Andrew J. O'Keefe II
See What Happens When Killer Robots Are Born in a Car Factory
Could you imagine a robot takeover beginning anywhere other than a major automobile factory? It only makes sense—car plants are already some of the most automated, robot-packed spots on the planet.
"ANA" is a recent...
Staying Human in the Machine Age: An Interview With Douglas Rushkoff
At the dawn of the internet Douglas Rushkoff wrote the book Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace. A whirlwind tour through the lens of various web subcultures, Cyberia lay the philosophical foundation for...
Watch a Robot Show How Much You Suck at Foosball
The day foosball changes forever may be right around the corner.
Students and faculty at Brigham Young University just created an AI-assisted robotic foosball table. Initially intended to keep up with human players, the machine...
‘Hyper-Reality’ Is a Psychedelic Glimpse of Our Future on Digital Overload
If you could choose between a countless number of realities — would you choose this one?
The visceral experience of hopping between and mixing digital and physical worlds is beautifully depicted in a new...
New Digital Face Manipulation Means You Can’t Trust Video Anymore
What if you could alter a video of anyone to emulate facial and mouth movements that never existed in the source video—by yourself, at home, using a cheap webcam?
Meet Face2Face. Using RGB input...
Human-Like Robot Interviewed at SXSW—It’s Here to Help and Destroy [Video]
Meet Sophia, a new human-like robot exhibited by Hanson Robotics at the SXSW festival. Sophia has a variety of features that make interactions with a human appear ordinary.
Employing a number of facial expressions and...
See a Vision of the Jobless Future in This Beautiful Short Film
What would a fully automated future without jobs look like?
The Guardian recently released an animated short set in a time when machines dominate the workforce. The story follows the last human worker going...
Why Prospecting Asteroids for Precious Resources Is Now Possible [Video]
Today’s world is built on a foundation of material objects, and Earth is the only place to obtain the natural resources that modern life depends on. But maybe not for much longer.
Most of the...
Have We Finally Achieved Information Immortality?
The way information is stored and shared may now be forever changed thanks to a recent major five-dimensional (5D) digital data recording and retrieval announcement. Scientists from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre...
An Inside Look at the SU Labs Startup Accelerator: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
Do you consider yourself an entrepreneur aspiring to launch a startup? Increasingly, you’re not alone. Developing technologies are opening entrepreneurship up to more people, while successful new startups are popping up around innovation hubs...
Why Edward Snowden Showed Up to CES as a Robot, and What He Had...
While technologies such as smartphones, the internet, and social networks offer opportunities for more direct social action than ever before—they also amplify the power and impact of governmental institutions, political organizations and even terrorist...
Ray Kurzweil on Giving Future AI the Right to Vote [Video]
All technology impacts our individual daily lives one way or another—but perhaps no technology makes us question our collective humanity as much as artificial intelligence.
Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futurist, spoke to an audience during...
