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AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It?
Bob: “I can can I I everything else.” Alice: “Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to.” To you and I, that passage looks like nonsense. But what if I told you this nonsense...
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Most Americans unaware that as U.S. manufacturing jobs have disappeared,...
Four of every five Americans (81%) know that the total number of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. has decreased over the past three decades, according to the survey of 4,135 adults from Pew Research...
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Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
The financier Bill Browder has emerged as an unlikely central player in the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Sergei Magnitsky, an attorney Browder hired to...
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Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover
Microsoft announced something very impressive last week: revenue for the company’s 2017 fiscal year (which ended June 30) increased 5% year-over-year. That may not seem particularly meaningful until...
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Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe
Half of the atoms making up everything around you are intergalactic interlopers. Large galaxies like our Milky Way amassed half their matter from neighbouring star clusters up to a million light years...
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A living programmable biocomputing device based on RNA
Synthetic biologists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and associates have developed a living programmable “ribocomputing” device based on networks of precisely...
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How to Prepare Preschoolers for an Automated Economy
Advertisement The UpshotJULY 31, 2017MEDFORD, Mass. — Amory Kahan, 7, wanted to know when it would be snack time. Harvey Borisy, 5, complained about a scrape on his elbow. And Declan Lewis, 8, was...
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Why Co-Parenting With Telepresence Robots Could Be a Fantastic Idea
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. There’s always something heart-wrenching when parents have to...
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TinyFPGA is a Tiny FPGA Board
We recently noticed an open source design for TinyFPGA A-Series boards from [Luke Valenty]. The tiny boards measure 18 mm by 30.5 mm and are breadboard friendly. You can choose a board that holds a...
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July 2017 fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
July, 2017 was a big month for robotics-related company funding. Four raised $588 million and 19 others raised $370.6 million for a monthly total of $958.6 million. Acquisitions also continued to be...
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Australian ‘budget bot’ wins Amazon robot challenge
An inexpensive robot has triumphed over its more sophisticated competition to win Amazon's annual Robotics Challenge. 'Cartman', a robot designed by the Australian Center for Robotic Vision (ACRV), was...
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Kuri Robot Brings Autonomous Video to a Home Near You
Most home robots are designed primarily for convenience and function. Not Kuri. Silicon Valley startup Mayfield Robotics designed Kuri specifically to be an adorable home companion. And that means it...
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Chemists have discovered how strange quantum effects have huge effects on...
by Emerging Technology from the arXiv August 1, 2017 One of the strange consequences of quantum mechanics is the phenomenon of indistinguishability—that two quantum particles can be impossible to tell...
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Welcome to ServoCity
GOLDEN TICKET GIVEAWAY! Every order placed on December 1st is entered for a chance to win $500 worth of Actobotics! Learn more Copyright 1999-2014 Robotzone, LLC. - All Rights Reserved ServoCity is a...
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It’s Done: Trump Signs HJR 69 into Law Allowing Slaughter of Alaskan Bear...
(EnviroNews Alaska) — Washington D.C. — On April 3, 2017, President Donald Trump signed House Joint Resolution 69 (HJR 69) into law. The legislation rescinds the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s...
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Apple’s Swift Playgrounds coding app now supports robots, drones, and toys
Apple today announced that its education programming iPad app, Swift Playgrounds, will soon support robots and drones. That means young kids and students will be able to write their own Swift code to...
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A solar eclipse is coming to America. Here’s what you’ll see where you live.
On Monday August 21, a solar eclipse will cut across the entire United States. And wherever you are, you will be able to see it. Even though the “totality” — the area where the sun is completely...
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Robots have been taking our jobs for 50 years, so why are we worried now?
Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. So why are politicians and business leaders only now becoming so worried about robots causing mass unemployment? Again, in an ideal scenario, humans...
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The Era of Human Gene Editing Is Here—What Happens Next Is Critical
Scientists in Portland, Ore., just succeeded in creating the first genetically modified human embryo in the United States, according to Technology Review. A team led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon...
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Algorithms that can sketch, recreate 3-D shapes
A University of British Columbia computer scientist has created a new software that can create a design sketch of an everyday object, addressing the challenge of accurately describing shapes. The...
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