Will Letting AI Make Our Decisions Be the Best Decision We Make?
0 I confess: while writing this, I was intermittently procrastinating by browsing the overwhelming number of wireless headphone options on the market. As you may have heard, Apple just killed the...
View ArticleWatch Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot balance on one foot
Humanoid robots still have problems staying upright, especially in tricky situations, but it's evident that they're making some progress. IHMC has posted a video showing Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot...
View ArticleCybathlon: World's first 'bionic Olympics' gears up
It's being pitched as a bionic Olympics. Next month, contestants from across the world using robotic exoskeletons, electronic arms, powered wheelchairs and other tech will take part in the world's...
View ArticleHere's how artificial intelligence could solve the biggest problem in education
That idea isn't new. It's the same goal that's pushed universities to make more and more courses and degree programs available over the internet, making it possible for students living on the far sides...
View ArticleDIY Arduino Battery Capacity Tester
[ Play Video ]I have salvaged so many old lap-top batteries ( 18650 ) to reuse them in my solar projects.It is very difficult to identify the good cells in battery pack.Earlier in one of my Power Bank...
View ArticleMagazino’s TORU inventory-grabbing robot rolls into major German logistics...
If you work in any kind of storage facility or warehouse, there’s a better chance every day that you’re going to be working alongside robots. Magazino’s TORU is a good example of the latest generation:...
View ArticleNew Anthrax-Causing Clade Uncovered by Sequencing
By PerkinElmer Relocation Strategies for Mission Critical Lab Equipment for GLP/GMP Regulated Facilities By GQ Life Sciences IP Sequence Searching: Guidance for Attorneys By Swift Biosciences NGS...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence is hard to see
Why we urgently need to measure AI’s societal impacts By Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker How will artificial intelligence systems change the way we live? This is a tough question: on one hand, AI...
View ArticleWith PeppAR Waiter, SoftBank’s cute robot shows you your food in 3D before...
Crappy photos in restaurant menus be gone! Robots and augmented reality are here and ready to kill you off. That’s the plan for the future, at least, as PeppAR Waiter — an ambitious and forward-looking...
View ArticleNew System Could Bottleneck in Microprocessors
Engineers at North Carolina State University and at Intel have come up with a solution to one of the modern microprocessor’s most persistent problems: communication between the processor’s many cores....
View ArticleHow the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The...
View Articlexkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline
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View ArticleDutch police fight drones with eagles
Dutch police are employing eagles to take down illegal drones following successful trials. The force has become the first in the world to recruit birds to tackle the increasing number of drones...
View ArticleFord: Robotaxis in 2021, Self-Driving Cars for Consumer 2025
Mark Fields, the chief executive of Ford Motor Company, said his company would sell completely self-driving cars by about 2025, after first providing them via ride-hailing service, in 2021. Such cars...
View ArticleAggressive Quadrotors Zip Through Narrow Windows Without Any Help
Quadrotors are capable of doing some incredible stunts, like flying through narrow windows and thrown hoops. Usually, when we talk about quadrotors doing stuff like this, we have to point out that...
View ArticleHackaday SuperConference 2016, Sat, Nov 5 @hackaday @hackadayio #hackaday...
2016 Hackaday Superconference from Hackaday on Vimeo. Hackaday SuperConference 2016 Tickets, Sat, Nov 5, 2016. The Hackaday SuperConference is a gathering of hardware hackers, builders, engineers and...
View ArticleParalyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy
Doctors at the USC Neurorestoration Center and Keck Medicine of USC injected an experimental treatment* made from stem cells and other cells into the damaged cervical spine of a recently paralyzed...
View ArticleAtari Alumni Talk About the Tall Tales They Told to Launch an Industry
I thought I’d heard them all. Atari stories, that is. I started covering the company in 1981, followed company founders Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn through their other adventures, became personal...
View ArticleGut Microbiome at Birth is Predictor of Allergies and Asthma in Later Years
The impact of the gut microbiome on future health outcomes, especially in newborns, has been a controversial topic over the past several years, with scientists uncovering conflicting data about the...
View Article#FreePCB via Twitter to 2 random RTs
Posted on Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 in Free PCBs by DP Every Tuesday we give away two coupons for the free PCB drawer via Twitter. This post was announced on Twitter, and in 24 hours we’ll send...
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