Alison E. Berman
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The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 2)
AUGMENTED REALITY
Google Unveils ARCore, Its Answer to Apple's ARKit, But It Will Be Hard to Catch Up
Mark Sullivan | Fast Company
“With ARCore, Google says, developers can create AR apps and games that run...
Finish Him! MegaBots’ Giant Robot Duel Is Finally Going Down
It began two years ago when MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti donned American flags as capes and challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel in a YouTube video that immediately...
The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 26)
BIOTECH
Lab-Grown Food Startup Memphis Meats Raises $17 Million From DFJ, Cargill, Bill Gates, Others
Paul Sawers | Venture Beat
“Meat grown in a laboratory is the future, if certain sustainable food advocates have their way,...
This Inspiring Teenager Wants to Save Lives With His Flying Robots
It’s not every day you meet a high school student who’s been building functional robots since age 10. Then again, Mihir Garimella is definitely not your average teenager.
When I sat down to interview him...
The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 19)
BIOHACKING
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
Andy Greenberg | WIRED
"Regardless of any practical reason for the research, however, the notion of building a computer attack—known as an 'exploit'—with nothing but the information stored...
The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 12)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II Into an AI Research Lab
Darrell Etherington | TechCrunch
“StarCraft II is such a useful environment for AI research basically because of how complex and varied the games can...
The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 5)
TRANSPORTATION
A Pod Races Through the Hyperloop for the First Time Ever
Alex Davies | WIRED
“Once loaded into a 1,600-foot-long concrete tube in the Nevada desert, the pod hit 192 mph in about 5 seconds, using...
The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 29)
AUGMENTED REALITY
$99 Headset Could Be Augmented Reality's First True Chance at a Mass Market
Rachel Metz | MIT Technology Review
“The headset, made by Mira, is like an AR version of Samsung’s Gear VR, which gives users...
The Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 22)
BIOTECH
Verily Robot Will Raise 20 Million Sterile Mosquitoes for Release in California
Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review
“To help breed and release the mosquitoes, Verily has partnered with Kentucky-based Mosquito Mate and Fresno’s mosquito control...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 15)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind's AI Is Teaching Itself Parkour, and the Results Are Adorable
James Vincent | The Verge
"The research explores how reinforcement learning (or RL) can be used to teach a computer to navigate unfamiliar and...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 8)
DIGITAL MEDIA
Make Hollywood-Quality Animations at Low-Budget Prices With This Motion Capture Suit
Sarah Buhr | TechCrunch
"You might be familiar with the industry-standard green man MoCap suit many Hollywood studios use to capture the movement of...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 1)
DRONES
MIT Is Building Autonomous Drones That Can Both Drive and Fly
April Glaser | Recode
"The drones, which were built at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, also include route-planning software that can help calculate...
