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Curated By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: February 25, 2024, 16:51 ISTIndiGo Airline. Image Used for Representational Purpose. (File photo)Ever since the clip was shared on social media, it received a massive viewership in no time. Even a large group of users also started criticizing the airline for their poor service. The budget carrier IndiGo has been hitting the headlines for the past few months for quite bad reasons. Again! the airline became the talk of the town after a passenger slammed the company for seeing…

After a group of eBay employees behaved like trashy John Waters characters — mailing people live spiders and cockroaches — the company is paying the price. The Justice Department is charging eBay $3 million as a criminal penalty for carrying out a harassment and intimidation campaign against a Massachusetts couple, which involved mailing them creepy-crawlies and other stomach-churning packages. Other items included a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, a funeral wreath, and a book about grieving the loss of a spouse.…

EBay agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after employees engaged in a harassment campaign against two bloggers for their coverage of the company, including mailing them live cockroaches and a fetal pig. The e-commerce giant was charged with two counts of stalking through interstate travel, two counts of stalking through electronic communications services, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstruction of justice. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Male cockroaches try to woo females with sugary treats. But a preponderance of poisoned bait traps has thrown an evolutionary wrench into this classic courting strategy, making some cockroaches lose their sweet tooth. Now, scientists behind a study published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B report that some crafty male roaches appear to have cooked up a new confectionary technique to get around females’ sugar aversion, helping them find more mates.…

Thousands lost jobs amid deepening funding winter in 2022 as massive layoffs by the tech companies this year alone surpassed the levels from the Great Recession the world went through in 2008-2009 that began with Lehman Brothers collapse. In 2008, tech companies laid off about 65,000 employees, and a similar number of workers lost their livelihoods in 2009, according to data by global outplacement and career transitioning firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. By comparison, over 1,000 tech companies laid off more than…

The next time you move to squish a cockroach, you may want to pause before your shoe delivers the finishing blow. One of the earth’s most infamous insects could become its cyborg savior, according to a recent study by Japanese researchers. Earlier this month, the researchers from the Riken Center for Emergent Matter Science unveiled what they’re calling a “rechargeable, remote-controllable cyborg cockroach” that could be used in search and rescue operations, environmental monitoring, and the inspection of dangerous areas.…

If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches.That's a potential application of a recent breakthrough by Japanese researchers who demonstrated the ability to mount "backpacks" of solar cells and electronics on the bugs and control their motion by remote control.Kenjiro Fukuda and his team at the Thin-Film Device Laboratory at Japanese research giant Riken developed a flexible solar cell film…

I’ve heard there’s a module at Rada about becoming the embodiment of an animal. Legend has it you were incredible and people would strive to witness it. What animal were you and what process did you go through? spikeboyI remember I wasn’t that particularly keen on it, so I think I was a sloth so I could just curl up in the corner and pretend I was on a tree and just shift up a bit every 20 minutes. We had a wonderful teacher but I’d had enough of some of the more modern dance stuff, so I used the animal thing as an…

Why design robots from scratch when nature has already done a lot of the hard work for us? That’s the reasoning behind cyborg insects, and now scientists have found a way to make remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches more advanced, by powering them using custom solar cells.Insects make use of a range of powerful sensory organs, they’re small enough to reach places we can’t, they can survive in harmful environments, and they can climb surfaces or fly with ease. These are all useful attributes for robots – or better yet,…

Researchers at RIKEN, Japan have created remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches, equipped with a tiny wireless control module that is powered by a rechargeable battery attached to a solar cell. Credit: RIKENResearchers have engineered a system for creating remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches, equipped with a tiny wireless control module that is powered by a rechargeable battery attached to a solar cell. Despite the mechanical devices, ultrathin electronics and flexible materials allow the insects to move freely. These…