Asimov's First Rule of Robot Club

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Asimov's First Rule of Robot Club
Number 2715
Broadcast Date MARCH 18, 2016
Episode Length 42:22
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Jon Strickland, Shane Rosenkrantz, Len Peralta

Don’t fear the robots, teach your children to command them! FIRST! Robotics coach Shane Rosenkrantz talks with Tom Merritt and Tech Stuff’s Jonathan Strickland about team competitive robotics.

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Headlines

Sony announced a new $500 PlayStation VR bundle this morning that packages the headset, PlayStation Camera, two PlayStation Move wands, and the PlayStation VR Worlds mini-game collection. The PlayStation VR bundle will be available for limited pre-sale orders March 22nd at 10 AM Eastern. Another wave of pre-orders will available in the summer. Meanwhile Kotaku’s Patrick Klepek has sources that say Sony is briefing developers on the release of a new PlayStation 4 with upgraded graphics to support 4K games and more detailed VR experiences. Sources described the briefings as “exploratory.”
Submitted by JMBeen
Monday March 21, Apple has a press conference to announce new products. Mark Gurman from 9 to5 Mac is so good at finding these things out that I’m going to call his report a spoiler. So spoiler alert. Gurman’s sources say a 9.7-inch iPad Pro will come in 32 and 128 GB versions starting at $599.
And then Tuesday March 22 at 1 PM Pacific, Apple and the FBI will attend an evidentiary hearing regarding the court order for Apple to create software to help the FBI get into a locked iPhone 5C. Apple’s Product Security and Privacy Manager Eric Neuenschwander will testify. The New York Times interviewed Apple engineers and found that some are considering quitting if forced by the court to create the software. The article did not say how many Apple employees it spoke to.
Submitted by spsheridan and habichuelacondulce
Lavabit was fined $10,000 a day when it did not hand over encryption keys to investigators. And now we know the investigators were investigating Edward Snowden. The court ordered attorneys to release all documents from the case but to keep the identity of the subscriber redacted. Wired reports the transparency site Cryptome found an August 2013 document that was mistakenly not redacted and revealed the subscriber was [email protected].
Submitted by budlow
A person with direct knowledge has told ZDNet that the US government has asked for source code and private encryption keys of software in civil cases filed under seal as well as in secret rulings from Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Mary Jo Foley reports on ZDNet that the first preview of extensions for the Microsoft Edge browser arrived in Redstone build 14291 to Fast Ring PC and Mobile testers Thursday. The extensions are Microsoft Translator, Reddit Enhancement Suite and Mouse Gestures. Extensions from Adblock, Amazon, LastPass and Evernote should arrive later this year. The first Redstone Windows 10 release is expected to be made generally available in June.
CEO Jack Dorsey told NBC's Today show that Twitter's 140 character limit for public posts will remain in place. He said, “It’s staying. It’s a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity.”
Stripe is extending its Stripe Atlas business payment service to Cuba. Stripe Atlas lets entrepreneurs incorporate U.S. businesses, register with the Internal Revenue Service, access a US bank account and receive payments from anywhere in the world. The service costs US$500.
Sefalana has launched online grocery ordering in Botswana in partnership with BotswanaPost for delivery and Barclays Bank for payment.The service will start in Gabarone for 18 months then roll out to areas outside the city. Delivery will cost about 50 Pula (US$4.50) but be free if more than five people in one building order through the service.
Domino’s Group has unveiled a prototype pizza delivery robot known as Domino’s Robotic Unit or DRU. The Australian estimates the DRU cost $30,000 to build. It was constructed in Australia by Domino’s DLAB and Sydney based Marathon Robotics. The DRU is 1 meter tall with a range of 20km, features a LIDAR for obstacle avoidance, separate hot and cold compartments for up to 10 pizza and drinks and can use both roads and footpaths. Customers use a code to access their order. The DRU is in trials in New Zealand and CEO Don Meji said he expects the robot to come to Brisbane in 6 months.
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Discussion

Pick of the Day

I would like to recommend SciTech Digest.net's weekly digest of the top 10 advances in science and technology research for that week. It's collated by a chap named Mark Bruce in Australia. I've been following it religiously for several years now and it's persistently blows my mind to see how quickly areas like machine learning, nanotechnology, genetic manipulation etc are advancing. Big topics that frequently pop up include:
  • CRISPR
  • Graphene (is awesome for all the things)
  • DNA origami
  • Organic electronics
  • Photonics
  • Brain-computer interfaces
  • etc etc.


Anyway, between this blog and your show, I find myself generally being better informed than pretty much anyone else I come into contact with, which is very useful as I work in a bleeding edge part of the tech sector.
I hope you enjoy it :)

Cheers
Submitted by Tim

Messages

I was trying to get my mom to encrypt something (I think her phone?) before it was default (spoiler alert: didn't work) but once it was default, she did it. To me, the really interesting aspect wasn't just that she went with default but that her statements went from "What happens if things go wrong? Won't I lose all my data?" to "Well why wouldn't I want to encrypt?"

That difference wasn't anything encryption-wise, it was just her assuming that if it wasn't default it was "at your own risk"...

So, privacy, it's a thing?
Sent by Mink


Wanted to bring to your attention, that while the official announcement comes from NASA on Monday, yesterday they released the names of the winners for Ground Tournament 2 in the NASA CubeQuest Challenge. I know you all are interested in these types of events from your numerous mentions in the DTNS podcast, but also from the lengthy discussion you had with Andrew Mayne on DTNS 2707.

I suppose this is where I add the disclaimer, not that my wife works for Google/YouTube :), but that we're obviously one of the teams. Hoping you'll give a nod to the competition itself to continue to bring awareness to just one of the many great centennial challenges NASA is sponsoring. Interest from the community helps keep these things going!

Thanks for the great show, keep up the great work.

Respectfully,
Sent by Alex from warm beach weather Florida

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