Saturday, 1 March 2025

Researchers explore how to build shapeshifting, T-1000-style robots

Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to anyone still haunted by nightmares of the T-1000 robotic assassin from “Terminator 2.” A team led by Matthew Devlin of UC Santa Barbara described […]

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Kash Patel Has A Rather Shady, Uh, Roommate

While unelected President Elon Musk and Donald Trump demand that federal workers stop working from home, there appears to be an exception for FBI Director Kash Patel, also the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The Wall Street Journal described Patel’s second job as “an unusual arrangement given that being FBI director is seen as one of the toughest jobs in government.”

Yet Patel plans to work remotely, from Las Vegas, at least part of the time, according to The New Republic. More significant is the guy whose digs Patel shares.

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