Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on January 05, 2026 Samir Abboud, chief of emergency radiology for Northwestern Medicine, thought he was already working at maximum speed. In a carefully honed routine, aided by voice dictation, he could finish writing an X-ray report in as little as 75 seconds. Then the Chicago-based health system rolled […]
A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms
By Bloomberg Published on November 18, 2025 Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” But beyond its playful antics, Spot’s ability to climb stairs and open doors signals a potentially controversial role as a policing tool. Five years after its […]
Elon Musk’s Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky
By Futurism Published on October 08, 2025 Elon Musk’s race to dominate our planet’s orbit with his satellite constellations is creating tons of space junk — enough of it, in fact, that we might want to start looking up. According to storied Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, there are now one or two of these Starlink […]
Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions
By Futurism Published on September 20, 2025 A robotics company in China has shown off a humanoid robotic head that can express emotions through extremely subtle movements of its facial features. A video that has gone viral on social media shows the face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression. Its eyes blink in […]
Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
By APnews Published on September 09, 2025 BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family […]
Google strikes agreements with 2 grid operators to restructure data center demand
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on August 04, 2025 Google announced Monday that it has struck agreements with two regional grid operators to reduce its data center demand at times when the grid is under more strain. The tech giant unveiled agreements with Indiana Michigan Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority to shift certain workloads […]
Who Pays? AI Boom Sparks Fight Over Soaring Power Costs
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on July 29, 2025 Technology companies need an extraordinary amount of electricity to power data centers at the core of the artificial-intelligence race. They don’t want to foot the entire bill. Across the U.S., utilities are asking tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Amazon to pay more to connect […]
Watching This Humanoid Robot Sort Packages Is Quite Something
By futurism Published on June 13, 2025 Earlier this year, humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system called Helix to sort packages at a logistics warehouse. Footage showed a small army of the humanoid robots deftly picking up packages of various sizes, shapes, and hardnesses, and […]
Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots
By WSJ Published on May 16, 2025 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Everyone is obsessed with humanoid robots right now, but the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow’s intelligent physical machines could be something radically different. Think soft and squishy robots, says Daniela Rus. Picture flexible robots, or even edible ones. Her research group […]