US investigators have arrested a 21-year-old member of the National Guard in Massachusetts in connection with the recent Pentagon leak. The man is accused of “unauthorized removal, storage and transmission of classified information.” The FBI alleges that he led a chat group on the popular video gamer platform Discord, through which he shared explosive documents with several young people with a penchant for weapons and military equipment.
Researchers at the Stanford University’s ILIAD Labs have developed a robot able to feed people with spinal cord injuries or other motor impairments. The robot has three arms; one to test the consistency of the food, another to push the food onto a spoon, and a third to insert the spoon into the patient’s mouth at an optimized angle.
The publicly funded TV channel PBS has joined broadcaster NPR in boycotting Twitter over a controversy with owner Elon Musk. Twitter has flagged both as state-funded media organizations, though the broadcasters argue this represents a tiny portion of their financing. As a result, they’ve both stopped tweeting until further notice.
At the Düsseldorf Opera on the Rhine in Germany, classical music fans can now get information about the piece being played and other details through augmented reality glass during a performance of “Die tote Stadt.” However, the number of glasses is currently limited to 30. AR glasses are also to be used at the Bayreuth Festival this summer in a production of “Parsifal.”
