April 10, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Technical
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When Carnegie Mellon professor Howie Choset watches his students take tests, he’s certainly impressed with their ability to solve complex engineering problems. But what really fascinates him is the way they can effortlessly twirl a pencil around their fingers.
That’s because the most mundane things humans can do with their hands — whether it’s writing something down, grabbing an egg out of its carton, or picking an awkwardly stacked book off the shelf — are still big challenges for robots built by engineers like Choset.
“Manipulation, in many ways, is one of the final frontiers in robotics,” he says.
Robots hold a lot of promise as our future factory workers, warehouse stockers, and personal assistants. But the android takeover likely won’t happen until robots have hands as dextrous as ours. While robotic grippers and graspers already exist to pick up specific objects in controlled settings, a robot hand that’s as versatile as a human one is still just out of reach.
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Woman adjusting robot hand. Peter Cade / Getty Images
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April 10, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, BUDAPEST, business, Business News, Hotels, human-rights, Hungary, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, Sebastian Gorka, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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A group with alleged historical links to Nazi Germany has told NBC News it was “proud” when President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant wore its medal.
Controversy has swirled around Sebastian Gorka, one of Trump’s top counterterrorism advisers, ever since he attended the president’s Jan. 20 Inaugural Ball wearing the honorary medal of Hungarian nationalist organization Vitezi Rend.
NBC News traveled to Hungary to dig deeper into Gorka’s ties with the group, speaking with members of the organization as well as with locals who knew him when he lived there.
“When he appeared on U.S. television … with the medal of the Vitez Order … it made me really proud,” Vitezi Rend spokesman Andras Horvath said in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Vitezi Rend is also known as the Order of Vitez.
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Sebastian Gorka poses with his wife Katharine Gorka at Trump’s Inaugural Ball wearing the medal of Vitezi Rend. Courtesy of LobeLog
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April 10, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
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Two blasts targeting Egyptian churches on Palm Sunday killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 100, according to Health Ministry officials.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Sunday evening declared a three-month state of emergency after the blasts rocked two churches, killing dozens.
The first attack hit the St. George Church, packed with worshipers in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, north of the Egyptian capital, killing at least 27 people and wounding 78 others, authorities said.
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Security personnel investigate the scene of a bomb blast inside a church in Tanta, north of Cairo, on Sunday. KHALED ELFIQI / EPA
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April 10, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
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Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) resigned from office Monday and pleaded guilty to two counts of violating campaign finance rules.
“I can no longer allow my family, my dear friends, my dedicated staff and cabinet to be subjected to consequences that my past actions have brought upon them,” he said at a Monday afternoon press conference.
“Though I have committed myself to working to improve the lives of the people of our state, there have been times that I have let you and our people down, and I’m sorry for that.”
Bentley’s resignation comes as the state’s House of Representatives begins hearings on his impeachment following allegations he abused his position as the state’s chief executive to cover up an affair with his former aide, Rebekah Caldwell Mason.
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April 8, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Weird
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Girl Found Living With Monkeys, Hotels, human-rights, India, LUCKNOW, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children to try to identify a girl who was found living in a forest with a group of monkeys.
The girl, believed to be 10 to 12 years old, was unable to speak, was wearing no clothes and was emaciated when she discovered in January and taken to a hospital in Bahraich, a town in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.
She behaved like an animal, running on her arms and legs and eating food off the floor with her mouth, said D.K. Singh, chief medical superintendent of the government-run hospital.
After treatment, she has begun walking normally and eating with her hands.
“She is still not able to speak, but understands whatever you tell her and even smiles,” Singh said.
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The young Indian girl sits on a bed at a hospital in this image taken from video in Bahraich northern India on Thursday. KK Productions via AP
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April 8, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Medical
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With flu season making it’s earliest start in years, and certain strains of the virus hitting unlucky Americans hard this year, it’s important to be extra vigilant in your efforts to avoid catching it.
I recently got this question emailed to me by a concerned viewer:
Q: When is someone who has the flu contagious?
Some people who are infected with the influenza virus can actually transmit the illness before they begin to feel any symptoms.
Most of the time, you will become contagious about 24 to 72 hours after contracting the influenza virus and remain that way for up to five days after the onset of symptoms.
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Dr. Manny Alvarez serves as FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Senior Managing Editor for Health News.
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April 8, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science
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It’s Albert Einstein’s weirdest prediction — that the universe is sprinkled with massive objects so dense that not even light can escape them. Although Einstein was skeptical the theory was true, it has held for over a century. Today, astronomers are fairly convinced that nearly every galaxy (including our own) harbors a black hole so massive that it gobbles down any nearby gas and dust, often ripping stars to shreds. And while no one has seen a black hole directly, astronomers might finally be on the brink of doing just that.
For the next 10 days, eight radio observatories at six locations across the globe will be pointed toward the supermassive black hole that hides in the Milky Way’s center. Should the weather cooperate at these observatories — which span the peak of the world’s tallest volcano in Hawaii, the frigid landscape at the South Pole, and the ski-covered slopes of the Sierra Nevada in Spain — astronomers will collect data at a scale never attempted before in physics.
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The Event Horizon Telescope Team used high performance computer clusters to generate simulations of the images that may be captured during April’s observations. Event Horizon Telescope
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April 8, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science, Uncategorized
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It’s a busy time for Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.
On March 28, NASA released stunning new photos of Jupiter taken by Juno, the basketball court-sized space probe that’s been orbiting the gas giant since last July. And on April 7, Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth this year, coming to within about 414 million miles of our home planet and appearing extraordinarily bright in the night sky.
Jupiter will rise in the East around sunset and will be visible all night, weather permitting.
No special equipment is needed to enjoy this Jovian close-up, a phenomenon astronomers call Jupiter “at opposition” because the planet and the sun are on opposite sides of Earth. But if you have binoculars, it should be possible to see the massive planet and also its four largest moons: Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io. With even a basic telescope, you should be able to make out Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a vast storm that’s roughly twice the size of Earth.
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Jupiter to Shine Super-Bright This Weekend
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April 8, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Political
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Police on Saturday said they had arrested a man from Uzbekistan suspected of plowing a truck into a department store in the Swedish capital, killing four people and injuring 15.
Authorities confirmed that the 39-year-old suspect was known to security services and described him as a “marginal character.” They would not confirm his status in Sweden.
Speaking at a press conference, the head of Sweden’s National police, Dan Eliason, said security officials had found an object in the truck that “could be a bomb or an incendiary object.”
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A truck that crashed into the Ahlens department store in central Stockholm is towed from the site early Saturday. MAJA SUSLIN / AFP – Getty Images
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April 7, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Medical, Weird
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, The New York Times, travel, vacation, Youngest mother was only 5 years old
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Lina Medina was born to a poor Peruvian family in 1933 and only 5 years old when doctors found what they believed to be a large stomach tumor. After a series of tests, it turned out Lina had a condition called “precocious puberty” and had actually been pregnant for seven months. She gave birth to a healthy, six-pound son just weeks later, by Caesarean section, as her pelvis was too small for a natural birth. The boy was named Gerardo, after the doctor who delivered him.
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