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My colleagues and I have built a robot composed of many building blocks like the cells of a multicellular organism. Without a “brain” or a central controller in the system, our robot, dubbed Loopy, relies on the collective behavior of all of its cells to interact with the world.In this sense, we call Loopy a robotic swarm. But Loopy can also be seen as a single robot since all the cells are connected; therefore, Loopy is also “a swarm of one.” This research could lead to adaptive robots that tailor their shapes and…

If you're new to using a Samsung Galaxy phone, you may have found out that the side button can be assigned to either the power menu or Bixby — Samsung's voice-controlled virtual assistant. You have to choose one of the two functions, which means One UI has to offer alternative ways for users to access the power menu if they assign the side key to Bixby. Access the power menu in One UI There are, in fact, three ways to access the power menu in One UI if you're using Bixby via the side button. If you've assigned Bixby to…

Twitter (the company that Elon Musk insists upon calling “X”) appears to be hemorrhaging advertisers. And it’s responded to this lost revenue by suing a prominent critic of the increasingly right-wing social media website: Media Matters, a left-leaning organization known for criticizing conservative and GOP-aligned outlets. Ordinarily, this lawsuit would be the kind of stunt that legal observers could probably ignore. The First Amendment provides extraordinarily robust protections against lawsuits that target speech.…

The four crew members who comprise the SpaceX Crew-7 mission pose for a photo in their spacesuits during a training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Mission Specialist Konstantin Borisov, Pilot Andreas Mogensen, Commander Jasmin Moghbeli,, and Mission Specialist Satoshi Furukawa. Credit: SpaceXKonstantin Borisov from <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Roscosmos</div><div…

According to 9to5google, the team working on Google Assistant is now assigned to work on the company’s conversational chatbot Bard.ChatGPT created momentum in tech that is reshaping the whole industry in a short time. Google, whose reign was in danger because of ChatGPT, launched Bard to catch up with the competition. The company has now tasked the Google Assistant development team to work on Bard and make it better.While Google Assistant and Bard might seem like two separate services, they have many similarities. Both…

<!----> EV Metals Arabia Company for Industry (EVM Arabia), a subsidiary of EV Metals Group, a global battery materials and technology company, said agreements had been signed for the allocation of 127 hectares of land from The Royal Commission at Yanbu and a gas and power allocation…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Intimate partner violence is chronic among young sexual and gender minorities assigned male at birth, with bisexual, transgender and lower-income people in this group having the highest likelihood of victimization, a Rutgers study has found. …

Getty Images/iStockphotoPlaying Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' on some older laptops causes them to crash. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains why. According to Chen, a "major computer manufacturer" at some point in the 2000s discovered that Rhythm Nation, a Jackson hit released in 2009, was crashing some laptops and caused a nearby laptop to crash even though it wasn't playing the song.The reason, explains Chen, is that Rhythm Nation contained one of the "natural resonant frequencies" on laptops with 5400rpm…

A poster of Motion Picture Association film ratings hangs next to a poster displaying a message about new cleaning procedures in the lobby of Cinemark's Century 16 at the South Point Hotel & Casino on in Las Vegas, Nevada.Ethan Miller | Getty ImagesHow many F-bombs can a movie have before it's rated R?That's up to Kelly McMahon and a secretive panel of raters that is charged with dishing out the movie industry's five all-important designations — G, PG, PG-13, R and the extremely rare NC-17.Though it toils in relative…

Bengaluru's traffic has often messed up our minds. The traffic jam is a great trouble for daily commuters. Needless to say that delivery agents in Bengaluru also have to face this problem every day for hours at a stretch to provide orders to customers' doorsteps. Given the daily hustle of hour-long traffic and scorching hear, a Swiggy delivery agent from the Karnataka capital decided to reassign his order to someone else. Interestingly, instead of cancelling the order or giving it to someone from the same delivery…