The BBC Breakfast host apologised yesterday for liking “offensive” tweets about a Government minister’s video call backdrop featuring the Union flag. While interviewing Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, Ms Munchetty and co-host Charlie Stayt laughed after commenting on the flag. Mr Stayt said: “I think your flag is not up to standard size, Government interview measurements. […]
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Love, Death & Robots season 2 Netflix release date: Will there be another series?
Love, Death and Robots premiered on Netflix earlier this month (March 15) and fans are already calling for season two to be released. Many Netflix subscribers binged all 18 episodes of the animated anthology series in one go, leaving many wondering if there will be another series of Love, Death and Robots. Here’s what we […]
Robots Will Take Jobs From Men, the Young, and Minorities
Automation may create as many jobs as it destroys, a new study finds, but men, younger folks, and minorities hold positions that are particularly vulnerable. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c4900e8a730093fb4f2d93d/master/pass/Amazon-Robot-1005969670.jpg
What’s on TV: ‘Nightflyers,’ ‘Truth About Killer Robots’ and ‘Searching’
This week college football rolls into the conference championship rounds, while science fiction fans can check out the latest George R.R. Martin adaptation, Nightflyers. Unlike most cable shows it will be available for a 10-episode binge from day one, so you can see all of this “haunted house story on a starship.” Tonight HBO is […]
‘We are not robots’: Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe are striking on Black Friday over poor warehouse working conditions
Leon Neal/Getty Images Thousands of Amazon staff across Europe are striking and protesting on Black Friday in anger at the company’s warehouse working conditions. Strikes are taking place across Amazon sites in Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. Italian press reported managers having to pack boxes to meet demand. In the UK, the GMB trade union […]
Robots May Be Taking Over the Travel Industry
Resistance Is Futile: Robots May Be Taking Over the Travel Industry Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site […]
The Cow-Milking Robots Keeping Small Farms in Business
Ever since Nate Tullar was a toddler, when adults asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he knew what to tell them. In the ’50s, Tullar’s grandparents, George and Barbara, had bought Tullando Farm, a dairy farm located along the Connecticut River in Orford, a town in northwest New Hampshire, and […]
Two Japanese robots are now happily hopping on an asteroid [Updated]
Enlarge / The Hayabusa2 spacecraft spies its shadow Thursday night as it descends toward Ryugu to deploy two small rovers. (credit: JAXA) Saturday update: More than 24 hours after they were released by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft to fly down to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, the Japanese Space Agency has finally provided an update […]
This female CEO is trying to defeat loneliness — and robots are part of her plan
No Isolation Loneliness affects 20-40% of the entire population at some point. Everyone from a four-year-old child to an 80-year-old in a care home can feel lonely. Loneliness also has a negative impact on your health, causing stress, and even heart problems. The burden of loneliness on the entire population is huge. Karen Dolva, the […]
Watch Moritz Simon Geist’s Sonic Robots Play Thumping Techno Music in His Video for ‘Entropy’
The German musician builds robots that make sound, then orchestrates them to create unique and funky dance tracks. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b96c88a38fa9f07e6afd7b3/master/pass/techno1.jpg