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Bitcoins price hasnt been this stable since 2018. Who’s worried? – Decrypt

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Bitcoin, the first and largest cryptocurrency by market cap, appears to be in a period of relative quiescenceunusual for a coin famed for its volatility.

Traders have no doubt looked at recent Bitcoin price charts with unfathomable boredom. Since June 1, the price of Bitcoin hasnt budged much at all. Back then, it was worth $9,519. Now, its worth $9,355, according to data from metrics site CoinMarketCap.

Peaks and troughs have been minor, too. In the past month, Bitcoins peak price has been $9,680; its lowest price has been $8,975. According to a new report by crypto data firm Coin Metrics, published today, Bitcoins price has changed just 1% in the past month.

Per Skew Analytics, this is Bitcoins quietest stretch since November 2018. That was the calm before the storm; in the months after, Bitcoins volatility spikedand in the wrong direction that hodlers hoped, with Bitcoin's price crashing by nearly 50%.

At least there was action.

Compare current volatility to the rest of 2020 and Bitcoins past two months seem positively dull.

In mid-March, Bitcoin fell by around 40% in a matter of days after global markets tumbled amid pandemic-fueled uncertainty.

Bitcoin quickly recovered and has been on a steady upward trend ever since its crashminus a couple of blips. Since May, it has dithered between $9,000 and $10,000.

Amid a global pandemic, its stability is remarkable.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of crypto exchange Binance, expressed the sentiment to Bloomberg in an interview yesterday. For the last little while, Bitcoin has been really stable, he said. People have been calling [Bitcoin] a stablecoin now, Zhao joked (we think).

For some, Bitcoins stability is no relief; its a frustration. Bitcoin has yet to truly break through the illustrious $10,000 price point. Thats the price point that Bitcoin had been at just before the coronavirus crash.

Zhao told Bloomberg that, potentially following massive money-printing efforts by governments, sooner or later its going to break out.

Though Bitcoins stability is bad news for speculators, Nic Carter, a partner of crypto VC fund Castle Island Ventures, thinks that it could help the coin find its place in commerce.

Imagining what Bitcoins creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, would say from a beach in Bali if Bitcoin remained at its current price for the next 10 years, Carter tweeted: Nice! Just as I intended. Now just use it for commerce on the internet."

"Thats what its for. Haha what? You expected it to go up forever? You know thats impossible, right? Carter joked (we think).

The views and opinions expressed by the author are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, or other advice.

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Spider-Man is Headed Towards a Face-Off With Daredevil – Screen Rant

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Spider-Man and Daredevil may have been BFFs once, but now they are heading for a collision if Daredevil stays on his current path.

Matt Murdock might be back in the red as Daredevil, but now he's cruising for bruising with an unlikely enemy - a not-so-friendly-neighborhood Spider-Man!

After accidentally killing a criminal, Matt Murdock relinquished the mantle of Daredevil, pressured by his own conscience as well as Spider-Man, who threatened to bring him down if he ever took to the streets in costume again. However, Hell's Kitchen had other ideas. The latest conflict with the Stromwyn twins saw the citizens of Hell's Kitchen fighting back wearing Daredevil masks. With a renewed sense of purpose, Matt donned the horned mask once again to take the supervillains threatening his neighborhood - and then turned himself in to the authorities when all was said and done. Thanks to some legal maneuvering from his best friend Foggy, however, Daredevil will be the only one on trial - not Matt Murdock. However, just as he returned home to get his full costume (he'd only been wearing a mask previously), he found Spider-Man waiting for him.

Related: Netflix's Daredevil Only Has One Story Left: How MCU Should Do It

The entire conversation is based on a non-issue. Spider-Man had declared that he would take down Daredevil if he donned the costume again, but Daredevil has already turned himself in to the police. The confused Spider-Man demands Daredevil stand down, but Daredevil not only refuses - he identifies Spider-Man as a criminal for breaking and entering and threatens to call the cops... in full costume! Spider-Man calls Daredevil a "piece of work" and hastily departs, but threatens to come back if Daredevil is lying. Daredevil heads to the courthouse, where he is ultimately arrested.

This isn't Daredevil's first confrontation with another superhero over his actions. Daredevil had a similar interaction with none other than Captain America after the events of Shadowlands, which saw Matt Murdock take over the Hand after being possessed by the Beast of the Hand. Fearing that Daredevil might break bad yet again, Captain America issued a similar warning to Daredevil, one that he had no trouble backing up.

Spider-Man makes for an interesting foil, largely due to the two characters' shared history as street-level heroes. In fact, in previous iterations, Spider-Man and Daredevil have an interesting sibling dynamic, with Daredevil often giving advice to the younger, less established Spider-Man. Such friendly pretenses are clearly off the table in this story, however. If the story has one flaw, it's that it works at the expense of Spider-Man, who seems more concerned about the implications of Daredevil's actions for the superhero community at large. It doesn't help that Spider-Man is completely befuddled when Daredevil reveals he is turning himself in. For now, Daredevil's stand-off with Spider-Man is over, but if his legal gambit doesn't pay off, he could be receiving another, far less cordial visit from the wall-crawler.

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The Misinformation Age Has ExacerbatedAnd Been Exacerbated Bythe Coronavirus Pandemic – TIME

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If youre looking for solid information on COVID-19, the Internet is not always your best betequal parts encyclopedia and junkyard, solid science on the one hand and rubbish, rumors and fabulism on the other. Distinguishing between the two is not always easy, and with so much of the time we spend online devoted either to sharing links or reading ones that have been shared with us, not only does the junk get believed, it also gets widely disseminated, creating a ripple effect of falsehoods that can misinform people and even endanger lives.

At its worst, misinformation of this sort may cause people to turn to ineffective (and potentially harmful) remedies, write the authors of a new paper in Psychological Science, as well as to overreact (hoarding goods) or, more dangerously, to underreact (engaging in risky behavior and inadvertently spreading the virus).

Its well-nigh impossible to keep the Internet entirely free of such trash, but in theory it ought not be quite as hard to confine it to the fever swamps where it originates and prevent it from spreading. The new study explores not only why people believe Internet falsehoods, but how to help them become more discerning and less reckless about what they share.

One of the leading reasons misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic gains traction is that its a topic that scares the daylights out of us. The more emotional valence something we read online has, the likelier we are to pass it oneither to share the joy if its something good or unburden ourselves if its bad.

Our research has shown that emotion makes people less discerning, says David Rand, associate professor at the MIT School of Management and a co-author of the new study. When it comes to COVID-19, people who are closer to the epicenter of the disease are likelier to share information online, whether its true or false.

Thats in keeping with earlier research out of MIT, published in 2018 showing that fake news spreads faster on Twitter than does the truth. The reason, the researchers in that study wrote, was that the lies were more novel than true news [eliciting] fear, disgust and surprise in replies, just the things that provide the zing to sharing in the first place.

Political leanings also influence whats shared and not shared. A 2019 Science study, from researchers at Northeastern, Harvard, and SUNY-Buffalo, showed that neither the left nor the right has a monopoly on sharing fake news or real news, with both ends more or less equally mixing fact and fiction. Just which fact and just which fiction they chose, however, was typically consistent with just which stories fit more comfortably with their own ideologies.

To dig deeper still into the cognitive processes behind sharing decisions, Rand and colleagues developed a two-part study. In the first, they assembled a sample group of 853 adults and first asked them to take a pair of tests. One, known as the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) measures basic reasoning processes, often with questions that are slipperier than they seem. (For example: If you are running a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in? The seemingly obvious answerfirst placeis wrong. Youve simply replaced the second-place runner, but the person in first is still ahead of you.)

The other test was more straightforwardmeasuring basic science knowledge with true and false statements such as Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria (false); and Lasers work by focusing sound waves (false again).

Finally, the entire sample pool was divided in half. Both groups were shown the same series of 30 headlines15 false and 15 trueabout COVID-19, but they were instructed to do two different things with them. One group was asked to determine the accuracy or inaccuracy of the headlines. The other group was asked if they would be inclined to share the headlines online.

The results were striking. The first group correctly identified the truth or falsehood of about two thirds of the headlines. The second groupfreed from having to consider the accuracy of what they were readingreported that they would share about half of the headlines, equally divided between true ones and false ones. If they were taking the time to evaluate the headlines veracity, they would be expected to share at something closer to the rate of the first groupabout two thirds true and one third false. When people dont reflect, they make a rapid choice and they share without thinking. This is true for most of us. says Gordon Pennycook, assistant professor at the University of Regina School of Business in Saskatchewan, and lead author of the study.

Most, but not all. The study did find that people who scored higher on the CRT and basic science tests were a little less indiscriminate, tending to do a better job at both distinguishing false stories and at making better sharing decisions.

The solution, clearly, is not to force everyone to pass a reasoning test before theyre admitted online. Things are actually a lot easier than that, as the second part of the study showed.

For that portion, a different sample group of 856 adults was once again divided in two and once again shown the same set of headlines. This time, however, neither group was asked to determine the accuracy of the headlines; instead, both were asked only if they would share them. But there was still a difference between the two groups: One was first shown one of four non-COVID-9-related headlines and asked to determine whether it was true or false.

That primingasking the participants to engage their critical faculties before beginning the sharing taskseemed to make a dramatic difference: The primed group was three times less likely to share a false headline than the unprimed group.

Nudges like this help a lot, Rand says. If you get people to stop and think, they do a better job of evaluating what theyre reading.

The researchers believe there are easy, real world applications that platforms like Facebook and Twitter could use to provide people the same kind of occasional cognitive poke they did in their study. One idea we like is to crowd-source fact-checking out to users, Pennycook says. Ask people if [some] headlines are accurate or not; the platforms themselves could learn a lot from this too.

Rand cautions against anything that could seem patronizing to readersleaving them feeling like theyre being quizzed by some social media giant. Instead, he recommends a little bit of humility.

You could stick little pop-ups into newsfeeds that say, Help us improve our algorithms. Are these stories accurate? he recommends.

