A Squishy Octobot, A Legal Heroin Safe House, and MS Excel vs. Genetics
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The first completely soft-bodied robot is an octopus. Seattle plans to experiment with lowering heroin risks by providing safe drug houses. Plus, a default setting in Microsoft Excel has caused errors in a whole lot of genetics research papers.
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