Continue reading At new Dallas Love Field hotels, R2-D2’s cousin will deliver your extra towels

It’s not quite Rosie the robot from the Jetsons, but tandem hotels that opened recently near Dallas’ Love Field are using a hip-high robot to deliver to guest rooms a range of items including snacks, sodas and extra towels. The Botlr robot was on display Thursday as part of a ribbon cutting ceremony for the co-branded Aloft and Element hotels in the 37-acre West Love development on Mockingbird Lane.

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SHOWTIME and its critically-acclaimed, award-winning original series continue to make their mark on the cultural landscape, with one of the most successful programming lineups in all of television. The SHOWTIME programming slate has made the network among the most talked about in the business, with hits that have included HOMELAND, SHAMELESS, BILLIONS, RAY DONOVAN, THE AFFAIR, DICE, the upcoming series I’M DYING UP HERE , the limited series GUERRILLA and PURITY , and the highly anticipated return of TWIN PEAKS .

Robots are about to make your beer runs

In the future, your beer will be delivered by by robots that look like big beetles out to set up a golf course. Virginia became the first state in the union on Wednesday to legally allow robots to use sidewalks and crosswalks just like us humans.

Amazon Web Services says it’s working to repair disruption

Amazon.com’s cloud-computing service was beset by “high error rates” on parts of its S3 data-storage system, disrupting many internet sites and mobile applications that rely on the company for their online presences. “We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue,” the company said on its website at 11:35 a.m. in Seattle.

Virtual assistants battling for top spot

The Amazon Echo is a homebased digital assistant that can, among other things, play music, control smart-home devices, adjust the climate, order a pizza and arrange for an Uber ride. It’s no wonder titans of tech are locked in an epic battle of the robots, racing furiously to produce the best virtual assistant.

Melania Trumpa s woman power tweet to Emily Ratajkowski inflames Twitter

Donald Trump and Melania Trump arrive for the 60th Annual Red Cross Gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Feb. 4 / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGANMANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Melania Trump has been busy, doing more than raising her 10-year-old son Barron in Trump Tower or suing a publication that she says ruined her chances of earning millions of dollars as first lady by publishing the false allegation that she once worked as an escort. In diving into her duties as FLOTUS, Melania has taken tentative steps on Twitter.

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‘s stock had its “hold” rating restated by SunTrust Banks, Inc. in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday. A number of other equities analysts have also recently commented on the stock.

U.S. Shares Waver After European Stock Markets Close Mixed

U.S. stocks pared an earlier advance Tuesday as crude oil extended losses and investors continued to sift through earnings reports for clues on the economy’s health. The S&P 500 Index lost less than 0.1 percent to 2,291.23 at 1:15 p.m. in New York, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 29 points to 20,083, after earlier reaching an intraday record.

Turning Protests Into Action With Technology

Tweet by tweet, post upon post, and petition after petition, Americans are voicing their views of government with the most powerful amplifier ever known: the Internet. Although we have lived with this tool for decades, the combined and continued acceleration of globalization and technology has opened the doors to government – while enabling fabricators of fake news – in ways that were inconceivable in the age of AOL dial-up.

Sohu.com to Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Results on February 21, 2017

The live webcast and archive of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of Sohu’s website at http://investors.sohu.com/ . premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication.

Bloomberg integrates Learning-to-Rank into Apache Solr

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog takes a closer look at Bloomberg – as previously reported ,Bloomberg L.P. produces technology for financial markets. The firms software includes tools that can be used to track trading indices, perform financial ‘asset swapping’ functions broker platforms that work to perform what is known as multi-asset execution technology and algorithmic trading.

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T… — The NBA announced the contestants for three of the biggest competitions at this year’s All-Star Weekend on Thursday night.In the Three-Point shooting contest, de… — The Australian ambassador to the United States met with Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus and chief strategist, Steve Bannon, at the White House Th… — Gary Oldman plays Nathaniel Shepherd, the visionary head of a company that specializes in space exploration.

Amazon increasingly wants to be its own deliveryman

In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, file photo, Amazon.com boxes are shown stacked near a Boeing 767 Amazon “Prime Air” cargo plane on display in a Boeing hangar in Seattle. Amazon’s announcement on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, of a new air cargo hub in Kentucky is the latest way the e-commerce retailer is dipping its toe, or perhaps whole foot, into building out its shipping and logistics unit.

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Other equities analysts also recently issued research reports about the company. Canaccord Genuity restated a buy rating and issued a $825.00 price objective on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Tuesday, October 4th.

The robots are coming

The future will feature a lot more pizza bots instead of pizza boys if London-based delivery robot maker Starship Technologies has anything to say about it. The robot-focused startup – founded in 2014 by Skype cofounders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis – is on something of a tear at the moment, having just raised $17.2 million from investors that included Daimler.

This space radio could help track every flight in real time

Washington, Jan 30 – Researchers have developed a reconfigurable radio that could help air traffic controllers see in real-time the location of every plane in the air — even those flying across oceans. To design and develop the new reconfigurable, higher-bandwidth radio, NASA worked with Palm Bay, Florida-based Harris Corporation.

Retail real estate heads for dark 2017

Reeling from a shaky holiday season and slowing mall traffic, U.S. retailers are facing increasing pressure to close stores as more of their business migrates to the internet. More than 10 percent of U.S. retail space, or nearly 1 billion square feet, may need to be closed, converted to other uses or renegotiated for lower rent in coming years, according to data provided to Bloomberg by CoStar Group.

New wave of robots set to deliver the goods

A January 26, 2016 photo shows the Starship Technologies delivery robot at the Washington Auto Show in Washington, DC. AFP / MANDEL NGAN Washington: The robots of the future will be coming soon, rolling along at a lumbering pace with those goods you just ordered.