John Roach of NBC News reports, “When all the humans went home for the day, a personal-assistant robot under development in a university lab recently built digital images of a pineapple and a bag of bagels that were inadvertently left on a table – and figured out how it could lift them. The researchers didn’t even know the objects were in the room. Instead of being frightened at their robot’s independent streak, the researchers point to the feat as a highlight in their quest to build machines that can fetch items and microwave meals for people who have limited mobility or are, ahem, too busy with other chores.” Read more

According to a new release out of the company, “Cyberplex Inc., a leader in data and analytics platforms for targeting mobile, social and online audiences, [Tuesday] announced that its subsidiary EQ Ads has partnered with Crowd Riff, a provider of real-time social media insights and content curation. Crowd Riff is a real-time platform for scoring, targeting, analyzing and publishing the most relevant and influential social media content. EQ Ads enables advertisers to connect directly with their customers by delivering real-time audience targeting solutions that incorporate highly relevant and predictive data and analytics. With this exclusive partnership for audience targeting, EQ Ads can now integrate Crowd Riff’s unique and proprietary data insights into its media platforms to enable innovative ad targeting solutions based on social media activity.” Read more