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r0B0t: Marlin Makes Largest Factory Automation Investment Since 2014 - Robotics Online (press release)  

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Marlin Makes Largest Factory Automation Investment Since 2014 Robotics Online (press release) "To stay on top, American manufacturers need to have the best people, the best processes, and the best tools. We're investing in our team and our tools so we can deliver better wire baskets and rack products faster. This is how American companies like ...

 
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r0B0t: 'Mr. Robot' just revealed its latest mind-bending twist, but this one feels a bit familiar  

Warning: If you're not a fan of spoilers, you might want to stop here. 

Dammit, Reddit.

After weeks upon weeks of speculation over a very popular fan theory, Mr. Robot proved the internet right by pulling the curtain back on the second big reveal of its young life. 

Sam Esmail's tech-drama-turned-psychological-thriller revealed that Elliot's uneven reality has yet again escaped him. While we were led to believe he was living with his mother and recovering from his dystopic view of reality, he'd actually been entrapped in prison this whole time.

More about Usa Network, Tv Reviews, Tv Recaps, Mr Robot Season 2, and Mr Robot  
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r0B0t: We Built This Robot to Explain Rape Culture to Men  
Reductress Is Devoting Its Entire Site to Rape Jokes That Punch Up: "In response to a sexual assault controversy that's currently engulfing the New York comedy scene, women's satire site Reductress has devoted its entire landing page to humor articles (primarily written by women) about rape." [warning: pointed satire about rape, rape culture, and abuse]

Articles include:

Nicole Silverberg: Have You Considered Spending $300 on a Self-Defense Class?:

My Facebook feed has been flooded with chicks talking about stuff like catcalling and assaults and rape, and I'm like, why complain when you can do something about it? When a man comes at you, you need to be able to defend yourself—which is why you should consider shelling out $300 for a self-defense class.

As my chest tattoo says, "boys will be boys," and so you need to be prepared, even if in this case, the test is a crime, and doing the homework costs you close to half a month's rent. This is your responsibility!

Marcia Belsky: How to Be an Ally to Both a Rapist and His Victim:

We've all had that classic uh-oh moment: Someone's been accused of rape and you're friends with both the rapist and his victim! What a disaster! You may be feeling cursed and alone, wondering, "How can I possibly support both of them?" It's only natural to feel this way. Luckily, there's no need for you to complicate your life just because one of your friends has destroyed the life of another friend. Here's how to be a caring and attentive ally to both a rapist and his victim.

Mo Fry Pasic: This Rapist Has Figured Out a Way to End Rape Culture:

Jeff, a yet-to-be-convicted serial date rapist, offered to share his secret on how to end rape culture. How generous! Here's his advice:

"Rape culture doesn't exist."

Wow! Jeff admits that rapes "do happen" but that culture is "not even a thing." "There are individuals who make decisions, and that's it," Jeff says. "It's like, why can't you use logic?" Good point! We should just drop it. Be the change you wish to see in the world!

Ingrid Ostby: 'Most Women Lie About Rape,' Says Man Lying About Rape:

Revelatory statements from 31-year-old Todd Ratner have been made public today just minutes after several women came forward with allegations accusing him of sexual assault.

"This is a true stat, I'm not making this up—99 percent of women are lying about rape," Ratner said, blatantly lying about rape. According to reports, Ratner wrote this across several Facebook comment threads and also shared it aloud to anyone who would listen.

Marcia Belsky: This Brave Man Hates Social Media Witch Hunts So Much He Decided To Start His Own:

Ready to be inspired?

Faced with the difficult decision of having to either listen to women or talk over them, one man spoke above the crowd in his brave yet endearing attempt to make somebody else's rape about himself. 29-year-old Dave Harrison was sick of seeing public attacks on an alleged rapist, and so he asked for that energy to be put elsewhere.

"I hate this society we live in where social media dictates how we should discuss things," Harrison tweeted this morning to his thirty thousand followers. "These witch hunts started by @AmandaNewman, @KatieLeGuin and @BethanyDiaz cannot be tolerated."

Harrison then encouraged his followers to tweet at these women in order to put an end to what he calls "social media lynch mobs."

Sarah Pappalardo: Let Me Tell You What An Actual Witch Hunt Looks Like:

Hello, it's me, Hagatha. Yes, Hagatha the Witch. It seems that a lot of people have been calling rape accusations across social media a "witch hunt," and while I'm not usually one get involved in other people's business, this one in particular has really given me pause.

Would you like to know what an actual witch hunt looks like? Cut me down from this burning stake and I'll tell you. Seriously, pull me down, I am about to burn.

Anna Drezen: Chill Ways to Just Sort of Live with It:

Hm, okay, so: You've been raped or abused or harassed by someone and the police won't help you and he's well-liked and you're traumatized and you have to do work for work but everything is currently shattered and you'd sort of rather just die than try to answer even one email. Yeee-ikes! You could start down the painful road of recovery, but that's more work for you to do. Plus it makes everyone uncomfortable, so ... have you considered just sort of burying it down deep, deep, deep where no one can find it? Here's how to pack your trauma in a lil' bindle and keep on keepin' on.

Bonus print edition headlines:

Fuck, Marry, Kill: Your Rapist, Your Abuser, or the Cops Who Did Nothing

Is It Technically Rape If I Have to Explain to Him What Counts As Rape?

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r0B0t: God Help Us, These Researchers Are Using Reddit to Teach a Supercomputer to Talk  

OpenAI, the nonprofit backed by Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, wants to teach technology to talk. It has enlisted the help of a supercomputer named DGX-1 to help train its machine learning systems. (What are machine learning systems? MIT Technology Review describes them alluringly as a “network of crudely simulated neurons” that use data to glean “a probabilistic understanding of conversation.”) DGX-1 can feed prodigious amounts of natural language to OpenAI's robotic reticulation, which then takes the input as a model for its own “speech.” All the student teacher pair needs in its quest for cocktail chatter mastery is source material.

Source material—that sounds easy enough! Did the researchers prescribe a steady diet of luminous prose from English's marquee authors? Did they plunder the canon for Martin Luther King Jr.'s oratory, Virginia Woolf's collected letters, and Tennessee Williams' plays?

Nope. “We're training,” said OpenAI research scientist Andrej Karpathy in a press release, “on entire years of conversations of people talking to each other on Reddit.”

Oh boy.

To recap: Of all the possible linguistic corpora on earth, these scientists have decided to expose their learning systems to a discourse that usually ends with someone calling someone else a fat gay loser cuck and comparing him to Hitler. And then the second guy cracks a xenophobic, sexually explicit joke about the first guy's mom. And then the first guy pretends to solve the Boston Bombing.

Have we learned nothing from Tay, the Microsoft chatbot that spewed foul racist garbage after only a few hours of interacting with trolls on Twitter? Sure, Reddit models a colloquial tone, as Sophie Kleeman at Gizmodo points out, and its many communities discuss a wide range of subjects, but it is also frequently the boneyard where all grace and decency go to die. Will OpenAI's learning systems absorb strategies for choosing careers and college majors, or only gain expertise in nihilistic lulz and platform-specific acronyms? At least, a success from the researchers on this front would break new ground: They'd have created the only brain ever to get smarter by reading Reddit.

 
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r0B0t: When a Roomba Goes Up Against Animal Poop, No One Wins  

It is a poignant fact about robots that they are much better than humans at some tasks and hilariously worse at others. Take, for example, the Roomba. The round robotic vacuum keeps floors spotless by working its way in complicated patterns around the home, zipping into corners and around furniture. But put a piece of animal poop in its way, and suddenly it doesn't look so smart. This weekend, when a Roomba in Arkansas ran into a puppy's fresh deposit on the floor, disaster ensued. “If the unthinkable does happen, and your Roomba runs over dog poop, stop it immediately and do not let it continue the cleaning cycle,” Little Rock resident Jesse Newton warned in a viral Facebook post, complete with illustration. “Those awesome wheels, which have a checkered surface for better traction, left 25-foot poop trails all over the house.”

