Is this a dog?
An electric pet dog or a mechanical monster from the nightmares?
It's hard to describe Shiomi's CyberDog, the four-legged robot unveiled this week.
The company plans to produce, for now, just a thousand units of this scary-something-cyber-dog, and offer it "to fans, engineers and robotics enthusiasts," hoping to take advantage of the open source on which the product is based and "help develop its potential."
Such a toy will cost you 9,999 yuan which is about $ 1,500, and the Chinese technology giant ensures that the creeping dog knows how to obey voice commands, follow its owner and "behave like a real pet".
No laser cannon on forehead?
Do not buy!
The new restrictions
Instagram's new series of features is supposed to reduce the abusive comments, harassment and just unsympathetic messages that creators and companies receive on their posts.
The general idea: to prevent users who do not track account holders (including bots and fake accounts) and new followers from distorting posts in inappropriate comments, and to reduce exposure to offensive private messages.
How do you do that?
Entering Settings - Privacy - Limits.
From there, you can choose whether to restrict accounts that do not follow you and / or accounts that have started following you recently, and even determine the length of time that the restrictions will be in effect.
It is important to note that unlike the standard blocking option, the new features do not block those anonymous users, but actually hide their responses, until they are approved by the account holder.
Also, Instagram itself will occasionally offer to restrict groups of dubious accounts (identified as blunt, for example), all in the pursuit of a more inclusive, dignified and polite discourse on the web.
will help?
Space on time
May the moon wait.
NASA does not meet the deadline for producing its new space suits by 2024, and therefore the next manned journey to the moon, which was scheduled to take off that year, will have to be postponed. Schedules and technical failures, which are due in part to the corona plague.
American astronaut Christine Davis presents a prototype of the new space suit, Photo: NASA / Joel Kowsky
NASA's current space suits were designed 45 years ago and are widely used. Therefore, it was decided to design new and improved suits, which will one day be available to astronauts not only on flights to the moon and the International Space Station, but also to Mars. The xEMU (Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit) machines, which have been invested in their development for more than $ 1 billion, will be available, at the earliest, in the spring of 2025.
The main thing is the character
Facebook incorporates in its dating service, which does not really manage to gain momentum but is not available in Israel anyway, a function of "Audio Date".
That it's really like a video call, only you give up the video and stay with the audio (and with a profile picture from 20 years ago that no longer represents?).
The idea is simple: do you like anyone or anyone?
Send them an invitation to a call, and if they respond to it then you can start blabbering on without having to put on makeup.
Money is money
AMC, the largest cinema chain in the United States, has announced its intention to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment. And the most significant that Bitcoin receives, alongside the telephony company AT&T and Microsoft.