Moravec‘s Paradox

Welcome to Bernard Keane's Side View, a curated guide to new and overlooked content on politics, policy, and public affairs. This week, I have mostly been reading about Texas power failures, Polish Holocaust denialism, the possibility of victory for the Taliban and, just for some light relief, putting guns on robot dogs.…

"Squadron, prepare for battle" by Damien McFerran 3 hours ago© Harmony Gold Anime fans will have very mixed feelings about the Robotech series; while it served as an introduction to Japanese animation for many during the '80s, it is also seen as a butchering of famous franchises (Macross being one)…

If you asked IT and business executives to name some of the items on their lists of priorities for this year, there's a good chance "add more automation" would be one of them. Automating processes to complete tasks more quickly and accurately and at the same time reduce costs, has…

Enlarge / Perseverance's two Mastcam-Z imagers (in the gray boxes) are part of the rover's remote sensing mast. The seven minutes of terror are over. The parachute deployed; the skycrane rockets fired. Robot truck goes ping! Perseverance, a rover built by humans to do science 128 million miles away, is…

(This article contains major spoilers for “Previously On,” the eighth episode of the Marvel series “WandaVision”) Well, that sure was a doozie. For the next-to-last episode of “WandaVision” on Disney+, we got a bit of a lore dump as Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) took a trip through Wanda Maximoff’s (Elizabeth Olsen)…

Intellectual property is the lifeblood of entertainment, and Hollywood badly needs a transfusion. Stuck recycling the same ideas and producing the same franchises, Hollywood is now looking to podcasts, news articles, and even songs and paintings to dredge up stories that could be hits with global audiences. Finding the right…

A baby shark found dead off the coast of Indonesia has a striking mutation that gives it the appearance of a human face. The shark likely died because its mutation made it much more difficult to survive, dooming it to a very, very short life. The shark may have been…

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Mike Blake/Reuters Shares of Nvidia fell on Thursday as investor concerns about a global chip shortage weighed on an otherwise positive earnings report. The stock fell 3% in premarket trades on Thursday. The semiconductor industry has been struggling to meet global demand, thanks to an unexpected boom in online activity…

Big Hit Entertainment is taking steps to enhance fans’ digital experience! On February 25, Supertone CEO Lee Kyo Gu announced that Big Hit Entertainment had invested 4 billion won (approximately $3.6 million) into the company. Supertone is an artificial intelligence (AI) audio company that provides world-renowned voice synthesis and real-time…