Researchers put bird legs on a drone so it can take off by jumping

Researchers put bird legs on a drone so it can take off by jumping

Source: The Verge Researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and UC Irvine have developed a drone capable of landing and taking off in areas that would otherwise leave a fixed-wing aircraft stranded. Their Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments (RAVEN) trades traditional landing gear for a pair of bird-inspired articulated…

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Why OpenAI now says AGI won’t matter much

Why OpenAI now says AGI won’t matter much

Source: The Verge OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been saying for years — years! — that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, would be something like a singularity. When we achieve AGI, Altman and others have said, it will fundamentally reshape society. At the New York Times DealBook Summit this week in New York City, Altman…

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iFixit now sells official Xbox parts

iFixit now sells official Xbox parts

Source: The Verge iFixit now sells genuine Xbox parts you can use to repair your Xbox Series X or S and offers official guides to help with fixes. You can browse what’s available from iFixit’s Microsoft Repair Hub. “We’re excited to be working with Microsoft to keep Xboxes running longer and out of the waste…

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