Moravec‘s Paradox

The Game of Thrones ended this week and with it potentially tons of HBO Now subscriptions as well. That was clearly the morning-after chatter on Twitter. Why continue paying now that the show is history? To pay or not to pay and why do I have to subscribe t…

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Robots are pretty good at carrying out specific actions, provided we give them specific instructions first. But could robots and humans work together more seamlessly if the machines were able to take their cues from human movement, say like a furniture remova…

You know the drill: new month, new movies. June is coming, and bringing it with it a whole new slew of titles you’ll be able to stream on Netflix. Check out the best new TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in June 2019. Movies Coming to Netflix in June…

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. is considering cutting off the flow of vital American technology to as many as five Chinese companies including Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., widening the dragnet beyond Huawei to include world leaders in video surveillance…

Of the 20-some-odd public figures gunning for the Democratic presidential nomination this U.S. election cycle, Andrew Yang stands left of center for his decidedly progressive views. The New York native’s signature policy — one inspired by futurist Martin Ford…

Facebook has revealed the fruits of its robotics division, driving artificial intelligence research and coming up with some creepy bug-like ‘bots in the process. Though robots capable of walking, using tactile sensors to better manipulate new objects, and eve…

One of Facebook's AI projects involves getting a robotic arm to use "curiosity" to learn better. James Martin/CNET Inside a small lab at Facebook's Menlo Park, California, headquarters, a black-and-red robotic arm moves back and forth but struggles to land …

Facebook says it’s using robots to help advance its work in artificial intelligence. The work is similar to the (mildly creepy) autonomous robot work going on at Boston Dynamics, but different in that Facebook is opening up its research to everyone in the fie…