Newton was not alone in experienced what he called “the Pooptastrophe.” A Roomba representative admitted to the Guardian, “Quite honestly, we see this a lot.” In fact, the exact same thing happened a few years ago to my brother- and sister-in-law. Daniel and Margaret are both lawyers, and they live in Texas with their Bichon Frise, Mr. Fluffy. (As Daniel describes the incident, “The robot we bought to act as a surrogate cleaner so we both can have time to pursue our jobs literally covers the house in excrement from our proxy for a child.”) I called Margaret and asked her to walk me through what happened. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

Let's start at the beginning. When this happened, how long had you had the Roomba and how long had you had Mr. Fluffy?

Mr. Fluffy predated the Roomba, but I don't remember how long. Both were relatively new to the household. Can I just say, I don't want my 15 minutes of fame and internet posterity to be about this story.

Ha, I'm not going to use your last name. Is just “Margaret” OK?

“Margaret” is fine.

OK, so tell me how you came to acquire the Roomba and how you used it. Would you set it every day before you go to work?

Daniel was really into this idea of getting a Roomba. And it wasn't even a Roomba, it was a generic [version] that was on sale at Costco. He was really into it, and I was like, whatever. So we got the Roomba and he handled setting it up and everything. It [ran] during the day while we were at work. We'd leave for work, and the Roomba and Fluffy would be home alone.

Did it clean things well? Were you happy with it?

I was neutral toward it. Daniel, I think, was happy with it.

How would you describe Fluffy as a dog?

He's mostly couch-bound, and he hates going to the bathroom outside, especially in hot weather. [Reminder: Fluffy lives in Texas.]

So walk me through what happened: You get home that day, what's the first thing you notice?

I was walking into the kitchen, and I looked out into the dining room and there was a brown—almost like a giant crayon, all over the floor. I get down on my hands and knees and rub it with my thumb, and it becomes very clear to me immediately that it is shit, because of the smell. I cannot even tell you, Ruth, the smell. That was the worst part of the entire thing. I'm on my hands and knees and I've just realized my thumb is covered in shit.

That guy's story really resonated with me because it was all over. All, all over. And you saw how inefficient the Roomba was. It was covering its own tracks a lot. It's going over the same area a ton. It's a very efficient poop-smearing thing, but it's not very efficient for cleaning your house. I remember thinking to myself, it's going to be easier to move. And then I spent the next hour-and-a-half scraping up poo trails.

Did you have to clean out the Roomba?

I did not. There was no way I'm cleaning out the Roomba. Daniel can do that if he wants.

Did Fluffy seem aware at all of the hell that he had unleashed?

No. No. No. He's never been aware. Just this last week I ordered a pair of flip-flops and he ate the left flip-flop. I ordered another pair, and fortunately later in the week he ate the right one. But at least I have one pair.

Was Daniel willing to get rid of the Roomba after this happened?

You might have to talk with him about this. I remember the Roomba use being curtailed, but I don't know if it was directly related to this incident. That would be my lawyer response to that. [Daniel: “Yes, that pretty much killed the little robot. Every time I brought it out or referenced it there was an automatic retelling of the incident. ... You should try to ask her this Christmas, ‘Hey—what ever happened to that Roomba?' ” Eventually, they gave it away to friends.]

Who do you blame for this incident?

I blame it on the Roomba, absolutely. Fluffy, he's a dog. That just happens. The Roomba was definitely at fault.

 
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r0B0t: Eldon aims for the Top 50 - Lakenewsonline.com  

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Eldon aims for the Top 50 Lakenewsonline.com All Eldon Middle School 8th grade students will take two of the following courses; Design & Modeling, Automation & Robotics, and Introduction to Computer Science 1. Project Lead The Way provides a comprehensive approach to STEM Education. Through ...

 
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r0B0t: Future Tense Newsletter: Emerging Conversations  

Greetings, Future Tensers,

“Gradually, Ford is starting to look like a tech company.” That's the conclusion Will Oremus came to in his report about the car company's plans to start rolling out fully autonomous vehicles by 2021. That's all the more reason to start public dialogue about how such driverless systems will behave in crisis conditions like those suggested by this fun game from MIT researchers that asks you to decide who a robot car should kill.

