Engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China, this biomimetic soft robot moves like an octopus tentacle. SpiRobs can bend, twist, and grasp a variety of objects. The mechanical arm is capable of lifting up to 260 times its weight while having a gentle enough grip to handle fragile objects.
Headachesound is a self-contained gadget for making turntable scratch effects. You can load it with your samples and beats, then jog its high-sensitivity mini turntable to manipulate sounds. Music producer Mr Viktor got his hands on a prototype and put it through its paces.
Why is Mississippi doing so well?
In 2013, the state passed a reform to require teachers to understand the science of reading (basically, phonics), deploy literacy coaches to schools, identify students struggling to read early and hold back students in third grade who weren’t ready to advance.
Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana have now done much the same, and have also made gains.
The original source of all this was a 2002 reading law in Florida that boosted student achievement in the Sunshine State.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/opinion/mississippi-is-no-miracle-its-the-future-of-education/
Meanwhile, Oregon, with some of the highest per-student spending, run for over a decade by a one of the most progressive Democratically controlled state legislatures in both the house and senate, continues to double-down on proven failed teaching methods and suspended all education standards to graduate in order to promote racial equality.
While Oregon is passing increasing numbers of functionally illiterate children on to adulthood, kids in Mississippi can read, and other countries children are doing this:
Uniq volumetric puzzles are made from soft PVC and molded into sculptural pieces. The first set of puzzles feature curvy, organic shapes and 30 to 70 pieces each
Interesting little post from a local who’s calling things as they are and have been. Is Portland the claimed Trump ‘war zone’. No. Have we been breeding a violent protesters for years who actually commit a fair amount of violence? Absolutely yes.
So what’s “too far” for Rose City Antifa?
- Blocking the driveway and traffic? Did that.
- Physically interfering with lawful arrests? Did that.
- Torturing the neighborhood with endless megaphone and fireworks noise? Did that.
- Nearby preschool decides to move due to constant protests/violence/teargas
- Portland judge sides with city to not enforce constant protestor noise violations near the ICE building (they were temporarily cleared after the lawsuit)
- Low income residents also lose their appeal to have constantly din of noise violations from protesters stopped
- Doxxing people so their homes and families can be targeted? Did that.
- Attempting to enter the facility? Did that.
- Refusing to obey a judge’s orders to stay away? Did that.
- Smashing windows? Did that.
- Throwing knives at feds? Did that.
- Hurling rocks at feds’ faces? Did that.
- Arson targeting police vehicles, politicians’ homes, train trestles and the ICE facility? Did that. And plead guilty to federal arson charges.
- Attempting to blind officers and aircraft using laser pointers. And encourage others to do the same – including 4 people in the country illegally. To the point life-flight helicopters needed to divert critically injured people miles away.
Antifa are clearly violent and they’ve broadcast their intent quite loudly since the Covid protests that had similar acts of violence and arson.
So where’s the line? Do we keep pretending that this wouldn’t escalate to a scenario like the sniper in Dallas? The frog costumes are cute, but even the guy who started that trend loves to post violent threats online.
It’s no secret AI agents are starting to take over customer service and other tasks. So, instead of communicating via expensive text-to-speech conversion, why not use their own language.
Gibberlink allows AIs to skip unnecessary speech synthesis and recognition and communicate using beeps and bleeps like R2D2.
Hetzner shared this timelapse video of taking an empty building and making it into a modern data warehouse
Tomshardware – Etsy has redefined its Creativity Standards to exclude a vast majority of 3D printed goods sold on its website today. Instead of copy-cat 3D printed items, any products 3D printed must be “produced based on a seller’s original design.”
Items produced using computerized tools: Physical items that a seller produced in their personal shop or home, using computerized tools such as a laser printer, 3D printer, CNC or Cricut machine. These items must be produced based on a seller’s original design and are often personalized or customized to a buyer’s specification.
Etsy policy
That means no more copy-and-3D-print spam stores that print common, free, and often cheaply licensed models. Hopefully this prevents the race-to-the-bottom dilution of Etsy’s brand from tons of ‘me too’ shops with the same 3D printed items.
Medivis helps doctors overlay 3-dimensional MRI scans on patients to visualize anatomy. This use of augmented reality helps doctors identify the exact location of tumors, blood vessels, and other structures before performing surgery.
The irony is pretty…amazing. I wonder what it says about us today when we now spend more on pets than human children?
Near the end of his life, Adolf Hitler from 1933 until his death, followed a vegetarian diet. It is not clear when or why he adopted it, since some accounts of his dietary habits prior to the Second World War indicate that he ate meat as late as 1937.
Several eyewitness sources maintain Hitler was a vegetarian because of his concern for animal suffering, noting that he was often distressed by images of animal cruelty and suffering, and was an antivivisectionist
Personal accounts from people who knew Hitler and were familiar with his diet indicate that he did not eat meat as part of his diet during this period, as several contemporaneous witnesses—such as Albert Speer (in his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich)—noted that Hitler used vivid and gruesome descriptions of animal suffering and slaughter at the dinner table to try to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat.