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Rocky Is A Companion Robot For Your Cats That Dispenses Treats And Monitors Home Too

It has the requisite laser pointer too.

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Comma Ai continues to impress with its aftermarket driver assistance tech

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Mystery Drones Fly Over Colorado And Nebraska: Who’s Controlling Them? | TODAY

Officials across multiple government agencies are now working to determine who is behind the Colorado drones.FAA launches investigation into mystery drones #deadlive #Drones https://youtu.be/b1ZAXxH_GyM

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Like it or not, you will soon own a vehicle equipped with artificial intelligence - Electronic Products

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Electronics-recycling innovator is going to prison for trying to extend computers' lives

A California man who built a business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court rejected his claim that the “restore discs” he made to extend computers’ lives had no financial value, instead ruling that he'd infringed Microsoft products.

A Southern California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected his claim that the “restore discs” he made to extend computers’ lives had no financial value, instead ruling that he had infringed on Microsoft Corp. to the tune of $700,000.

The appeals court upheld a federal district judge’s ruling that the discs Eric Lundgren made to restore Microsoft operating systems had a value of $25 apiece, even though the software they contained could be downloaded free and the discs could only be used on computers that already had a valid Microsoft license. The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals initially granted Lundgren an emergency stay of his prison sentence, shortly before he was to surrender, but then affirmed his original 15-month sentence and $50,000 fine without hearing oral argument in a ruling issued April 11.

Lundgren, 33, has become a renowned innovator in the field of electronic waste, or e-waste, using discarded parts to do things such as construct an electric car, which in a test far outdistanced a Tesla on a single charge. He built the first “electronic hybrid recycling” facility in the United States, which turns discarded cellphones and other electronics into functional devices, slowing the stream of harmful chemicals and metals contained in those devices into landfills and the environment. His Chatsworth company, IT Asset Partners, processes more than 41 million pounds of e-waste each year and counts IBM, Motorola and Sprint among its clients.

“This is a difficult sentencing,” U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley told him last year, “because I credit everything you are telling me. You are a very remarkable person.”

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This blooming sunflower collects energy from the sun.

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In The Know Innovation Gadgets These dice have sensors in them and connect to your smart devices

These smart dice bring game night into the 21st century

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A two-legged delivery robot has gone on sale—and Ford is the first customer https://ift.tt/2Fr7c3q

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Britain’s electricity since 2010: wind surges to second place, coal collapses and fossil fuel use nearly halves https://ift.tt/35sb1zX

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Drones called in to save the Great Wall

A very 21st Century piece of tech is being called in to save the crumbling Great Wall of China.

Saving The Great Wall with Drones. After all, China is the place that gave birth to the consumer drone industry so why not?

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Sounding like a huge swarm of angry bees or maybe a hedge trimmer on steroids, a small quadcopter lifts up off of a landing pad in front of the main hospital building on the WakeMed campus in Raleigh, N.C. Underneath it is a metal box — smaller than a shoebox — with vials of blood samples inside of it that are now heading across the campus to the lab for analysis, guided by a drone operator on the ground.

It’s not a long trip.

“This facility happens to be across a very busy road from our main campus hospital,” says Stuart Ginn, an ENT surgeon and medical director of innovations at WakeMed. But when taken by carrier on foot or by car, he says “the logistics of getting those samples across often resulted in about a 45-minute time of delivery.”

But now, with the drone?

“We’ve seen that drop to about 10 minutes, and that’s really door to door,” Ginn says. “The actual flight time one way is about three minutes because it’s not a long route.”

Saving that much time can, in some instances, save lives, and at the very least it should reduce delays in providing medical treatment.

Now, WakeMed’s partner in this endeavor, UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward, has won federal approval to expand its drone delivery operations, allowing the company to use multiple aircraft in multiple locations to make revenue-generating deliveries over longer distances.

Drone Delivery Is One Step Closer To Reality

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How to Shoot with Natural Light: 10 Tips

How to Shoot with Natural Light: 10 Tips

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In The Know Innovation Gadgets Device for cleaning out your ears has a built-in camera

The ‘BeBird A2’ hopes to be a safer way to clean out your ears

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In The Know Conservation This eco-friendly skimmer separates oil from water

Cleaning up after an oil spill can now be more efficient than ever

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Next on California’s roads: Autonomous pizza delivery trucks - California gives a green light to companies testing driverless delivery vehicles. https://ift.tt/2sfF9AP