(RNS) — The Chinese Lunar New Year, also called the Spring Festival, started more than 3,000 years ago as a harvest festival in the Chinese agrarian society that observed and celebrated the cycles...
Touch is a vital form of bonding and an important part of our shared psychohistory, although its significance often remains unconscious. Economic and material conditions, historical events and...
During President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union Address (SOTU) on Jan. 05, 2019, actor Kevin Sorbo, best known for his roles in “God’s Not Dead,” “Soul Surfer,” and his earlier TV series...
Mail Online
| 2/5/2019
| Steve Doughty Social Affairs Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Women's superior social skills mean they have less to fear than men from the rise of robots in the workplace, a study suggests. It found women are taking a greater share of top jobs that still...
RUSH: Here’s Liz in Madison, Wisconsin, just beginning to thaw out. How are you doing? CALLER: (giggling) I’m doing fine. We’ve got a heat wave. It’s 14 degrees.
The robot, developed by MIT engineers, is equipped with a soft-pronged gripper, a force-sensing wrist cuff, and an external camera, all of which it uses to see and feel the tower and its individual...
In the upcoming iOS 12.2 update, a developer named Steven Troughton-Smith has found references to four new iPad models, and more interestingly, a reference to a new iPod, which would presumably be a...
Syfy’s adaptation of Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians” fantasy novels finally goes off-book for a wholly original story in its fourth season, and the result is just as spellbinding as ever.
Is LG teasing a touchless user interface for its new flagship smartphone? LG has sent has sent out a "save the date" invitation for an unveiling event at Mobile World Congress later this month that...
This stunning abode looks more like a work of modern art than a humble home, as it's been described as a three-tier masterpiece, a waterfall of steel and glass. Priced at a whopping £10 million, the...
Mail Online
| 1/9/2019
| Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com
President Donald Trump delivered his nationally televised address on the ongoing government shutdown from the Oval Office on Tuesday night. The President read from a prompter as he explained to the...
Mail Online
| 1/2/2019
| Chris Hobbs, Border Security Expert For The Daily Mail
Home Secretary Sajid Javid is coming under increasing political pressure to get a grip on the recent surge in migrant boats crossing the English Channel. As ever-greater numbers of people – mostly...
Mail Online
| 12/28/2018
| Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail.com;Associated Press
Chinese scientists who edited human genes have lost touch with the patients they treated, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. The claim has sparked widespread concerns in the scientific...
The barrel cortex is one of the most highly studied primary somatosensory systems in animals, that is, systems in our brain sensitive to touch, pain, and temperature.
David Oyelowo, 42, was born in Oxford to Nigerian parents and graduated from Lamda. He became the first black actor to portray an English monarch for the RSC and got his screen break in the BBC spy...
Any of you who have been following this column for some time will remember that about six years ago I went into Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and had a pacemaker implanted.
LONDON (Reuters) – Meghan Markle’s father said on Monday that he hoped Queen Elizabeth would intercede to end his estrangement from his daughter, the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry.
No one has ever accused Karl Lagerfeld of being too modest. In a wide-ranging Q&A with The Cut, the famed fashion designer gives a glimpse into his life of glamour—and, in doing so, reminds...
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s factory activity grew slightly in November, a private survey showed, though new export orders extended their decline in a further blow to the sector already hurt by the...
LONDON (Reuters) – Furhat tilts his or her head, smiles, exudes empathy and warmth, and encourages us to open up. The robot, a three-dimensional bust with a projection of a human-like face, aims to...
"An especially interesting finding was that participants were able to visually identify an object they had never seen but only touched one week before without the intention of memorization," says...
Mail Online
| 11/26/2018
| Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com
A hi-tech glove could give robots the same sense of touch as a human. Stanford engineers say their invention could dramatically improve the dexterity of robots. Prototype - Hand - Ripe - Berry They...
A working iPhone X display. When the iPhone X was released last year, it ushered in a new look and feel for Apple's handsets. The company got rid of the home button, offered a new Face ID unlock...
Unlike the iPhone XS, the iPhone XR doesn't have 3D Touch, which lets you peek at messages or use shortcuts if you apply a little more pressure to your phone's screen. But iOS 12.1.
"Mimicking the human senses is one of the most popular areas of engineering, but the sense of touch is notoriously difficult to replicate," says Kwonsik Shin, engineer at Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk...
