Curation
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...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 10)
ROBOTICS
Alphabet Is Selling Its Terrifying Robots to SoftBank
Mike Murphy | Quartz
"It’s unclear what SoftBank paid for Alphabet’s two robotics companies, but perhaps it sees a future where robots are as commonplace in our lives...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 3)
BIOTECH
These Color-Changing Tattoos Monitor Your Health, No Wearable Needed
Katharine Schwab | Fast Company
"Researchers are getting closer to turning the skin into an interface, while designers imagine what these interfaces might look like. Do they...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 27)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google's AlphaGo Continues Dominance With Second Win in China
Cade Metz | WIRED
"The last game of the series is set for Saturday. But before then, on Friday, the machine will play two others: one...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 20)
ROBOTICS
San Francisco Considers Ban on Sidewalk Delivery Robots
Steven Musil | CNET
"San Francisco is considering legislation that would put the brakes on delivery robots rolling across the city's sidewalks. The robots, once confined to sci-fi...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 13)
TRANSPORTATION
Have Scientists Discovered the Cure for Potholes?
Angela Chen | The Verge
"Self-healing asphalt has been tested on 12 different roads in the Netherlands, and one of these has been functioning and open to the...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 6)
AUTOMATION
Veo Robotics Gives Industrial Robots a Sixth Sense for Safely Working Around People
Devin Coldewey | TechCrunch
"Veo’s system uses a set of four depth-sensing cameras placed around the work space so as to give complete...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 29)
BRAIN
Facebook Launches "Moon Shot" Effort to Decode Speech Direct From the Brain
Larry Greenemeier | Scientific American
"If all goes according to plan—and that’s a big if—Building 8’s neural prosthetic would strap onto a person’s head,...
