Japanese robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and a team of scientists have unveiled the world’s first android newsreaders.
On Tuesday this week, two lifelke robots, ‘kodomoroid®’ (resembling a multilingual human child) and ‘otonaroid®’ ((resembling an adult female, since hired as a communicator by the national museum of emerging science and communication) delivered a first report – the story of an earthquake and an FBI raid.
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More to follow.
Thanks Nick Sutton, Meliosa Fitzgibbon, Wroxy Meredith and Pamela McCarthy
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Finally.
Nick Sheridan writes:
“We in the Late Lunch [TV3] office thought you may be interested in GAA reporter and all-round legend Marty Morrissey reading extracts from “Fifty Shades of Grey” on this afternoon’s Late Lunch. Recognising Marty’s status as something of a sex symbol for many Irish women, presenters [Lucy Kennedy and Jim McCabe] put his charm to the test with the help of the Late Lunch Marty Meter…”
[Banking Inquiry Committee Chairman Ciaran Lynch TD]
“The banking inquiry has been told that, on legal advice, it will not be able to discuss the Cabinet meeting during which the bank guarantee was discussed due to Cabinet confidentiality. However, members were told by a senior counsel that documents should be available to them…”
Seems legit.
Bank inquiry cannot discuss bank guarantee Cabinet meeting (RTE)
(Photocall Ireland)
In 1950s Russia, where vinyl was scarce, music fans salvaged discarded radiographs from hospital waste bins, using a special device to press the grooves of forbidden jazz and rock ‘n’ roll bootlegs into the surface of the thick plastic.
The radiograph ‘records’ were cut into a rough disc shape with manicure scissors and a hole was burned with a cigarette. According to author Anya von Bremzen, “you’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.”
The number of homeless people seeking help from the Peter McVerry Trust since the financial collapse.
Preparations at the Savoy cinema, O’Connell Street, Dublin this afternoon for tonight’s premiere of Mrs Brown’s Boys: D’Movie.
Earlier: D’Day
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Update:
On the pink carpet.
From top: Brendan O’Carroll; Dermot O Neill who plays Grandad with his wife Patricia; Paddy Houlihan who plays Dermot; Amanda Woods who plays Betty Brown and Rory Cowan who plays Rory Brown.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
A slick CGI short from French VFX artist Julien Vanhoenacker featuring a hovering cube roaming the surface of a dystopian world – “a visual metaphor of the positive and negative aspects of humanity and its path on Earth.”
Way to wreck the buzz there, Jules.
(Brief NSFW imagery).
