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Month: March 2020

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Boston Dynamics unveils OTTO Motors collaboration to bring our robot overlords to the warehouse

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Boston Dynamics, the undisputed heavyweight of technical robotics wizardry, unveiled a new collaboration with the warehouse autonomous material handling and transportation technology developer, OTTO Motors. Over the past year Boston Dynamics has moved from building the stuff of robotic uprising nightmares to more mundane warehouse automation technologies with its Pick computer vision system. Today, the company unveiled some footage from its proof of concept trials with OTTO Motors to automate the logistics space. It’s part of a concerted effort to focus the company on revenue generation alongside revolutionary robotic innovation,…

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The shocking celebrity murder behind anti-stalking laws: ‘Crimes that changed America’

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Actress Rebecca Schaeffer, murdered in 1989 Unbeknownst to her or anyone else, she had also captured the attention of a killer. Schaeffer was waiting at home for a script to be delivered in July 1989. She had landed several auditions in upcoming Hollywood blockbusters, including “The Godfather Part III,” produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and this was her big shot. There was a knock at the door.  She answered it, expecting to receive a delivery from the movie studio.  Instead, she found herself face-to-face with Robert John Bardo, a 19-year-old obsessed fan and stalker.…

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Applications are open for the latest Disney accelerator program

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The Walt Disney Company is now accepting applications for its 2020 Disney Accelerator, the company said today. The accelerator accepts 10 growth-stage startups for a three-month mentorship program that provides access to the creativity, imagination and expertise of Disney — including unique access to Disney’s leadership team. “We created the Disney Accelerator six years ago to explore the incredible innovation that could occur between The Walt Disney Company and companies working on the forefront of technology,” said David Min, vice president, Corporate Innovation, The Walt Disney Company, in a statement.…

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Should You Cancel Your Trip Because Of Coronavirus? What You Need To Know | Betches

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According to , the Coronavirus is a common virus that typically “presents as a respiratory illness consistent of cough, fever, and shortness of breath and can appear from 2-14 days after exposure.” She adds, “Symptoms range from mild to severe. These symptoms can progress to pneumonia, fluid buildup in the lungs, and stress on other organs such as the kidneys.” Yikes. And if you’ve kept any sort of tabs on COVID-19, you know this sh*t is basically all over the world, and people, especially travelers, are freaking out. So if…

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Combing the Beach for Stones and Reorganizing Them Into Something Beautiful

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Jon Foreman is a creator of various styles of land art, be it with stones or leaves, inland or on beaches. He has even created works in derelict environments using materials such as broken glass or ashes and general debris. The scale of his work varies massively; he may use stones or driftwood to make something small and minimal. Otherwise he may be seen drawing massive scale sand drawings up to 50 metres across. Most often the weather and immediate climate will make his work disappear (be blown down/washed away…

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Man Asks NASA If They Still Punish Animals By Sending Them To Space, Gets Brilliant Response

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A man actually received a response for a brilliant spoof letter to NASA. Twitter comedian Sir Michael sent a letter to NASA headquarters to ask whether they still send animals to space as a punishment for misbehavior, before including a list of animals (and their crimes) that he thinks should also be banished to space. “Dear sir/madam,” the letter reads, “My name is Michael and I have been reading on Facebook about early NASA missions in which animals were sent to space as punishment for misbehavior. How come you stopped doing…

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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is coming to TC Sessions: Space 2020

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This year marks our first-ever TC Sessions: Space event, and what better way to kick things off than with the head of NASA: Administrator Jim Bridenstine will join us onstage on June 25 in LA. NASA has been more open than ever before to working with startups and entrepreneurs, and we’ll hear directly from the administrator why that’s the case, and what kind of opportunities might be open to founders in the future. Administrator Bridenstine took over leading the U.S. science and space agency in 2018, and has been leading…

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DSP Concepts raises $14.5M for its Audio Weaver platform

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DSP Concepts — a startup whose Audio Weaver software is used by companies as varied as Tesla, Porsche, GoPro and Braun Audio — is announcing that it has raised $14.5 million in Series B funding. The startup’s goal, as explained to me by CEO Chin Beckmann and CTO Paul Beckmann (yep, they’re a husband-and-wife founding team), is to create the standard framework that companies use to develop their audio processing software. To that end, Chin told me they were “picky about who we wanted on the B round, we wanted…

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