How the Crowd Taught a Robot to Build a LEGO Turtle
Humans learn by imitation. There’s no predicting what your kid will bring home from school or the park. What if machines could learn like kids? In fact, they can and do. Robots don’t go to the park or school (yet) — but they live in labs and can go online.
July 25, 2014 at 1:03AM
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Report: Valve Designs New Steam Controller
An analog thumbstick would bring Valve’s game controller more in line with traditional ones.
July 24, 2014 at 7:35PM
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Tinder Is Full of Robot Prostitutes
For escorts (and their backers), Tinder’s anonymity and ease of use make it a natural fit.
July 24, 2014 at 6:31PM
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How To Talk About Blowing Things Up In Cyberspace, According To The Military
Bombs are relatively simple, when you boil everything down. You drop them, and they explode. Offensive cyberweapons are little more complicated.
July 24, 2014 at 2:17PM
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Josh Topolsky of The Verge Is Joining Bloomberg
Josh Topolsky, the co-founder of the technology website The Verge, will join Bloomberg as the editor of a series of new online ventures it is introducing as part of a revamped journalism strategy.
July 24, 2014 at 10:23AM
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If TaskRabbit Is the Future of Employment, the Employed Are Fucked
The employment of the future is here, and it’s terrific for everyone except the people doing the work. TaskRabbit, which lets you outsource the things you don’t want to do to people who need money, is at the forefront of this chore revolution, and it’s already making some lives harder.
July 24, 2014 at 9:29AM
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Dwarf Fortress will crush your CPU because creating history is hard
While other game designers would spend hundreds of man-years slaving away on graphical assets, the Adams brothers have devoted themselves to developing systems. And it’s in these systems that the beauty of their game lies, systems that are capable of generating in minutes worlds that contain more richness than some entire game franchises. So how does it work?
July 24, 2014 at 9:29AM
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This Kinect-Powered Projector Guides Climbers Up A Wall
While it can’t physically get you up there, this augmented reality projector can at least point you in the right direction.
July 24, 2014 at 8:06AM
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How Your Security System Could Be Hacked To Spy On You
Security researchers are increasingly finding an alarming number of ways to hack your home using the very devices designed to protect you.
July 24, 2014 at 6:24AM
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The Rise Of Sleep-Tracking Technology
Sleep tracking is gaining steam in the tech world. Meet the newest entry.
July 23, 2014 at 10:48PM
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