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Photo: Martin Gerten (AP) Time is a construct. Or at the very least, the ways in which we tell time are just literally made up. Which means one glorious thing: freedom. California-level freedom. The kind of freedom I want in my own life. The kind of freedom that will give me a precious extra hour…

After Millions of Trials, These Simulated Humans Learned to Do Perfect Backflips and Cartwheels Using well-established machine learning techniques, researchers from University of California,… Read more Read The difference with self-dressing, however, is the need for haptic perception. Animated characters need to touch their clothing to infer progress. When dressing themselves, the bots must apply…

A lazy-as-hell male Aedes aegypti mosquito.Photo: Geoffrey M. Attardo, University of California, Davis (Journal of Insect Science) “Male mosquitoes are really lazy. They don’t like to fly much,” Hansen told Gizmodo. “Over a lifetime, they’ll fly up to 100 meters, 200 meters, but not more.” Because of that laziness, eradication campaigns will need to get…

The location of the newly discovered ancient star. Image: ESO/Beletsky/DSS1 + DSS2 + 2MASS A tiny star located about 1,590 light-years from Earth could be as old as 13.53 billion years, making it one of the most ancient stars ever discovered. The diminutive “ultra metal-poor” star is called 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B—hereafter abbreviated to J1808-5104—and it…

Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo) I tried shaving with the new two-bladed Gillette SkinGuard Sensitive razor a few minutes ago. It did not feel too much different than the two-blade Gillette razor my gym gives away for free. If anything, I’d say that it irritated my skin a little bit more than the Fusion blades…

Screenshot: Samsung People have been talking and dreaming about bendable screens for years, and while a handful of devices have experimented with the idea, there’s still a lot of hardware and software that needs to be refined before the tech is truly worth caring about. But at the 2018 Samsung Developer Conference, the world’s biggest…

A banner graphic from the now-deleted website of World Patent Marketing, charged by the FTC with bilking inventors out of millions since 2014 (Google Cache) According to the FTC, World Patent Marketing didn’t actually secure any licensing or manufacturing agreements for its customers. In fact, the FTC notes in its complaint that virtually no one…

Photosystem II splitting water. The blue circles are water, purple is manganese, green is calcium, red is oxygen. The netting is electrons and the blue lines are protons that serve as scaffolding.Illustration: Jan Kern/Berkeley Lab An experiment using intense laser pulses has allowed scientists to watch plants produce oxygen from water part of photosynthesis in…

Photo: John Bazemore (AP) The contentious and still unresolved Georgia gubernatorial election has led to a variety of claims of unfair play on the part of GOP candidate and current Secretary of State Brian Kemp, including a voter suppression lawsuit and reports of voting machine technical malfunctions. Today, a handful of social media pundits and…