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To develop the system, researchers from New York University and Meta tested Stretch, a commercially available robot made by Hello Robot that consists of a wheeled unit, a tall pole, and a retractable arm, in a total of 10 rooms in five homes.  While in a room with the robot, a researcher would scan their surroundings using Record3D, an iPhone app that uses the phone’s lidar system to take a 3D video to share with the robot.  The OK-Robot system then ran an open-source AI object detection model over the video’s frames.…

Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service For a certain millennial population, the name “George Foreman” is more likely to conjure up an image of a favorite kitchen appliance before it brings to mind “heavyweight champ.” Indeed, the boxer/preacher/entrepreneur might be better known these days for his “Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine,” a gadget renowned in college dorms and bachelor pads across the nation, thanks to Foreman’s affable infomercials and infectious grin. Foreman became a pop cultural icon in the late ‘90s,…

Cables! Cables as far as the eye can see! Our modern need to charge many multiple devices before we go out of the house means that, if we want a tidy desk space or bedside table, investing in a multi-device charging dock is the way to go. The introduction of Apple’s MagSafe charging standard, which lets devices be wirelessly charged while held in place with strong magnets, has made a cottage industry for manufacturers looking to send power to our iPhones, AirPods and Apple Watches. But some prove so bulky that any gains…

Cables out of control, making your home ugly and your desk uncomfortably cluttered? Here are our inexpensive tips to tidy up your charger clutter and organize cable chaos, as we review neat solutions and the best cable and dongle cases and bags. In the supposed Age of Wireless our desks, TVs, living rooms and whole houses remain a viper’s nest of trailing, tangled, tense cables. Nowhere are these wires more massed than where you heap your device chargers for phone, tablet, camera, power banks, and other wall chargers.…

Eva Mendes, A Mother Of Two, Has Learned To Accept That Her Home Is Not Always Tidy Because Of Her Kids( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Actress Eva Mendes, a mother of two, has learned to accept that her home is not always tidy because of her kids. Sharing two daughters – Esmeralda (7) and six-year-old Amada – with her partner Ryan Gosling, the 48-year-old actress said that it’s been a struggle to keep the house tidy with two young kids in the house but Eva tries not to let it bother her because it’s…

Photo by Kvalifik on UnsplashBuilding Tidy Tools is one of the many workshops offered by the RStudio annually at their RStudio Conference. I participated the workshop in the last conference that took place in Washington, DC from July 25 to July 26, 2022. In this blog post you will get a summary of what was taught in the workshop and also my take on the overall workshop. If you are thinking about participating in this workshop, hopefully, this post will offer you some information to help.Before jumping more into the…

Lighting up Kickstarter this week is the Geminos X, a fresh and very tidy approach to multi-screen monitor setups. Two 24-inch monitors unfold vertically on an ergonomic stand, with a built-in webcam, a sound system, and a single cable to your PC. Why? Well, extra screen real estate without destroying your desk real estate, for one. The Geminos X sits flat on your desk when you want it to, and unfolds to give you two stacked screens in the desk footprint of a single monitor. You can open them both out flat, or run the…

Writing production-grade Pandas code with Hamilton.Your Pandas code with Hamilton. Image from Pixabay.“Tidy” & “Pandas” are not two words one would often associate together, let alone with the word “Production”. In this post I’ll argue that if you’re using Pandas in production, you should be using Hamilton, an open source micro-framework, as it enables you to write tidy and production grade code by default.You might be thinking? Is this post about the R Tidyverse equivalent but for Pandas? Yes, in the spirit of tidy…

Apple's upcoming iOS 16 update is set to help people tidy out their messy Contacts app by finding and then removing duplicate cards. Announced during the WWDC22 opening keynote this past Monday, iOS 16 will bring with it a number of big upgrades including changes to the Lock Screen and more. But one of the features that could be a big quality of life improvement for many is the ability to easily find and then merge duplicate entries in the Contacts app. With iOS 15 installed, iPhone owners were left to find their own…