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The subversive genius of Joe Orton – BBC News
Image copyright University of Leicester Image caption Apart from during the last two weeks of Joe Orton’s life, homosexual acts between men were still illegal Fifty years ago the playwright Joe Orton was bludgeoned to death by his boyfriend at the peak of his career. What is Orton’s legacy, and what would he have made […]
South Korea could be the first country in the world to implement a ‘robot tax’
Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock Amid fears about robots replacing human jobs, South Korea could become the first country in the world to introduce a “robot tax.” A new proposal could see the country reduce the amount of tax benefits for companies that invest in automated machinery. SEE ALSO: Bill Gates is another smart guy who is terrified […]
Teleport’s neural networks let you try before you hair dye
Meet Teleport: An app that’s using a trained neural network to power a selfie-editing feature that lets you change the color of your hair at the touch of a button. Fancy seeing how you’d look with red locks or blue? No problemo. Just upload your selfie, wait a few ticks while the AI gets to […]
Watch this robot from Boston Dynamics totally eat it during demo
A robot fail usually sends shockwaves throughout the Internet, but a Boston Dynamics demo that went awry last month is just now getting a reaction. SEE ALSO: The creepiest videos from the robotics company Google just sold At the annual Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders at UMass Lowell, Boston Dynamics presented its humanoid […]
Here, heroin spares no one, not even the sheriff’s wife
(CNN)Robert Leahy was sitting on his couch, watching TV, when his wife, Gretchen, walked through the front door. It was about 10 p.m. She’d left for the grocery store hours earlier. Now, she “bumbled” about the room, Leahy says, incoherent and vacant. He’d seen her like this before. “What the f**k are you doing?” he […]