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from the next-up:-dragon-riding-competitions dept.
Humanoid robots could soon allow us to stream our consciousness anywhere in the world, acting as surrogate bodies that enable people to ‘instantly be in multiple places at once.’
This is the goal of the Avatar XPrize, an ANA-sponsored concept for a $22 million contest just selected at the XPrize Visioneers 2016 Summit as ‘ready to launch.’
Backed by Japan’s largest airline, ANA, the Avatar XPrize will be a globally televised competition for the development of real avatars.
Teams will be given three years to create a system that can control an avatar in one basic task.
Then in 2022, finalists will move on to the Annual Avatar Games to compete across five categories: caretaker, public speaker, disaster relief, tennis, and musician.
These tasks will include pushing a wheelchair through a course, cooking an omelette, and even providing basic healthcare to a wounded person.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday October 13 2016, @10:36PM
You're right about the south, that just blows me away.
There were places with polls drastically reduced in "Bernie-friendly" areas, and a lot areas where the exit poll variation from actual vote counts what is anywhere close to statistically probable. I'm not saying she still wouldn't have a few more votes, especially given the major media bias she was given (effectively blocking any Bernie news), but there was definitely unethical stuff going on, and very probably illegal as well.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday October 14 2016, @02:57PM
You've got a good point there. It's hard to say whether 1) some of these things were truly fraud, and 2) if so, if it really would have made a difference in the end.
Either way, it's too bad the GOP is either too incompetent or too in-bed with the DNC to expose this stuff and use it to hurt the DNC and maybe even get Hillary disqualified. From what I can tell, it's not incompetence, it's actually malice: they're in league with Hillary.