Charming as that game is, it's probably not going to change the course of self-driving car development. But Jason Lloyd writes that the public should be more engaged with discussions surrounding cutting-edge research. Lloyd writes that “citizen science” has gotten a lot of press for allowing people to contribute data to research, but it can be so much more. Andrew Maynard helps show why that's so necessary with this article on the National Institutes of Health's request for public comment on policy changes around human-animal hybrids.

There are, of course, other conversations that we should be having about technology, most of all those that we have with our elders. As Jamie Winterton argues, our senior citizens tend to fall prey to cyberattacks because they don't have information about how to protect themselves. We can help allay that dilemma, Winterton suggests, by actually chatting with them about cybersecurity, thereby helping keep them from getting hacked like the NSA. Of course, nothing can protect them from the greatest menace of our digital world: squirrels.

Here are some of the other stories that we read while trying to guess who wrote Donald Trump's tweets:

• Gaming: Laura Hudson writes that Kentucky Route Zero tells a haunting, surreal story about both the “broken promises of America” and “the small moments of beauty that manage to bloom” in the ruins.
• Social graces: June Thomas investigates a company that automates the work of sending personalized cards out for you. Goodbye to guilt!
• Virtual reality: Some experts think that we're going about VR all wrong: We should be using it to facilitate experiences that we couldn't have by other means.
• Emoji: Kyle MacLachlan retold the plot of Dune in emojis for a fan, and it's surprisingly brilliant.

Pulling information out of the ether,

Jacob Brogan

for Future Tense

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University.

 
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r0B0t: How to train like an Olympian eat loads of peanut butter and listen to robots  

Want to be the next Simone Biles or Adam Peaty? You might manage it if you follow the unconventional tactics employed by Rio's star athletes

• Skrillex, Springsteen and Southend emo now that's what I call an Olympic playlist
  

Most athletes who want to improve their performance do not consult retired geography teachers turned missionaries. But it worked for David Rudisha, and for the other Kenyan athletes who have won 39 medals at the last four Olympics under the tutelage of Colm O'Connell. O'Connell, now 67, came to Kenya from Ireland in 1976. He has no personal background in athletics or formal training as a coach; he started working with athletes as a means of pursuing his vocation as a missionary.

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r0B0t: Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels - Asharq Al-awsat English  

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Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels Asharq Al-awsat English The new era in Silicon Valley centers on artificial intelligence and robots, a transformation that many believe will have a payoff on the scale of the personal computing industry or the commercial internet, two previous generations that spread ...

 
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r0B0t: 'Mr. Robot' has its own official mobile game  
If you're looking for some extra Mr. Robot while the second season plays out, then there's now a mobile game to keep you entertained. Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltratiOn is available for iOS and Android, and is packaged up like a fictional corporate messenge...  
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r0B0t: NASA's $1 million robotics contest will prep Valkyrie for Mars  
NASA has formally opened registration for its Space Robotics Challenge, and to win a cut of the $1 million prize purse, researchers have to help prep Valkyrie for Mars. Also known as Robonaut 5 (R5), Valkyrie is the six-foot-tall, 290-pound humanoid...  
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r0B0t: Robot and I - brand-e.biz  

Robot and I brand-e.biz AI robotics Those robots are slowly turning emotional on us, writes Steve Mullins. Take Olly, the maker of which claims will develop a unique personality through the interactions users have with it. That's because Olly is powered by 'nuanced ...

 
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r0B0t: Automation in the workplace friend or foe? | Scoop News - Scoop.co.nz (press release)  

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Automation in the workplace friend or foe? | Scoop News Scoop.co.nz (press release) Fifty-six per cent of New Zealanders 'definitely' think their job will be impacted by artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in the next 10 years, according to ... Australians are starting to worry about robots moving in on their jobs ...Business Insider Australia all 2 news articles »

 
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r0B0t: The Terminator Of Tattoo Guns Is Here. Thanks, Autodesk! - Co.Design (blog)  

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r0B0t: Fox Sports Exec Likens His Network to Fox News (Seriously, He Does) - Hollywood Reporter  

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Fox Sports Exec Likens His Network to Fox News (Seriously, He Does) Hollywood Reporter I'm bearish on the future of news and highlights shows. If there ... Rami Malek [the star of Mr. Robot] was asked [in THR] how he wants to be coached by directors. And he ... Have your league partners expressed anger with what your opinion hosts have said?

