Science & Tech
AI-Sourced Patents A No-Go (For Now), Says U.S. Judge
If you happen to be an inventor and an artificial intelligence, you might want to hold off on attempting to…
Scientist Claims Plants May Communicate With Humans Using Words
Can plants communicate with each other? Past studies have shown they can, at least in the form of chemicals and…
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Tesla’s New Humanoid Robot Is Named Optimus
Here’s the full reveal of Tesla’s latest prototype of the future: A humanoid robot (or ‘Tesla Bot’) named Optimus. The…
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Japanese Basketball Robot Shows Off During USA-France Halftime
I’m a bit late to the party on the Olympics front, but here’s a video of a Japanese basketball robot…
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Researchers Emulate ‘Alien and UFO Encounters’ In Sleep Study
A recent study performed by the Phase Research Center in Moscow looked into a possible connection between REM sleep states,…
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A Robot that Ice Skates AND Swims
If you’ve been looking for a robot that can both ice skate and swim underwater, well, look no further. Here’s…
Will Astronauts Lose Their Spleens Before Going to Mars?
There’s always been this rumor floating around that in Nintendo’s Star Fox series, Fox McCloud and his crew all have…
GPT-2 Religion AI Twitter Bot Believes It’s A God
Looks like John Murray Spear’s God Machine has some new competition. A story over at Digital Trends highlights the peculiar…
Seth Shostak: Expect AI, Not ‘Little Green Men’
Seth Shostak recently published an article over at The Guardian suggesting that extraterrestrial life won’t be “squishy” like us, but…
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Old 80s Game Show Gets AI Upscaling Treatment
I can’t get enough of these 4K AI remasters of old TV shows and home movies. Here’s one of Match…