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Inverse | Can 3D-Printed Fingers Help Police Solve A Murder? InformationWeek Michigan police are working with university researchers to re-create a dead man's fingers. The goal is to use the digits to unlock his smartphone and uncover information which may help catch his killer. Robotics Gone Wild: 8 Animal-Inspired Machines. Police seek to unlock murder victim's phone using 3D replica of fingertipsThe Guardian Cops Asked This 3-D Print Lab to Re-Create a Dead Guy's Fingers to Help Solve His MurderInc.com Police want to use 3D fingerprint replicas to access murder victim's iPhoneBGR Telegraph.co.uk -International Business Times UK -Daily Mail -The Mac Observer (blog) all 57 news articles » |
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For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. - Hebrews 4v15
Day-to-day interactions between humans and machines may well become commonplace in hospitals within a decade
Long waiting times, staff shortages, exorbitant agency fees, doctors' working hours: it's no secret that the NHS is facing a labour crisis. Post-Brexit it could very well get worse, with the NHS Confederation now warning of a reluctance by EU doctors and nurses to come and work in the UK.
Difficult times call for radical measures. So, with an estimated staff shortfall of 50,000 for the NHS in England, is it time to start thinking seriously about the mass adoption of robotics and other automated technologies in the health service?
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Climate change and mass extinctions suggest that we have been telling the wrong stories. Writers need to reconnect with the natural world
We had climbed, slowly, to a high mountain ridge. We were two young Englishmen who were not supposed to be here journalism was forbidden and four local guides, members of the Lani tribe. Our guides were moving us around the highlands of West Papua, taking us to meet people who could tell us about their suffering at the hands of the occupying Indonesian army.
The mountain ridge was covered in deep, old rainforest, as was the rest of the area we had walked through. This forest, to the Lani, was home. In the forest they hunted, gathered food, built their homes, lived. It was not a recreation or a resource: there was nothing romantic about it, nothing to debate. It was just life.
The forests fall, the ice melts and the extinctions roll on; but we keep writing love letters to ourselves, oblivious
Once a warning to man that he must keep in harmony with the family of living creatures among which he was born … it is now a reminder that he has disregarded the warning, turned the house upside down by capricious experiments in science, philosophy and industry, and brought ruin upon himself and his family.
We must uncentre our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanise our views a little, and become confident
Maybe it is impossible for any of us to 'unhumanise our views'. Maybe we can only ever speak to, and of, ourselves.
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The Verge | Why did SoftBank buy ARM? To prepare for our robot overlords, of course The Verge SoftBank has its own robot, Pepper, that will use AI to try and form an emotional attachment with its human owners. And both Apple and Google made AI a central theme in the launch of their latest mobile software, and ARM's chips will be used to power ... and more » |
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KQED | Finally! NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Will Look for Life on the Red Planet KQED NASA's next robot to crawl across the surface of Mars — the Mars 2020 rover — recently crossed a major milestone when it received approval to launch in the summer of 2020, for a February 2021 landing. Like its predecessor Curiosity, which is ... AI: NASA's Curiosity rover can now choose its own laser targets on MarsLos Angeles Times New software allows rover to pick which rocks it wants to targetPittsburgh Post-Gazette Soon, the Curiosity Rover will rule Mars with its automatic lasersThe Pasadena Star-News Daily Mail -TechCrunch -Fox News -PerfScience all 60 news articles » |
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For only $269,000, you can buy a full-scale model of the Sputnik-1 satellite, made by the USSR to test the very first satellite humans launched into space. It's still operational, with live transmitters, 59 years later. On the catalog of the Bonhams auction house in midtown Manhattan, where the Space History Sale took place on Wednesday, the estimated price is $10,000 to $15,000. But in no time, the price is flying higher than Sputnik did.
“13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19!” shouts auctioneer Tim McNab. He looks like the bouncer of a high-end nightclub in Miami Beach: suntanned, in a blue suit and sunglasses with orange-tinted lenses, even though we're in an underground room. “Still bidding. On the books!”
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The matte-black circuit board that holds Tristan Perich's Noise Patterns has a few things in common with your average smartphone. It's small and sleek enough to fit into your pocket, and it comes with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack that gives you direct access to the music within. That's just about where the similarities end. It won't let you access Spotify or Apple Music's immense libraries, and it won't let you pull up YouTube videos. (You can forget about checking your email, too.) Noise Patterns contains six tracks, and you can't rewind, skip, or pause them. The music also has more in common with the noises your microwave makes than the songs you can hear on the radio.
Noise Patterns is Perich's latest experiment with 1-bit music,...
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Paula Kahumbu: The conviction and sentencing of Feisal Mohammed Ali sends a message to poachers and traffickers that the net is closing around them
Yesterday, a Mombasa law court sentenced Feisal Mohammed Ali to 20 years in jail after finding him guilty of ivory illegal possession of ivory worth 44 million shillings (US $440,000). The court also imposed a fine of 20 million shillings.
This landmark ruling by the Kenyan court is the end of a long story that began with the seizure of 2 tonnes of ivory at Fuji Motors car yard in Mombasa in June 2014.
The guilty verdict is a strong message to all networks of poaching gangs, ivory smugglers, financiers, middlemen and shippers that Kenya will not watch as its elephant population is decimated or its territory used as a conduit for traffickers.
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