John Biggs
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The French Army Is Testing Spot the Robot on the Battlefield
Boston Robotic’s Spot quadruped robot seems to be hitting the battlefield with a group of French Army trainees in a series of drills and simulations that explore how these currently unarmed robots could work side-by-side with humans.
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Don’t Worry, This Chainsaw-Equipped Robot Arm Is, Uh, Perfectly Safe. Yeah.
Raleigh-based engineer Shane Wighton was given a robotic arm to test, but instead of making it do normal activities like the YMCA dance, Wighton decided to strap a chainsaw to that sucker and make a low-polygon dog out of foam board.
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This Cheap Cherry Ergonomic Keyboard Is Comfy As Hell
Cherry is best known as the creators of highly-coveted keyboard switches, the tiny switches that sit behind every key in your favourite input device. They’re less well-known for actually making their own peripherals, which is why the Cherry KC 4500 Ergo is particularly interesting.
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Amazon’s Kindle Author Service Dumps Problematic Mobi Files
If you’ve read this far, you’re probably a self-published author who has once struggled with Amazon’s fussy Kindle Direct Publishing platform. The platform, which allows you to upload and sell ebooks and paperbacks, has always been unusually frustrating when it came to ebook layout. If you did it right, you were fine. If you did…