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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. It’s not about military robots per se , and that’s made quite clear in the letter.

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Maersk and IBM launch TradeLens blockchain shipping solution; 154+ million shipping events already captured on platform

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Pacific International Lines (PIL) have joined Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd as global container carriers participating in the solution. Customs authorities in the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia and Peru are participating, along with customs brokers Ransa and Güler & Dinamik.