The story of “robots eating jobs” is pervasive in the manufacturing industry—but it doesn’t paint the whole picture.
We’ve seen automation eat up jobs, but...
On February 25, the White House hosted a forum on the National Institute of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative. This is an ambitious research study...
Alzheimer’s may be the cruelest of brain diseases.
Decades before the first signs of dementia strike, toxic protein clumps called amyloid plaques have been slowly,...
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: Scientists Synthesize Bacteria With Smallest Genome Yet
Ewen Callaway | Scientific American
"Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known,...
On hearing words like “industry” and “manufacturing” most of us probably picture sprawling assembly lines, heavy machinery, groaning metal, and flying sparks. Few of...
ROBOTICS: How Emotion Research Is Pulling Robots Out of the Uncanny Valley and Into Our Lives
Selena Larson | The Daily Dot
"There are a number of reasons why...
Self-driving cars, delivery drones, 3D printing, robots, and artificial intelligence. All heavily used news headlines, and all technologies that will change the way people...
Unexpected convergent consequences…this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once. This post (sixth in a series of seven) is a...
ROBOTICS: Deep Learning Helps Robots Perfect Skills
KurzweilAI
"Deep learning enables the robot to perceive its immediate environment, including the location and movement of its limbs. Reinforcement...
We go to the movies to immerse ourselves in film. Cinematic surround sound, huge high-definition screens, total darkness. But it’s not full immersion. To...
Unexpected convergent consequences…this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once. This post (five of seven) is a look at...
A cognitive neuroscientist and his team at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California, seem to have achieved the impossible.
According to a press release, the team...
The battle between the FBI and Apple over the unlocking of a terrorist’s iPhone will likely require Congress to create new legislation. That’s because...
Historically, the only way to get anything into orbit has been by rocket; a process that is massively expensive, cumbersome, and presents a slew of constraints.
So,...
Reports released reveal that one of Google’s Gen-2 vehicles (the Lexus) has had a fender-bender (with a bus) with some responsibility assigned to the...
