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- Yahoo Style
4-year-old Penelope Disick Has Embraced the Lip Ring Trend
Little Penelope Disick has followed in her aunt Kim's foot steps and has joined the lip ring trend, as seen in mom Kourtney's latest Instagram post.
- Superfan TV
5 Kristen Wiig Characters We Hope She Brings Back to ‘SNL’
Kristen Wiig is back on SNL, but it’s for one night only. The hilarious comedian will host November 19’s episode with musical guest The xx. Wiig joined Saturday Night Live in 2005 during the 31st season and was a fan-favorite cast member until her jubilant 2012 send-off.
Psychics Prosper as Economic Fears Attract New Clients
In this challenging economy, when U.S. unemployment is far too high and our national and personal bank balances are much too low, one profession that continues to thrive -- and perhaps even benefit from all the uncertainty -- is psychics. According
The Queue: The dating game
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today. Today's edition of The Queue is one part off-topic and two parts on-topic, but each and every part is worth it. Trust me on that one. Oh, and there's a couple more bad words than usual. You have been warned. I hope none of you are too scandalized by it. Windswept asked... "There is this girl I like that works at the mall, I want to ask her out but I don't know how. What would YOU do?"
Meet Penelope, the new medical assistant robot
Just in case EMMA the nursebot didn't do it for you, there's a new medical assistant bot in town, codename: Penelope. This metallic medico may have all the personality of a swinging desk lamp, but it may also save your life. Penelope is trained to respond to a surgeon's commands for specific tools; if a surgeon calls out for a scalpel, then Penelope will hand it to her. Or if that's too practical for you, try Robotic Surgial Tech's explanation that its robot is like an "Instrument Server." As the company states on its site: "Much as a web server manages and serves web pages, Penelope manages and serves surgical instruments. Penelope processes requests for instruments as they come in. The instrument is located, fetched, and delivered." So does that mean if multiple surgeons ask for multiple items then it will suffer a distributed denial of service attack and start to 404?[Via Robot Gossip]