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Google’s ClearGrasp AI model helps robots better recognize transparent objects Recycling

Google’s ClearGrasp AI model helps robots better recognize transparent objects

Optical sensors such as cameras and lidar are a fundamental part of modern robotics platforms, but they suffer from a common flaw: transparent objects like glass containers tend to confuse them. That’s because most of the algorithms analyzing data from those sensors assume all surfaces are Lambertian, or that they…
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February 12, 2020
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, and a big-ass dragon star in the wacky trailer for The Iron Mask Jackie Chan

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, and a big-ass dragon star in the wacky trailer for The Iron Mask

As far as we can tell, and based on this trailer, The Iron Mask has nothing to do with that Leonardo DiCaprio movie from the 90s. It is, however, the kind of movie that has something for everyoneand a whole lot of it. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a mustachioed ba…
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February 12, 2020
Sky Renews David Schwimmer’s ‘Intelligence’, Robert Carlyle’s ‘Cobra’ & Joseph Gilgun’s ‘Brassic’ NSA

Sky Renews David Schwimmer’s ‘Intelligence’, Robert Carlyle’s ‘Cobra’ & Joseph Gilgun’s ‘Brassic’

Sky has handed renewals to a slew of scripted series including David Schwimmer’s Intelligence, Robert Carlyle political drama Cobra and Joseph Gilgun’s comedy drama Brassic. Intelligence, which launches on Sky One, has been handed a second season ahead of its first season air on February 21. Friends star Schwimmer plays…
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February 12, 2020
Strong future increases in Arctic precipitation variability linked to poleward moisture transport Earth‘s Climate

Strong future increases in Arctic precipitation variability linked to poleward moisture transport

AbstractThe Arctic region is projected to experience amplified warming as well as strongly increasing precipitation rates. Equally important to trends in the mean climate are changes in interannual variability, but changes in precipitation fluctuations are highly uncertain and the associated processes are unknown. Here, we use various state-of-the-art global climate…
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February 12, 2020
Why I referred myself to the Labour Party’s Compliance Unit for antisemitism Hebron

Why I referred myself to the Labour Party’s Compliance Unit for antisemitism

For the past four years I, like many others, have watched with incredulity as I have witnessed the unfolding of the antisemitism ‘crisis’ within Labour, trying to make sense of it. I have witnessed good people, proven, seasoned, antiracist campaigners and others suspended or expelled for grounds that I cannot…
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February 12, 2020