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There are numerous robopets on the market right now, being sold to consumers as pets or companions. Animal lovers will tell you they would rather have nothing than have a robot for a pet. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Lets call them Serv-U-Bots. Thesepersonalservice robots are different from thosedeveloped to replace humans in some manufacturing and service sectors. However, this is an expensive endeavor. Tombot robot dogs are marketed as helping elderly people with dementia....

In 2017, the companymerged with its technology provider Touchcorpto form AfterPay Touch Group. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The service got popular in the US for its interest-free offerings after entering the market in 2018. The entry was aided bya $15 million investmentfrom Matrix Ventures. In a 2019 report, the Australian publicationFinancial Reviewnoted that 75% of the companys users are millennials. A report from World Pay noted that in 2020, pay later transactions represented 2....

I love YouTube, but damn, I hate the ads. Six years later, a more affordable alternative has appeared on the horizon:YouTube Premium Lite. Those losses wont justify the price of Premium Lite for some users. Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is the managing editor of TNW. He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers. Away from work, he e(show all)Thomas is the managing editor of TNW....

Stablecoins are a pop in ofcryptocurrencylinked to an asset like the U.S. dollar that doesnt change much in value. Thefirst stablecoin, created in 2014, was Tether, which many other stablecoins are modeled after. Users receive one token for every dollar they deposit. The next-largest is known as USD Coin, which has a market cap of about $27 billion. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Money transfers take seconds to complete....

You probably even know Adobe Premiere. We dont hold it against you. The Adobe CC is a lot. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Finally, learners will also find audio editing skills for using Adobe Audition.

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All around the world, there is an extreme gender imbalance in physics, in both academia and industry. Examples are all too easy to find. In Burkina Fasos largest university, the University of Ouagadougou, 99% of physics students are men. In Germany, women comprise only 24% of physics PhD graduates creeping up from 21% in 2017. No women graduated in physical sciences at the University of El Salvador between 2017 and 2020....

What are the minimum specs? At first glance, that doesnt seem bad at all. 1GHz processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage? Even computers from 10 years ago could do that. But there are other factors. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. For some older computers, the requirement for TPM 2.0 is something that Microsoft has stated is absolutely necessary. My PC can initiate the Windows 11 beta, so Im good to go right?...

More than 5,000 kilometers beneath us, Earths solid metal inner core wasnt discovereduntil 1936. Almost a century later, were still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it first formed. These arent easy puzzles to solve. Combining these disciplines, scientists have delivered an important clue about whats happening miles beneath our feet. 40% off TNW Conference! The loss of this heat, and heating by ongoing radioactive decay, have since driven our planets evolution....

There should only be one and preferably only one obvious way to do it, says theZen of Python. Yet there are areas where even seasoned programmers debate what the right or wrong way to do things is. One of these areas is Python classes. So when should you use classes, and when should you use standard functions instead? This story is a deeper dive into the matter. For example, imagine youre writing a piece of code to organize the inventory of a clothes shop....

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TLDR:A two-century old law of magnetism makes the Flux Original Scientific Toy endlessly fascinating. Any number of silly knickknacks and tchotchkes line most peoples desks. Meanwhile, simple toys really are the best. Taking all of that into consideration, theFlux Original Scientific Toy and Magnet Shield Bundle ($101. To look at it, the Flux couldnt seem simpler. The toy centers around a marble-sized magnetic ball. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

The CNPD oversees Amazons operations in Europe because the companys EU headquarters are based in Luxembourg. The watchdog said that Amazons processing of personal data did not comply with the EUGeneral Data Protection Regulation. The authority is also asking for undisclosed practice revisions. These facts are undisputed. We strongly disagree with the CNPDs ruling, and we intend to appeal. The penalty would be the largest ever imposed for a GDPR breach....