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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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Thus, today’s choices on the connectivity of streets may restrict future resilience and lock in pathways of energy use and CO 2. Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru. 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. 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. From that encounter, Akhtar decided that one day he would develop affordable artificial limbs.

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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.

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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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Ipsos study finds US among most skeptical of Autonomous Vehicles

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The study was conducted as part of its What the Future series, which couples survey data and interviews with experts in the field to see what “big questions” companies should be asking themselves about the future of their industries. This issue of What the Future focuses on mobility, and if people are ready for the coming technology.