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Meet Yangyang Another Humanoid Robot A female humanoid robot " Yangyang ", named and modeled after her creator, has a variety of realistic facial expressions. "Yangyang" wows visitors at Beijing’s Global Mobile Internet Conference. The robot is modeled on one of the researchers who helped develop the technology.
Credit Yahoo!Finance for the inane headline of the day: Employers shrug off Obamacare, robbing Republicans of a campaign issue . Just 18 months ago, a Republican fantasy seemed about to come true. The Affordable Care Act was in the midst of a disastrous rollout plagued by dialup-stye technology snafus.
Follow this link: First Self-Driving Truck Hits the Road Already, Nevada License AU010
Productivity Dives, Wages Rise; Inflation Theory vs. Practice; Technical Recession? Today’s BLS release on Productivity and Cos ts shows a back-to-back decline in productivity accompanied with rising wages
Continue reading here: Biodiversity loss is an order of magnitude worse than other climate impacts….
European 10-Year Bond Yields Spike Higher; Contagion Already?
Link if video does not play: Chicago BOE to default? Three minutes flies by fast
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Links UN Peacekeepers: Enemies of International Law May 6, 2015 ( Valery Kulikov – NEO ) – The recent scandal involving the sexual abuse of African children carried out by members of a UN peacekeeping mission, despite numerous efforts of this international organization to play it down, will not be ignored.
On April 29 in Real Q1 GDP 0.2% vs. Consensus 1.0%; Disaster in the Details I commented "The second estimate of Q1 GDP comes out on May 29. Any number of changes could send Q1 negative." Here we are already