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In an effort to explore the relationship between humans and robots, researchers at Columbia University have developed a robot that can mirror human facial expressions.

EVA has a 3D-printed skull and over 20 muscles it can use to display looks of anger, fear, joy and sadness.

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New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is continuing to revamp the company's leadership. After removing the chiefs of engineering and design last month, Agrawal is bringing in new leaders for the security team.

The company confirmed to The New York Times that former head of security Peiter Zatko has...

Twitter's new hexagonal NFT profile pics were supposed to put right-click savers in their place.

The feature, announced Thursday, gives Twitter Blue subscribers the ability to designate their profile pictures as official NFTs — thus, in theory, irrefutably proving their JPEGs are authentic pieces...

A Chinese satellite almost bit the dust on Tuesday when debris produced by Russia’s 2021 anti-satellite test zipped past at an uncomfortably close distance.
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With master of disaster Roland Emmerich ’s Moonfall arriving Febuary 4, we’ve got the moon on the brain. Not the semi-plausible or at least seriously considered depictions seen in movies like Moon , 2001: A Space Odyssey , or Ad Astra , but the full-on goofy treatments that put the “fiction” in...

Keeping coral reefs healthy is extremely important as climate change encroaches on our most valuable habitats.

Stanford scientists have developed a low-cost measuring technique to assess the health of an entire reef from just a few small measurements.

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You can add pet hamsters to the long list of animals known to carry the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Officials in Hong Kong say they’ve confirmed an outbreak involving hamsters and humans that was traced back to a pet shop, though it’s not clear whether these hamsters transmitted the virus to people....

The wait is over. Following a first-look trailer back in June of last year , ViacomCBS has finally released a new clip from Star Trek: Picard. And there’s a lot to unpack here. Through the machinations of Q, Picard and the crew of the La Sirena find themselves in 2024. Setting season two of the...

Google’s week of combative antitrust pushback came to a fitting conclusion on Friday with the company filing a motion to dismiss large parts of an antitrust case filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a coalition of other states. Among other things, the new complaint filed last week accused...