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Phone calls can be beamed right into your central nervous system

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Apple has upgraded next-generation cochlear implants to work with iPhones, allowing users to stream audio directly into the device
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Are You Ready for National Robotics Week?

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Celebrate robots by taking part in a National Robotics Week event
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3528 days ago
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Do you speak cow? Researchers listen in on 'conversations' between calves and their mothers

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Researchers have been eavesdropping on ‘conversations’ between calves and their mothers — measuring the process of how cows communicate using detailed acoustic analysis for the first time.
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Automation

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'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.
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3975 days ago
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Jadepearl
3969 days ago
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True, true, true.
USA! USA! USA!
Skotte
3973 days ago
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"Automation" is in my job title.
Rochester, Earth
jmoodie
3975 days ago
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I got to be pretty decent at spotting this curve while at UMB, and then avoiding it. But there is no doubt about its existence.
danatnr
3976 days ago
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Yes.
Ohio
yashimii
3978 days ago
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oh so true
linny
3978 days ago
it's really true.
claysmith
3979 days ago
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This is my weakness. I'll gladly write a script or macro to accomplish a repetitive task even though doing the task by hand would take half the time. Coincidently, this is why I use Vim, because it reduces the distance between manual and macro editing. Of course, it took me weeks to set up and learn to use Vim. That's time I'll likely never recoup.
Escondido, CA
devicenull
3980 days ago
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Too often true...
RTP, NC
lrwrp
3980 days ago
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So painfully true.
??, NC
Satri
3980 days ago
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Ah.. The things you own end up owning you...
Montreal, Canada
bsag
3980 days ago
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Horribly true. Been there, done that.
satadru
3980 days ago
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The multi-axial solution is to delegate your yak-shave. Alternately optimize using the "has somebody automated/done this in a good enough fashion" algorithm.
New York, NY
stefanetal
3980 days ago
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How the boss views most projects. And how I view his project proposals...
Northern Virginia
adamgurri
3980 days ago
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Yup
New York, NY
steingart
3980 days ago
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sigh, yes.
Princeton, NJ
JayM
3980 days ago
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Ha. :) For some folks this is definitely true!
Atlanta, GA
tomazed
3980 days ago
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Best definition of automating!
taglia
3980 days ago
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Best definition of automation I have ever seen...
Singapore
Jaryth000
3980 days ago
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Related comic: http://xkcd.com/1205/
Canada
amijangos
3980 days ago
My thought exactly, you have a threshold of how much time to invest
oliverzip
3980 days ago
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Explaining the productivity paradox.
Sydney, Balmain, Hornsby.
traggett
3980 days ago
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Title text: 'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto' meaning 'self-', and 'mating' meaning 'screwing'.
Hong Kong

Learning cursive in the first grade helps students

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By 2014, 45 American states will stop teaching cursive writing in favour of keyboard proficiency. In Québec, there are no plans for the moment to abandon this type of writing.
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4109 days ago
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Inducing and augmenting labor may be associated with increased risk of autism

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Pregnant women whose labors are induced or augmented may have an increased risk of bearing children with autism, especially if the baby is male, according to a large, retrospective analysis.
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4140 days ago
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Yet another reason no to intervene in a pregnancy.
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