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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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The research relied on publicly available data sourced from OpenStreetMap , the Wikipedia of maps, and satellite-derived data. Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru. —Christopher Barrington-Leigh.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. The Ability Hand is available in the United States for patients age 13 or older. Akhtar is the CEO.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). We also call on every organization, developer, researcher, and user in the robotics community to make similar pledges not to build, authorize, support, or enable the attachment of weaponry to such robots.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on. In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments. The Blackshark.ai

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