Without fixing Victoria Secret's problem, its owner L Brands' other strategies are useless, according to Konik. For example, L Brands announced in September plans to shut down Henri Bendel in...
Most of us, including this writer, are run-of-the-mill types. I live an ordinary life, often ho-hum, conventional, a nondescript yawn. I am not renowned, nothing particularly noteworthy, living...
When my friend’s little brother died, his family performed rites that are rare nowadays. They brought the body of their boy back home. They dressed him and laid him out for a wake in their dining...
Philosophers, starting with René Descartes, all noted that touch provided 'a sense of reality', and made us feel in contact with the external world. By contrast, psychologists have tended to assume...
Mail Online
| 10/16/2018
| Mark Duell for MailOnline
From a sculpture of model Kate Moss to an elaborate elephant liqueur set, it's a fascinating series of items. And this array of objects made with gold - from antiquities to contemporary pieces -...
Researchers have reported a high-performance and transparent nanoforce touch sensor by developing a thin, flexible, and transparent hierarchical nanocomposite (HNC) film.
Force touch sensors that recognize the location and pressure of external stimuli have received considerable attention for various applications, such as wearable devices, flexible displays, and...
Everett, Massachusetts, Police Chief Steve Mazzie says Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — whose being challenged by populist conservative Geoff Diehl — is “out of touch” with law enforcement in the...
Mail Online
| 10/4/2018
| Annie Palmer For Dailymail.com
Google is launching a major redesign of its Assistant app. The search giant's digital assistant was initially launched as a way for users to give commands using just their voice.
Mail Online
| 9/29/2018
| Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com
Serena Williams has shared a topless video of herself on Instagram this Saturday. The tennis star, 37, can be seen cupping her breasts as she looks at the camera.
Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have created an electronic skin, which when added to a prosthetic hand allows the user to feel objects as if through their own hand, including feeling pain when...
Mail Online
| 9/21/2018
| Sarah Rainey For The Daily Mail
For any fashion designer, having a member of the royal family wear your clothes is the ultimate endorsement, guaranteed — one might think — to send sales soaring.
Remember 3D Touch? Unless you’re a power iOS user you probably don’t. Or, well, you’d rather not. It’s been clear for some time now that the technology Apple lauded at its 2015 unveiling as the...
Learn-to-code startup Kano, whose products aim to turn kids into digital makers, has taken the wraps off the latest incarnation of its build-it-yourself computer kit.
Before finding love with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle had no shortage of celebrity friends, but it seems her inner circle has gotten smaller since becoming a royal.
A robot developed by Fieldwork Robotics – from the University of Plymouth – was created with a soft touch to help pick raspberries from fields. The machine was deployed for the Hall Hunter...
Mail Online
| 9/8/2018
| Dianne Apen-sadler For Mailonline
A former KGB officer has said Vladimir Putin could order more assassinations because Britain is seen as a 'soft touch'. Former general Oleg Kalugin has urged the government to hit back and expel the...
GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniels labeled Washington, D.C., as out of touch with America for their obsession over Bob Woodward’s new book on Twitter Wednesday afternoon.
It's '80s nostalgia, Transformers fandom, and a cinematic event all rolled into one, and now there are more opportunities than ever to see The Transformers: The Movie on the big screen on Thursday,...
Mail Online
| 8/29/2018
| Jake Wallis Simons Associate Global Editor For Mailonline
A British woman who bought a pair of twin babies over the internet is pleading for them to get in touch as she reveals her dying ex-husband is desperate to see them before he passes away.
Critics made a fuss over the 2017 indie film “Beatriz at Dinner” for a simple reason. The film’s villain, played by John Lithgow, vaguely resembled President Donald Trump.
It was inevitable that CNN's counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd's bizarre meltdown on August 24 on the subject of security clearances would serve as the basis of a parody.
Living in or near Silicon Valley can sometimes feel like living on a different planet than much of the United States. In Silicon Valley, it's not atypical for people to work 80-hour weeks, accept...
Senator Tammy Baldwin is exposing herself as out of touch with Wisconsinites over President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Instead of waiting to carefully evaluate Kavanaugh’s...
Brave director Brenda Chapman and Enchanted helmer Kevin Lima have launched ‘Twas Entertainment, setting a first-look deal at 20th Century Fox to produce live-action, hybrid and animated films.