In no event is the Internet going to be scrubbed of all rubbish. For plenty of hucksters, politicos and conspiracy-mongers, the Internets hospitality to inaccuracies is a feature, not a bug, and there is little way to purge them entirely. But small interventions can clearly make a difference. And when it comes to information about the pandemicon which life and death decisions may be madethe stakes for trying could not be higher.

This appears in the August 03, 2020 issue of TIME.

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Cake meme reflects coronavirus absurdity in a world where nothing is what it seems – NBC News

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Dont believe everything you see on the internet those are important words to live by, especially for those of us who are very online. Earlier this month, though, a viral video depicting hyper-realistic cakes as everyday items had folks on social media double-guessing every other post, and sometimes even their own realities, effectively launching the next meme: Is this real or is this cake?

The meme began the way so many others have before it: with BuzzFeeds "Tasty" recirculating something completely absurd. On July 8, the brand shared a supercut of chef Tuba Gekil slicing into items that are presumably not cake Crocs, toilet paper, plants and then revealing the delectable dessert center.

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While people have been making hyper-realistic cakes for years, they werent exactly viral. So what changed? It has a lot to do with our shifting sense of reality, as well as the repulsion-fascination matrix that fuels our attraction to viral food videos.

In the early to mid-2010s, the appeal of food videos specifically, short instructional or introductory ones hinged on easy, often trendy, Instagram-friendly foods like avocado toast with a runny yolk or a gooey grilled cheese. But somewhere along the way, food videos made a hard pivot toward spectacle; the more ridiculous and shocking the recipe or the meal, the better, no matter how disgusting it turned out to be.

Somewhere along the way, food videos made a hard pivot toward spectacle; the more ridiculous and shocking the recipe or the meal, the better.

Sometimes these videos encourage absolute stupidity, like this 100-layer lasagna or these cheese and wine shots. Other times, they highlight over-the-top food creations like Jonathan Chebans 24-karat-gold-dusted chicken wings. With the exception of Bon Apptits Test Kitchen videos, which are more about the personality of the cooks, food videos these days rely on a formula contingent on surprise and revulsion.

Thats part of the reason why this round of hyper-realistic cakes is garnering so much attention we derive immense satisfaction watching everyday objects get sliced. In the same way we cannot look away from Dr. Pimple Popper squeezing a vile cyst, we cant help but watch someone take a knife to a hand that is actually a cake.

Besides our morbid fascination with this intersection of the weird and the delicious, another big factor behind the success of the cake meme is more depressing: Collectively, our relationship with reality seems to be declining. The coronavirus pandemic has turned many of our worlds upside down, eroding social structures and work-life routines and blending days into weeks into months.

The internet has also played a huge role in warping our perception of reality, as fake news amplifies misinformation and some of our own politicians gaslight us. Its no wonder we dont know who, or what, to trust. Its not enough to say the cake fascination is simply due to boredom or anxiety. The very realities we exist in are subject to interpretation and politicization. Everything and anything feels up for debate.

The very realities we exist in are subject to interpretation and politicization. Everything and anything feels up for debate.

That skepticism is naturally amplified online (sometimes with good reason). We are acutely aware that weve lost a lot of control, of both our present and our future. For the past four years perhaps not coincidentally, around the time excessive food videos became the norm we have been bearing constant bad news.

Frankly, its exhausting. Sometimes, a Croc should just be a Croc. Thats what makes the meme so effective they are in on just how ridiculous this whole thing is. Some of the memes require familiarity with previous meme formats or pop culture and others turn the joke on its head, like this cake that is actually meat or this Nintendo Switch that turned out to not be cake. Much like the layers of a cake (see what I did there?), the joke is multifaceted: If reality is subjective, why not play along? So what if everything is cake? Wouldnt it be better that way?

While cake memes are trending now, it wouldnt be surprising to see another unsettling food item become the next existential meme. The viral-food-video factory is probably cooking one up at this very moment. Perhaps whats soothing these days is not escapism, but the escalation of spectacle. Absurdity is the name of the game now but at least this absurdity comes with a side of frosting.

Izzie Ramirez is a freelance culture, climate and food reporter based in Brooklyn. You can follow her onTwitter here.

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Health impacts of Oceania Dairy’s pipeline ‘less than minor’, hearing told – Stuff.co.nz

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A conservative analysis of the potential health impacts of a proposed wastewater pipeline into the Pacific Ocean off South Canterbury has found they would be less than minor, a hearings panel was told on Tuesday.

The effects of the discharge on human health (from Oceania Dairys proposed 7.5km wastewater pipe at Glenavy) are predicted to be less than minor, particularly given the conservative nature of the risk assessment, Dr Helen Rebecca Stott, an environmental scientist with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited said.

The advanced wastewater treatment proposed, using UV disinfection, will improve the current microbiology quality of dairy processing wastewater to further reduce potential health risk from wastewaters discharged, Stott told the Environment Canterbury hearing being held in Waimate.

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Stott has more than 20 years experience in environmental research and consultancy focussing on wastewater treatment, water quality and health.

My experience with dairy factories is that typically the wastewater treatment plant is only a dissolved air flotation plant but the wastewater treatment being proposed, particularly with UV disinfection, is an advanced kind of treatment being proposed by Oceania.

Typically, UV disinfection is a very good tertiary treatment in deactivating microbial contaminants, particularly microbial pathogens.

Stott said her quantative microbial risk assessment into the proposed pipelines effect on recreational water users was based on the current system without UV filtration and therefore considered conservative.

My risk assessment included modelling that used information from the predicted wastewater dilution from the shore, microbial pathogens detected in the Oceania processing wastewater and other model input variables including the intensity and duration of exposure.

She found that concentrations of three bacterial pathogens detected in the wastewater (Campylobacter, Listeria and Staphylococcus aureus) were unlikely to exceed the dose required to have a 1 per cent risk of infection after dilution in the surrounding environment.

Stott assessed the impact to humans through direct contact, ingestion and inhalation, such as from sea spray on the beach, despite recommendations that very little recreation activity occurs there.

Panel chairman Paul Rogers asked Stott how her analysis would change if the advised level of recreational activity was wrong, or were to change in the future.

Whenever you undertake a human health assessment we always take a precautionary approach and assume somebody could be walking along that coastline so that is the nature of the risk assessment.

The only differences might be if people were in a more immediate vicinity of that wastewater discharge at the output site, however, within my modelling I have taken a conservative approach in that I have not considered any deactivation of pathogens in the marine environment.

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Commissioner Hoani Langsbury asked why anglers and landowners against the proposal had not been questioned as part of the research into recreational use of the area.

She also eliminated the impact of sunlight in deactivating pathogens that come to the surface, she said.

The limited recreational use of the coast at the proposed site of the pipeline was presented by Rob Greenaway, an accredited recreation professional with Recreation Aotearoa.

The critical thing is the outfall location is in an area thats midway between two significant recreational areas the Waitaki River mouth and, further north, the Waihao River mouth, he said.

The site is 7.5 kilometres north of the Waitaki River and 11km south of Waihao, so the ability to have an impact on either of those sites is very limited.

He noted some recreational use was made of Morgans Beach Road, which has a picnic area and is used by some anglers and quadbikers, but said youd be very brave to swim in the waters along the coast because of dumping waves and the lack of lifeguards.

Having spoken to three anglers, he argued they were unlikely to travel to the beach at Archibald Rd, the proposed site for the pipeline, where fishing is not as good as at the river mouths and access is significantly harder, requiring travel along an unformed road and a scramble down to the beach.

When questioned by commissioner Hoani Langsbury about his interviews, Greenaway conceded he had not spoken to the anglers who had submitted against the proposal, or the landowners along the coast.

He agreed with the panel that landowners may be more likely to fish there due to convenience.

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Map of the coastline where Oceania Dairy proposes to construct its wastewater pipe, including all beach access points.

Langsbury asked whether access to the coast at Archibald Rd would be improved by the construction of the pipeline and would entice more people, but Greenaway did not think that would be the case because there is still little appeal to the site over others along the coast.

He said there were good reasons that a recreation setting had not been developed there.

It would be a lot of work to create and it would be a lot of work to maintain it. I would be very, very surprised if there was any demand, to be honest, for recreation at Archibald Rd.

Panel member Emma Christmas asked whether recreational use may be further reduced if it were to become a discharge site.

The real effects, the potential health effects, are negligible so that is a good starting point, Greenaway said.

There can be perceptional issues, clearly, and that depends on the angler.

Based on my experience people tend to go where there are fish.

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America’s second victory in space has lessons for today | TheHill – The Hill

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While most of the nations attention on outer space matters has recently focused on Americas successful effort to send astronauts to and from the International Space Station, another milestone in outer space policy quietly took place acouple months ago. Sixty years after President Kennedy announced one of his two famous outer space initiatives, Intelsat corporation (Intelsat SA), the progeny of Kennedys plan for a U.S.-led, global communications satellite program, quietly announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And, while the company emphasized that its bankruptcy was actually good news, it is impossible to not notice that this marks the final conclusion (yes there have been many conclusions) to this unique, 1960s American Cold War initiative that probably had a greater practical impact on Americas global space image than either our planetary Space Programs or even our Moon landing.

Speaking before the UN General Assembly for his first time in September 1961, Kennedy promised that the United States would propose a global system of communications satellites linking the whole world in telegraph, and telephone and radio and television. The day need not be far away when such a system will televise the proceedings of this body to every corner of the world for the benefit of peace. And, by 1964, the U.S. initiative had taken treaty form when six friendly countries joined in the U.S.-led initiative. During the 30 years between 1961 and the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S.-designed and U.S.-led treaty organization, INTELSAT, was arguably the most practical global expression of the U.S. space program and one of Americas most effective Cold War initiatives.

Through Kennedys international satellite organization (headquartered not surprisingly in Washington, D.C.), hundreds of millions of people and thousands of businesses and governments in Africa, South America, Asia, Oceania, Europe and North America were able to instantly make telephone calls, watch television programs, and transmit fax, telex and data among each other. This was the first instance of commercial, social and cultural globalization in the way we think of that term today.

