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As if right out of an episode of Black Mirror. You want to deactivate your Facebook account? Sure, ruin your life.
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As if right out of an episode of Black Mirror. You want to deactivate your Facebook account? Sure, ruin your life.
Interesting profile of a resurrection specialist. Apparently, people can be dead for several hours and be brought back to be perfectly fine.
Someday in the future, robots will remember that this was the moment the humans enabled them to take over the world. If not, it’s still a big deal worth reflecting on: Researchers at MIT work to build robots’ awareness of their own limitations. Once they know what they can’t do, a whole lot more is possible for us with them, and probably eventually for them with us.
Yes. «The most important Google Glass experience is not the user experience – it’s the experience of everyone else.»
Robots will replace 70% of all jobs. Don’t believe it? Check which of the Seven Stages of Robot Replacement you’re currently at.
We, users of the web, are well advised to «know our shit». An important article on the state of the web (see also the follow-up to the article).
Interesting read on why advances in robotics lag behind those in information technology.
Why googling is smarter than using your memory.
They can’t wait for cyborg body enhancements to become available. So they build and implant them by themselves. This is a thrilling (in all possible senses) report on «body hackers». They have magnets implanted in their fingertips to feel electrical waves, wear permanently attached computerised glasses and control a robot arm with their own arm across the Atlantic. Their next challenge: Implant an LED-display under the skin of the forearm to display heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure. What makes this such a compelling read: Here you have the somewhat crazy DIY-wannabe-cyborgs, but then again this is pretty much the direction medical technology, nanotechnology and the likes of Google are leading us to.
Meet the meat fakers. Their plan is to make killing animals (almost) obsolete by producing in vitro meat that is indistinguishable from the real deal.
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