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Why It's So Hard for a Robot to Straighten a Candle Wick

The task is physically taxing and boring, and finding enough people willing to do it is getting harder. What’s proving even more difficult: building a robot that can do the job. The task is physically taxing and boring, and finding enough people willing to do it is getting harder. What’s proving even more difficult: building a robot that can do the job. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each…

Speaking Up in Meetings Shouldn't Be This Hard

Are you bold enough to say what you need to say in a meeting or do you feel knots in your stomach and refuse to speak up?Read All Are you bold enough to say what you need to say in a meeting or do you feel knots in your stomach and refuse to speak up?Read All FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful…

Why sexual assaults in the metaverse are so hard to prosecute

Britain’s first police investigation into a “virtual rape” has little chance of leading to a prosecution, according to legal experts. The victim of the alleged assault was a girl aged under 16. According to a report this week in the Mail Online, the child was wearing a VR headset and playing a video game when a group of adult men “sexually attacked” her avatar.  Although there was no physical injury, officers said she suffered real physical and emotional trauma. They added that such attacks…

5 Hard Truths About Generative AI for Technology Leaders

GenAI that drives real business value takes real work. But it’s worth it.Original image courtesy of The Everett Collection on Shutterstock. Image edited by author.GenAI is everywhere you look, and organizations across industries are putting pressure on their teams to join the race — 77% of business leaders fear they’re already missing out on the benefits of GenAI.Data teams are scrambling to answer the call. But building a generative AI model that actually drives business value is hard.And in the long run, a quick…

Behind Cheap Stuff From Shein and Temu: A Hard Bargain With Suppliers

Updated Jan. 3, 2024 11:22 am ETSHENZHEN, China—E-commerce sellers Shein and Temu are offering a lifeline for small suppliers in China’s manufacturing hubs—but it isn’t always a straightforward win.In recent years, thousands of Chinese factories and vendors have joined the supply chain for Shein and Temu, whose popularity has exploded in the U.S. with their offers of inexpensive made-in-China goods, from T-shirts and handbags to electronics and kitchen items.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights

Early-stage hard tech firm Countdown Capital shutting down

Countdown Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on hard tech industrial startups, will shut down by the end of March and return uninvested capital, firm founder and solo general partner Jai Malik said in an annual letter. In the letter, which was viewed by TechCrunch, Malik says he decided to close the fund after coming to two main conclusions on the economics of early-stage hard tech investing: that “funding industrial startups is not inefficient enough to justify our existence” and that “larger,…

iPhone partied too hard in Google’s latest #BestPhonesForever ad

Google has a new #BestPhonesForever ad to show us, and in this one, the iPhone partied a bit too hard. The name of the ad is ‘Rough Night’, and it’s obviously related to the New Year’s celebration… even though that was not specifically mentioned in the ad. iPhone partied a bit too hard in Google’s latest #BestPhonesForever ad In any case, in this ad, an iPhone is exhausted. He is lying down, while saying stating that it participated in a “big party” last night. He took a lot of group shots last night, but not many of…

Double-infections hits California hard – Los Angeles Times

California’s hospitals are getting busier with more COVID-19 and flu patients, some of whom are suffering from both viruses at the same time.The simultaneous sickness is another wrinkle in an already hectic respiratory virus season. Although hospitals are not nearly as crowded as during the emergency phase of the pandemic, they are becoming increasingly so — with Los Angeles County recently entering the “medium” COVID-19 hospitalization category outlined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the…

Why A Christmas Story’s Star Believes Die Hard Is A Christmas Movie, And The Argument He Makes To Prove It

What connects one of the best action movies, Die Hard, with one of the best Christmas films of all time, A Christmas Story? They obviously both belong within the elite category of the best '80s movies, but now star Peter Billingsley, who portrayed the belovedly bespectacled Ralphie Parker, has weighed in concerning the ongoing Die Hard debate about whether the Bruce Willis-led classic qualifies as a Christmas movie. The actor believes John McClane's first adventure unequivocally fits that bill, and he's ready with an…

Die Hard and Carry On? Britain’s most-aired films over Christmas revealed | Film

Think of Christmas films and the chances are your mind is drawn towards snowmen, mistletoe and Jimmy Stewart.But analysis of five decades of Christmas TV schedules in the UK reveal that the most-aired films feature a magic car, a straw man and Kenneth Williams.Only one in eight films shown on the main UK channels over the past 50 festive periods has been Christmas-related – even if you include contentious “Christmas films” such as Die Hard and Gremlins.Instead, the Carry On films join the more obvious choices of Chitty…