Dark and deep web

In a presentation on Dec. 14 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), held online this year, researchers with NASA/JPL-Caltech introduced their "Mars Dogs," which can maneuver in ways the iconic wheeled rovers such as Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity and the recently launched Perseverance never could. The new robots' agility and resilience are coupled with sensors that allow them to avoid obstacles, choose between multiple paths and build virtual maps of buried tunnels and caverns for operators at home base, scientists said at AGU. … [Read more...] about Meet Au-Spot, the AI robot dog that’s training to explore caves on Mars

Losing someone you love is hard. We'll all go through it at least once in our lives. And we'll all work our way through it and carry on. I'm starting to get to that part, but most of this week has been a family trying to convince itself that this wasn't its fault. She never let anyone know how bad things inside her head were, or that her husband was in a dark place. She was ...normal. As normal as someone struggling with addiction could be. The real worry was that she'd stumble and go back to the needle, not that she would be able to go there and hide it until it took her past the brink. … [Read more...] about Love will hurt you, but it will also make you whole again

In related news this evening, Citigroup has fired an employee who it had  suspended after finding out the employee had been running a side business maintaining a QAnon Web site, according to a report this evening by Bloomberg's William Turton and Jennifer Surane, citing remarks by a Citigroup spokesperson.  … [Read more...] about Facebook says it is removing anything representing QAnon

"Innovations such as DLT, AI, and IoT change the way organisations and people interact with each other and with the world. These emerging technologies can be harnessed to strengthen our efforts to improve operational efficiencies and enable our customers' digital transformation worldwide," Tata Communications global head of corporate venturing and innovation Ankur Jindal said. … [Read more...] about IBM and Tata join DLT platform Hedera Hashgraph’s governing council

Evans, for his part, followed up Wellerman with an 1800s tune called Drunken Sailor (an exploration of what one might pull on a drunken sailor, early in the morning, like shaving his belly with a rusty razor), and he's got more shanties in store, mostly drawing from the requests he's getting on TikTok. He's also looking at recording a short EP and putting it on music platform Bandcamp.  … [Read more...] about Sea shanties have taken over TikTok. Here’s why