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With five days to go until the Paris Agricultural Show, angry farmer sin the north of France are keeping the pressure on the French government, driving a hundred tractors on main roads near Dunkirk. With five days to go until the Paris Agricultural Show, angry farmers in the north of France are driving a hundred tractors on main roads near Dunkirk. At the call of the unions FDSEA 59 and the Young Farmers, they are heading towards the regional authority on environment, planning and housing in Gravelines to protest a project to extend the port of Dunkirk, which threatens to close down several farms. IMAGES
Early morning Thursday, a convoy of French farmers on their tractors gets on a motorway in the Yvelines department, about an hour drive from Paris, to slow-down traffic and accentuate pressure on the government. IMAGES
You may have seen the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics, but did you know that Russian robotics engineers have come up with their own humanoid robot? This is FEDOR the android robot that can drive, saw, drill, weld, use keys to open locks, and even put out a fire with an extinguisher. FEDOR, which stands for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, was designed and tested by the Fund of Prospective Research in Moscow and may be the first robot sent to work in space. FEDOR's secret specialty is that, apart from being able to function autonomously, he can also be controlled by a human from an avatar suit. A human operator can transmit movements to the robot for especially delicate procedures, such as turning a key in a lock. The FEDOR project was started in 2014. The cyborg was originally conceived as a rescue robot. However, as the project developed, engineers announced that the machine could be used in various environments and potentially for military purposes and education. It's reported that Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin saw the project and decided that FEDOR is the perfect candidate to be the first Russian robot to be sent to work in space on the International Space Station.
Showing off how rugged its hard drives are ioSafe followed up last year's hard drive shootout with an electrocution.
We pit the all-wheel drive Audi RS5 against the BMW M4 in this drag race... but for an extra bit of fun, an E92 BMW M3 turned up to join in! Place your bets and find out which comes first by hitting play!http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/audi/rs5/92610/audi-rs5-vs-bmw-m4-bmw-m3-drag-race
Crowds of people gather for an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. IMAGES