Before explaining how and why Americas second major space initiative succeeded and ended, or why it was so important, please note that the Intelsat business of today extolls its Chapter 11 filing because it expects this bankruptcy to allow the business to raise and spend around $1 billion to move satellite equipment out of some key radio frequencies that are needed by cellular companies for the expected tidal wave of 5G wireless services. In return, the satellite company would receive a grant from the U.S. government of around $5 billion, far more than its annual sales. When Kennedy and his advisors cooked up the idea in 1961 of sharing the concrete benefits of the American space program with the rest of the world in order to combat the Soviet Unions enormous success with both the first artificial satellite and the first man in space, they could scarcely have even imagined that at the end of this project would lie a commercial bankruptcy designed to obtain government fees.

Although Kennedys Sept. 12, 1961. commitment We choose to go to the moon in this decade is long-remembered and widely-celebrated, it was his speech at the UN two weeks later announcing plans to share Americas space technology with the rest of the world that actually got the world involved in the American space program. Its worth remembering Kennedys second space initiative today as we consider how to deal with global issues as diverse as global warming, pandemics, Internet governance, establishing bases on the Moon and exploring Mars.

Kennedys second space initiative was actually every bit as bold as his commitment to put an American on the moon: Rather than hoard the benefits of its space program for itself (like we accused the Soviets of doing), America would share the benefits of its space program with our allies and with those Third World countries willing to accept an American commercial model and American leadership.

After years of negotiation with our allies and with some Third World countries and with significant support from many U.S. military and civil agencies, what emerged was an American-organized, American-led and American-operated inter-governmental organization that would share Americas space technology in the form of communications satellites. These satellites would connect non-Soviet-aligned Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania and elsewhere in a global network that supported telephone, telex, TV and data. The satellites might have initially been made, launched and administered by American businesses, but they would belong to, and be controlled by, all of these countries as a group. Moreover, the new space project would blend the efforts of business, the military, the civil space program and academia into a global multi-stakeholder undertaking. That effort, officially founded in 1964, was later named INTELSAT and it was operated for its first decade by an American company, COMSAT. By 1973, 81 countries friendly to the United States had signed up and the international organization owned around a dozen communications satellites.

It was a non-military, American Cold War success without parallel because it actually touched the lives of hundreds of millions on every continent. (Full disclosure: During the height of the Cold War, I directed the public and investor relations programs for COMSAT, at the time the largest owner of INTELSAT.)

By the 1990s however, the world had changed in many ways: Undersea fiber optic cables permitted television, telephone or high speed data communications between densely-used routes like U.S.-to-Europe or U.S.-to-Japan much more cheaply than could be done by satellites; the Cold War had ended, and the foreign policy benefit to the U.S. of an organization made up of allies and friendly Third World countries had enormously diminished; and political leaders in America and Europe had adopted a new approach to telecommunications based on competition and privatization. Together, these factors led to both widespread competition in international satellite services and the end of Kennedys Cold War satellite initiative.

In 2001, the international organization, INTELSAT, became what came to be called Intelsat corporation, a private business competing with other satellite businesses. After a series of leveraged buyouts that left the business with billions of dollars of debt, the company went public (Intelsat, S.A.) in 2013. Eventually, by almost all accounts heavily-burdened with its past debts, the publicly-traded company announced in May that it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to protect itself from its creditors and collect nearly $5 billion from the FCC for clearing out of radio frequencies that cellular operators want to use for new 5 G wireless services.

This development was obviously a long way from President Kennedys ambitious announcement to the UN in 1961 or President Johnsons 1964 triumphant creation of the U.S.-led international satellite organization. And, although Kennedy's idea proved far more politically and economically successful than he could ever have imagined, by almost all accounts, the original concept of a U.S.-led, satellite UN had outlived its usefulness many years earlier. But INTELSAT's 30-year success as an instrument of American foreign policy a U.S.-led global undertaking and a merger of military, civil, commercial and other interests remains an important model today for the lessons it teaches us about how we may successfully approach many new global challenges in outer space or on the Earth.

Roger Cochettiprovides consulting and advisory services in Washington, D.C. He was a senior executive with Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) from 1981 through 1994. He also directed internet public policy for IBM from 1994 through 2000 and later served as Senior Vice-President & Chief Policy Officer for VeriSign and Group Policy Director for CompTIA. He served on the State Departments Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy during the Bush and Obama administrations, has testified on internet policy issues numerous times and served on advisory committees to the FTC and various UN agencies. He is the author of theMobile Satellite Communications Handbook.

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Automotive Lightweight Material Market by Material, Application & Component, Vehicle Type, Region – Global Forecast to 2025 – PRNewswire

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DUBLIN, July 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Automotive Lightweight Material Market by Material (Metal, Composite, Plastic, Elastomer), Application & Component (Frame, Engine, Exhaust, Transmission, Closure, Interior), Vehicle Type (ICE, Electric & Hybrid), Region - Global Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global automotive lightweight material market post COVID-19 is estimated to grow from USD 69.7 billion in 2020 to USD 99.3 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.3%.

Factors contributing to the growth of automotive lightweight material can be attributed to stringent emission and fuel economy regulations. Moreover, advancement in automotive and technology enabling reduced material usage will increase the demand for automotive lightweight material in the coming years.

With progression in time, the COVID-19 impact has severely disrupted the supply chain for the entire automotive ecosystem. This has halted production facilities across the globe resulting in a disruption in the exports of the automotive components. This scenario is expected to affect automotive lightweight material market, as the growth of the market is directly related to the production of the vehicles. The global production of vehicle pre-COVID-19 was expected to reach from ~90-95 million units in 2020 to ~110-115 million units by 2025. According to OICA, though global vehicle production declined by 5.2% between 2018-2019, the production outlook was supposed to showcase significant growth from 2021-2022 owing to multiple steps taken by OEMs, as well as some government, to attract customers.

Stringent emission and fuel economy regulations will drive the automotive lightweight material market

The automotive lightweight material market post COVID-19 is estimated to grow from USD 69.7 billion in 2020 to USD 99.3 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.3% during the forecast period. The increasing demand for lightweight materials is driven by the rising usage of electric vehicles and stringent emission norms & fuel economy regulations. Several OEMs have set targets for CO2 reduction in the coming years.

Instrument panel is the fastest growing market, by component

The instrument panel is projected to be the fastest-growing segment in the automotive lightweight material market. With the increasing demand for lighter interior cabins from car buyers, OEMs plan to use lightweight materials in interior applications. Hence, OEMs are jointly working with component manufacturers and material providers to develop improved and lighter components. As the interior cabin contributes significantly to the overall vehicle weight, the use of lightweight materials in the cabin can help in vehicle weight reduction. Hence, the instrument panel is projected to be the fastest-growing market for automotive lightweight material.

North America is estimated to be the fastest-growing market for automotive lightweight materials, followed by Asia Oceania

North America is expected to be the fastest-growing market for automotive lightweight materials. The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAF) standards have compelled OEMs to enhance their vehicle lightweighting efforts. The domestic demand for passenger cars has increased due to low gas prices and low-interest rates. The demand for light trucks and vans has also witnessed rapid growth in the region. Asia Oceania, on the other hand, has seen increased usage of HSS and Aluminum, especially in the low and mid-segment vehicles. China is the fastest-growing market for automotive lightweight materials in the Asia Oceania region. Factors such as low production cost, abundant availability of metals, and safety norms have driven market growth in the region. The sale of automotive lightweight materials is projected to increase in different regions during the forecast period.

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2 Research Methodology

3 Executive Summary

4 Premium Insights5 Market Overview5.1 Introduction5.2 Market Dynamics5.2.1 Drivers5.2.1.1 Stringent Emission and Fuel Economy Regulations5.2.1.2 Growing Government Initiatives for Weight Reduction5.2.2 Restraints5.2.2.1 High Cost (Material Cost and Process Cost)5.2.2.1.1 High Material Cost5.2.2.1.2 High Process Cost5.2.2.1.3 Price Sensitive Nature of Developing Regions5.2.2.2 Opportunities5.2.2.2.1 Upward Trend of Vehicle Electrification5.2.2.2.2 Future Potential Market in Asia Oceania5.2.2.3 Challenges5.2.2.3.1 Maintenance of Lightweight Material5.3 Industry Trends and Targets5.3.1 Light Duty Vehicles Impact the Lightweight Material Industry5.3.2 Technological Routes for the Application of Lightweight Materials: US

6 COVID-19 Impact Analysis6.1 COVID-19 Impact Analysis on Automotive Market6.2 COVID-19 Impact Analysis on Automotive Lightweight Material Market6.2.1 Automotive Lightweight Material Scenario Analysis6.2.1.1 Realistic Scenario6.2.1.2 Low Impact Scenario6.2.1.3 High Impact Scenario

7 Automotive Lightweight Material Market, by Material Type7.1 Introduction7.1.1 Research Methodology7.1.2 Assumptions/Limitations7.1.3 Industry Insights7.2 Metal7.2.1 High Strength Steel (Hss)7.2.2 Aluminum7.2.3 Magnesium & Titanium7.3 Composite7.3.1 Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (Cfrp)7.3.2 Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (Gfrp)7.3.3 Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer (Nfrp)7.3.4 Other Composites7.4 Plastic7.5 Elastomer

8 Automotive Lightweight Material Market, by Application8.1 Introduction8.1.1 Research Methodology8.1.2 Assumptions/Limitations8.1.3 Industry Insights8.2 Body in White8.2.1 Europe is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Body in White Application8.3 Chassis and Suspension8.3.1 Europe is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material for Chassis and Suspension Application8.4 Powertrains8.4.1 Asia Oceania is the Fastest Growing Market for Lightweight Material in Powertrain Application8.5 Closures8.5.1 Asia Oceania is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Closures Application8.6 Interiors8.6.1 Asia Oceania is the Fastest Market for Lightweight Material in Interiors Application8.7 Others8.7.1 North America is the Fastest Growing Market for Lightweight Material for Other Applications

