Some Notes On Driving In The Final Days Before The Machines Just Do It For Us
“For a number of years I drove everywhere, then I moved to a place where I don’t. I am currently enjoying an extended visit to a place where I am driving again. Some things that seem to have changed in the last five years.”
March 11, 2015 at 09:38AM
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The National Gallery in London bans selfie sticks
The gallery says it has placed them in the same category as tripods, which are banned “in order to protect paintings, individual privacy and the overall visitor experience.”
March 11, 2015 at 07:30AM
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The “Harvard Sentences” Secretly Shaped the Development of Audio Tech
During World War II, the boiler room under Harvard’s Memorial Hall was turned into a secretive wartime research lab. Here, volunteers were subjected to hours of noise as scientists tested military communications systems. Out of this came the Harvard sentences, a set of standardized phrases still widely used to test everything from cellphones to VoIP.
March 11, 2015 at 07:30AM
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A Bot That Analyzes Your Bank Account And Saves Money For You
Mo’ money mo’ problems? Yeah, less money mo’ problems, too. That’s why we use Digit to help us save cash automatically. It’s a stress-free way of dealing with a stressful problem.
March 11, 2015 at 05:23AM
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The Science Behind a Crazy 6-Way Kidney Exchange
In a surgery worthy of the most convoluted Grey’s Anatomy plot, surgeons at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco completed two-day, six-way kidney transplant late last week.
March 11, 2015 at 04:48AM
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Shaping up: the future of US space transportation
Surprisingly, in 2014 the U.S. space transportation picture took shape in the sense that a viable way forward became clearer, although with no guarantee of ultimate success. NASA is not going to directly replace the Space Shuttle. That horse left the barn in 2009. The earlier demise of the Ares launch system as part of the cancellation of the Constellation program made that reality clear. Therefore, the question becomes, what now?
March 11, 2015 at 03:18AM
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The mind of a teacher and the body of a machine: One school’s experience with a telepresence robot
The teenager turned around. He was face-to-face with a teacher of an online course. Well, sort of. The teacher’s face was encased in a small video screen. His body was a four-foot-tall plastic tower on wheels.
March 11, 2015 at 01:48AM
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To stop the machines taking over we need to think about fuzzy logic
One of the current aims of AI research is to design machines that can mimic human thinking as much as possible. We want to better understand what goes on in human thinking, especially when it comes to decisions that cannot be justified other than by drawing on our “intuition” and “gut-feelings” — the decisions we can only make after learning from experience.
March 10, 2015 at 09:04PM
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Could Bitcoin ease the pain of Africa’s migrant workforce?
Over 30 million Africans live in the diaspora. They sent almost $40bn home in 2014, a figure that is likely to grow significantly in the coming years. And the cost of sending this money is high.
March 10, 2015 at 08:51PM
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Decisions on a knife-edge
Women predisposed to ovarian cancer can reduce their risk with surgery, but with it comes early menopause. To avoid this, some doctors propose delaying part of the procedure. But is this safe?
March 10, 2015 at 07:33PM
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