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Voice-controlled robot can morph into a car that races around the room

Originally a bunch of children's toys, then comic books, cartoons and movies, robot action figures than morph into vehicles and back again have proved immensely popular over the years. After a successful Kickstarter last year, Robosen Robotics has launched th…

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Paris

Fontainebleau palace ‘plot’: Chinese mafia link probed

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Police said the suspects had pictures of artefacts in the Chinese Museum on their mobile phones (file image from 2013) French police have released details of how they thwarted an alleged plot to raid Fontainebleau p…

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Nuclear Disarmament

Contest to Replace Corbyn Begins – Loyal Socialist Long-Bailey My Choice

Life teaches us all many lessons but one which sprang to mind the other day was the truism that ‘Blood makes you related but loyalty makes you family’. It entered my head as I watched and listened to well-paid and privileged commentators on the ITV Good Morning Britain show savage…

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Android

Galaxy S20, Galaxy Bloom, and more tech news you need to know today

Your tech digest, by way of the DGiT Daily newsletter, for Friday, January 10. 1. Secrets: Samsung Galaxy S20, Galaxy Bloom, and more secrets-no-more At CES, serious work gets done alongside robot toilet roll delivery robots. Apparently, and enjoyably, the …

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Self-driving Vehicles

Is Alexa finally ready to become our car copilot?

Source: Android Central For several years now I've longed for the heads up displays (HUDs) and infotainment systems that I'd see in my rental cars or from my friends' rides that have built-in Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, and I've vowed that my next vehicle will have something like that.…

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

Court Gives Trump the Okay to Spend $3.6 Billion in Military Funds on His Mexico Border Wall

A federal appeals court agreed this week, by a two-to-one majority, to allow President Donald Trump to use $3.6 billion in federal military money on the construction of his proposed border wall with Mexico. Trump’s plan has been one of the most divisive issu…

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Chinese Economy

3 Top Chinese Stocks to Watch in January

With a "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal about to be signed, investors may benefit from looking at China stocks. In fact, on New Year's Day, the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, revealed that it would be further stimulating the economy by allowin…

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Android

Electronics Deals – January 10, 2020: iRobot, COWIN & More

Woot is currently selling the iRobot Roomba 860 robot vacuum for just $299. That's a pretty good price for a robot vacuum these days, especially one that is as good as this one. This does support Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, and has app control. So you …

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

NASDAQ

Market Snapshot: Dow set to 29,000 as Wall Street awaits key jobs report

U.S. stocks looked likely to carve out fresh records on Friday, and the Dow industrials may trade at the psychologically significant level of 29,000 for the first time ever, as investors awaited the monthly employment report, a data point that could influence…

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Iran Liberalism

Victims of the fatal Ukraine plane crash included students from the world’s best universities, newlyweds, and a wife separated from her husband by a ticket error

Victims Ukraine Crash Reuters/Nazanin Tabatabaee;Imperial College London A Ukraine International Airlines flight carrying 176 people crashed minutes after it took off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport early on Wednesday. There were no survivors. …

bubmagJanuary 10, 2020

Voice-controlled robot can morph into a car that races around the room

Fontainebleau palace ‘plot’: Chinese mafia link probed

Contest to Replace Corbyn Begins – Loyal Socialist Long-Bailey My Choice

Galaxy S20, Galaxy Bloom, and more tech news you need to know today

Is Alexa finally ready to become our car copilot?

Court Gives Trump the Okay to Spend $3.6 Billion in Military Funds on His Mexico Border Wall

3 Top Chinese Stocks to Watch in January

Electronics Deals – January 10, 2020: iRobot, COWIN & More

Market Snapshot: Dow set to 29,000 as Wall Street awaits key jobs report

Victims of the fatal Ukraine plane crash included students from the world’s best universities, newlyweds, and a wife separated from her husband by a ticket error

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