9 Automotive Lightweight Material Market, by Component9.1 Introduction9.1.1 Research Methodology9.1.2 Industry Insights9.2 Frames9.2.1 North America is the Fastest-Growing Market for Lightweight Material in Frames as the Current Average Curb Weight of Vehicles is Higher in this Region9.3 Wheels9.3.1 Europe is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Wheels as the Use of Lightweight Materials is on Higher Side in Europe Compare to Other Regions9.4 Bumpers & Fenders9.4.1 Asia Oceania and North America Are the Fastest-Growing Markets for Lightweight Material in Bumper & Fender9.5 Engines & Exhausts9.5.1 Europe is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Engine & Exhaust Due to the Extensive Efforts on Engine Downsizing9.6 Transmission9.6.1 Use of Lightweight Material for Transmission in the RoW Region is More Compared to Other Regions9.7 Doors9.7.1 Europe and Asia Oceania Are the Largest Markets for Lightweight Material in Doors9.8 Hood & Trunk Lid9.8.1 Asia Oceania is the Fastest Growing Market for Lightweight Material in Hood & Trunk Lid Due to Increase in Trend for Vehicle Weight Reduction9.9 Seats9.9.1 Asia Oceania is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Seats9.10 Instrument Panel9.10.1 Asia Oceania is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Instrument Panel9.11 Fuel Tanks9.11.1 Asia Oceania is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Fuel Tank

10 Automotive Lightweight Material Market, by Vehicle Type10.1 Introduction10.1.1 Research Methodology10.1.2 Assumptions/Limitations10.1.3 Industry Insights10.2 Passenger Cars10.2.1 Europe is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Passenger Car10.3 Light Commercial Vehicles (Lcv)10.3.1 North America is the Fastest-Growing Market for Lightweight Material in Lcv10.4 Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Hcv)10.4.1 Asia Oceania is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Hcv11 Automotive Lightweight Material Market, by Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Type11.1 Introduction11.1.1 Research Methodology11.1.2 Assumptions/Limitations11.1.3 Industry Insights11.2 Battery Electric Vehicle11.2.1 North America is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Bev11.3 Hybrid Electric Vehicle11.3.1 North America is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Hev11.4 Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle11.4.1 Asia Oceania is the Fastest Growing Market for Lightweight Material in Phev11.5 Electric Truck11.5.1 North America is the Largest Market for Lightweight Material in Electric Truck11.6 Electric Bus11.6.1 Asia Oceania is the Largest Market in Lightweight Material for Bus Due to the Higher Sale and Usage of Electric Bus in China

12 Electric Vehicle Lightweight Material Market, by Material Type12.1 Introduction12.1.1 Research Methodology12.1.2 Industry Insights12.2 Metals12.2.1 Bev is the Largest Lightweight Material Market for Metals12.3 Composites12.3.1 Bev is the Largest Lightweight Material Market for Composites12.4 Plastics12.4.1 Bev is the Largest Lightweight Material Market for Plastics12.5 Elastomer12.5.1 Bus is the Largest Lightweight Material Market for Elastomers

13 Automotive Lightweight Vehicle Market, by Region13.1 Introduction13.2 Asia Oceania13.3 Europe13.4 North America13.5 Rest of the World (RoW)14 Recommendations14.1 Asia Oceania Will Be the Key Market for Lightweight Material Suppliers14.2 Composites Can Be a Key Focus for Lightweight Material Suppliers14.3 Conclusion

15 Adjacent Markets15.1 Adjacent & Related Markets15.1.1 Introduction15.2 Limitations15.3 Automotive Lightweight Material Ecosystem & Interconnected Markets15.4 Body in White Market15.4.1 Market Definition15.4.2 Market Overview15.4.3 Body in White Market, by Region15.5 Composites Market15.5.1 Market Definition15.5.2 Market Overview15.6 Composites Market, by Manufacturing Process and Region15.7 Composites Market15.8 Metal Casting Market15.8.1 Market Definition15.8.2 Market Overview15.8.3 Metal Casting Market15.9 Metal Forming Market15.9.1 Market Definition15.9.2 Market Overview15.9.3 Metal Forming Market

16 Competitive Landscape16.1 Overview16.2 Competitive Leadership Mapping16.2.1 Visionary Leaders16.2.2 Innovators16.2.3 Dynamic Differentiators16.2.4 Emerging Companies16.3 Competitive Leadership Mapping Matrix - Lightweight Material Suppliers16.4 Company-Wise Product Offering Analysis - Lightweight Material Suppliers16.5 Company-Wise Business Strategy Analysis - Lightweight Material Suppliers16.6 Competitive Leadership Mapping - Lightweight Component Manufacturers16.7 Company-Wise Product Offering Analysis - Lightweight Component Manufacturers16.8 Company-Wise Business Strategy Analysis - Lightweight Component Manufacturers16.9 Market Share Analysis16.10 Competitive Scenario16.10.1 New Product Developments16.10.2 Expansions16.10.3 Mergers & Acquisitions16.10.4 Partnerships/Agreements/Supply Contracts/ Collaborations/Joint Ventures

17 Company Profiles17.1 BASF SE17.2 Covestro AG17.3 Lyondellbasell Industries Holdings B.V.17.4 Toray Industries, Inc.17.5 Arcelormittal17.6 Thyssenkrupp AG17.7 Novelis, Inc.17.8 Alcoa Corporation17.9 Owens Corning17.10 Stratasys Ltd.17.11 Additional Companies17.11.1 Asia Oceania17.11.1.1 Tata Steel17.11.1.2 Posco17.11.2 Europe17.11.2.1 Sgl Carbon17.11.2.2 Lanxess17.11.2.3 Borealis AG17.11.3 North America17.11.3.1 Dowdupont17.11.3.2 Ak Steel Corporation17.11.3.3 U.S. Magnesium LLC17.11.3.4 Aleris Corporation17.11.4 RoW17.11.4.1 WHB Brasil

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Environmentalist talks nature, protection of species – GulfToday – Gulf Today

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Razan Al Mubarak tags and releases four endangered Green Turtles off Bu Tinah Island in Abu Dhabi.

Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

Though COVID-19 has wreaked havoc worldwide, a nature conservation advocate from Abu Dhabi has seen this catastrophe as an opportune time for something constructive and pragmatic, such as man reconnecting with and appreciating nature more than ever before.

Mohammed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (Species Conservation Fund) managing director Razan Al Mubarak also spoke on behalf of all the other nature conservation protagonists around the globe, particularly in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania.

The Species Conservation Fund is a philanthropic endowment by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces. It has been supporting them for the non-extinction of approximately 1,400 different species and sub-species, since 2009.

Al Mubarak was interviewed as Gulf Today received a copy of the results of the Species Conservation Fund April to May 2020 online survey to its 2018 to 2020 grant recipients. A total of 323 out of over 400 conservationists from 85 countries out of more than 90, stretching from Argentina to VietNam, completed the questionnaire.

Of the 323, 83 per cent or 268 claimed the pandemic had affected their critical fieldwork. Seventy per cent or 226 had their planned conservation activities postponed or cancelled.

As of July 20, 2020, the Species Conservation Fund had allocated $20,005,439.00 to 2,152 conservation projects in 160 states: $5,915,410.00 (Africa), $6,353,721.00 (Asia), $1,102,477.00 (Europe), $2,429,055.00 (North America), $3,075,126.00 (South America), and $1,121,550.00 (Oceania). The budget for amphibians ($1,695,490.00), birds ($3,150,085.00), fish ($1,411,875.00), fungi ($441,850.00), invertebrates ($1,200,195.00), mammals ($7,588,396.00), plants ($2,048,607.00), and reptiles ($2,468,941.00).

Al Mubarak said: We are conservation optimists. We believe strongly in the power of people to make a positive impact in the world. Many of our survey respondents were hopeful that the pandemic might reduce the threats to species and improve their habitats. We have also witnessed improvements in air quality and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. We know that conservation works and we can see from the effects of the pandemic that change is possible.

We just need to make certain that we work together to ensure that as society recovers from the pandemic, so does nature, she also said.

From the survey, Al Mubarak came up with a nature recovery plan, akin to all the local-national-regional-international strategies geared towards economic stimulus packages. These are investments in protected areas, national parks, conservation and multinational organisations like the International Union for Conservation of Nature that bring people, communities, nations and regions together to apply sound science and policy for the improvement of our natural world.

Al Mubarak was asked of her take on the man-COVID19-nature-environment interrelationship; for, at the June 5 World Environment Day 2020, United Nations Environment Programme executive director Inger Andersen spoke about the quad interconnection, pointing out that this critical period is a time for reflection.

Al Mubarak mentioned of the wanton destruction of the natural world, that whatever happens anywhere has a consequence to everyone one way or the other, without the need for erudite scientific explanation.

She said: Half of the worlds population now lives in cities and wildlife is rarely observed. We are reminded that we are neither custodians nor masters of nature. We are but a humble part of it.

Moreover on stewardship, Al Mubarak added: Whatever inspires us individually, what is clear now is that we have yet to succeed in highlighting the critical link between nature and our health. Perhaps, it is only now that we are experiencing the magnitude of this connection. The origin of this pandemic and the ensuing socio-economic crisis is ultimately an ecological one.

Al Mubarak suggested: Consume less. Walk more. Go meatless Monday or vegan Thursday because livestock emission is one of the worlds greatest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The UAE has a lot of opportunities for man to reconnect with nature. I urge you take these.

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Genova Industrie Navali Reports a Strong Year of Growth – Cruise Industry News

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Genova Industrie Navali (GIN), a holding company overseeing the T. Mariotti and San Giorgio del Porto shipyards, reported what it called a strong year of growth in 2019.

The year saw 211 million euro in production as the group unveiled a consolidated approach under the GIN brand with a new logo.

GIN is able to operate in the shipbuilding and mega yachts segment, from construction to repair and refitting, from conversions to ship recycling and with facilities in Marseilles, Genoa andPiombino

2019 saw 190 projects completed and about 80 ships repaired and built in a year, while staff numbers increased by 10 percent.

