Alison E. Berman
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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...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 24)
SPACE
NASA Finds Evidence of 10 New Earth-Sized Planets in Our Corner of the Galaxy
Sean O’Kane | The Verge
"A total of 2,335 of those have been verified as exoplanets, 21 of which are Earth-sized and...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 17)
SILICON VALLEY NEWS
Even Uber's Crisis Won't Kill Founder Worship in Tech
Davey Alba | WIRED
"Because of Uber's corporate structure, only Kalanick himself can really decide if he stays or goes. And the Valley has been...
