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Boston MA (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 - When you use self-checkout machines in supermarkets and drugstores, you are probably not - with all due respect - doing a better job of bagging your purchases than checkout clerks once did. Automation just makes bagging less expensive for large retail chains.

"If you introduce self-checkout kiosks, it's not going to change productivity all that much," says MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. However, in terms of lost wages for employees, he adds, "It's going to have fairly large distributional effects... Читать дальше...

Boston MA (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 - Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, from vehicles to buildings to larger robots. The new work, from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), builds on years of research, including recent studies demonstrating that objects such as a deformable airplane wing and a functional racing car could be assembled from tiny identical lightweight... Читать дальше...

Pontypridd travel to play Aberavon at the Talbot Athletic Ground on Saturday 3rd December in the Welsh National Cup. The Pontypridd RFC Supporters Club are organising transport to the ground – the bus will leave Sardis Road at 12:45pm with the game at Aberavon kicking off at 2:30pm. Travelling to Ponty’s away matches on one … Continued

A group of children had a surprise when they saw President Joe Biden as he passed their window during his shopping trip in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Beijing (XNA) Nov 23, 2022 - At the UN/China space exploration and innovation partnership conference on Monday, the China National Space Administration raised eight issues in the keynote speech delivered by its deputy director Wu Yanhua, which should inspire anybody who has concerns about China's space program.

China made clear, in no ambiguous terms, its basic principles about human space exploration, namely openness, sharing and cooperation.

A look at the events and history of Iceland between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

SAVE $90: The second-generation Apple TV HD (32GB) will be on sale at Walmart for only $59 on Sunday, Nov. 27 starting at 7 p.m. ET. That's 60% off its suggested retail price of $149.

This year's Thanksgiving box office was both feast and famine for Walt Disney.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show," former Republican Party campaign adviser Tara Setmayer went on an extended tirade attacking the GOP leadership for remaining silent about Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago dining experience with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes -- both of whom are vocal and notorious anti-Semites.

Former Super Eagles captain, Jay-Jay Okocha, has stated Belgium are missing their striker, Romelu Lukaku. Okocha noted that Michy Batshuayi had a poor shot conversion rate and suggested that he was not on the same level as Lukaku, who was struggling to overcome a muscle injury and was on the bench against Morocco. Okocha said

Germany face the possibility of falling at the group stage in back-to-back World Cups with a Spain side riding high on their opening 7-0 win standing in wait.

The Panthers had not scored a first quarter touchdown all season. They have now. Sam Darnold, starting for the first time since Jan. 9 of last season, threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Moore with 30 seconds remaining in the first quarter. It completed an 11-play, 71-yard drive. Moore’s touchdown was his first since [more]

A custom Bocci chandelier hangs over the formal dining table. It retails for over $70,000 and weighs 400 pounds.

There is hope that Canada's young group can continue to grow and emerge as a genuine force alongside the United States and Mexico in the CONCACAF region.