"The new logo is a tribute to the Group's companies and to the employees," said Ferdinando Garr, CEO of GIN and of San Giorgio del Porto. "In recent years, our partnership has enabled us to face together with success the challenges of the market with cohesion, as demonstrated by 2019 results; giving to the holding its own visual identity proves our pride and confidence in the future."

Newbuildings includethe construction of the new ferry for RFI (Italian railway network) which will be used for connections across the Strait of Messina which is in progress.

There are also two expedition class vessels for Seabourn, starting wtih the Seabourn Venture, commissioned to Mariotti shipyard. The engines and part of the equipment have been fitted on board, the hull construction and internal outfitting work is proceeding at full capacity while, in Genoa, superstructures work is in progress.

San Giorgio del Porto is currently refurbishing four vessels belonging to Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, together with Chantier Naval de Marseille shipyard. These include the Oceania Nautica, Regent Seven Seas navigator, as well as the Norwegian Breakaway and Getaway, the latter two saw large bridge and stateroom refits, the installations of scrubbers and new propellers. Other scheduled drydocks from Norwegian include the Epic, Star and Dawn, as well as more Regent and Oceania ships.

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2020 Comic-Con at Home: How to watch panels and events, what to expect – Tom’s Guide

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Nerds of the world! 2020 Comic-Con at Home is starting today and lasting through the weekend. So, you can watch Comic-Con at Home's movie and TV panels for free! and get the inside scoop about everything from The Walking Dead to Bill & Ted Face the Music straight from the stars and creators.

Stay tuned for updates from the panels and other events through the weekend.

Big news is already filtering out from the panels:

- The Walking Dead: World Beyond trailer provides the first look at the newest entry in the zombie franchise.

- The first trailer for HBO's His Dark Materials season 2 and the casting of Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Andrew Scott's daemon.Fleabag reunion!

- The opening scene of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the upcoming animated comedy from CBS All-Access.

2020 Comic-Con at Home is pared down from previous, in-person conventions. Marvel and DC won't have major presences, and there aren't any blockbuster movie panels lined up. But there will still be panels from fan fave TV shows like Star Trek: Picard and Discovery, The Simpsons, What We Do in the Shadows and Wynonna Earp. Movie panels include The New Mutants and a Q&A with Charlize Theron about her badass action career (and maybe she'll have news about The Old Guard 2).

Here's everything you need to know about 2020 Comic-Con at Home and how to watch the panels.

Comic-Con at Home starts at 12 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 22 with the debut of the Online Exhibit Hall featuring about 700 exhibitors.

Then, panels will take place Thursday through Sunday, July 23-26. Get the full schedule at the official Comic-Con@Home website.

Fans can watch all of the panels and events on the Comic-Con YouTube channel. or on the official Comic-Con@Home website.

2020 Comic-Con at House has a robust daily lineup on each of the four days. There are panels with comic creators, artists, journalists, publishers, experts and more.

We've compiled a list of TV and movie panel highlights that you should make sure not to miss.

Star Trek Universe (1 p.m. ET)

The cast and crew of Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks gather to boldly go where no one has gone before at Comic-Con: a virtual video panel. The Discovery crew will do a table read of the season 2 finale, while Patrick Stewart and the Picard gang discusses the acclaimed first season. Plus, get an exclusive extended first look from the premiere episode of Lower Decks.

Solar Opposites (2 p.m. ET)

Hulu's recent animated comedy is about four aliens who crash land on Earth and adjust to life in suburbia. The executive producers and voice cast will hold a discussion and present an exclusive clip from the upcoming second season.

Truth Seekers (3 p.m. ET)

Amazon's new supernatural horror comedy comes from Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz), James Serafinowicz (Sick Note), and Nat Saunders (Sick Note).They'll preview the eight-episode series about a team of part-time paranormal investigators who team up to uncover and film ghost sightings across the UK.

Utopia (4 p.m. ET)

Another new series from Amazon, Utopia is an eight-episode thriller about a group of young comic fans who discover the conspiracy in a graphic novel is real, and embark on a high-stakes adventure to save humanity from the end of the world. The panel features writer/executive producerGillian Flynn(Gone Girl) and series starsJohn Cusack(High Fidelity),Rainn Wilson(The Office),Sasha Lane(American Honey),Ashleigh LaThrop(Fifty Shades Freed),Dan Byrd(Cougar Town),Desmin Borges(You're The Worst),Javon "Wanna" Walton(Euphoria), andJessica Rothe(Happy Death Day).

His Dark Materials (4 p.m. ET)

Executive producersJane TranterandJack Thorne,as well as cast membersDafne Keen(Lyra),Ruth Wilson(Mrs. Coulter),Ariyon Bakare(Lord Boreal),Amir Wilson(Will Parry),Andrew Scott(John Parry), andLin-Manuel Miranda(Lee Scoresby) participate in a virtual panel discussion about the fantasy drama adapted from Philip Pullman's popular novels.

The New Mutants (5 p.m. ET)

This long-in-the-works X-Men horror spinoff looks like it's finally (probably?) seeing the light of day. Writer/Director Josh Boone and cast members Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, and Henry Zaga discuss the upcoming original horror-thriller

Upload (5 p.m. ET)

Creator, executive producer and director Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation) and stars Robbie Amell (Code 8), Andy Allo (Pitch Perfect 3), Kevin Bigley (Undone), Allegra Edwards (New Girl), and Zainab Johnson (American Koko) discuss how they brought this futuristic afterlife comedy to life. Plus, they'll tease what fans can expect in season two.

The Boys (6 p.m. ET)

The Boys season 2 is flying onto Amazon in early September, and fans can get an early look at what to expect from executive producer Eric Kripke and series stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara and Aya Cash.

Superstore (6 p.m. ET)

The underrated NBC comedy will be back for season 6 sometime soon, so celebrate the show with cast members Ben Feldman, Mark McKinney, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nico Santos, Nichole Sakura, and Kaliko Kauahi as well as showrunners Gabe Miller and Jonathan Green.

Charlize Theron: Evolution of a Badass An Action Hero Career Retrospective (1 p.m. ET)

Actress and producer Charlize Theron reflects on portraying over two decades of action heroes, from Aeon Flux to The Old Guards Andromache, Mad Max: Fury Roads Furiosa to Atomic Blondes Lorraine Broughton.

HBO Max and Cartoon Network Studios: Adventure Time: Distant Lands (2 p.m. ET)

The four Adventure Time Distant Lands specials explore the unseen corners of the world with both familiar and exciting brand-new characters.The BMO special crew takes fans behind the scenes. Plus, stick around for a sneak peek of the second special, Obsidian.

Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing (2 p.m. ET)

Marvel editor-in-chiefC.B. Cebulskibreaks down all the latest and greatest coming from the House of Ideas with some of Marvel's most epic creators. Get the scoop about the latest X-Men crossover event, the landmarkAmazing Spider-Man #850 and the return of the classic Marvel character, Werewolf by Night.

Vikings: Celebrating 6 Seasons of the Series (2 p.m. ET)

Michael Hirst, Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Alex Ludwig, Clive Standen, and Jordan Patrick Smith will discuss their favorite moments from the past six and a half seasons, favorite fan interactions, and what makes Vikings so extraordinary.

LucasFilm Publishing: Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away (3 p.m. ET)

Some of the biggest and best Star Wars authors talk about some of their exciting new projects set in a galaxy far, far away. FeaturingTimothy Zahn, Alex Segura, Justina Ireland, George Mann, Preeti Chhibber, Tom Angleberger, Rebecca Roanhorse, Greg Pak,andAlyssa Wong.

AMCs Fear the Walking Dead (3 p.m. ET)

Moderated by Chris Hardwick, the panel will preview the upcoming sixth season and feature Walking Dead Universe chief content officer Scott M. Gimple, showrunners and executive producers Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, and cast members Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo, Danay Garcia, Karen David, Jenna Elfman and Rubn Blades.

AMC's The Walking Dead (4 p.m. ET)

The Walking Dead will make its 11th San Diego Comic-Con appearance with a panel spotlighting A Certain Doom, which will air as a standalone episode later this year. In the episode, Beta engages the final battle of the Whisperer War. Panelists include showrunner Angela Kang, executive producer and director Greg Nicotero and cast members Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Josh McDermitt, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, and Paola Lazaro.

AMCs The Walking Dead: World Beyond (5 p.m. ET)

The Walking Dead: World Beyond makes its Comic-Con International debut as the third series in wildly successful The Walking Dead Universe.The show delves into a new mythology and story that follows the first generation raised in a surviving civilization of the post-apocalyptic world. The panelists include showrunner and executive producer Matt Negrete and cast members Aliyah Royale, Alexa Mansour, Hal Cumpston, Nicholas Cantu, Nico Tortorella, Julia Ormond, and Joe Holt.

First Look at Hulus Helstrom (6 p.m. ET)

Talk about some family drama! Join Helstrom showrunner Paul Zbyszewski and castTom Austen, Sydney Lemmon, Elizabeth Marvel, Robert Wisdom, Ariana Guerra, June Carryl, and Alain Uyfor one hell of a sneak-peek look and conversation around bringing this terror-filled comic to life as Hulus next horror series.

HBO Max: Adult Animation Panel (6 p.m. ET)

Show creators of Robot Chicken, Samurai Jack, Genndy Tartakovskys Primal, Black Dynamite, Lazor Wulf, and Final Space share their favorite San Diego Comic-Con memories.

Peacock Original Series: The Capture (6 p.m. ET)

With the emergence of video surveillance and facial recognition, The Capture unveils a troubling world of fake news and the extraordinary power of intelligence services. To celebrate its recent premiere on Peacock, the cast and creators will come together to discuss what could happen when seeing is deceiving and technological capabilities are abused.

Bobs Burgers (7 p.m. ET)

Fans won't want to miss creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard sharing news about the upcoming season. Plus, they can send in questions to the always entertaining cast including H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Dan Mintz, and Larry Murphy.

