As achievements go, learning how to pick up objects doesn’t sound quite as impressive as twice beating the world Go champion – it is, after all, something the average toddler can do. But it’s the fact that the robots themselves figured out the best way to do it using neural networks that makes this notable.

A recent Google report spotted by TNW explains how the company let robot arms pick up a variety of different objects, using neural networks to learn by trial-and-error the best way to handle each. Some 800,000 goes later, the robots seemed to have it figured out pretty well …

MyMe is a clip-on wellness and personal assistant device that receives, decodes and categorizes video and audio input (without making you look silly).

Just what is ‘Lex/OS’ up to?

Not sure that I buy into this one. Hand gestures like anything else is often influenced by someone’s background, culture, etc. It is a known fact that in the US we have terrorists of all backgrounds not just from a particular origin, etc.; so not sure that it would have picked someone like Timothy McVeigh as a terrorist. https://lnkd.in/b4kws3t show.

Gruesome videos of terror-driven killings have grown increasingly common over the years, and, cloaked by a scarf or a hood, the perpetrators can be difficult to identify. Researchers in Jordan have now developed a way to recognize terrorists when they make the commonly displayed ‘V’ sign.