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So long, salad bar: Grocers get creative, consider robots to revive prepared food

Grocery stores have shut down self-serve salad bars during the pandemic. They’ve taken away displays of fresh olives and dips. And they’ve replaced giant kettles of ready-to-ladle hot soup with sealed to-go containers.

The deli and prepared food areas that used to draw traffic to stores and differentiate grocers have fallen from favor as customers worry about the spread of the coronavirus, cook more from scratch and try to limit their time in stores.

Grocers are trying to revive those parts of the store with new approaches. At Publix, salad bars and hot bars have reopened, but employees dish out each item. Wegmans moved hummus, olives and more behind a counter where cheese shop employees fill orders. And at Texas-based H-E-B, some coolers carry prepared meals from local restaurants and a former food bar became an ice chest of beers.

So long, salad bar

Robotic waiter makes some restaurant customers recoil

Tags: Business, Contamination, Environment, Etiquette, Food, Future, Health, Modernization, Restaurant, Robot, Safety, Service, Shopping, Tech

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29-Jul-2023

Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash

Solar panels are an increasingly important source of renewable power that will play an essential role in fighting climate change. They are also complex pieces of technology that become big, bulky sheets of electronic waste at the end of their lives—and right now, most of the world doesn’t have a plan for dealing with that.

But we’ll need to develop one soon, because the solar e-waste glut is coming. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects that up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life, and that the world will be generating about 6 million metric tons of new solar e-waste annually. While the latter number is a small fraction of the total e-waste humanity produces each year, standard electronics recycling methods don’t cut it for solar panels. Recovering the most valuable materials from one, including silver and silicon, requires bespoke recycling solutions. And if we fail to develop those solutions along with policies that support their widespread adoption, we already know what will happen.

Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash

LA Times report warns about 'environmental danger' in solar transition

Tags: Business, Environment, Science, Tech, Waste

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15-Jul-2022

FDA ties more than 100 deaths to recalled Philips Respironics breathing machines

Last year Philips recalled 15 million CPAPs, BiPAPs and ventilators because they were releasing small particles that could cause health problems including cancer.

FDA ties more than 100 deaths

Tags: Danger, Death, Health, Misconduct, Tech, Treatment

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30-May-2022

New York City to introduce robot dogs

"The future of fire safety and rescue courtesy of the @FDNY," tweeted the mayor on Thursday

New York City to introduce robot dogs

Tags: Crime, Fighting Back, Justice, Robot, Support, Tech

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31-Mar-2022

Denny's robot server goes viral

"Here comes breakfast," said a customer in the video. "We are hungry."

Denny's robot server goes viral

Tiny 'Living' Robots Figured Out How to Reproduce

New footage shows Ameca grabbing a researcher's hand as it enters their 'personal space'

Tags: Business, Discovery, Employment Reduction, Restaurant, Safety, Service, Sex, Tech, Video

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26-Dec-2021

Stealing in Children and Adolescents

Parents should consider whether the child has stolen out of a need for more attention. In these cases, the child may be expressing anger or trying to "get even" with his or her parents; the stolen object may become a substitute for love or affection. The parents should make an effort to give more recognition to the child as an important family member.

- tell the child that stealing is wrong

- help the youngster to pay for or return the stolen object

- make sure that the child does not benefit from the theft in any way

Stealing

‘Stop stealing from self-checkout’

...brazen shoplifters filmed stealing shopping carts full of detergent and paper towels

California smash-and-grab crew steals hammers, tools from Home Depot

Dozens of looters rampage through two Minnesota Best Buys

Oakland security guard dies protecting a TV crew

Theft on the rise during holiday shopping deals

Knife-wielding mugger bragged he’d be freed because of NYC’s woke cash bail law

Houston man sentenced to more than 9 years for getting PP loans, lamborghini, strip clubs

NYC man was released without bail after 'robbing female subway passenger

Tags: Business, Children, Choices, Mental Health, Murder, Parental Burden, Parental Crime, Prison, Psychology, Punishment, Safety, Surveillance, Tech, Theft, Unruly Child, Video

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30-Nov-2021

Is robot therapy the future?

It makes sense doesn’t it? It makes kind, thoughtful sense to democratise therapy, a service previously only widely available to the wealthy, especially at a time of unprecedented suffering. This was the purpose when in 2008 the NHS launched its Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme – “The most ambitious programme of talking therapies in the world.” It was designed to make therapy more accessible and if you call your GP with anxiety today, you are likely to be referred to an IAPT. If you search for therapy apps on your phone, you can download hundreds of services ranging from adult colouring books and feelings diaries to Woebot, an AI chatbot that uses CBT techniques and Minions GIFs to improve users’ moods. The therapy industry is thriving.

Is robot therapy the future?

A Florida restaurant chain says staff got bigger tips after it hired a robot

My mother thought the robot was a runaway baby carriage and ran after it. 20-Oct-2021

Tags: Choices, Employment, Future, Mental Health, Replacement, Robot, Tech, Treatment

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20-Oct-2021

Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees working from home

David, 23, admits that he felt a twinge of relief when the first wave of Covid-19 shut down his Arlington, Virginia, office. A recent college graduate, he was new to the job and struggled to click with his teammates. Maybe, he thought, this would be a nice break from “the face-to-face stuff”: the office politics and small talk. (His name has been changed for this story.)

“I couldn’t have been more wrong,” David says.

That’s because, within their first week of remote work, David and his team were introduced to a digital surveillance platform called Sneek.

Every minute or so, the program would capture a live photo of David and his workmates via their company laptop webcams. The ever-changing headshots were splayed across the wall of a digital conference waiting room that everyone on the team could see. Clicking on a colleague’s face would unilaterally pull them into a video call. If you were lucky enough to catch someone goofing off or picking their nose, you could forward the offending image to a team chat via Sneek’s integration with the messaging platform Slack.

Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’

Tags: Discipline, Employment, Privacy, Tech, Treatment

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05-Sep-2021

Streetlights are making caterpillars grow up faster—and that’s a bad thing

To gather caterpillars from hedges, “you basically stick drain piping or any kind of open surface under the hedge, and then you basically whack the hedge with a stick five times. Which causes all of the caterpillars to fall out of the hedge and into your receptacles. So that was quite fun.”

In the grass, it’s a bit easier. “The caterpillars spend the day at the base of these grasses, and climb up the stems at night. So you just go along with a sweep net and just sweep through the vegetation.”

The differences were stark: lighted hedges contained just half the caterpillars of their dark counterparts. Grass had one third fewer.

Streetlights are making caterpillars grow

Sick of Mosquitoes?

Tags: Death, Disease, Ecology, Insects, Pests, Tech, Terraforming

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26-Aug-2021

Newly created membrane removes 99.9% of salt from seawater and make it drinkable within MINUTES

Scientists have created a new technology they say can remove nearly all of the salt from seawater, potentially solving one of the world's largest health problems.

The membrane not only removes 99.9 percent of salt from seawater, but it lasts up to a month, whereas previously solutions only lasted for about 50 hours before they need to be replaced.

Newly created membrane removes 99.9% of salt

World's first 3D-printed WAGYU BEEF is revealed – with marbling just like the real deal

A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible

Tags: Discovery, Meat, Science, Tech, Water

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25-Aug-2021

Sex robot with ‘bionic penis’ that can be programmed gay is coming soon

New sex robots from leading AI robotics company RealDoll will be programmable as gay or straight, depending on your preference.

Sex robot with ‘bionic penis’ that can be programmed gay is coming soon

Tags: Business, Gay, LGBTQ, Robot, Sex, Tech

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15-Jun-2021

Machines can do most of a psychologist’s job. The industry must prepare for disruption

Psychology and other “helping professions” such as counselling and social work are often regarded as quintessentially human domains. Unlike workers in manual or routine jobs, psychologists generally see no threat to their career from advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Economists largely agree. One of the most wide-ranging and influential surveys of the future of employment, by Oxford economists Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, rated the probability that psychology could be automated in the near future at a mere 0.43%. This work was initially carried out in 2013 and expanded upon in 2019.

We are behavourial scientists studying organisational behaviour, and one of us (Ben Morrison) is also a registered psychologist. Our analysis over the past four years shows the idea psychology cannot be automated is now out of date.

Psychology already makes use of many automated tools, and even without significant advances in AI we foresee significant impacts in the very near future.

Machines can do most of a psychologist’s job. The industry must prepare for disruption

Tags: AI, Discovery, Future, Mental Health, Robot, Science, Substitute, Tech, Treatment

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15-Feb-2021

KFC Mixes Chicken and Pixels With Its New Gaming PC

KFC, the famous fried chicken subsidiary of Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) and runner-up for world's biggest restaurant chain by sales, is apparently moving ahead with its plan to release the KFConsole, a high-powered gaming computer that also keeps chicken warm. Made to resemble a fried chicken bucket in general outline, the PC features a high-performance gaming setup that supports virtual reality (VR) and 4K TV games, according to IGN and other sources.

The PC is also designed to keep KFC munchies close at hand. The device features a drawer containing a tray where pieces of chicken can be placed to keep them warm while you're gaming, with Cooler Master stating this "Chicken Chamber" will use the computer's "natural heat and airflow system," enabling you to "focus on your gameplay and enjoy hot, crispy chicken between rounds."

KFC Mixes Chicken and Pixels With Its New Gaming PC

Tags: Advertising, Business, Computer, Development, Food, Product, Restaurant, Tech

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23-Dec-2020

Mum's clever iPhone shower trick is dubbed 'x-rated' by hundreds of others online - so can you see why?

A mum's innocent shower 'hack' has been dubbed 'x-rated' by parents after she shared her idea in a popular Facebook group.

'Have you questioned why they need to take their phones in the shower?' one person asked.'

'Easy way to take nudes, thanks mum,' another added.

Kelly was disgusted with the online 'backlash' she received and said: 'I didn't put this up for backlash and not all kids do that. Geez.'

She stuck the phone holders to the wall using Fix Nail Powder adhesive from Kmart.

Mum's clever iPhone shower trick is dubbed 'x-rated' by hundreds of others online - so can you see why?

Tags: Backlash, Children, Choices, Damage, Discovery, Environment, Exploration, Funny, Masturbation, Nature, Overreaction, Parenting, Porn, Tech

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02-Nov-2020

A 5-cent sensor could detect the coronavirus in 10 minutes at home

One of the hardest parts of controlling COVID-19 is that it’s very difficult to know if you or someone you know is carrying it asymptomatically. So you might let your guard down, spend time in close proximity to someone else, and help it spread. Testing is useful to curb this issue, but the wait on a test result can still take days. So it’s difficult to say for sure, at any given moment, if you actually have COVID-19 or not.

A new device being developed at Caltech, dubbed the SARS-CoV-2 RapidPlex, could put this uncertainty to an end. It’s a SARS-CoV-2 sensor that’s being designed for use at home. When it comes into contact with a drop of blood or saliva, it can determine if you’re infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a mere 10 minutes. The results of the test could be beamed right to your phone over Bluetooth.

A 5-cent sensor could detect the coronavirus in 10 minutes at home

Tags: Coronavirus, Development, Discovery, Experimentation, Safety, Science, Tech, Test

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08-Oct-2020

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