Moravec‘s Paradox

For many years, Jaleh Bisharat says her only outlet for natural beauty products was Whole Foods and farmers markets. Now she almost has too many options for products and outlets. The clean beauty industry, which favors products free of potentially harmful chemicals that can be found in mass-market cosmetics and skin care products, has…

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any possible shape, paving the way for a new type of multifunctional material that could be used in a range of applications, from robotics and biotechnology…

Image via Nintendo Ever since Super Metroid, Samus Aran’s games have been a prevalent part of the speedrunning community, and Dread is no exception. The newest game has a few baked-in tricks you can use to skip large portions of the game, and the first one comes right at the…

A Chatbot with a goal to Transform Misconceptions about Islam, As a virtual friend, is listen without making any judgment or getting bored of your questions. Adam A.I. stands up to its uniqueness as the empathetic conversational bot distinctive from others, symbolizing the first human being, thanks to Generative Pre-trained…

Quantized ColumnsBy Robbert DijkgraafOctober 20, 2021 Today’s powerful but little-understood artificial intelligence breakthroughs echo past examples of unexpected scientific progress. Maggie Chiang for Quanta Magazine Is artificial intelligence the new alchemy? That is, are the powerful algorithms that control so much of our lives — from internet searches to social…

This is a season absolutely spoiled for mecha series, which makes this entire cour a unicorn in the modern landscape. While the discourse around the “death” of the subgenre itself is tiresome and myopic, it's undeniable that the options for cool robot fighting have been pretty limited in the last…

A team of U.S. researchers has developed a reconfigurable swarm of identical low-cost four-legged robots — with directionally flexible legs and tail — that can be linked on demand and autonomously. Ozkan-Aydin & Goldman showed through a series of experiments that a swarm of chainable legged robots is capable of…

From new Artificial Intelligence-enabled software to track movements of Chinese patrols to integrating a range of ground and air-based sensors that look deep across the Line of Actual Control, the Army is stepping up surveillance capabilities in the Eastern Sector in the face of an increasingly aggressive PLA. As part…

Under Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the Federal Communications Commission is seeking to create new rules targeting spam text messages. Like another recent proposed rulemaking from the agency, the policy would push wireless carriers and telephone companies to block the spam before it ever gets to your phone. “We’ve seen a…

Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen wrote in blog post Sunday that the prevalence of hate speech on the platform had dropped by 50 percent over the past three years, and that “a narrative that the technology we use to fight hate speech is inadequate and that we deliberately…