FastCompany: Swiss manufacturer ABB has revealed a prototype robot called Frida that’s designed to be dexterous enough to replace a human being on a production line. It’s a good thing that’ll alleviate employee shortages, not subjugate the human race. Frida stands for Friendly Robot for Industrial Dual-arm Assembly, and the whole concept is pretty interesting. […]
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Although it’s nice to know where your ancestors originate, it’s not always fun trying to teach that piece of family history to your child. Instead of sitting down with a complicated list of things you want them to know, next time just buy the My Heritage Book. Deanna Bufo Novak always held a special place
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It was one of the holiest nights of Ramadan in Southern California when Marwa Atik decided to show off her self-designed head scarf reports the Los Angeles Times. By the end of the evening one woman turned to her and asked, “How can I get one?” For Marwa, the rest is history. Atik has taken
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Fox Business: People like handmade, one-of-a-kind jewelry, and this hobby is a good choice for a home-based business. Settle on your signature style or specialty — whether you’ll create pieces with bead design or design molds for silver and goldsmithing or stainless-steel items. Then you need to name your business, create samples, produce high-quality photos
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Jamaica Observer: Guyard Silvera, the hot dog man, turned his life around after being deported from the United States for the third time in 2007, having spent nearly 10 years in a New York prison that last time. The way the 51-year-old tells it, he was deported twice before that — in 1982 and again
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1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens. 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game. For more on the history of the telegraph read: The Telegraph: A History of Morse’s Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States. The genesis of Morse’s invention
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Don’t believe the naysayers. Energy independence is almost here. The infographic is via Bloomberg Business Week who add: New drilling techniques unlocked vast reserves unreachable just a few years ago. Oil and natural gas production in the U.S. is increasing at its fastest rate in 50 years, while imports from OPEC have been cut by
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Escapist Magazine: Anyone who’s seen The Shawshank Redemption knows that it can be hard for people who’ve been institutionalized for most of their life to integrate back into a free society. If that was true of mid-twentieth century Maine – the setting of Shawshank – it’s even more true now. A person who’s been in
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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog): There is a new invention for the stressed out or angry individual: the Screamotron 3000. The device is a renovated karaoke boombox that snaps a picture when it hears you scream. Billy Hunt, a commercial photographer and the inventor of the unusual device says it’s a therapeutic way to tap into
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