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Researchers Build a Talking Robot Guide Dog to Help Visually Impaired People Navigate

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Only about 2% of visually impaired people in the United States use guide dogs,” notes StudyFinds.com, “partly because breeding and training takes years and fewer than half the dogs in training actually graduate.” But someday there could be another option:What if you could ask your guide dog where the nearest water fountain is and hear it answer back, complete with directions and an estimated...

Lowry hits hole in one at the sixth

Yesterday at 22:16 PM, via BBC News

Shane Lowry becomes the first player in Masters history with multiple career holes-in-one as he aces the sixth on day three of the 2026 Masters in Augusta.

Brian Cox: ‘We don’t know how powerful AI is going to become – it’s both exciting and potentially a problem’

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn’s moons

What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence?

It came from a book that I’ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his laws of planetary motion in and around 1610, but he wrote this little...

Omissions, Deceptions, Lying. The New Yorker Asks: Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

A 17,000-word expose in the New Yorker reveals “several executives connected to OpenAI have expressed ongoing reservations about Altman’s leadership.” Reporters Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spoke to “a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how Altman conducts business,” including current and former OpenAI employees and board members. Among other revelations, internal messages from a few...

Watch Sportscene highlights

Yesterday at 21:29 PM, via BBC News

Highlights from the afternoon’s fixtures in the Scottish Premiership.

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