A humanoid robot takes part in a wushu contest during the second World Humanoid Robot Games at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing on Aug. 26. BEIJING - At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-footed bots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 meters. Spectators cheered the machines' improving capabilities and their meme-worthy stumbles. Two days after the Games ended, the People's Liberation Army's official newspaper drew its own conclusions from the show.

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Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater--you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan. Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the penne outweigh the needs of the stew, or the bun. While this would have been a gloriously fan-faithful reason for Le Creuset, the French-Belgian maker of colorful cookware for more than a century, to materialize its new limited-edition Star Trek collection, the range is being launched in celebration of 60 years of the cult sci-fi show . No matter, because when you have such stellar items as Vulcan oven mitts, shuttlecraft baking dishes, and--perhaps best of all--a cheese grater in the shape of the classic Trek communicator (which has somewhat wonderfully been nicknamed the "Communi-grator" by Le Creuset's design team), there's only cause for celebration in the cosmos. Going on sale today, to coincide with the space series' 60th anniversary, the limited-edition collection has actually been in development for years after Le Creuset approached Paramount to collaborate on the kitchen kit in time for the landmark birthday.

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Faisal Islam: Chancellor's attempts to boost vibes may limit tax rises The chancellor may have thought about shifting the venue of his first major speech this morning. It was an absolute and total coincidence that he chose to make it in the Coventry Manufacturing and Technology Centre (MTC), just a few minute's drive from the city's totemic HQ of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). In the event, no one was pulling punches. The 4,000 office-based job losses at JLR were confirmed as John Healey answered questions a few miles away. Healey chose to lean into it as an example of the global turbulence against which the UK needs more resilience. The difference between this chancellor and his predecessor was he also feels that stressing fiscal discipline should instil confidence in consumers, businesses and investors, and not sap it away amid rolling fears of tax hikes.

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