These robot stingrays are faster and more durable thanks to a secret ingredient: rat muscles Quartz Lots of robotic engineers draw inspiration from animals, building everything from bat-like drones to mechanical cheetahs, dogs and octopi. But it's hard to make a lifelike machine with purely artificial parts, which is why some scientists are building ... and more » |
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Ahmed and Alin were 10 and 11 years old when their parents died in Aleppo. They fled to Turkey and now work there as child laborers -- collecting scrap and working in a sweat shop. They dream of escape, but don't know how. 
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