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Kenyan innovators turn e-waste to bio-robotic prosthetic

Kenyan innovators turn e-waste to bio-robotic prosthetic
Kenyan innovators turn e-waste to bio-robotic prosthetic by Mary KULUNDU (Medical Xpress)

Twoportraits of Albert Einstein hang on the walls of a makeshift laboratory on Nairobi’s outskirts, inspiring a pair of self-taught Kenyan innovators who have built a bio-robotic prosthetic arm out of electronic scrap.

Two portraits of Albert Einstein hang on the walls of a makeshift laboratory on Nairobi’s outskirts, inspiring a pair of self-taught Kenyan innovators who have built a bio-robotic prosthetic arm out of electronic scrap.Cousins Moses Kiuna, 29, and David Gathu, 30, created their first prosthetic arm in 2012, after their neighbor lost a limb in…

Tesla eerily silent as federal investigators blame “FSD” in deadly firetruck crash | Boing Boing

Tesla eerily silent as federal investigators blame "FSD" in deadly firetruck crash
Tesla eerily silent as federal investigators blame “FSD” in deadly firetruck crash (BoingBoing)

While investigators for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration merely “suspect” the Tesla that crashed into a firetruck was in self-driving mode, Tesla’s silence seems to confirm it. Typically Tesla’s CEO and hypeman Musk is quick to blame the drivers of cars after violent collisions.
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While investigators for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration merely “suspect” the Tesla that crashed into a firetruck was in self-driving mode, Tesla’s silence seems to confirm it. Typically Tesla’s CEO and hypeman Musk is quick to blame the drivers of cars after violent collisions. Source: Tesla eerily silent as federal investigators blame “FSD” in…

Asteroid lost 1 million kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft

Asteroid lost 1 million kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft
Studies reveal final moments before NASA probe crashed into an asteroid. (Nature)

Last September, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft smashed into an asteroid, deliberately altering the rock’s trajectory through space in a first test of planetary defence.

Now scientists have deconstructed the collision and its aftermath — and learnt just how successful humanity’s punch at the cosmos really was.DART, which was the size of a golf cart, collided with a Great Pyramid-sized asteroid called Dimorphos. The impact caused the asteroid’s orbit around another space rock to shrink — Dimorphos now completes an…

Knesset committee okays bill sharply limiting judicial review; opposition: ‘Putsch’ | The Times of Israel

‘Putsch’
Knesset committee okays bill sharply limiting judicial review; opposition: ‘Putsch’ | The Times of Israel by Jeremy Sharon (timesofisrael.com)

Opposition MKs boycott the final Constitution Committee vote at Knesset in protest at conduct of panel; Yisrael Beytenu MKs denounce legislation as a ‘regime putsch’

[sc name="voicefemlower" ][/sc] The government-backed bill to radically restrict the High Court of Justice’s ability to strike down unconstitutional legislation was approved in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Wednesday morning and will now be sent for its first reading in the Knesset plenum, amid opposition outrage directed at committee chair MK Simcha…

Suspects in Huwara settler rampage out of custody; IDF vows to probe ‘lawlessness’ | The Times of Israel

Huwara
Suspects in Huwara settler rampage out of custody; IDF vows to probe ‘lawlessness’ | The Times of Israel by Emanuel Fabian (timesofisrael.com)

3 detained over rioting sent to house arrest and 5 released, authorities say, with no new arrests in mob violence; Halevi says manhunt for West Bank gunmen continues

All Israeli suspects detained during the Sunday night rioting in the West Bank town of Huwara have been released, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Military chief Herzi Halevi meanwhile vowed to investigate the “lawlessness.”Hours after a shooting attack that killed brothers Hallel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, from the settlement of Har Bracha, hundreds…

LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken | Ars Technica

Cyber Security Concerns In The Global Wake of Hacking Threat
LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)

Already smarting from a breach that stole customer vaults, LastPass has more bad news.

Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked an employee’s home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers.Although an initial intrusion into LastPass ended on August 12, officials with the leading…

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