Casio made a furry robot designed to cuddle and calm you down
Casio’s furry Moflin robot will learn to recognize you the more you interact with it, and over time, it will develop its own simulated personality and emotions.
Microsoft just paid $76 million for a Wisconsin pumpkin farm
The company plans to use the Creuziger family’s land to build a multi-building data center. The purchase is a part of a $1 billion investment that Microsoft plans to make in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
Waymo has 7.1 million driverless miles — how does its driving compare to humans?
Waymo conducted the first analysis of its fully driverless vehicles to determine whether they’re safer than human drivers. The 7.1-million mile study found its cars performed better than humans in preventing injury-causing crashes.
Meta’s AI for Ray-Ban smart glasses can identify objects and translate languages
Meta’s multimodal artificial intelligence can use the Ray-Ban smart glasses’ camera and microphone to see what you’re looking at or hearing, and respond accordingly.
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
Scientists have renamed 27 human genes to stop Microsoft Excel misreading them as dates. The changes have been underway for the past year but have been formally announced as new guidelines published by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. Scientist are overjoyed but annoyed Microsoft didn’t make the changes itself.
‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought
The massive computer clusters powering artificial intelligence consume vast quantities to answer the world’s queries, but how is Big Tech redressing the balance?
A Disgruntled Federal Employee’s 1980s Desk Calendar
Relive the best decade through the angry, colorful notations of an anonymous employee at the Department of Defense: “Twenty-one months of Reagan left!”
Your Phone Already Has Social Credit. We Just Lie About It.
Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior.
Social credit, in its original economic definition, means distributing industry profits to consumers to increase purchasing power. But the term has evolved far beyond economics. Today, it describes any kind of metric that tr