How Joanna Stern gets it done — with some help from AI
The author of 'I Am Not a Robot' enlisted some high-tech help to make potatoes for Seder
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Culture Can Kabbalah explain the most mystifying new movie on Amazon?
I was in sixth grade when I first heard about “the greatest anime of all time,” an epic of teen angst and robot-on-monster violence called “Neon Genesis Evangelion.” I can’t remember the name of the kid who told me about it — only that he was a grade older and I very much wanted his…
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Fast Forward Mark Cuban Advises Trump to Invest $100 Billion in Robotics
Billionaire Mark Cuban, once a fierce critic of Donald Trump, is now offering free advice to the President-elect: spend $100 billion in robotics. In a blog post, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks suggested that Trump take the money from the $1 trillion he promised to spend on infrastructure. Cuban wrote that China, Korea and…
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The Schmooze Wishing You an Automated Hanukkah
The Robotics Laboratory at Ben Gurion University of the Negev has dreamed up eight Hanukkah robots. They include the Lat-K, which harnesses solar energy to cook latkes; Menoroctopod, an eight-armed robot, and Mecha-B which defends the People of Israel. See all eight robots in this fun video.
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The Schmooze Robot Seder: How Is This Night Different?
For those of you expecting guests, it’s not too late to link this video to your Seder evite so they know how to behave. Hat tip, Gordon’s mom.
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