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Your Wednesday Briefing

At a research lab in California, a mathematical calculation that the largest supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years was done in 3 minutes 20 seconds, Google said in a paper in the science journal Nature. Background: Our reporter Dennis Overb…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Android

Robo Wunderkind robot kit for kids

A new robot kit for kids has been launched via Kickstarter offering smart blocks that can be used to create a wide variety of different robotic projects bringing them to life with code. The Robo Wunderkind kids robot kit can be combined with Lego and has been…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Venezuela

Universities ‘oblivious’ to widespread racist abuse on UK campuses, inquiry finds

Universities are oblivious to the racial harassment occurring at an alarmingly high rate on their campuses, a new report has warned. An inquiry from the equality watchdog has found that nearly a quarter (24 per cent) of ethnic minority students had expe…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Putin

Russia warns Syrian Kurdish YPG must pull back or face Turkish army

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned Syrian Kurdish YPG forces on Wednesday they face further armed conflict with Turkey if they fail to comply with a Russian-Turkish accord calling for their withdrawal from the entire length of Syria’s northeastern border with T…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Silk Road

Western China and the New Silk Road

Photograph Source: The Yellow River in Lanzhou seen from the park of the White Pagoda – CC BY-SA 2.5 es Coming to China every few months has almost become a regular occurrence for me, though this time I am in a part of China I have not been to before.…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Food Industry

How to Break Out of the Children’s Menu Trap

Another strategy is to feed children purées that contain single vegetables, rather than the combinations of vegetables and sweet fruits, like pear and broccoli, widely sold by baby and toddler food manufacturers. These odd combinations lead kids to believe th…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Something in the Way We Move

The researchers then fed all of the muscular-activation readouts into a machine-learning software program, which is a type of artificial intelligence. For the first few examples, the program was told which readouts belonged to which person and directed the pr…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Putin

Russia Sends 2 Tu-160 Nuclear Bombers to South Africa in a Display of Defense Cooperation

Russia will on Wednesday land the world’s biggest military aircraft in South Africa, the Tupolev Tu-160 “Blackjack” bomber, in a rare display of cooperation between the defense forces of the two countries. The two bombers, which are capable of launching nucl…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Machine Learning

Automating collision avoidance

ESA is preparing to use machine learning to protect satellites from the very real and growing danger of space debris. The Agency is developing a collision avoidance system that will automatically assess the risk and likelihood of in-space collisions, improve…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

CCTV

Embarrassing moment PC smashes his patrol car into traffic lights outside police station

CCTV footage shows the embarrassing moment a PC crashes into traffic lights outside his own police station - while overtaking a colleague on a bicycle. PC Mark Chance, 25, caused thousands of pound of damage when he smashed into the lights in central Perth,…

bubmagOctober 23, 2019

Your Wednesday Briefing

Robo Wunderkind robot kit for kids

Universities ‘oblivious’ to widespread racist abuse on UK campuses, inquiry finds

Russia warns Syrian Kurdish YPG must pull back or face Turkish army

Western China and the New Silk Road

How to Break Out of the Children’s Menu Trap

Something in the Way We Move

Russia Sends 2 Tu-160 Nuclear Bombers to South Africa in a Display of Defense Cooperation

Automating collision avoidance

Embarrassing moment PC smashes his patrol car into traffic lights outside police station

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