Archer @Home (8 p.m. ET)

Watch voice cast members Aisha Tyler, Chris Parnell, Judy Greer, Amber Nash, and Lucky Yates, plus executive producer Casey Willis reveal not-to-be-missed details about the new season of Archer.

The Simpsons @ Home (2 p.m. ET)

Find out how the show has surmounted social distancing and turbulent times en route to Season 32 from panelists Al Jean, Matt Selman, David Silverman, Carolyn Omine, Mike B. Anderson and moderator Yeardley Smith.

Constantine: 15th Anniversary Reunion (3 p.m. ET)

Keanu Reeves, director Francis Lawrence, and producer Akiva Goldsman reunite to reflect on the making of the 2005 DC Comics adaptation.

Blast Off with Disney+s The Right Stuff (4 p.m. ET)

Get an exclusive first look at The Right Stuff, the first scripted Disney+ original series from National Geographic. The series takes a clear-eyed look at the early days of the U.S. space program.

For All Mankind (5 p.m. ET)

Cast members Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Wrenn Schmidt, Sonya Walger, and Krys Marshall gather for a thoughtful conversation looking back on season one of the Apple TV+ drama. And there will be an exclusive first look at season 2.

Peacock Original Series: Brave New World (6 p.m. ET)

The cast and crew gather to discuss the adaptation of Aldous Huxley's seminal novel. Join creator and showrunner David Wiener and cast members Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Hannah John-Kamen, Nina Sosanya, Kylie Bunbury and Joseph Morgan for an in-depth look at the making of the series.

Bill & Ted Face the Music (6 p.m. ET)

Party on, dudes ... virtually! Cast members Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, William Sadler, director Dean Parisot alongside writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson gather for a lively panel moderated by filmmaker and fan Kevin Smith.

HBOs Lovecraft Country (7 p.m. ET)

Get an early look at the upcoming drama inspired by an H.P. Lovecraft novel.In 1950s Jim Crow America, a trio of friends overcome racist terrors and terrifying monsters. The panel features cast members Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors, Michael Kenneth Williams, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Abbey Lee, and Courtney B. Vance.

SYFY: Wynonna Earp (8 p.m. ET)

The supernatural Western is finally back on Syfy this Sunday, July 26. Join showrunner Emily Andras alongside cast members Melanie Scrofano, Tim Rozon, Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Katherine Barrell, and Varun Saranga as they talk about the highly anticipated 4th season, show off their best impressions, challenge each other with a round of trivia. and share a sneak peek of the season 4 premiere episode.

What We Do In The Shadows (8 p.m. ET)

The mockumentary comedy follows four vampires and their loyal familiar who, in a surprising twist, is a descendant of famed vampire slayer Van Helsing. Join the sharp-toothed cast Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Kayvan Novak, Mark Proksch, and Harvey Guilln and the creative team for a spirited discussion hosted by special guest, Haley Joel Osment.

An Evening With Kevin Smith (9 p.m. ET)

Kevin Smith talks Son-In-Lockdown, unveils a new Funko Pop, and drops the first look at his new film Killroy Was Here.

Farscape ... To Be Continued (9 p.m. ET)

Farscapeis now on Amazon Prime and there has been talk of its return. JoinFarscapecast members in celebration of this epic sci-fi series

Hoops (1 p.m. ET)

Netflix's new adult animated series follows a foul-mouthed high school basketball coach. Get the scoop from voice stars Jake Johnson, Rob Riggle, Ron Funches, Natasha Leggero, Cleo King, and A.D. Miles, as well as creator and executive producer Ben Hoffman and moderator/ guest voice star Max Greenfield.

Next (2 p.m. ET)

Fox's new fall drama presents the thrilling opening scene of the propulsive, fact-based thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence.

The 100 Special Video Presentation & Q&A ( 3 p.m. ET)

Find out whats in store for the final season of The CW's apocalyptic drama and how their journey may end. The panel includes series stars Marie Avgeropoulos, Lindsey Morgan, Richard Harmon, Tasya Teles, Shannon Kook, JR Bourne, Shelby Flannery, and creator/executive producer Jason Rothenberg for their final Comic-Con appearance.

A Conversation with Nathan Fillion (5 p.m. ET)

Showrunner Alexi Hawley (The Rookie) talks with Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle, The Rookie) about his career in film and television. With special appearances by Joss Whedon, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Mekia Cox, Molly Quinn, Seamus Dever, and Jon Huertas.

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How Robots Are Used to Improve Structural Health and Design – Robotics Tomorrow

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Increasingly robots help maintain the structural health and integrity of our buildings and infrastructure, inspecting and repairing bridges, dams, skyscrapers, you name it, in order to keep people safe and make the world more efficient.

How Robots Are Used to Improve Structural Health and Design

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Robotics is being utilized by every industry to improve lives and business processes, but what about the world outside factories and offices? Increasingly robots help maintain the structural health and integrity of our buildings and infrastructure, inspecting and repairing bridges, dams, skyscrapers, you name it, in order to keep people safe and make the world more efficient.

Robotics fills needs where human labor is dangerous, hard to come by, or expensive, and in many ways, this is making the world safer for all of us. Through their ability to go where humans cannot and manage predictive maintenance, robots are giving humans hope for a better, safer tomorrow.

But you may be asking yourself, why robots? How can a robot improve structural health?

Inspecting the structural integrity of a building or resource is not always easy. Whenever that structure has foundations underwater or is of a size and scale that makes human navigation difficult, conducting an inspection of the structure is difficult at best and life-threatening at worst.

Take, for example, the piers and bridges pf Manhattan. In order to make inspections of them safer, there are AI-powered robots being built by researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology. These robots are being programmed with reinforcement learning, a form of AI that learns from repeated data sets in order to adjust to the rapidly changing environment beneath the sea and conduct thorough inspections and maintenance of US bridges, piers, pipelines, and dams. As our infrastructure begins to fail, this technology will be vital to maintaining a functioning economy.

Underwater infrastructure is another vital component of the nation that is commonly at risk. In the hard-battered environment of the sea, structures can quickly lose integrity. The worst part is, inspection of these structures is exceedingly difficult and expensive. For divers to reach depths often needed to conduct complete inspections of this infrastructure, they often have to place their lives at risk. It can take weeks for a diver to recover from reaching a dangerous depth.

Similarly, buildings that rise high off the ground or mines that delve beneath the earth make for dangerous environments that humans cannot easily access. Predictive maintenance models can assist inspectors in finding problems, but robots can do even more.

From tracking down structural damage to building extensive models for improvement, robotics is the next wave of structural health and design.

Everywhere that a structural environment poses a risk to human life, robots are being built and programmed for exploration and inspection. From nuclear plants to the deep sea, these bots can improve structural health by finding damages, leaks, and problems that humans would never be able to find.

The potential of what robotics can offer structural health and design is limitless, but here are a few of the benefits we are already seeing:

PRENAVs precision drone system, for example, uses fully automated drones to explore and record the entirety of a structure regardless of its height. Then, using included 3D-modeling software, a complete model of the structure can be recreated and analyzed safely by humans for improved design or any structural faults. This method saves companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in inspection costs alone, not to mention the costs that might occur due to unseen damages.

Additionally, this method saves money. While manual inspections of a large facility can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, the PRENAV system is only $20,000.

Meanwhile, underwater robots are conducting maintenance and examining structures for improvements. In one instance, fisheries specialist Tom Carlson designed a robotic swimmer to determine where salmon were being injured against a dam. This system allowed the dams engineers to improve the design, keeping the mortality rate of the fish down and reducing damage to the ecosystem. Similar robots like those designed by NASA can inspect for leaks and damages, and are invaluable alongside other monitoring tools like weir boxes.

By going where humans cannot go easily, robotics is changing the face of structural safety and design. Robots enable a complete picture and analytic data needed to recommend improvements to the way we build, whether we are building underwater or high above it. Structural engineers can then more accurately plan for, predict, and stave off disasters that would otherwise threaten human life.

Robotics like drones and autonomous swimmers can enhance the potential of structural design and safety. With the kind of data and feedback gathered from these invaluable resources, better buildings and resources can be created that stand up to time and the weathering of the elements, be it air or ocean.

With AI-powered robots using combinations of video monitoring, sonar, and motion-sensing software, robotics can help to save millions of dollars and plenty of human lives in the upkeep of our infrastructure. Better inspections, more data, and reduced costs mean a safer future with the power of robotics.

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Autonomous and robotics technology has been undergoing major technological growth in recent years. This novel technology is playing a crucial role in the transformation of many key industries such as automotive, aerospace, warehouse, and logistics. With the advent of Industry 4.0 and smart factories, all industries across the spectrum are adopting advanced robotic automation solutions for varied applications according to industry requirements.

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Trusted Business Insights presents an updated and Latest Study on Industrial Robotics Market 2019-2029. The report contains market predictions related to market size, revenue, production, CAGR, Consumption, gross margin, price, and other substantial factors. While emphasizing the key driving and restraining forces for this market, the report also offers a complete study of the future trends and developments of the market.The report further elaborates on the micro and macroeconomic aspects including the socio-political landscape that is anticipated to shape the demand of the Industrial Robotics market during the forecast period (2019-2029).It also examines the role of the leading market players involved in the industry including their corporate overview, financial summary, and SWOT analysis.

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The report covers forecast and analysis for the industrial robotics market on a global and regional level. The study provides historical data from 2015 to 2017 along with a forecast from 2018 to 2024 based on revenue (USD Billion). The study includes drivers and restraints for the industrial robotics market along with the impact they have on the demand over the forecast period. Additionally, the report includes the study of opportunities available in the industrial robotics market on a global level.

In order to give the users of this report a comprehensive view on the industrial robotics market, we have included competitive landscape and analysis of Porters Five Forces model for the market. The study encompasses a market attractiveness analysis, wherein type segment, application segment, and end-user industry segments are benchmarked based on their market size, growth rate, and general attractiveness.

