[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: Southeast Asian hominins, dinosaurs, robots

[rfmcdonald]

• National Geographic reports on the discovery of animals slaughtered by mysterious hominins present in the Philippines some 700 thousand years ago. Who were they?


• National Geographic notes a new study suggesting that, before the Chixculub impact, the dinosaurs were doing fine as a group of animals, that they were not on the verge of dying out. The dinosaurs simply had bad luck.


• CityLab notes how the jobs typically filled by women, particularly, are especially vulnerable to roboticization.


• CBC recently reported from a conference in Las Vegas, where robots demonstrated their ability to fill any number of jobs, displacing human workers.


• Matt Simon at WIRED wrote about the potential for robot and human workers to co-exist, each with their own strengths.