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This handout picture taken on July 26, 2019 and released by the official website of the Russian State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS on Wednesday shows Russian humanoid robot Skybot F-850 (Fedor) being tested ahead of its flight on board Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. — AFP
Russia sends its first humanoid robot Fedor into space
MOSCOW — Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station.Named Fedor, short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia.Fedor blasted off in a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft at 6:38 a.m. Moscow time (0338 GMT) from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is set to dock with the space station on Saturday and stay till Sept. 7.Soyuz ships are normally manned on such trips, but on Thursday no humans are traveling in order to test a new emergency rescue system.Instead of cosmonauts, Fedor, also known as Skybot F850, was strapped into a specially adapted pilot's seat, with a small Russian flag in...
August 22, 2019

Russia sends its first humanoid robot Fedor into space

A man takes a picture of game consoles at the stand of Playstation during the media day of the Gamescom video games trade fair in Cologne, western Germany, on Tuesday. — AFP
It's connected devices vs consoles at biggest e-games convention
COLOGNE, Germany — Connected devices are challenging consoles at the world's largest online gaming fair, as hundreds of thousands of fans jostle to see top e-sports stars in action and give feedback that can decide whether a new release is a hit or a flop.The gamescom fair in Cologne, Germany, opens to the general public on Wednesday after a series of sneak-peek events to whet the appetite of a rising generation of enthusiasts who spend more time on gaming than they do watching TV.Stars of competitive online gaming, known as e-sports, are now making the kind of money earned by professional soccer or tennis players, with US teenager Kyle Giersdorf scooping $3 million at last month's Fortnite World Cup.Organizers say this year's event will focus on cloud-based gaming, amid a...
August 20, 2019

It's connected devices vs consoles at biggest e-games convention

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Japanese researchers build robotic tail to keep elderly upright
TOKYO — Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University have built a robotic one they say could help unsteady elderly people keep their balance.Dubbed Arque, the gray one-meter device mimics tails such as those of cheetahs and other animals used to keep their balance while running and climbing, according to the Keio team."The tail keeps balance like a pendulum," said Junichi Nabeshima, a graduate student and researcher at the university's Embodied Media Project, displaying the robotic tail attached to his waist with a harness."When a human tilts their body one way, the tail moves in the opposite direction."As Japan greys it is leading the industrial world in seeking ways to keep its ageing...
August 14, 2019

Japanese researchers build robotic tail to keep elderly upright

A visitor listens to music from a Sony Walkman audio player at an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the iconic device in Tokyo in this July 10, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Hit rewind: Sony Walkman triggers nostalgia on 40th birthday
TOKYO — Must-have 80s gadget and one-time icon of Japan electronics cool, Sony's Walkman turned 40 this year and like its now middle-aged fans, is clinging to its youth with high-tech updates.On July 1, 1979, as the global economy suffered through the second oil shock, Sony unleashed on the world a dark-blue brick of a machine with chunky silver buttons, the Walkman TPS-L2.Priced at a hefty 33,000 yen — $300 in today's money — the first generation Walkman could not record but its stereo music playback function quickly captured hearts in Japan and then the world.It had two headset jacks — labelled "guys" and "dolls" — to allow two people to listen simultaneously. A bright orange "hotline" button could be pressed to lower the volume while the...
August 11, 2019

Hit rewind: Sony Walkman triggers nostalgia on 40th birthday

Journalists take pictures as Richard Yu, head of Huawei's consumer business, unveils the company's new HarmonyOS operating system during a press conference in Dongguan, Guangdong province, on Friday. — AFP
Huawei launches own operating system to rival Android
DONGGUAN, China — Chinese telecom giant Huawei unveiled its own operating system on Friday, as it faces the threat of losing access to Google's Android platform amid escalating US-China trade tensions.The highly anticipated operating system is considered crucial for the tech titan's survival as it confronts a looming White House ban on US companies selling technology products to Huawei which could remove its access to Android.Richard Yu, the head of Huawei's consumer business, revealed HarmonyOS — HongMeng in Chinese — at a press conference in the southern city of Dongguan.He said the first version would launch later this year in its smart screen products, before expanding across a range of smart devices including wearable technology over the next three years."If...
August 09, 2019

