Time to get attached
Coin-sized robotic insects can now perch on and take off from ledges and even ceilings. A team at Harvard University has achieved it by attaching an electrostatically charged pad to the top of bots, so they stick to surfaces in the same way that a balloon can stick to the ceiling after you rub it on your hair (Science, ).
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Poetry produced by a Google AI, which had been trained on 11,000 novels. The neural network was given a starting and ending sentence and filled in the gaps.
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More than 488 million pro-government comments are planted on social media in China each year, according to a Harvard University study. Comments usually praised the party and were often timed to distract from protests. Many of the people posting were government employees, the study found.