Robots R Us?

Making Affordable Robotic Humanoids and Hands | MIT Technology Review: Significant progress that will make robots accessible to more people.

Festo Kangaroo Robot

Via Business Insider: Their newest robot is built on the principle of “recovering, storing, and releasing energy based on a natural model” in order to move around. In this case, the “natural model” is a kangaroo, so Festo’s robot...

Kind of like a snake eating something big

Via Business Insider: It shows the sector composition of the S&P 500 by market cap since 1974. As you can see, sector bubbles manifest when they suddenly explode as a percentage of the S&P 500. The dotcom bubble is very prominent, represented by the ballooning...

U.S. Plummets in Global Press Freedom Rankings

Via Huffington Post: After a year of attacks on whistleblowers and digital journalists and revelations about mass surveillance, the United States plunged 13 spots in the group’s global press freedom rankings to number 46. Click the link to see more: U.S....