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Dec 15, 2019

A robot read 3.5 million books to see how we describe men and women differently

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

About AI bias.


Yet AI bias is by itself a biased term, as if the machine/algorithm were to blame for human bias and/or an incorrect data set.

Dec 15, 2019

Star Wars Prosthetic Arm

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

This ‘Star Wars’-inspired prosthetic arm gives amputees the ability to feel again.

Dec 15, 2019

Surplus chromosomes may fuel tumor growth in some cancers

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Extra copies of some genes on excess chromosomes may keep cancer cells growing. Without those extras, cancer cells form fewer tumors in mice.

Dec 14, 2019

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover is getting a friend!

Posted by in category: space

NASA €™s Curiosity Mars Rover is getting a friend!

Next summer, #Mars2020 will be headed for the Red Planet. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity’s design, they aren’t twins. Curiosity was designed to learn more about past water on Mars, and Mars 2020 will look for signs of past life.

Dec 14, 2019

Sleeping Driver Spotted Behind the Wheel of Tesla in Massachusetts

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Another Tesla driver was caught sleeping behind the wheel on the highway.

Dec 14, 2019

Alzheimer’s memory discovery reveals function of brain area affected at onset

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Scientists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh have discovered the functions of the area of the brain in which Alzheimer’s begins, offering hope for the development of future treatments.

Alzheimer’s disease is the commonest form of dementia with more than 520,000 people in the UK suffering from the disorder.

The first symptoms of this progressive disorder (which results from degeneration of networks in the ) are problems remembering the things that have happened to us. This type of memory is called .

Dec 14, 2019

Miniature Brains Recently Sent Out Brain Waves for the First Time

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The brain organoids, about the size of a pea, can be used to better understand neurological diseases.

Dec 14, 2019

New prosthetic limbs go beyond the functional to allow people to ‘feel’ again

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience, transhumanism

Researchers develop bionic body parts that work like the brain to sense texture, temperature, firmness, location of objects.

Dec 14, 2019

The History of Artificial Intelligence [Documentary]

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCVRBDv4YI0

This video is the culmination of documentaries that cover the history and origins of computing-based artificial intelligence.

[0:44–52:22] — The Thinking Machine

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Dec 14, 2019

Machine Gun Drones Are Proof That We Live in a Cyberpunk Dystopia

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI

The Songar drone is a regular unmanned aerial vehicle — that just so happens to come with a mounted machine gun and 200 rounds of ammunition for riddling targets with bullets from the sky. Here’s how it works, and how its aerial targeting capabilities could shape up on the battlefield.