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Chrome: Facebook collects a lot of your data, but you might never get to see what they really learn about you. Data Selfie aims to give you a glimpse by letting you analyze your own Facebook usage.
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We have more leaks today with regards to AMD’s much-anticipated Ryzen CPUs and this time it involves several leaked benchmarks that show how the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X processor performs. For starters, the Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores, 16 threads that are running at a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a boost clock of …more
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Free-roaming wireless power has been a dream of engineers since the days of Tesla and Edison waging their war of innovation but a number of technical hurdles have prevented it from becoming a reality. The folks at Disney Research have revealed that they’ve successfully built a method to provide full coverage of an…
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This is a song made from the picture of the unicorn seen above. Youtuber Andrew Huang used a picture he drew (inspired by the Archie McFee Magical Unicorn Mask) to map out a MIDI file and play it (the trend was apparently started by Savant, who has a bunch of other examples of musical pictures on his Facebook). It’s surprisingly beautiful. It kind of reminds me of a song from an old point-and-click King’s Quest game. I miss those games. I tried playing the new Telltale King’s Quest game but it just wasn’t the same. Times change. Maybe I’ve changed. Do you…think I’ve changed? "Only for the better." Did my mom pay you to say that? I know she worries about me.
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Thanks to Dunc, who gives it till noon before we have a poop emoji song.
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The second robot Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) sent into Fukushima’s unit 2 reactor also failed to finish its mission. Earlier this month, the cameras of the first "scorpion" robot that ventured into the reactor malfunctioned after two hours due to extremely high radiation levels. Now, it’s the machine’s left crawler belt that stopped working (PDF) altogether, forcing TEPCO to cut off its tether and to leave it inside.
Toshiba designed these scorpions specifically to examine Unit 2’s condition and to locate the melted uranium fuel within. The information would help Tepco figure out the best and safest way to clean the fuel up. if you’re wondering, these machines are called "scorpions" because, with their camera-equipped tails above their bodies, they look quite like the arachnid:
The power company still isn’t sure whether the robot’s crawler belt stopped working due to the radiation levels inside or due to all the debris the first machine wasn’t able to clear. It managed to send some data back, though, and TEPCO plans to evaluate whatever information it got.
Every little thing will help, after all, since the company chose to stick to its cleanup schedule even though both exploration missions failed. It will begin conjuring up plans for fuel removal this summer and will start the actual cleanup process in 2021. But before that, TEPCO will send a tiny underwater robot to explore the Unit 1 reactor in the next few weeks — we’ll let you know how that one fares, as well.
Source: Tepco (PDF), PhysOrg
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How would you deal with the likelihood that robots and automation will likely lead to many people losing their jobs? For Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the answer is straightforward: tax the robots. In an interview with Quartz, Gates argues that taxing worker robots would offset job losses by funding training for positions where humans are still needed, such as child and senior care. It could even slow automation to a more manageable rate, if necessary.
Gates is well aware of potential pitfalls — he knows that taxation could ultimately slow innovation by making worker robots prohibitively expensive. However, he’s convinced that governments should be "figuring [policy] out" so that they’re ready when there’s a sudden glut of unemployed workers.
He can’t expect much sympathy from Europe for his ideas, though. The European Parliament has rejected a proposed robot tax, and is instead interested in crafting regulation that guides the ethics behind creating and deploying robots, including liability when something goes wrong. Officials don’t want to leave these guidelines to "third countries," according to a statement. Robot makers will undoubtedly be happy (they were concerned a tax would hamper growth), but the move won’t please those who want a safety net in place when the machines arrive in force.
Source: Quartz
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