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| Researchers Build a 3D-Printed Transform Robot | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:38 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| | Japanese hobby researchers at Brave Robotics have developed a functioning, entirely 3D-printed robot inspired by Transformers The remotely controlled bot can turn into a car and vice versa in just a few instants and has a slew of impressive features, including Wi-Fi camera, headlights and it can even shoot little darts. The "Transform robot" is the result of 10 years of work and several iterations. The robot went from a rudimentary pair of legs that barely moved to this impressive version, which looks like it could have been featured in a Transformers movie.
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| Who Hacked the Dalai Lama's Website? | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 4:10 PM | The Daily Dot |
| | A website associated with the Dalai Lama's YouTube account has been hacked using malware, a member of the security firm F-Secure's Threat Research team discovered on Monday. The Dalai Lama, a position filled since 1939 by Tenzin Gyatso, is the highest religious figure in Tibetan Buddhism, who serves as the leader of the Tibetan government in exile. The existence of an independent Tibetan polity, based in India since 1959, has been a continuing thorn in the side of Chinese government. Recently, Tibetan nationalists and Buddhists have again taken to self-immolation, setting themselves on fire to gain attention for their cause and point to Chinese malfeasance in Tibet.
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| Pinterest Cracks Down on Spam Accounts | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:02 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| | Pinterest announced on Thursday a major initiative to crack down on the spam accounts lurking throughout the popular photo-sharing website. Pinterest has built a dedicated spam team to detect, remove and prevent spam, which has been growing along with the site's popularity. "Like any online service that becomes popular, spammers are interested in what we're doing -- they want eyeballs and Pinterest has a lot of them," Jon Jenkins, the head of Pinterest's engineering team, told Mashable in a phone interview. "One of our main goals is to focus on the authenticity, and this will allow us to better do so."
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