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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. Thus, today’s choices on the connectivity of streets may restrict future resilience and lock in pathways of energy use and CO 2. emissions for a century or more. —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. The Ability Hand is available in the United States for patients age 13 or older. Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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There have been a bunch of high-profile examples of robot misuse recently (that we’re not going to link to), and the companies building the robots being misused have taken it personally—as they should, because those misused robots are very easy to identify. One area of particular concern is weaponization.

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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 I think we would have ended up with a stronger, more flexible, more robust, more future-proof engine.” It included a bird’s-eye perspective of locales like Machu Picchu, in Peru.

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