New TwinTrack Probe from RoboDK Simplifies Robot Programming by Demonstration

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RoboDK, a leading Canadian-European robot programming software company, has released the design and assembly instructions of the TwinTrack Probe. Available from September 2023, the cost-effective tool allows users to easily record complex paths in RoboDK with an off-the-shelf HTC VIVE tracker and a simple 3D printed tool. As the robotics market continues to evolve and more businesses are turning to robotic automation, there is a move away from traditional programming methods. Users don’t want to have to manually move (or “jog”) a robot into position to laboriously program every point, or even model parts in CAD…Continue Reading

Top 10 Programming Language Stories of 2023

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With so many programming languages ​​available, it’s difficult for software developers to keep track of updates or even know which languages ​​they should use. In 2023, ITPro Today reported on a number of updates to languages ​​such as Java and Python and offered up how to guides and cheat sheets for understanding some of these languages. Below are our 10 top programming language stories of 2023. Java has maintained its popularity in 2023, but while the programming language is mature, the landscape of vendors and user adoption is shifting. Learn more with analysis of the 2023 State of Java Ecosystem…Continue Reading

“Imagine it, build it” at MIT | MIT News

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MIT class 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II) offers a type of alchemy that transforms students from consumers of knowledge to explorers and innovators, and equips them with a range of important new tools at their disposal, students say. “Topics which could otherwise feel intimidating are well-scoped each week so that students come out knowing not only what a concept is, but why it’s useful and how to actually implement it,” says graduating senior Audrey Chen. “I could consistently come in with no background and come out with practical experience I could use in future projects. I’d describe the class…Continue Reading

McDonald’s on system glitch: What happened today has been an exception to the norm

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Giant burger McDonald’s apologized for this for a global technology outage that shuttered several restaurants across the world for hours. In a statement the company said that the outage was not a cybersecurity issue and was caused by a third-party technology provider. It started around 12 am CDT during a configuration change and was close to being resolved about 12 hours later, the Chicago-based company said.The massive IT outage impacted restaurants worldwide, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, and New Zealand.Denies cyber attack“Reliability and stability of our technology are a priority, and I…Continue Reading

The Fable TV Anime Reveals Theme Songs in 2 New Videos – News

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This year’s 16th issue of Kodansha‘s Weekly Young Magazine announced on Monday that ALI is performing the opening theme song “Professionalism feat. Prajñā” and UmedaCypher is performing the ending theme song “Odd Numbers” for the television anime adaptation of Katsuhisa Minami‘s The Fables manga. The official site for the anime is also streaming two new promotional videos that preview both songs. Image via The Fable anime’s Twitter account © 南勝久・講談社／アニメ「ザ・ファブル」製作委員会 The anime will premiere on April 6 and air for two continuous cours (quarters of a year). After the first episode airs on April 6 at 24:55 (effectively April 7),…Continue Reading

White House urges devs to switch to memory-safe programming languages

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Image: Midjourney The White House Office of the National Cyber ​​Director (ONCD) urges tech companies today to switch to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust, to improve software security by reducing the number of memory safety vulnerabilities. Such vulnerabilities are coding errors or weaknesses within software that can lead to memory management issues when memory can be accessed, written, allocated, or allocated. They occur when software accesses memory in unintended or unsafe ways, resulting in various security risks and issues such as buffer overflow, use after free, use of uninitialized memory, and double free that attackers can exploit. Successful exploitation…Continue Reading

Tech News of the Week: Tata chip plant, Sundar Pichai tells employees “we are wrong”, Apple kills car project and other top tech news of the week |

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There’s a lot that happened in the tech world the past week. Apple killed its decade-long smart car project, touted to be rival to Elon Musk’s Tesla. Indian government gave green signal to three chip plants in the country, of these Tata Group will be setting up two. Google removed some prominent Indian apps from Play Store over policy violation. Big names include Shaadi.com, Naukri.com and more. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a strongly-worded letter to company employees over the recent embarrassing errors in its image generation tool that showed many white celebrities as dark or those of Asian origin.…Continue Reading

[Video] China’s first AI-generated animated series, Technology News

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Qianqiu Shisong consists of 26 episodes of about seven minutes each. Drawing from more than 200 classic Chinese poems found in primary, secondary, and higher education textbooks, the series repackaged educational content with the learning needs and interests of young students in mind. The generative AI model CMG Media GPT can accurately produce visuals depicting Chinese lifestyle and atmosphere as it has been trained with massive Chinese audio-visual language resources data. With advanced technologies capable of image and character generation and text-to-video synthesis, the AI ​​model halved the production time from eight to four months under the same budget compared…Continue Reading