The secret to the elephant's amazing sense of touch is in its unusual whiskers. The findings will be used in the development of new robot-assisted sensor technologies that mimic the stiffness of the elephant tactile hairs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7Auy7lH34 [YouTube}

https://www.mpg.de/26113474/elephant-trunk-whiskers-exhibit-material-intelligence [science news]

#robotic #bionik

Why #DMCA is bad for #web, specially #IndieWeb.

I had a covid19 stories archive online running since 2020. I got the DMCA take down today. I have it offline currently.

What's interesting is the legal agency cant act on behalf of Network18 as the contract has expired. This is from their authorization letter.

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https://codeberg.org/thejeshgn/covid19-stories-archive-takedown-notice

Discover how the first video games came into being!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ66yh2wP24

My new video series, Play History, tackles the fascinating subject of early video games, up to Pong. Check out the first episode which was a long time in the making.

#videogamehistory #videogame #documentary

Last week, nearly ₹2 lakh crore vanished from Indian IT stocks in just 4 days. A big reason was Anthropic's Claude Cowork.

Suddenly investors were confronted with an unsettling reality: What if the work Indian IT has long depended on is now the easiest to automate?

Conversations about IT services usually lump all these firms together, as if they are the same business with different logos. In this episode, we break them apart.

Listen to the full episode on The Ken app: https://zurl.co/OupD2

"Black Cat Monet Waterlilly" - by illustrator Allan Brakus

#Art #Artwork #Artist #Cats