A team at MIT has begun work on microscopic bacteria-like robot which can be injected into the human body.MIT researchers are researching robotic bacteria that walk through human bodies that could help deliver drugs to different organs and even detect tumors. In a journal article published in Physical Review Letters, a team lead by Alfredo Alexander-Katz described how they could make robots reminiscent of 1980s science fiction movie Innerspace.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
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Researchers have used machine-learning (a reading robot!) to read 3.5 million books published between 1900 and 2008, and tally all the adjectives used to describe men and women. Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, when positively described, women (or... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-28 13:30:07 UTC ]
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Anthropologist Franz Boas and his students challenged 20th-century prejudices, Charles King writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-16 12:46:17 UTC ]
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SCIENCE FICTION HAS BEEN mapping the topography of a yawning postcapitalism since the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s, a laborious undertaking still ongoing in the 21st century. Before cyberpunk, Deleuze and Guattari pointed the way in their books on capitalism and schizophrenia; after... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-08-03 12:30:19 UTC ]
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In a memo to authors and agents, Macmillan CEO John Sargent asserted that 45% of Macmillan’s U.S. “e-book reads” were now 'being borrowed for free' from libraries," and said the publisher's new terms are "designed to protect the value of your books during their first format publication." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Netflix announced today that its out-there, adult-oriented animated anthology series Love, Death and Robots will be coming back for another season. The show's second go-round will be helmed by supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, best known for... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-06-11 02:57:00 UTC ]
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Go buy literally any other seltzer product instead. Remember a year or so ago when everyone was talking about La Croix sparkling water as if it was some amazing new beverage? What began as a Midwestern attempt at something the Northeast has long mastered was suddenly available in every bodega.... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-05-30 11:44:08 UTC ]
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Rachel Maddow, host of the Emmy Award–winning eponymous show on MSNBC, will host at a different venue, today’s breakfast. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are still challenged by digital media's limitations, but a few have found solutions. The post Magazine Media: Talking About a Better User Experience Isn’t Enough appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-05-28 14:20:54 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has scooped a “thrilling” work by accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy, telling the history of physics through its 12 foundational experiments. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-23 15:09:13 UTC ]
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We still don't know how to deal with the downsides of social media like Twitter or Facebook, let alone deepfakes, says expert. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2019-05-20 18:00:00 UTC ]
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Although Facebook Inc. doesn’t sell robots, its researchers use plenty of them — and the company said its machines are getting a lot smarter a lot faster. The social media giant announced Friday that its engineers, working with computer scientists from New York University, have reduced the... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-05-20 17:10:00 UTC ]
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Although Facebook Inc. doesn’t sell robots, its researchers use plenty of them — and the company said its machines are getting a lot smarter a lot faster. The social media giant announced Friday that its engineers, working with computer scientists from New York University, have reduced the... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-05-20 17:10:00 UTC ]
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As a social media platform with global reach, Facebook leans extensively on its artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems to keep the site online and harmful content off it (at least, some of the time). Following its announcement at the st... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-05-20 10:30:00 UTC ]
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The social network has a plan to merge the worlds of artificial intelligence and real-world machines, so that both may grow more powerful. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2019-05-20 10:30:00 UTC ]
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Bots are becoming an inevitable part of newsgathering. Two women are determined to prevent them becoming an inevitable part of warfare*although it’s a bit stilted in placesIn a week in which robot journalists won new customers and admirers in Britain, you’ll be reassured to note that the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With 45 tentacles, the Sollasina cthulhu could snatch food and creep along the ocean floor. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2019-04-10 08:31:45 UTC ]
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Publishers including Vox Media, Business Insider and theSkimm will use Apple News+ to test things that will develop their own consumer revenue operations. The post ‘Grand experiment’: Digital publishers see Apple News+ as a testbed, not savior appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld will publish a leading researcher on near-death experiences Professor Bruce Greyson, m.d. of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, as part of a major deal at auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Artificial intelligence can now write fiction and journalism. But does it measure up to George Orwell – and can it report on Brexit?Will androids write novels about electric sheep? The dream, or nightmare, of totally machine-generated prose seemed to have come one step closer with the recent... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Watkins Media’s science fiction and fantasy imprint Angry Robot has hired a new commissioning editor, Eleanor Teasdale, who joins from literary agency Greene and Heaton. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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