Weight loss is a well-recognized but poorly understood non-motor feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Many patients progressively lose weight as the disease advances, often alongside worsening motor symptoms and quality of life….
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Robot Collective, Atlas Acrobatics, and More Videos
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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Meta’s smart glasses could soon identify people in real time
Five years after shutting down facial recognition on Facebook over privacy concerns, Meta is preparing to bring the technology back – this time through its smart glasses. According to reports, the company is developing a feature…
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A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup
As Valentine’s Day approaches at Stanford, some students may be gearing up for first dates — not with people they met on Tinder or Hinge, but with matches from a service called Date Drop, designed by Stanford graduate student Henry Weng….
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Days After Its Super Bowl Ad, Ring Cancels Flock Partnership Amid Surveillance Concerns
Amazon’s doorbell and smart home devices arm Ring announced on Friday that it canceled a partnership with Flock Safety that it entered into last year, amid a backlash that reached a crescendo following Ring’s Super Bowl commercial on Feb. 8.
The…
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Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI
This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy Wacksman said in our conversation this week. Last year was dismal for the real estate market, and he expects…
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US scientists swap neutrons for LEDs to build glowing nuclear reactor
Scientists in the US have developed a new glowing surrogate nuclear reactor that replaces dangerous neutron-driven reactions with thousands of LEDs in order to simulate the complex physics of a working reactor core.
The reactor, referred to…
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Newly visible, city-size ‘green comet’ will soon be ejected into interstellar space — just like 3I/ATLAS
A striking “green comet” about the size of a small city is lighting up the night sky as it nears Earth next week. Experts predict the hefty iceball may soon be permanently ejected from the solar system, dooming it to drift through interstellar…
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Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12.
At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk suggested the exits were about fit, not…
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Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12.
At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk suggested the exits were about fit, not…
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