 
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r0B0t: The head of Google's Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence than an AI ... - Recode  

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The head of Google's Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence than an AI ... Recode As some would have it, robots are poised to take over the world in about 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... But one machine-learning expert — who is, after all, in a position to know — thinks that's not the biggest issue facing artificial intelligence. In fact, it's ...

 
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r0B0t: Australians are starting worry about robots moving in on their jobs - Business Insider Australia  

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Australians are starting worry about robots moving in on their jobs Business Insider Australia ... artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in the next 10 years. Another 27% say that “maybe” their job will be impacted, according to an online poll of 2,706 people by recruiters Hays. ... “Automation and artificial intelligence has already begun ... Automation in the workplace - friend or foe?Voxy all 2 news articles »

 
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r0B0t: Artificial Intelligence: Navy Works on Teaching Robots How to Behave - Government Technology  

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Artificial Intelligence: Navy Works on Teaching Robots How to Behave Government Technology (TNS) -- The rise of artificial intelligence has long stoked fears of killer robots like the “Terminator,” and early versions of military automatons are already in the battlefield. Now the Navy is looking into how it can teach machines to do the right ...

 
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r0B0t: Here's 5 Crazy Devices At Intel's Annual Developer Conference - Fortune  

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Here's 5 Crazy Devices At Intel's Annual Developer Conference Fortune Robots, virtual reality, motorbikes, and more. Intel issued a call to arms on Tuesday for software developers to use its technology for practically everything powered by electricity. From connecting factory equipment to the Internet, to building self ... Intel Lays Out its Vision for a Fully Connected WorldPC Magazine Intel announces untethered VR with Project Alloy video - CNETCNET Intel And Microsoft Aim To Bring Virtual Reality Into The MainstreamForbes USA TODAY -ZDNet -The Register -PCWorld all 135 news articles »

 
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r0B0t: David Ignatius: The brave new world of robots and lost jobs - Winston-Salem Journal  

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David Ignatius: The brave new world of robots and lost jobs Winston-Salem Journal Politicians need to begin thinking boldly, now, about a world where driverless vehicles replace most truck drivers' jobs, and where factories are populated by robots, not human beings. The best way to cushion this future is to start planning for how ... and more »

 
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r0B0t: The head of Google's Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence than an AI ... - Recode  

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r0B0t: Ford to build 'high volume' of driverless cars for ride-sharing services  

Carmaker announces plans to make self-driving vehicles for companies such as Uber and Lyft by 2021, saying automation of cars will define the next decade

The robot car wars moved up a gear on Tuesday when Ford announced it would produce a fleet of driverless cars for ride-sharing services, such as Uber and Lyft, by 2021.

Mark Fields, Ford's president and chief executive, said the next decade would be “defined by automation of the automobile” and the switch to driverless travel would affect society as much as the introduction of the assembly line, allowing mass-produced cars, did a century ago.

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r0B0t: Intel announces Project Euclid, a compact RealSense module that brings cameras, motion sensors, and onboard communications to robots (Lauren Goode/The Verge)  

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Intel announces Project Euclid, a compact RealSense module that brings cameras, motion sensors, and onboard communications to robots  —  Among other announcements today, including a new VR reference design and a partnership with Microsoft to bring mixed reality to the mainstream …

 
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r0B0t: WowWee CHiP is a hyper, engaging robot pet  

In the 16 years since Sony introduced AIBO, the first robotic pet, consumer robotics has not exactly flowered. AIBO was  a smooth-moving, shockingly intelligent and incredibly expensive product. Ultimately, it couldn't survive even as long as the average dog. However, its influence continues even to this day and can be seen in WowWee's charming and mostly effective CHiP robot dog.

Designed for everyone eight-years-old and above, the mostly white (with silver-blue-accents), $199 CHiP comes complete with a charging base, SmartBall and SmartBand.

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