Google is revitalizing its robotics division, according to report, but this time it will focus on AI-software instead of human-like mobility

View online           Science Select           Google is revitalizing its robotics division, according to report, but this time it will focus on AI-software instead of human-like mobility   Google's new effort — known as Robotics at Google — is led by Vincent Vanhoucke, who served as a key player in the company's artificial intelligence project, Google Brain.   READ MORE           NASA had to cancel the first all-female spacewalk in history because it didn't have spacesuits in the right size   NASA said in a statement that astronaut Anne McClain had been replaced for Friday's mission with Christina Koch by male astronaut Nick Hague.   READ MORE           Venus isn't our closest neighbor in the solar system, according to new findings   A team of scientists explained in Physics Today that Mercury is, on average, closer to Earth than Venus because it orbits the Sun more closely.   READ MORE             Paleontologists have discovered the world's biggest and longest-lived T. rex. It weighed almost 20,000 pounds.   The world's heaviest T. rex to date, nicknamed Scotty, weighed almost 20,000 pounds.   READ MORE           Tobacco giant Reynolds just rolled out berry and cream nicotine lozenges as it faces new pressure from Juul for smokeless products   Sold in four flavors, the lozenges are the first new product the company has launched on a wide commercial scale since the Vuse e-cigarette in 2013.   READ MORE           'People are dying': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez passionately defends her Green New Deal resolution as Republicans bring it up to fail in the Senate   "Science should not be partisan," Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday in a passionate speech about climate change. "We are facing a national crisis."   READ MORE           Bill Gates is worried about gene editing worsening inequality. Now a top ethicist is raising new red flags.   An exciting new scientific technology has made it possible to tinker with the very DNA that makes us who we are, offering up fresh hope of new cures for difficult diseases.   READ MORE           The NOAA just released an ominous map that shows 'unprecedented' flooding across the US that might affect 'more than 200 million' Americans   Across the Midwest, the recent floods have already caused an estimated $3 billion in damages.   READ MORE           $3.2 billion startup Oscar Health is plotting its expansion into new states as it moves into a competitive insurance plan market   Oscar Health is looking to expand its geographic reach as it simultaneously works to enter a competitive new health plan market caring for elderly Americans in 2020.   READ MORE           The Trump administration says it supports striking down the entire Affordable Care Act   Previously, the Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions said — with the exception of the pre-existing condition provisions — the law could stand.   READ MORE           Was this email forwarded to you? SUBSCRIBE NOW     Share this     You received this email because you signed up to the Business Insider newsletter using the email: nguyenvu1187.love5@blogger.com   Email preferences Unsubscribe TERMS OF SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY 1 Liberty Plaza, 8th Floor. New York, NY 10006