The Daily Populous

The Melbourne schoolgirl, 16, is now the youngest person to complete the polar hat-trick, having reached both the North and South poles as well as crossing Greenland.

"I made you a sandwich (ham & cheese), now ski 37 days and 600 kilometres to the South Pole and you can eat it.".

The adventure was partly funded by National Geographic, which will release a documentary of her journey later this year. »

Cyberdyne, the Japanese robotics company with the slightly suspicious name, has just gotten approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin offering its HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) lower-body exoskeleton to users in the United States through licensed medical facilities.

The HAL will not move until it detects an electrical signal, ideally one of the users attempting to move the limb being assisted.

Here's an excerpt from the 2011 article I wrote for the now defunct DVICE.com about testing out HAL:. »

The European Commission has fined Qualcomm €997m for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets.

Qualcomm's practices amount to an abuse of Qualcomm's dominant position in LTE baseband chipsets by preventing competition on the merits.

Today's decision concludes that Qualcomm held a dominant position in the global market for LTE baseband chipsets over the period investigated (i.e. between at least 2011 and 2016). »

These films didn’t feature God-ordained destruction, and they had diverse malefactors, including alien invasions, genetically-engineered viruses, evil AI, global war, and “technology run amok.”

But their survey found that only 10 of the films — or 17 percent — dealt with environmental catastrophe.

Crucially, none of those films predicate their possible futures on real environmental science or understanding of ecology. »