Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas...
In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that "there's no room in American society" for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK. But an...
View ArticleRobotics pioneer Rodney Brooks debunks AI hype seven ways
Joost Swarte by Rodney Brooks October 6, 2017 We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics—hysteria about how powerful they will become, how quickly, and what...
View ArticleWill the Future of AI Learning Depend More on Nature or Nurture?
A self-driving car powered by one of the more popular artificial intelligence techniques may need to crash into a tree 50,000 times in virtual simulations before learning that it’s a bad idea. But baby...
View Article2017/2018 FIRST Song Parody Competition
FIRST is once again challenging our Community to help us #makeitloud during the third annual #FIRSTParody competition. We can't wait to see what you come up with this year! If you participated in prior...
View ArticleNew Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
Even as machines known as “deep neural networks” have learned to converse, drive cars, beat video games and Go champions, dream, paint pictures and help make scientific discoveries, they have also...
View ArticleHonda’s bipedal robot is designed for disaster relief
Honda has unveiled a new prototype disaster relief robot named E2-DR at IROS 2017 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in Vancouver, reports IEEE Spectrum. The company had...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Telescope Stopped by LED
Earlier this year a simple indicator LED brought the Keck 1 telescope, a 370 tons mass, to a halting stop. How exactly did an LED do this? Simple: it did nothing. As it so happens, [Andrew Cooper] was...
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In the natural world, matter is neither created nor destroyed, but things are transformed. The same is true in the economic world. When new technology destroys, it leaves behind a layer of ash in which...
View ArticleMaking friends with an alien (with tweets)
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View ArticleGet Very Used to Drone Usage in the Insurance Industry
One major insurance carrier already has a program underway to train claims adjusters to visit accident sites and fly drones to gather data. American Family Insurance started working on developing a...
View ArticleUber app can silently record iPhone screens, researcher finds
Uber has said it will remove code from its iPhone app that security researchers say could let the ride-sharing app record the screen -- even when the app is closed. Will Strafach, a security...
View ArticleIf schools don’t allow mistakes, where are they supposed to happen?
My first year of teaching (1999), Google had existed for a year, but it wasn’t used in most schools. Yahoo was the search engine of choice (with Ask Jeeves a close second). In the curriculum, poetry...
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View ArticleCreating brain cells to detect Tourette's: Scientists use genetic engineering...
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: Rutgers University Summary: Scientists have used a genetic engineering technique for the first time to create brain cells from the blood cells of...
View ArticleEFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning
Each month, the patent lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation shine a spotlight on one particular patent they believe is a drag on innovation. This month, they're looking at one of the...
View ArticleHow to Teach the Language of 3D Modeling and Design
Words are just labels, right? Well, sort of. Words can stir your emotions or make you giggle; however, they can also open doors for your students into career fields they never dreamed of - like...
View ArticleA world leader in AI just established an ethics committee for artificial...
In Brief DeepMind has announced the creation of new group focused on the moral and ethical implications of artificial intelligence. The goal is to answer important questions about the effect the...
View ArticleYou Can Program This AI With Nothing But Your Webcam
Everyone from politicians to tech companies themselves are pushing the "learn to code" agenda. On the one hand, it could create a more employable tech workforce, and on the other drive, it may serve to...
View ArticleWhy are companies turning to robotics? Speed and eliminating repetitive work
Six in 10 business workloads will be automated within five years, driven by 83% of IT decision makers who are prioritizing robotics in digital transformation strategies, according to a Redwood Software...
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