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Robots Share Data, Work Together on Experimental Jobsite

2 years 4 months ago
From Construction Dive:  A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver demonstrated how its collection of robots could work autonomously on an actual jobsite, per a UBC news release, a preview that one professor called a glimpse into the future. The team at UBC’s Smart Structures Lab showed the tech off at […]
Dede Hance

St. Louis Maserati Driver Found Guilty of Manslaughter

2 years 4 months ago
A jury found a 23-year-old from south St. Louis County guilty of involuntary manslaughter earlier this week, six years after, while speeding on Gravois Avenue in a luxury sports car, he struck a pickup and killed its passenger.  That crash happened in December 2017, when Mahdi Gayar was 17.
Ryan Krull

How conflicting state and federal laws on gender-affirming care puts ‘hospitals in a bind’

2 years 4 months ago
A new lawsuit against the University of Missouri claims the university’s healthcare system violated disability law by refusing to provide certain gender-affirming care to two transgender boys. Attorneys Nicole Gorovsky, Patti Williams and Arindam Kar discuss this case in this November 2023 edition of the Legal Roundtable. They also tackle other legal questions, including whether the city of St. Louis owes compensation to a man it accidentally held in jail for eight months after the charges against him were dropped.

Groq Sends Elon’s ‘Grok’ A Cease & Desist, Though A Funny One

2 years 4 months ago
One of things we enjoy here at Techdirt is when even those with legitimate gripes about trademark law take a bemused view about the whole thing, rather than immediately jumping to angry and overly aggressive threats. No one likes a trademark bully, even when the trademark holder might have a legitimate claim. A few weeks […]
Mike Masnick