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The robot is built of a layered material that bends and contracts when an electric voltage is applied, allowing it to scurry across the floor with nearly the speed of an actual cockroach.UC Berkeley photo courtesy of Jiaming Liang & Liwei Lin Scaling vertical walls and even hanging from the ceiling:Insects have an incredible abilityto maneuver in ways impossible for larger mammals. Now, scientists from the University of Berkeley are taking inspiration from this class of animals to design a fast, agile, tiny robot....

Toyota recently revealed a new form of its popular and worldlyCorollamodel on the web . It’s called theCorolla Touring Sports, but without the fluffy marketing terms, it’s basically a full five-door wagon version of theCorolla. It adds itself as the third variant to the 12th generation of Corolla, next to thefive-door hatchbackand the traditional four-door sedan (due sometime later this year or early 2019). Sounds pretty boring and plain vanilla? Well — wait until you look at it!...

Viral pilot detained for unauthorized Antarctica visit had “complications” mid-flight Ethan Guo, the viral pilot who was detained following an unauthorized flight to Antarctica, apparently suffered “complications” in the air that led him to land there. If you’ve opened up TikTok or Instagram over the past six months, chances are that you’ve come across Ethan Guo. The 19-year-old has been attempting to become the youngest person to fly solo across all seven continents, while also trying to raise $1 million for cancer charities....

Summary Syngin Colchester’s life has done a complete 180 since he was last seen on90 Day: The Single Lifewith his now ex-wife Tania Maduro. Syngin from Cape Town, first starred in90 Day Fiancéseason 6with Tania from Connecticut. Tania was in Syngin’s country on a vacation andwas about to meet a different manbut a chance encounter with bartender Syngin changed both of their futures. Tania spent four more monthswith Syngin in South Africabefore bringing him to the U....

Now that the series has thankfully moved away from the linear board design that came with the car mechanics of the recent Mario Party games before Super Mario Party,Mario Party Superstarshas gone even further to go back to the type of game design fans have been asking for. Maps are once again sprawling, with multiple pathways, and unique aspects and twists on each one. This newest entry on the Nintendo Switch has already become a fan favorite, and possibly even the best game in the series bar none....

TheRTX 4080is here, and you can pick up a card now — if you’re quick enough, that is. Although the RTX 4080 will almost certainly sell out like theRTX 4090did, that doesn’t mean you should pick up the first card you find in stock. I tested three RTX 4080 models to see if there are any major differences in performance, power, and thermals: Nvidia’s Founder’s Edition design, PNY’s XLR8 Verto Epic-X, and MSI’s Suprim X....

On Thursday, March 8, Microsoft saidthat just before noon on Tuesday, Windows Defender blocked more than 80,000 instances of a massive malware attack that used a trojan called Dofoil, also known as Smoke Loader. Within the following 12 hours,Windows Defender blocked another 400,000 instances. Most of the smoky outbreak took place in Russia (73 percent)followedby Turkey (18 percent) and Ukraine (4 percent). Smoke Loader is a trojanthat can retrieve a payload from a remote location once it infects a PC....

Fujifilm’s latest lens aims to do more with less. Fujifilm has unveiled theFujinon XF 16-80mm F4 R OIS WR, a compact zoom lens that the company is touting as a lens for all types of photography and videography. Besides the 5x zoom flexibility, Fujifilm says the stabilization, close focusing distance, and small profile of the lens all enhance its versatility. Designed with 16 elements in 12 groups and a nine-blade aperture, the lens covers a range equivalent to 24-122mm on a full-frame camera....

Telsa CEO Elon Musk waded into the coronavirus debate again Wednesday, tweeting that “false positives” in testing could be behind the rising number of U.S. cases. He also implied, without evidence, that those who died of other causes were being lumped in with coronavirus deaths. “There are a lot of [coronavirus] false positives messing up the numbers,”Musk claimed. “Even tests with 5% false positive rate (in field, not lab) would show up as ~17 million fake [coronavirus] cases even if there were actually none....

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4launched without microtransactions, but we knew that wouldn’t last forever. Less than three weeks later, microtransactions, known asCOD Points, have arrived inBlack Ops 4. COD Points rolled out to PS4 first but will be added to Xbox One and PC versions of the game next week. Rest assured, these microtransactions aren’t a means to a pay-to-win scheme. However, pay-to-win or not, these microtransactions could be seen as predatory by some users....

If you watchFortnitepros like Ninja and think you have what it takes to earn the Victory Royale, you might get to test that hypothesis in the near future. With patch v6.10,in-game tournamentswill be available to allFortniteusers (console, PC, and even mobile). The tournaments won’t be separated by platform, so if you play on mobile, there’s a great chance the person lining their scope on you will be using a controller or mouse and keyboard....

Summary Warning: Spoilers for Spider-Man: Shadow of the Green Goblin #3!The darkest aspect ofSpider-Man’scharacter history has hardly been touched on in the movies, but now Marvel is confronting the reality of it. Spider-Man’s origin story is among the most well-known in pop culture history: the radioactive spider bite, his failure to prevent Uncle Ben’s death, “with great power comes great responsibility.” However, it is more complicated than that, something that fans can be hesitant to acknowledge....

Though Marvel Studios has just about finished Phase Four of its cinematic universe, there are still many powerful supervillains that should be introduced in future projects. There are plenty of evil scientists, ancient demons, and cosmic conquerors that the studio can bring in to face Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. In anticipation of the battles to come, here are the villains that need to be introduced to theMarvel Cinematic Universe. 10. Dracula After being transformed into a vampire in the 1400s, Vlad Dracula used his unholy strength to become the strongest and most ruthless bloodsucker in the world....