Bringing human-like reasoning to driverless car navigation
By: Rob Matheson May 23, 2019 To bring more human-like reasoning to autonomous vehicle navigation, MIT researchers have created a system that enables driverless cars to check a simple map and use visual data to follow routes in new, complex environments. Credit: Chelsea Turner With aims of bringing more human-like reasoning to autonomous vehicles, MIT […]
Google’s Duplex Uses A.I. to Mimic Humans (Sometimes)
By: Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz May 22, 2019 The New York Times found that some 25 percent of Google’s controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans in call centers. Google has come a long way in making their automated calling feature sound exactly like a real person, but the report […]
This Toilet Will Predict if You’ll Have Heart Failure
By: Erin Biba May 22, 2019 People with heart disease are notoriously bad at monitoring their health on their own. In fact, 45 percent of all patients who are released from the hospital with congestive heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 90 days. This is not only a problem for heart patients’ quality […]
Third Gene-Hacked Baby’s Impending Birth Has Scientists Scrambling
By: Dan Robitzski May 22, 2019 Baby Shower When the now-infamous Chinese scientist He Jiankui brought twin gene-hacked baby girls into the world, the scientific community and world governments condemned his research and insisted on stronger safeguards to keep it from happening again. Now, CNBC reports that the next gene-hacked baby from He’s lab is […]
The robots are coming – and they’re (potentially) after your job
By: Ian Hall May 22, 2019 ‘You want your robot to be smarter than the other team’s robot’: advice that sounds like it belongs to a participant in combat competition TV show Robot Wars. But, actually, it’s the increasingly competitive and technology-affected situation that many investment professionals will face in the workplace – and need […]
Threat or promise? E-auto boom could cost industry jobs
By: David Mchugh May 22, 2019 Over 115 years the auto industry in the east German town of Zwickau has lived through wrenching upheavals including World War II and the collapse of communism. Now the city’s 90,000 people are plunging headlong into another era of change: top employer Volkswagen’s total shift into electric cars at […]
Robots activated by water may be the next frontier
By: Columbia University May 22, 2019 New research from the laboratory of Ozgur Sahin, associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University, shows that materials can be fabricated to create soft actuators — devices that convert energy into physical motion — that are strong and flexible, and, most important, resistant to water damage. […]
Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction
By: Amy Orben, Tobias Dienlin, and Andrew K. Przybylski May 21, 2019 Abstract In this study, we used large-scale representative panel data to disentangle the between-person and within-person relations linking adolescent social media use and well-being. We found that social media use is not, in and of itself, a strong predictor of life satisfaction across […]
The cryptocurrency startups trying to save Argentina from itself
By: Kristin Majcher May 21, 2019 A 1988 hit by the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo gave Buenos Aires a nickname that still sticks today: “La Ciudad de la Furia,” or the City of Fury. The “fury” of Buenos Aires is evident in the uneven quality of everyday life here. It’s not uncommon for strikes […]