Technology news Far from undermining our ability to communicate
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Far from undermining our ability to communicate, teenage text message shorthand represents a "linguistic renaissance", say researchers. E-mail and mobile phones have bred a whole lexicon of abbreviations such as OMG (oh my God), GR8 2 CU (great to see you) and GALHER (get a load of her).
Researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada believe text message short forms actually represent "an expansive new linguistic renaissance".
STIRRING RESEARCH British scientists have won a £1m grant to find out if a robot can safely be employed to stir soup in a kitchen, it emerged today.
The Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems (CHRIS), which is based at the Bristol Robotics Lab, has been funded by the European Commission. A lab spokeswoman said: "It will look at the problems of a human and a robot working together in the same space, for example in a kitchen where the service robot is performing a task such as stirring soup, while you add cream." BAFFLING STAR TURN
Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun – an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.
The rapidly spinning pulsar – a dense object created when a massive star explodes as a supernova – is called J1903+0327 and is located about 21,000 light years from Earth, astronomers said. "The big question is how in the heck did this thing form, because it doesn't follow our standard models of how these things form," said Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia.
Far from undermining our ability to communicate, teenage text message shorthand represents a "linguistic renaissance", say researchers. E-mail and mobile phones have bred a whole lexicon of abbreviations such as OMG (oh my God), GR8 2 CU (great to see you) and GALHER (get a load of her).
Researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada believe text message short forms actually represent "an expansive new linguistic renaissance".
STIRRING RESEARCH British scientists have won a £1m grant to find out if a robot can safely be employed to stir soup in a kitchen, it emerged today.
The Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems (CHRIS), which is based at the Bristol Robotics Lab, has been funded by the European Commission. A lab spokeswoman said: "It will look at the problems of a human and a robot working together in the same space, for example in a kitchen where the service robot is performing a task such as stirring soup, while you add cream." BAFFLING STAR TURN
Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun – an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.
The rapidly spinning pulsar – a dense object created when a massive star explodes as a supernova – is called J1903+0327 and is located about 21,000 light years from Earth, astronomers said. "The big question is how in the heck did this thing form, because it doesn't follow our standard models of how these things form," said Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia.
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