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Could an interactive swarm of flying “3D pixels” (voxels) allow users to explore virtual 3D information by interacting with physical self-levitating building blocks? (credit: Roel Vertegaal)

We’ll find out Monday, Nov. 9, when Canadian Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab professor Roel Vertegaal and his students will unleash their “BitDrones” at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Programmable matter

Vertegaal believes his BitDrones invention is the first step towards creating interactive self-levitating programmable matter — materials capable of changing their 3D shape in a programmable fashion, using swarms of tiny quadcopters. Possible applications: real-reality 3D modeling, gaming, molecular modeling, medical imaging, robotics, and online information visualization.

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In case you’re wondering…

There IS a big, goofy and stupid smile on my face!

But a word of warning: It’s a contagious condition that WILL infect you if you watch this trailer…

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Surprise: It’s Force Friday all over again! A new Japanese trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has arrived, with lots of new footage from the film (in theaters December 18) — including the first (non-commercial) appearance of C-3PO, another glimpse of Princess Leia, lots more BB-8, a big moment between two heroes, and some exciting shots of villain Kylo Ren wielding his cross guard lightsaber. Watch it above!

The new trailer begins, as the last one did, with desert scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley) on the desert planet Jakku — which, more than ever, harkens back to the desolate planet of Tatooine, where Luke Skywalker’s adventures began in 1977′s A New Hope. Unlike previous Force Awakens trailers, though, the focus in this latest glimpse is on Rey’s companionship with the droid BB-8, who does lots of endearing R2D2-esque beeping and chirping. In voiceover, we hear the pirate Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong’o, still unseen) asking Rey questions about her identity, one of which prompts an intriguing response: “I know all about waiting. For my family.” Sounds like Rey, long speculated by fans to be the daughter of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) or Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), was abandoned on Jakku for a reason. But why?

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Short Bytes: Artificial Intelligence holds a special place in the future of the humanity. Many tech giants, including Facebook, have long been working on improving the AI to make lives better. Facebook has decided to reveal its milestones in Artificial Intelligence Research in the form of a progress report.

It doesn’t matter if you are scared of AI like Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking or if you have an opinion same as that of Google’s chief of Artificial Intelligence that computers are remarkably dumb. Companies are still going through the byzantine process of training the machines and creating human brain algorithms. Meanwhile, Facebook has just announced its progress report.

Facebook’s AI research team (FAIR) will present at NIPS, an Artificial Intelligence conference, its report card and reveal the team’s achievements regarding its state-of-the-art systems. Facebook has been trying to improve the image recognition and has created a system that speeds up the process by 30% using 10 times less training data from previous benchmarks.

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