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The teenage joy of late-night gaming sessions faces an uncertain future in China. Tech giant Tencent has launched a time-sensitive facial recognition system that prevents minors from binging on video games after dark. The platform, called “Midnight Patrol,” arrives amid a moral panic over gaming addiction among children in China. Under-18s are nowbarred from gamingbetween 10PM and 8AM, and must register for games using their real names and government ID numbers....

The Italian historic coachbuilder Pininfarina may have stopped designing cars for Ferrari, but has sure been busy lately. Just two weeks ago, the firmannouncedit’s going to create a 1000hp electric truck for the EV startup Hercules, and on Wednesday revealed its utterly sleekTeorema concept. The Teorema is Pininfarina’s first 100% virtually developed concept car and aims to offer “an all-new interpretation of fully electric, autonomous mobility.” Designed inside out The design teams in Cambiano and Shanghai created the interior experience before developing the exterior, starting from a scalableelectric skateboard chassis which allows the car to maximize in-cabin space....

We recentlywroteabout why using data on your mobile phone abroad is so expensive – and there’s a number of reasons why that’s the case. But it’s lucky for us there are Robin Hoods out there working tirelessly to help us circumvent this financial landmine and get one over on the mobile networks. One of these good Samaritans isTep, a startup that’s taking on the big guns by offering a service that ultimately removes European roaming costs across 16 countries for travellers....

Ich bringe! Is German for “I’ll be back!” Researchers at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, part of theGerman Aerospace Center(DLR), have built a scary looking anthropomorphic robot hand that can endure collisions with hard objects, such as getting hit with a baseball bat—a 66 G impact. Robustness, or Robustheit was the key word for the German researchers when designing this robot hand, which IEEE Spectrum’s EditorErico Guizzo believesmay be the toughest robot hand yet....

Terra, which was already arguably the best browser for the iPad, just got infinitely better with Twitter and Facebook sharing, and Instapaper, Read it Later and Readability support. I’ve been using Terra for months, and along with great tabs support, I’ve found it to be the fastest browser on the iPad by a far stretch – oh, and did I mention it’s completely free? That said, third party support has been noticeably lacking, but version 1....