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| "Call me Ishmael-2000." (Image courtesy www.easysystems.nl.) |
Putting The "Art" In "Artificial Intelligence": Japanese Researchers Create A Book-Writing 'Bot
It seems we can't go more than a day without hearing about another job being taken over by a robot. While their applications for manufacturing, gaming, navigation, food service, and concierge roles are effective, some 'bots in Japan are taking things to a whole new level. Namely, passing themselves off as human author.
You-Apalooza: Catch Concerts Without Leaving Your Couch Thanks To This Streaming Service
Are you a rocker, but due to time, money, or location constraints, you can't rock out at a show? No worries - this concert-broadcasting service will still make you feel like a sultan of sound.
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| Impending avalanche of rocking out! (Image courtesy allposters.com.) |
R.I.P. To A Young A.I.: Microsoft's Savage "Teen Girl" Twitter-Bot Lobotomized Within One Day
It's one thing to have society be taken over by industrious labor-bots...it's another thing when the machines are "smart" enough to form opinions after assessing popular input. While it's a fascinating and fun future that holds promise of a robot that outsmarts experts at one of our most difficult board games, or knows massive amounts of trivia, when artificial intelligence is outsourced to the internet, the supposed "intelligence" comes across as...well, something less than that.
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We keep learning the hard way that the digital natives are a vicious tribe. (Image courtesy @geraldmellor.) |
Go Out With Your Glow Out: Prototype Bio-Fueled "Mourning Lights" For Cemeteries
Sure, the future may look cool now, but what about looking further...say, for after you're dead? If you're not useful and good-looking already, here's a way that you may be able to improve that...although unfortunately, it'll be too late for you to really enjoy it.
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| Not exactly like this, although that would be cool. (Image courtesy aliexpress.com.) |
Space Station Sunday: New Crew, And Robot Rovers Too
Good afternoon, space fans! Here's what was up on the ISS this week.
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| Controlled chaos of the coolest sort. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Sample Project: An iOS Dedicated WebKit Web Browser in Swift
Within our own native iOS application it may be desirable or necessary to display content that is already being hosted on our website. Displaying our already existing Privacy Policy or Terms of Service agreement content is one example. A reasonable user experience would allow them to navigate our web content but prevent them from straying to external websites or other parts of our website.
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Pizza Delivery Bots: Dominos' Autonomous Awesomeness
You may have heard that robots are coming to take your jobs. While we'll still require human brain-meat to calculate and create certain amazing things (like cool blog articles, amiright?), it's getting more and more clear that many menial gigs are about to go extinct. This week's sacrifice to the Singularity? Pizza delivery people.
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| Aww, it's so cute, you almost don't want to crush it for stealing your livelihood. (Image courtesy engadget.com.) |
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