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Tokyo cafe to be staffed by robots, run by the disabled
Published On: September 23, 2018 03:00 PM NPT By: Agencies
TOKYO, Sept 23: A new cafe opening in Tokyo will use robot waiters remotely controlled by physically-disabled human employees.
Japan’s ‘hopping rovers’ successfully land & send first images from Ryugu asteroid
Published On: September 23, 2018 11:00 AM NPT By: Agencies
MOSCOW, Sept 23: A pair of tiny JAXA robots, released by the Hayabusa2 probe, have successfully landed on the Ryugu asteroid and began transmitting images from the surface of the “potentially hazardous” object four years after the mission launch.
Japanese probe explores possible Earth-impacting asteroid Ryugu (PHOTOS)
Published On: September 22, 2018 12:40 PM NPT By: Agencies
MOSCOW, Sept 22: Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe launched in December 2014, arriving in orbit around the asteroid 162173 Ryugu this past June. Friday, the first of two small "rovers" — MINERVA-II 1A — slowly descended from the Hayabusa 2 mothership. MINERVA-II 1B will deploy sometime early next year.
Facebook to stop ‘embedding’ staff in political campaigns
Published On: September 22, 2018 11:30 AM NPT By: Agencies
WASHINGTON DC, Sept 22: Presidential candidates in 2020 won’t be able to rely on ‘embedded’ Facebook staff, the Menlo Park company declared. Hillary Clinton’s campaign declined this help in 2016, letting her rival Donald Trump leverage it to victory.
BPA-free plastics may not be safer than regular plastics after all, a new study finds
Published On: September 16, 2018 11:15 AM NPT By: Agencies
Sept 16: Consumers turning to plastics made with alternatives to BPA in the hope that they’re safer won’t like what they’re about to hear.
Umbrella Heat Shield May Protect Human Missions to Mars: NASA
Published On: September 13, 2018 02:00 PM NPT By: Agencies
CARACAS, Sept 13: Man may soon be walking the dusty terrain of Mars with the help of an umbrella-like heat shield currently being tested by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
NASA technology to be launched from New Mexico spaceport
Published On: September 8, 2018 12:30 PM NPT By: Agencies
NEW MEXICO, Sept 8: NASA technology designed to protect spacecraft from heat and pressure when entering a planet's atmosphere will be launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico as part of testing.
Facebook uncovers new global misinformation operations
Published On: August 22, 2018 02:14 PM NPT By: Associated Press
Facebook has identified and banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages engaged in misleading political behavior, a far larger discovery than a “sophisticated” effort it reported three weeks ago with great fanfare.
Mexico faces challenges of the future in robotics World Cup
Published On: August 19, 2018 11:55 AM NPT By: Agencies
CARACAS, Aug 19: The 'First Global Challenge 2018' featured the next generation of young engineers and robotics technicians from 193 countries.Aged 14 to 18, the 696 competitors were challenged to create a robot capable of activating sustainable energy sources and energizing power plants, while including an electrical transmission network optimally.The young engineers were asked to determine the strongest energy generator: solar energy, wind turbine, a nuclear reactor, and a combustion plant.
More than 1,000 Google workers protest censored China search
Published On: August 17, 2018 12:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 17: More than a thousand Google employees have signed a letter protesting the company’s secretive plan to build a search engine that would comply with Chinese censorship.
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