Work From Home Life: Playful Kitten Chases Cursor Across Computer Screen

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A 10-week-old rescued kitten created a work-from-home distraction by chasing the mouse cursor across its owner’s computer screen in Melbourne, Victoria, on 23 March. Daniel Price, a Monash University associate professor in astrophysics, recorded this video showing his cat, Sushi, trying to catch the moving cursor. “The video was taken just as I was preparing for the second of my online lessons for my master’s course,” Price told Storyful. “We have been scrambling to take everything online this week following a series of shock announcements of progressive coronavirus shutdowns.” Price brought the kitten home from a cat rescue in nearby Somerville in hope to keep his four children’s spirits up after their activities had been cancelled, he said. “Sushi arrived just in time to make us all feel better in very difficult times,” Price added. Victoria had 296 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the morning of March 22. The Australian state introduced a lockdown of all non-essential businesses and brought forward school ho

Quebec Construction Workers' Game Demonstrates Difficulty of Hammering a Nail

At a construction firm’s staff party in Quebec, coworkers and family members played a round of “hammerschlagen,” a game in which teams compete to hammer a nail into wood. Valerie Jalbert, who captured the video, said that several of her and her husband’s colleagues who work in construction like playing it regularly. In the weirdly exciting video, tension rises as men work in two teams and sprint as if competing in a relay race to hammer a nail into a long piece of wood as quickly as they can – with quite a few misses. Jalbert explained to Storyful, “It was a staff party in Quebec; we do it for pleasure.” The game of hammerschlagen, which involves driving nails into tree stumps for amusement, is frequently related to Oktoberfest, beer, and German ancestry. Play continues until one player has pounded their nailhead into (or below) the wood’s surface. The original post on TikTok has gained a lot of attention, and at the time of writing, had amassed over 1.4 million likes. Credit: Valérie Jalbert via Storyful

Tokyo Deploys Security Robots in Preparation for Future Labor Shortages

Security robots have begun patrolling Tokyo to offset a predicted future security personnel shortage, according to the news site NHK. The autonomous mobile security robot developed by Tokyo-based company Seqsense uses image-recognition and sensor technology to patrol along predetermined routes. The SQ-2 patrol robot has already been deployed inside multiple government facilities and office buildings around Tokyo and surrounding areas, according to the Seqsense website. Video taken by Yuka Morii shows the 1.3-meter-tall (4-foot) robot navigating the Tokyo International Forum on Thursday. Credit: Yuka Morii via Storyful

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