Huawei launches own operating system to rival Android

A wind turbine at the Lake Turkana Wind Power is seen in Loiyangalani District, in Marsabit County, approximately 545 km north of Nairobi, on Tuesday. The farm has 365 turbines (type Vestas V52), each with capacity of 850 kW. The wind farm is providing reliable, low cost energy to Kenya’s national grid. — AFP
'Like a miracle': Poo powering Kenya's modern farmers
KIAMBU, Kenya — In 35 years working the land, Kenyan farmer Josphat Muchiri Njonge has never seen his coffee shrubs burst with so much fruit on his verdant hillside plot outside bustling Nairobi.Same too goes for the banana and avocado trees swaying on his two-acre (0.8 hectare) family farm in Kiambu. The plot is also lush with kale, spinach, maize and the cereal amaranth.His secret weapon lies underground.There, in a brick tank, dung from his 10 dairy cows is quietly transformed into a rich, organic fertilizer that he says has supercharged the soil and harvests.It isn't the only benefit Njonge, and tens of thousands of other smallholder farmers across Africa derive from "biodigesters."These tanks, either made of masonry or modern plastics, act like a magical mechanical...
August 06, 2019

'Like a miracle': Poo powering Kenya's modern farmers

People walk past a Capital One bank in Midtown Manhattan in New York City on Tuesday. — AFP
Arrest after Capital One data breach hits 100m people
LOS ANGELES, California — A hacker accessed more than 100 million credit card applications with US financial heavyweight Capital One, the firm said on Monday, in one of the biggest data thefts to hit a financial services company.FBI agents arrested Paige Thompson, 33, a former Seattle technology company software engineer, after she boasted about the data theft on the information sharing site GitHub, authorities said."The intrusion occurred through a misconfigured web application firewall that enabled access to the data," a statement by the US attorney's office in the northwest state of Washington said."On July 17, 2019, a GitHub user who saw the post alerted Capital One to the possibility it had suffered a data theft."It said the Virginia-based bank that...
July 30, 2019

Arrest after Capital One data breach hits 100m people

Rebecca Maharaj, a mental health professional with Britain's National Health Service, talks to a high school student in London in this July 4, 2019 file photo. — Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tech traps UK teens in mental health crisis — can it save them?
LONDON — For the British teachers grappling with a mental health crisis in the classroom, running a suicide watch or rushing psychotic pupils to hospital can increasingly fall into a day's work.Staff in three London schools recalled a roll call of pupils almost lost: the girl who gulped down pills, another set on jumping off a balcony and the countless teens who needed help to stem their self-inflicted bleeding."There's been children who have been intentionally trying to walk out in front of cars in the morning and we've had to pull them back," said one school staffer with 12 years' experience."The child is hearing voices, says they don't want to live, can't focus in the lesson, is curled up crying in a ball. So at that point we are like,...
July 29, 2019

Tech traps UK teens in mental health crisis — can it save them?

Samsung senior vice president of product marketing Justin Denison speaks on stage about the company's new foldable phone during the Samsung Unpacked product launch event in San Francisco, California, in this Feb. 20, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Samsung to launch foldable smartphone in September
SEOUL — South Korean electronics giant Samsung announced on Thursday it will release its cutting-edge foldable smartphone in September, despite a trade dispute between Seoul and Tokyo which analysts say will affect delivery.Tokyo earlier this month restricted export to South Korea of several key materials crucial to its world-leading electronics and smartphone companies, including market leader Samsung.The decision was made in response to a South Korean court decision ordering Japanese firms that used forced labor during World War II to compensate Korean victims.Tokyo's move has raised international concern about the effect on global tech supply chains and the possibility of price hikes for consumers worldwide.Samsung's Galaxy Fold is among the end products that will be affected...
July 25, 2019

Samsung to launch foldable smartphone in September

The Facebook app is seen in this photo illustration in Washington in this July 10, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Facebook to fix kids app flaw allowing chats with strangers
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook acknowledged on Tuesday that a flaw in its Messenger Kids service allowed children get into group chats with people who were not approved by their parents.The leading social network said it has been shutting down the group chats involved and notifying thousands of parents that their children many have unintentionally connected with strangers."We recently notified some parents of Messenger Kids account users about a technical error that we detected affecting a small number of group chats," Facebook said in response to an AFP inquiry."We turned off the affected chats and provided parents with additional resources on Messenger Kids and online safety."Technology news website The Verge first reported on the development, publishing a copy of an...
July 23, 2019

Facebook to fix kids app flaw allowing chats with strangers

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