Robot Arranges 100,000 Dominoes Into a Super Mario Bros. Mural in One Day
Robot Arranges 100,000 Dominoes Into a Super Mario Bros. Mural in One Day
Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober has created a robot that can make domino murals at lightning speed, and has shown it off with a video of it arranging 100,000 dominoes into a Super Mario Bros.-themed mural in just over 24 hours. Rober says it would take a team of seven humans a week to do the same thing…
Samsung’s New DDR5 RAM Chips Could Give Single-Stick Capacities of Up to 768GB
DDR5 RAM will find its way into gaming PC builds later this year when Intel Alder Lake arrives, although most people will be sticking with similar capacities to the current sets of best gaming RAM. We heard earlier this year that Samsung was working on a mammoth 512GB DDR5 stick, but it looks like even larger capacities could be on the way, after it announced that it’s developing a new 24GB module that’ll be able to fit up to 768GB onto a single stick (via Tom’s Hardware)…
Texas Instruments’ New Calculator Will Run Programs Written in Python
“Dallas-based Texas Instruments’ latest generation of calculators is getting a modern-day update with the addition of programming language Python,” reports the Dallas Morning News…
Apple Wins Patent for In-Screen Touch ID and Face ID
Early rumors about the iPhone 14 suggest that Apple plans to lose the notch next year, with in-screen Touch ID or Face ID two possible ways to achieve this. A patent granted today describes how both forms of biometric authentication could be embedded into the display…
Doomsday Music Vault to Be Constructed in Arctic Island Near North Pole
Oslo‘s Elire Management Group is planning a doomsday music vault located in the Svalbard archipelago, midway between Norway and the North Pole, with the facility aimed to store recordings for at least 1,000 years…
A Magnetic Helmet Shrunk a Deadly Tumor in World-First Test
We’ve seen helmets and AI that can spot brain tumors, but a new hard hat can actually treat them, too. As part of the latest neurological breakthrough, researchers used a helmet that generates a magnetic field to shrink a deadly tumor by a third. The 53-year-old patient who underwent the treatment ultimately passed away due to an unrelated injury. But, an autopsy of his brain showed that the procedure had removed 31 percent of the tumor mass in a short time. The test marked the first noninvasive therapy for a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma…
Ostrich Robot Machine-Learns Itself to 5k
Ever since humanity has grasped the idea of a robot, we’ve wanted to imagine them into walking humanoid form. But making a robot walk like a human is not an easy task, and even the best of them end up with the somewhat shuffling gait of a Honda Asimo rather than the graceful poise of a balerina. Only in recent years have walking robots appeared to come of age, and then not by mimicking the human gait but something more akin to a bird…