[ad_1] Talking to Robots: Tales From Our Human-Robot Futuresby David Ewing Duncan We have no chance of escaping the coming robot revolution, nor should we want to. Our modern lives are already full of robots — they’re in our phones, our cars, hospitals and boardrooms, assisting everyone from factory workers to astrophysicists. They make our […]
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After Math: A wee bit of strategery
[ad_1] We are a slippery species. As this week's headlines evidence, if there's one thing humans are good at, it's getting around the established rules. [ad_2] Source link
We can engineer the Earth to fight climate change
[ad_1] End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the Worldby Bryan Walsh Grow out your apocalypse beard and strap on your doomsday sandwich board, we’re all gonna die! Humanity has always lived on knife edge, our species perpetually one war, one plague, one eruption, one meteor strike away from extinction. But should our […]
How big tech might monopolize AI
[ad_1] Who’s Afraid of AI?: Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machinesby Thomas Ramge Our modern world wouldn’t exist if not for machine learning. From telecommunications to transportation, medicine to aerospace, the accelerating advancement of artificial intelligence has proven a boon for humanity and the public good. However the same ability that allows […]
Things that shouldn’t cost this much
[ad_1] For when you need to justify spending $6,000 on an Apple Pro Display XDR and its stand. That’s a lot of money for Netflix to spend and a significant talent loss for HBO. But on the bright side, this deal does mean that Confederate is officially cancelled. But what if, and hear me out, […]
How legendary hackers wound up working for the CIA
[ad_1] Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the Worldby Joseph Menn The internet as we know it today would not exist but for the Cult of the Dead Cow. The cDc is among America’s oldest and most venerated hacking collectives. They invented hackivism, helped develop Tor, forced Microsoft […]
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 event by the numbers
[ad_1] Get a load of this absolute unit. This thing’s big enough to bludgeon an NYC subway rat and not even get your hands wet. Its AMOLED screen spans 6.8 inches, its Snapdragon processor draws on 12GB of RAM, its battery, a chunky 4,300 mAh. So yes, you will pay through the nose. Get your […]
After Math: Five big numbers (and one maddeningly small one)
[ad_1] During a week when Greenland's glaciers lost more than 12 billion tons of ice in a single 24 hour period, it seems only fitting that we take a look at the largest sums that splashed across Engadget's headlines. [ad_2] Source link
After Math: Never stop not watching
[ad_1] Even as the price of a Netflix subscription continues to creep steadily higher here in the States, the streaming service announced this week that it is rolling out a low cost plan for television fans in India. The only catch to the $3/month scheme is that you have to watch everything on your phone. […]
Modern surveillance and ‘the science of happiness’
[ad_1] The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the Westby Payal Arora Even as cities across the US grapple with the spectre of omnipresent, automated government surveillance, and the existential threat to civil liberties that the technology holds, a number of nations around the globe have adopted these tools to monitor the lowest, and coincidentally […]