The report provides company market share analysis in order to give a broader overview of the key players in the market. In addition, the report also covers key strategic developments of the market including acquisitions & mergers, new technology launches, agreements, partnerships, collaborations & joint ventures, research & development, technology, and regional expansion of major participants involved in the market on the global and regional basis. Moreover, the study covers price trend analysis and type portfolio of various companies according to the region.

The study provides a decisive view on the industrial robotics market by segmenting the market based on type, application, and regions. All the segments have been analyzed based on present and the future trends and the market is estimated from 2018 to 2024. The regional segmentation includes the historic and forecast demand for North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa. This segmentation includes demand for industrial robotics market based on all segments in all the regions and countries.

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When employees at the 3D bioprinting company Cellink went back to the office Monday after nearly five months, they were required to clip a small piece of Bluetooth technology onto their clothes before walking through the offices front doors.

The devices, made by the Austrian company Safedi, are intended to make sure people are socially distancing in the office. A green light shines when people are at least six feet apart.

A red light flashes and the device emits a noise when people get too close.

Safedi has already shown its value in just one day, especially when it's time for those coffee breaks, Cellink CEO Erik Gatenholm said.

The devices are one example of the varied and sometimes bizarre tech-infused solutions businesses are using in an effort to get their employees back to work and offer their customers a safe environment amid the ongoing outbreaks of the coronavirus in the United States and in various parts of the world.

As some technologists have worked to create state-of-the-art contact tracing systems, others have embraced existing technologies to make simple solutions to the everyday questions that businesses now face, such as how many people can be in a building at any given time?

And some other technologies that have failed to catch on more broadly such as QR codes and robotics are starting to become more common, as well.

That has led some companies to move to take advantage of the new needs of many businesses.

When Dublin issued a shutdown order, Conall Laverty, founder and CEO of cloud platform Wia, saw an opportunity to pivot to hardware. Laverty and his team built a sensor during the pandemic that companies can pair with a remote cloud-computing platform to anonymously count and regulate the flow of people in and out of a place of business, even regulating the number of people in hallways and bathrooms at any given time.

Its already in high demand. The company, which is based in the Irish capital, recently signed a deal with BigDish, a U.K. restaurant technology company, to roll out its product, called DFS-1, in more than 650 restaurants. Last week, Wia also installed one of its earliest orders at the landmark Jameson Distillery Bow St. in Dublin.

"This is a big transition for us, Laverty said. We originally started Wia to help engineers easily build Internet of Things devices, but now have evolved the business to provide state-of-the-art sensor technologies to some of the biggest names in the world.

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While maintaining social distance is a crucial part of coronavirus mitigation efforts, businesses are also working on making sure their facilities are routinely disinfected. That's provided an opportunity for robotics to take on new tasks.

When stay-at-home orders were issued at the start of March, DCL Logistics, a fulfillment company in Fremont, California, that ships online orders for brands such as thermometer maker Kinsa and cereal company Magic Spoon, saw a 30 percent surge in business.

Under normal circumstances, DCL would have hired people, chief revenue officer Brian Tu told Reuters, but keeping existing employees safe and socially distanced in their California fulfillment centers required a different fix.

Instead, they added to their fleet of robots with cobots, collaborative robots, according to a blog post from Tu. The robots are made by Universal Robots, a company based in Odense, Denmark. and have been used to help pick and pack orders. Each fulfillment line used to require five workers, he said. With the robots, it now takes two. DCL plans to bring in more robotic help at its facilities in California and Kentucky this year.

FarmWise, a San Francisco company that makes robots to help with farming tasks, from picking weeds to harvesting vegetables, said it has seen an increase in interest from farmers in California and Arizona seeking to bring on robotic helpers to assist scaled-down crews of employees.

The biggest factor here is the state of mind farmers are put into and how difficult it is to maintain their production level with this crisis, FarmWise CEO Sebastien Boyer said.

Robots have already been mixing coffees and smoothies at kiosks for years, but with more of them in the kitchen, employees would have time to thoroughly disinfect restaurant tables and bathrooms.

Fast-food giant White Castle plans to test a robotic arm called Flippy that will be tested as the new burger flipper and fry cook at some of its restaurants. The burger chain had been in talks with Miso Robotics, based in Pasadena, California, about Flippy before the pandemic, but the virus made the need to shift human resources to disinfecting tasks even more urgent.

Robots are also doing more cleaning. FabLab Bahrain, based in Manama, created an autonomous cleaning robot that emits UV light to kill the coronavirus as did the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Manufacturers of cleaning-focused robots have enjoyed a spike in sales.

While robots are helping humanity find its new normal during the pandemic, the key will be collaboration, Karen Panetta, dean of graduate education at Tufts Universitys School of Engineering, said.

Robots need humans to operate or maintain them. In some cases, they also arent a complete substitute for humans.

When it comes to cleaning and disinfecting, robots perform well in uniform spaces, such as open floors, but are challenged by objects and constrained spaces, Panettta, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow, said.

The unique challenges that were currently facing require more innovative and integrative systems that require human-machine cooperation to make progress," she added.

Some companies, most notably restaurants, are embracing an even older piece of technology as part of their reopening plans: QR codes.

The codes, which were invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave to help track vehicles during the manufacturing process and resemble a square version of a bar code, never really caught on with the general public despite the proliferation of smartphones that can easily read them with cameras.

But the codes are providing a simple way for restaurants to provide their menus in a digital fashion, avoiding the risk of physical, coronavirus-laden paper.

In some cases, restaurants are even asking customers to order and pay using the restaurants unique code.

At the Frying Pan, a popular Manhattan boat bar, special QR codes are on each table. Customers are instructed to scan the codes, order and pay, instead of walking up to the bar and ordering. At Tuna Bar, a Philadelphia sushi restaurant, owner and chef Kenneth Sze said hes using QR codes for his menus, giving the restaurant one less item to sanitize.

The QR codes are very efficient since we can update the menu as we need, he said Since the restaurant isnt at full capacity, our menu is limited to keep things fresh.

However, Sze said hes hesitant about going all-in on technology and making the dining experience at his restaurant even more contactless. He wants to see how the next few months go before he makes a decision.

Im used to a waiter approaching you and giving full service. I know thats kind of changing, but Im old school, he said. Im hesitant of fully committing because I want that service.

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This week, an article on SFGate posed the question: Is the rise of restaurant robots here? Anyone who has been keeping up with The Takeouts robot beat knows that the answer is yes. San Franciscans are, in fact, largely responsible for the genesis and incubation of many of our future overlords, so you would think theyd know this already. But just as humanity has disrupted the world of technology, so shall the technology turn around to disrupt us.

The robot that caught the attention of SFGate is Kiwibot, the robot food delivery startup behind all the four-wheeled, doe-eyed coolers that have been zipping around college campuses like UC Berkeley for the past three years. As the pandemic rages on, the rather adorable robotswhich many people have foolishly assumed would be nothing more than a noveltyhave at last come into their own. So many restaurants and institutions have expressed interest in using delivery robots that the company has begun to expand, and Kiwibot will be hitting the streets of San Jose next Tuesday.

As we all know, the COVID-19 situation in California is, well, not good. By replacing humans with robots for contactless food delivery, restaurants are ostensibly able to provide their customers some peace of mind. SFGate spoke with Jerry Wang, who opened the Paper Moon Coffee Co. in San Jose the day before San Franciscos shelter-in-place order started. To save his one-day-old business, Wang reached out to Kiwibot about a potential partnership.

Im always looking at how I can establish a store in this kind of environment, realizing that we have to do more delivery services, a contact-free set-up, and maintain cleaning standards, said Wang. From there, that led us to the path of Kiwibot.

And Kiwibot is not the only robot delivery service in town. SFGate also reached out to Starship Technologies, which commented that demand for its self-driving robots has tripled over the past year. But just because the demand is there doesnt mean the robots are fully ready to eliminate the humans (yet). Kiwibots delivery radius is only one mile, while Starships is three to four.

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Robots also make great financial sense for restaurants: third-party delivery services like Grubhub, DoorDash, and UberEats normally take a 20-40% commission on all restaurant deliveries, which is untenable in an industry with ridiculously low profit margins (even before real estate prices in San Francisco went off the rails, margins were less than 5%). The companies behind delivery robots, on the other hand, charge only a small flat fee, which allows restaurants to keep their profits. Currently Kiwibot charges $3.99 per delivery, and the company says that as it gets more robots on the streets, those prices will go down.

Currently its difficult to get permits to operate the robots on city sidewalks, particularly in San Franciscothis might be because some very smart people in municipal government understand the existential threat posed by a fleet of intelligent machines. In 2017 there was a proposed robot ban, based on concerns that they would ram into people on sidewalks, possibly endangering seniors, children, people with disabilities, and anyone who is looking at their phone instead of scanning the area for robots. The city eventually settled on a compromise, allowing companies to have only three robots apiece, with no more than nine delivery robots deployed across the city at any given time.

(Of course, lawmakers failed to account for the fact that the robots have spent the past several years indoctrinating college students, ushering in a new age of robot acceptance among Gen Z, lying in wait until the day they can plow into our shins at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour. When all of humanity is stuck inside nursing injuries, we shall then be fully dependent on the robots to bring us basic supplies like painkillers and burritos, and they will have won.)

SFGate noted that robots have not only infiltrated restaurant deliverya fact we know all too well. Another Silicon Valley company called Bear Robotics has been manufacturing robotic food runners, which it claims is making restaurant workers jobs easier during a period when many restaurants are understaffed, rather than taking their jobs away.

For us, the pandemic has really fast-tracked our goal to get robots out into the market, said Juan Higueros, chief operating officer at Bear Robotics. This [pandemic] will continue on for some time, so were one of a few automation solutions that the restaurant industry is considering. Its a big shift for a huge industry, and now is the time to get that going. Where some people thought that would happen a couple of years out, now it has to happen now.

