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TheAllen Institute for AIjust announced a new framework calledManipulaTHORthat helps in creating various real-life scenarios to train a robot arm in manipulating objects. This new testing suite — part of the AI2-THOR update — has more than 100 physics-enabledphysics-enabled rooms that have complex environments and obstructions that might get in the way of a robot arm while interacting with objects. ManipulaTHOR will enable faster training in more complex environments without needing to build real robots....

India opened up its vaccine registration program forhundreds of millions of people aged 18-45on April 28. However, most people in this age bracket could not find any slots for their vaccinations onthe official CoWin website, as most states and private hospitals haven’t obtained the required doses. To easily search for vaccination slots, ProgrammerBerty Thomas came up with a simple but effective website calledunder45.in. The site lets folks in search for places that are open for vaccination of the 18-45 age group....

We’ve seen WordPress do some amazing things, and almost every one of us has used Google Maps to explore the world around us. But Gabe Morton-Cook is taking these two elements and rolling them into one beautiful website, calledTravelogic. This project is intended to bring together three of my passions: Travel, Photography and Interactive Design/Development, as well as to be a method for sharing our travel stories with friends and family....

As a wedding photographer, I’ve often fantasized about shooting an entire wedding on an iPhone. I’ve even contributed shots from iPhones to albums and videos. Fantasizing about it wasn’t enough for the creators of this wedding video discovered byiPhone Download Blog. They went and shot an entire wedding on iPhone 4’s, including video and stills. If you look carefully you can see evidence that they’re using some sort of lens attachments to get fisheye effects on some shots....

It is Friday, ladies and gentlemen, and that means that it’s time for the classic and ever-running TNWmicrosoft Weekly Roundup. I know you look forward to reading it as much as I enjoy writing it. This week we are stuck in the shadow of the coming BUILD conference, for which Microsoft is hoarding all sorts of news and doodads. That in mind, our content today is a bit more whimsy than usual....