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The Incredible Growth of Python
We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we...
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The solution to the Voynich manuscript
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[FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI
[An essay in my series on the Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.] We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. There is hysteria about how...
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Amphibious drone travels underwater and in the air
Drones are often referred to as unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs for short. Well, a team at Johns Hopkins University has created a UAAV – an unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicle. Named after the creature...
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New AI can work out whether you're gay or straight from a photograph
Artificial intelligence can accurately guess whether people are gay or straight based on photos of their faces, according to new research suggesting that machines can have significantly better “gaydar”...
View ArticleRussia’s Facebook Fake News Could Have Reached 70 Million Americans
Russian-funded covert propaganda posts on Facebook were likely seen by a minimum of 23 million people and might have reached as many as 70 million, according to analysis by an expert on the...
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Benny’s to close all 31 stores this year
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (WPRI) — Iconic Rhode Island retailer Benny’s Inc. will close its doors for good by the end of this year after nearly a century selling Southern New Englanders everything from car...
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A Requiem for Florida, the Paradise That Should Never Have Been
ORLANDO, Fla.—The first Americans to spend much time in South Florida were the U.S. Army men who chased the Seminole Indians around the peninsula in the 1830s. And they hated it. Today, their letters...
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tensorflow/agents
This project provides optimized infrastructure for reinforcement learning. It extends the OpenAI gym interface to multiple parallel environments and allows agents to be implemented in TensorFlow and...
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This Year’s Awesome Robot Stories From Around the Web (Through Sept 9)
Each week we scour the web for great articles and fascinating advances across our core topics, from AI to biotech and the brain. But robots have a special place in our hearts. This week, we took a look...
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Opinion
The coal mining industry is a conspicuous example. The practice of blowing the tops off mountains to get at underlying coal seams has been attacked for years by public health and environmental...
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Rewiring Nature With Synthetic Biology
Bioengineer Drew Endy shares his vision to reprogram biology as a precision manufacturer — and possibly change civilization as we know it.
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AI Researchers Disagree With Elon Musk's Warnings About Artificial...
In Brief When Elon Musk told U.S. governors on Saturday that artificial intelligence (AI) is mankind's biggest threat, the warning didn't fall on deaf ears. At least AI researchers caught it. Now...
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The Lily drone is kind of back
Remember the Lily drone? It was the drone a person could launch by throwing it in the air and then it would follow the user gallivanting around Dolores Park. It was also the company that couldn’t live...
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Grace Hopper, computing pioneer
Walter Isaacson’s new book is “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.” On Saturday, he’ll be at Harvard to deliver a 20-minute talk on computing...
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23andMe’s second act sits squarely in drug research and development
23andMe is best known for its $199 at-home spit-tube DNA test, but the consumer genetics company has been making strides in the last few years to get into drug development and research. The company...
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ドイツ科学の卓越性の秘密：Nature 最新号の記事を読んで（西川伸一）
9/10(日) 8:41 ツイート シェア ブックマーク 先日、大学を去る友人の最後の講義を聞きに出かけた。東京から離れた地方の大学を支え続けてきた友人の最後の講義は、彼の研究の話ではなく、30年にわたる自らの経験をもとに、日本の大学を高いレベルに保つためには、何をすべきかを、若い人たちに熱く語るものだった。...
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How the Intelligent Home of the Future Will Care For You
As Dorothy famously said in The Wizard of Oz, there’s no place like home. Home is where we go to rest and recharge. It’s familiar, comfortable, and our own. We take care of our homes by cleaning and...
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As Amazon Pushes Forward With Robots, Workers Find New Roles
But start-ups and researchers are scrambling to overcome the many remaining technical obstacles. Amazon even sponsors an annual contest to encourage more innovation in the category. Mr. Ford, the...
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In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own
“We’re learning from simulated models and then applying that to real work,” said Ken Goldberg, the Berkeley professor who oversees the university’s automation lab. The robot was far from perfect, and...
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