Robot hand learns real world moves in virtual training

Researchers backed by Tesla Inc founder Elon Musk and Silicon Valley financier Sam Altman have found a novel way to use software to teach a human-like robotic hand new tasks, a discovery that could eventually make it more economical to train robots to do things that are easy for humans. Miles Addy reports.

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Breakingviews TV: The PE dilemma

Jeff Goldfarb and Richard Beales discuss Carlyle’s new, biggest-ever $18.5 billion private equity fund, and why publicly traded firms may be leading the charge towards larger, more diverse portfolios.

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Giant panda celebrates sixth birthday at San Diego Zoo

Giant panda Xiao Wu gets spoiled with bamboo bread and presents on his sixth birthday. Rough cut (no reporter narration)

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Giant panda celebrates sixth birthday at San Diego Zoo

Giant panda Xiao Wu gets spoiled with bamboo bread and presents on his sixth birthday. Rough cut (no reporter narration)

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“It was the Russians”: DHS secretary

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says "it was the Russians" who meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections and vows to "not allow that to happen again." Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

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Manafort had more than 30 bank accounts: prosecutor

The jury was selected on Tuesday in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and opening arguments were began in the afternoon.

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Trump calls conservative Koch donors 'total joke'

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the powerful Koch-led political donor network as “globalist” and “a total joke,” rejecting the conservative group amid signs of a growing public fissure between the president and business over trade and immigration.

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