Moravec‘s Paradox

IBM announced Thursday that it will split into two separate companies – with one firm maintaining the three letters that date back nearly a century, and a newer publicly-traded operation that as of today is known simply as NewCo. IBM will be focused even more intently on innovating its cloud…

Evo Pop is an upcoming strategy game from ZeptoLab, the folks behind the Cut the Rope and the recently released Robotics! It's set to release for both iOS and Android in November, though you might be able to download it on the latter right now. Evo Pop will see players…

Scientists from the University of Maryland applied a language processing system to the movements of a riboswitch molecule pictured here, to understand how and when the molecule takes different forms. Credit: Zachary Smith/UMD By applying natural language processing tools to the movements of protein molecules, University of Maryland scientists created…

IMAGE: University of Maryland researchers used an artificial intelligence system to create an abstract language from the constant motion of biological molecules, such as the lysozyme molecule shown here. This language... view more  Credit: Image credit Zachary Smith/UMD By applying natural language processing tools to the movements of protein molecules, University…

DoNotPayDoNotPay, the robot lawyer famous for getting you out of parking tickets, is back with a new service. And this time, DoNotPay wants to scan your emails to save you money. It’ll help you unsubscribe from costly services in one click, or join class action suits against spammers—all without changing…

10/7/202007:00 AMSanchit Mullick, Associate Vice President, InfosysCommentary50%50% Here's how IT and business leaders can strategically embrace artificial intelligence to build a foundation of resilience. Image: Mclittle - stock.adobe.com Responding to any crisis involves being able to predict the impact of disastrous events and being well prepared to handle challenges under…

Mike Rose, founder of Descenders and Hypnospace Outlaw publisher No More Robots, has a bit of an obsession with data. Even when he worked at Gamasutra he would poke at the black boxes in which the game industry held its coveted metrics, and reverse-engineer stats in creative ways to unearth valuable data. Listen now on iTunes, Google…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Tom McTague in The Atlanticon a teflon PMThe Unsinkable Boris Johnson“Pundits continually predict that the laws of political gravity will kick in for Johnson, that this is the time…

Welcome to Stapled Cinema, our new ongoing series celebrating the valiant adaptations of one sequential art form into another. Comic book movies are seemingly everywhere. We’re uncovering the beauty in the best (and worst) attempts that tear the staples from comics in a dash to splash their panels upon the…

30-second summary: Some people fear that artificial intelligence will take their job, but this won’t happen if AI is used as an enabler instead of a replacer Jeff Kofman,CEO of Trint, an AI speech-to-text platform, discusses how to use AI effectively across various industries Tools like Trint have exploded within…