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...Right Touch Inventor: Takao Someya Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: www.ntech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp The key to making artificially intelligent robots lies in giving them plenty of ways to gather information about their environment. Takao Someya, a researcher at the University of Tokyo, has created an electronic film-made up of bendable, shock-resistant transistors embedded in plastic-that can detect pressure and temperature. The sheet, known as a "large-area sensor array," is flexible enough to cover small objects and could give robots a sense of touch. Another potential use: smart carpet or furniture upholstery that can automatically adjust its temperature...
...that true paella can contain everything from snails to rabbit (the chicken-and-seafood variant is a latter-day affectation that brings a concerned frown to the face of many Valencians). Paella's humble beginnings are also honored in paella picnics-still common in Spain-where whole families will gather for an outdoor cook-off, harking back to a time when communal meals were taken in the fields...
...indefinite detainment of suspected terrorists, military commissions, and even the use of torture were appropriate in extreme cases. “[September 11] was merely a foretaste of what our current adversaries would do to us if they could,” he warned, emphasizing that the need to gather critical intelligence during a time of war necessitated measures inconceivable during a time of peace. Berenson pointed to the Commander-in-Chief clause in Article Two of the Constitution as the legal source of the President’s executive power to act at his discretion during wartime. But Ames...
...Cambridge: barring any radical developments, voters tend to stick with the political status quo. But by the end of the night, all bets were off. After the first-place votes had been tallied, mouths hung agape in the Cambridge Senior Center, where the city’s political classes gather every two years for the ballot count. Sitting in eighth place—ahead of two council incumbents—was first-time challenger Matthew S. DeBergalis, a then-26-year-old MIT graduate who had focused his campaign on student issues. DeBergalis missed the final cut by 137 votes...
...Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collection Management Marilyn Wood. “We’ll be working with those students to see what users’ reactions [to the library] are, and if there are things we might want to change . . . We’re trying to gather a lot of input,” said Cline...