As an IVF father, I have seen the end-to-end process, and this is just the easy bit. Over-stimulating egg release and harvesting them comes first, which is where the bulk of the cost comes from (the necessary drugs followed by surgery), and then there is embryo nurture and monitoring for a few days followed by implanting back in the mother afterwards. The direct injection of sperm into egg (ICSI = intracytoplasmic sperm injection) is not even used in many cases, except where for some reason the egg will not fertilise from outside contact. This robot saves less than an hours work for the person with probably the lowest salary on the team other than the receptionist.
As for "Think of a box where sperm and eggs go in, and an embryo comes out five days later," the same problem applies as with existing IVF: getting the eggs.
I'm not knocking this as a technological advancement in micro-manipulation, but advances in increasing the success likelihood of the first and last stages would be preferred by most IVF 'customers'. It is an expensive process which is more likely to fail than not.

You just need the right imagination. Try being adaptible. If you thing the hex is the fifth, what are the others?

The braille was so obvious I did not consider it might be the first layer. I thought the colour of the characters in the two rings was the 4th layer. I have decoded one of them, but not the other. One of them has two colours, and can be interpreted as binary to give a 10 character message, 8 of which are obvious in meaning, but the middle two are odd. Might be a clue to the outer ring colour problem, which is three colours if you look carefully, including on the two dots.

That makes:
Layer 1 = braille = single word clue to layer 2
Layer 2 = Outer ring of letters (DVX...) = message and clue to layer 3
Layer 3 = Inner rung of letters (BGO...) = message and clue to layer 4
Layer 4 = Hex (join each row together to give a single string) = message
Layer 5 = Colour pattern in rings. Inner ring = short message. Outer ring = ???

Anybody checked for a loose wire on the back left antenna?

Being permanently on summer time means, of course, that Greenwich will never be on Greenwich Mean Time. Something sounds a little wrong with that to me.

My current vehicle has a range of about 650 miles before I consider it time to refuel, and refilling the tank takes about two minutes. Battery technology is improving, and it might reach equivalence in eight years, but I am not optimistic.

My son (just turned 5) never really liked megabloks, duplo or any of the bigger 'block' construction toys, but loves standard Lego. He has quite a few Lego City sets, so generally vehicles, and a large bag of ebay sourced 'mixed bricks'. Nothing from any commercial tie-in theme, which he wouldn't recognize anyway. He is capable, when in the mood and not too tired, of following even quite long instruction books through, although it is a rare construction that does not then get heavily modified afterwards.
If he is particularly lucky he gets to play with 'Daddy Lego'. My old technic sets, some of which are approaching 40 years old.

Do not encourage solar observing at a young age. Wait until they are old enough that you can trust them to carefully inspect the filter for damage and check it is properly in place before EVERY time they use it. Besides which, cheap filters will only let you safely see a silhouette of the sun, so are good for transits or eclipses, but that is about all. If you want to see proper solar activity you need a narrow bandwidth filter for the hydrogen alpha (other wavelengths are available) wavelength, and they are very expensive.

It is still how I test a 9V PP3 style battery. If it hurts, the battery is still new. Not a method I would encourage my five year old son in though. Yet.

Given the personality correlations between success business leaders and psychopaths, then, if there is any genetic basis for these traits, which does not seem totally unlikely, what is the likely outcome of recruiting more psychopaths than there are leadership positions to fill?

All my kit used to be connected to surge protectors, but having had the main trip switch go a number of times I got a professional electrician in. He commented that surge protectors and RCD units (not old fashioned fuse-wire) in the main distributor box can interact to cause slight earth leakage, leading to the trip. Sure enough, changing the surge protectors back to standard 4/6/8-ways stopped the frequent failures.
In addition, and this is UK specific and may not apply in the US, the way the national grid is designed prevents the sort of high spike on the live connector that a surge protector is meant to block. In the unlucky case of a _very_ close lightning strike to the ground there will be a surge, but it will come through the earth wire, not the live, which the surge protector cannot stop. Phone line spike protection can still be a good idea though.

Yes, CO2 does increase the heat capacity of the atmosphere. Yes, industrial processes release CO2.
HOWEVER, if that was all there was to it, the global temperature increase would pretty small. (Probably measurable over a long enough period, but not enough to have a serious impact.) It is the supposed secondary effects that are claimed to produce the large changes. e.g. A slight increase in temperature increases the water evaporation rate faster than it increases the rainfall rate, so leads to an increase in cloud cover, and clouds trap heat, so the temperature goes up further. To model this sort of thing accurately you need a very good model, otherwise you get answers that are probably wrong, although also possibly just what your assumptions lead you to think it should. Early climate models did not even include clouds, and the above chain reaction was used outside the model as an 'obvious' argument for global warming. I have not looked at the current state of models for some time, but even after some started to incorporate cloud modelling they still did not include atmospheric dust. Higher temperatures lead to more ground dust, which is picked up by the wind and becomes nucleation centres for rain drops to form on, reducing the cloud cover again, counteracting the above change.
Why do you think that the models have not predicted the pause in the temperature rise for most of the last two decades, where explanations such as deep ocean heat absorption are now been suggested? It is because the models are incomplete, and so provide forecasts that may sometimes coincide with reality and sometimes diverge.
My background is as a physicist, and I used to produce computer models. Just simple ones of a dozen electrons, but changing a few parameters slightly could lead to large changes of behaviour. When somebody says that drastic action needs to be taken I need more assurance than 'The computer model says so.'

If the hack is at such a level that they have system write access (e.g.. to place taps on communications) then the defence case has a much stronger case just by asking whether the the same channel could be use to plant evidence, whether by the law enforcement agency or by a third party.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. From the article:
For example, parents may not be aware that network-level blocking systems are unable to selectively filter ‘encrypted’ traffic. ‘Https’ encryption is a way to make traffic unreadable by intermediaries such as ISPs. It is widely used in online financial transactions, for example. It is also increasingly common in routine, everyday Internet use. New browsers are built to check if encryption is available, and if so, to use it. Encryption makes it impossible for an ISP to ‘check’ the web address the user is visiting.
For example, recently BT was ordered by a court to block customers’ access to ‘Newzbin2’. But that does not prevent people from visiting ‘https://www.newzbin.com’.

Somebody doesn't understand the difference between an address and a protocol.