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MIT just took the tech world a step closer to making domestic robot helpers a reality! Details – The Financial Express

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Robot helpers: MIT researchers to make robots perceive human-like physical environments! While the work of people has been made easy with the help of purpose-specific Roombas, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are looking to make robots that can provide overall assistance like helping in household chores based on high-level, Alexa-like commands. They are envisioning robots that can follow commands like, Go to the kitchen and fetch me a cup of coffee. For that, the team of researchers believe that the robot would have to perceive the physical environment like humans do.

In a statement, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics assistant professor Luca Carlone said that in order to carry out any task or to take any decision, a mental image of ones environment is necessary. He added that while the task was effortless for humans, for robots, it entailed a painful problem of transforming the pixel values of what the bots see through their cameras into an understanding of what the world is like.

In order to find a solution to this problem, Carlone, along with his students, has developed a representation of the perception of the physical environment for robots. This representation has been modeled after the way humans perceive their surroundings and navigate around them.

The model, called 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs, has been designed to allow the robots to quickly develop a 3D map of their surroundings. This map would include the people, walls, rooms, objects and their semantic labels, like a chair versus a table, as well as any other structures which the robots could likely be seeing in their environment. With the help of this model, the robot would be able to extract information from the map, in order to understand where the rooms and objects are, and also to perceive the movement of people in its path.

Carlone said that the compressed representation is important because it allows the robot to make quick decisions and also plan its path. It is not much different from what humans do, he added.

He further said that while these robots would become great domestic helpers, robots running on such a model would also be suitable for other high-level jobs like working with people on the factory floor and scouting a disaster site for any survivors.

Till now, the vision and navigation advancement of robots has been undertaken along two routes. The 3D mapping of robots allows them to reconstruct their surroundings in three dimensions as they explore the environment in real time, while the robots so far understood the semantic segmentation to distinguish between various objects and their differences, like a car as against a bicycle, in 2D images.

According to MIT, the model developed by Carlone and MIT graduate student and lead author of the study Antoni Rosinol is the first to generate the robots environment in real-time in 3D, while at the same time labelling objects, structures and people, both dynamic and stationary, within that 3D map itself.

A major component of the new model is an open-source library called Kimera, which had been earlier developed by the team to make a 3D geometric model of the environment, while simultaneously encoding the likelihood of an object being a chair versus a table, for example. Carlone said that the team wanted Kimera to be a mix of mapping as well as semantic understanding in 3D.

So how does Kimera work, you ask? Kimera works completely in real-time, relying on the streams of images captured by the robots camera and the inertial movements caught by the onboard sensors. Using this data, Kimera estimates the trajectory of the robot or the camera, while at the same time reconstructing the scene in a 3D mesh.

The semantic 3D mesh is generated by Kimera using an existing neural network which has already been trained with the help of millions of real-world images. With the help of this network, Kimera predicts the label of each pixel, and then these labels are projected in 3D with the help of ray-casting, which is commonly used in computer graphics.

As a result, the robot has a 3D map of its surroundings, where each face has been colour-coded as part of objects, structures, or people.

According to MIT, if robots were to work on such a mesh alone to navigate in its environment, it would be time consuming as well as computationally expensive. In order to solve this problem, Carlone and his team built off of Kimera, and developed an algorithm to convert Kimeras dense mesh into dynamic 3D scene graphs, which are popular computer graphics typically used in video game engines for 3D environments.

The algorithms would break down Kimeras mesh into distinct 3D semantic layers, so that the robot is able to visually perceive through a particular layer or lens. The layers are progressive in hierarchy, going from objects and people, to open spaces and structures like walls and ceilings, to rooms, corridors, and halls, and ultimately, entire buildings.

According to Carlone, with this layered representation, the robots would not have to make sense of the millions of points and faces in the original mesh. In these layers, the team has also managed to develop algorithms that would make it easier for robots to perceive human shapes and their movements in the real-time environment.

The new model was tested in a photo-realistic simulator that simulated a robot in a dynamic office environment which was filled with moving people.

Carlone said that his team was essentially allowing robots to have similar mental models as humans, which would impact several applications like self-driving cars, collaborative manufacturing, domestic robotics as well as search and rescue.

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Technology has always been an important facet of business, and thats true now more than ever. The home inspection industry is adapting to the new circumstances surrounding inspections. From virtual walkthroughs to online scheduling, cloud-based software and mobile apps, technology has benefited the home inspection industry tremendously.

Virtual WalkthroughsHome inspection companies are navigating the world of virtual inspections through Google Duo and FaceTime. So how does this work, exactly? Inspectors can simply record themselves as theyre completing the inspection so that the client can view it in real-time. Inspectors can choose to pre-record messages or video chat with multiple individualssuch as the buyer, the seller, their families and a team of inspectorssimultaneously. This is helpful when the client doesnt feel comfortable attending the home inspection. Just because inspections arent being done traditionally, it doesnt mean they have to stop altogether.

Online Scheduling and Cloud-Based SoftwareHome inspectors, including those working at HomeTeam, are also relying on online scheduling to book many of their appointments. This is a convenient way for clients to schedule their inspection without having to leave their house or pick up the phone. The client will fill out a form with their preferred date and time of inspection, provide contact information, and share their address and any important information about their property. Cloud-based software is also used by HomeTeams inspectors to collaborate during the inspection, thus performing the inspection in half the time!

Mobile App for AgentsHomeTeam utilizes technology like the personalized My HomeTeam Dashboard, which lets agents view completed home inspections, create repair-request lists, follow up with contacts and schedule appointments for clients. This can all be done via smartphone or tablet, making it easier for agents to monitor their clients reports and other data on-the-go. Other features within the dashboard allow agents to text, call or email HomeTeam with the push of a button. Keeping track of client information on the My HomeTeam Dashboard is a great way to stay organized.

Technology is always changing, which is beneficial when it comes to creating new solutions to problems. HomeTeam uses the latest and most efficient technologies to provide great service to their clients. As the home inspection industry shifts, inspectors will too.

Buddy Stark is director of Operations at HomeTeam Inspection Service. For more information, please visit http://www.hometeam.com.

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Dow honored with two illustrious wins at the 2020 Ringier Technology Innovation Awards – Yahoo Finance

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New COF Stable Resin and Olefin Block Copolymer solutions commended for being cutting-edge and sustainable

SHANGHAI, July 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow (NYSE:DOW) has been presented with two notable awards in the Plastics Raw Materials & Additives and Rubber/Elastomer Materials and Additives categories at the 2020 Ringier Plastics Technology Innovation Awards. The new Co-efficient of Friction (COF) Stable Resin and Integrated Foam Tire based on Olefin Block Copolymer (OBC) were recognized in each product category respectively, among several innovations, for their unique solutions.

Both award-winning products were honored for improving the usage experience. The COF Stable Resin enabled a smoother, faster and more efficient packaging process, while the OBC equipped the bike-sharing industry with enhanced tires.

"We are thrilled to be recognized for our innovative products. Our goal has always been to leverage science and technology to create valuable solutions for the industry and society. This achievement acknowledges Dow's capabilities to continuously improve product performance and be a leader in responding to industry needs," said Wu Chang, technical service and development director, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, Asia Pacific.

COF Stable Resin: Taking packaging efficiency to the next level

COF Stable Resin XUS 59999.110 is an innovative solution specially developed to address a limitation in the flexible packaging industry by increasing productivity. The resin provides stable COF of lamination films throughout the entire process of lamination, curing, storage and transportation. This in turn offers higher efficiency on fast speed packaging lines by minimizing film breakages and interruptions.

The panel of judges from the 2020 Ringier Technology Awards praised: "The COF Stable Resin is a highly innovative product that is created using rare COF modification technique, designed to enhance the efficiency for both manufacturers and brand owners. Its significant and widespread application highlights how it is a viable solution to challenges in the flexible packaging industry."

Olefin Block Copolymer (OBC): An innovative solution for the bike sharing industry

Olefin Block Copolymers (OBC) based foam tire is a new solution developed for the bike sharing industry to introduce tires that are lightweight, durable and require no maintenance. With Dow's unique OBC product and working closely with downstream partners, the new foamed integrated tires are puncture-resistant, tough, elastic, heat-resistant and up to 40 per cent lighter in weight when compared to pneumatic tires, thus giving end users a better riding experience.

Judges from the awards panel shared: "The current tires being offered are heavy and prone to wear and tear. With China's rapid growth in its bike sharing industry, there is a strong need for high quality and long-lasting tires.Dow's unique OBC resins not only offered new tire solutions that are crucial to the industry and the users, it is also an environmentally friendly one."

The 2020 Ringier Plastics Technology Innovation Awards placed Dow in the spotlight once again following their two prestigious wins from the 2019 event. With other recent wins-- 2020 BIG Innovation Awards from the Business Intelligence Group for DOWSIL TC-3015 Reworkable Thermal Gel and ECOFAST Pure Sustainable Textile Treatment and 2019 R&D 100 Awards from R&D World Magazine-- Dow continuously strives to bring new ideas to life.

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About Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics

Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), a business unit of Dow (NYSE: DOW), combines core strengths of R&D, worldwide reach, broad product lines and industry expertise to deliver high performing technologies for end use markets in food packaging, personal hygiene, infrastructure, consumer goods and transportation. P&SP is one of the world's largest producers of polyethylene resins, functional polymers, and adhesives, and enabled by Pack Studios, is a leading innovator and collaborator across the value chain on sustainable application development and circular economy life-cycle design for plastics. http://www.dowpackaging.com

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure and consumer care. Dow operates 109 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 36,500 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2019. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visitwww.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.

About Ringier Technology Innovation Awards

Inaugurated in 2006, the Ringier Technology Innovation Award for industrial manufacturing is one of the most influential industrial awards in China. It is held annually to recognize companies who have made significant contribution in China in the plastics, metalworking, coating, food & beverage, personal care & cosmetics industries. The purpose of the award is to encourage, acknowledge and reward individuals and companies who have developed new ideas, methodologies, products or technologies to improve the industries with greater energy saving and cost reduction. The 2020 Ringier Awards featured a total of 10 categories with various nominations across Asia Pacific.

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