A robot threw shade at Elon Musk so the billionaire hit back
A robot poked fun at Elon Musk but the billionaire didn't take it lying down. On Wednesday, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin spoke to Sophia, a robot developed by Hanson Robotics. It's a robot with a human...
View ArticleThe fantastic voyage of a bag of cells hot-wired to kill cancer
B OSTON — Dave Matthews describes his cancer as “the monster inside me.” It’s the one thing he cannot control. And over the summer, it began to look as though the monster would prevail. After six...
View ArticleGoogle Cannot Be Stopped
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, just announced one of the most impressive earnings reports in tech history. In the midst of a rough news cycle for the company—with concerns about false stories...
View ArticleTalking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin
The Trump Tower meeting is of keen interest to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, as he investigates Russian efforts to help Mr. Trump’s campaign. At least one participant at the meeting has...
View ArticleFirst charges filed in Mueller investigation
Washington (CNN)A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter. The...
View ArticleEntirely automated giant 3D printing and robotics rocket factory
Relativity Space wants is reimagining the way rockets are built and flown with massive 3D printing. * 100X fewer parts. * 10X faster iteration * entirely 3D printed Relativity is creating the first...
View Article5 things no one tells you about starting a startup
[This guest commentary is by Avni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Poppy.] There are things that I wish I had known before I had started my startups. Not because it would have changed my mind, but...
View ArticleTech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talent
The cutting edge of artificial intelligence research is based on a set of mathematical techniques called deep neural networks. These networks are mathematical algorithms that can learn tasks on their...
View ArticleUnroll.Me
After you sign up, see a list of all your subscription emails. Unsubscribe instantly from whatever you don’t want. After unsubscribing from what you don’t want, combine what you love into a beautiful...
View ArticleHacktoberfest 2015
Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software in partnership with GitHub. Here is how you can participate: We will be following up with you on November 1st to see how you did with...
View ArticleLearn the Basics of JavaScript with MakeCode
Without a doubt, one of the most valuable skills in our modern day world is being able to program. We are surrounded by technology; being able to program it bends it to your will. There are countless...
View ArticleQoobo, the weird cat robot, is just a wagging tail
Qoobo may be the perfect cat. It's soft, responsive, and will never scratch, dismiss, or leave you. It's also a robot. SEE ALSO: This super strong artificial muscle may bring us closer to lifelike...
View ArticleGoogle’s Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad
John Giannandrea, Google's head of artificial intelligence, told a conference audience earlier this year that his main concern with AI isn't deadly super-intelligent robots, but ones that discriminate....
View ArticleYou will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you think
I want to tell you straight off what this story is about: Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job. I don’t care what your job is. If you dig ditches, a robot will dig them...
View ArticleThe flying drones putting workers out of a job
Flying drones and robots now patrol distribution warehouses - they've become workhorses of the e-commerce era online that retailers can't do without. It is driving down costs but it is also putting...
View ArticleWe're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
Zeynep Tufekci 11,605 views • 22:55 • Subtitles in 1 languages Up next Details Discussion Details About the talk We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says...
View ArticleIt's Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending
It's Mueller time!This is for all those out there who cannot wait for the season ending of the gripping dumpster fire of a political shit show that is the current US administration. This video is...
View ArticleForget Washington. Facebook’s Problems Abroad Are Far More Disturbing.
In Myanmar, the rise in anti-Rohingya sentiment coincided with a huge boom in social media use that was partly attributable to Facebook itself. In 2016, the company partnered with MTP, the state-run...
View ArticleBionic Contacts: Goodbye Glasses. Hello Vision That's 3x Better Than 20/20
In Brief The Ocumetics Bionic Lens essentially replaces a person's natural eye lens, given them the ability to see three times better than 20/20 vision. Though not yet available to the public, human...
View Article“Superhero” robot wears different outfits for different tasks
From butterflies that sprout wings to hermit crabs that switch their shells, many animals must adapt their exterior features in order to survive. While humans don’t undergo that kind of metamorphosis,...
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