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3 killed, 4 injured as Strong River bridge in Mississippi collapses during demolition work, sheriff says

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Yahoo Sports Bulls' Lonzo Ball ready for NBA return after surgeries, missing more than 2 seasons: 'It's all behind me now' Lonzo Ball will take the court for the first time in more than two years on Wednesday night in the Bulls' preseason game against the Timberwolves.

Boston Dynamics teams with TRI to bring AI smarts to Atlas humanoid robot Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) Wednesday revealed plans to bring AI-based robotic intelligence to the electric Atlas humanoid robot. Last September, TechCrunch paid a visit to TRI's Bay Area campus for a closer look at the institute's work on robot learning. In research revealed at last year's Disrupt conference, institute head Gill Pratt explained how the lab has been able to get robots to 90% accuracy when performing household tasks like flipping pancakes through overnight training.

Doctors complain of IT 'in the stone age' The United Kingdom's NHS - the world's largest public health service - is working on creaking IT infrastructure, doctors tell the Financial Times. "I am at a top London hospital and yet at times I feel as though we are operating in the stone age," one doctor tells the FT. For now, however, one doctor, talking with the FT, compares the odds of an NHS hospital being properly equipped to a coin toss.

Kenya's Octavia gets $3.9M seed to remove carbon from air In Africa, Octavia Carbon, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup is leading the efforts. Octavia, founded in Kenya two years ago, builds DAC machines that it uses to capture carbon, a greenhouse gas that is the biggest contributor of global warming, from the air for storage underground. Octavia, which begun capturing carbon in February after a period of developing the tech, now plans to build more machines to add to its existing two devices with a carbon capture capacity of 50 tonnes per year.

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