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All right, robots: you’ve bested our professional wrestlers and our penalty kickers. But as long as San Francisco 49ers kicker Joe Nedney has anything to say about it, field goals belong to the humans. More »
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To promote his book Dot Robot: Atomic Swarm, children’s author Jason Bradbury built a replica of one of the characters, Punk. The only trouble is that – with some CGI help – the spiky, spherical robot turned against his creator. More »
At the Hanover Zoo, an orangutan must pull a succession of strings before being rewarded with a nut. Sometimes, the experience gets a bit frustrating: More »
In one corner, we’ve got a spry, 1m robot, prone to floating like a butterfly and doing its damnedest to sting like a bee; in the other, a medium-sized Japanese pro wrestler in shiny silver short shorts. WHO WILL WIN?! More »
Did you ever read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle? Yeah, things haven’t changed as much as we would like to think. More »
Hey, I’m all for a night out drinking now and then, but not to the point where I’m crawling into industrial garbage bins to sleep one off. You might not wake up when it’s crunch time. More »
