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Forget Boston Dynamics. This robot taught itself to walk 1 min read

Forget Boston Dynamics. This robot taught itself to walk

Adiantku 5 days ago

A pair of robot legs called Cassie has been taught to walk using reinforcement learning, the training technique that teaches AIs complex behavior via...

Amazon is way ahead in the historic warehouse union vote. The battle’s still not over. 1 min read

Amazon is way ahead in the historic warehouse union vote. The battle’s still not over.

Adiantku 5 days ago

A union organizer waves to cars outside an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, on March 27. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

The...

What you need to know about the Facebook data leak 1 min read

What you need to know about the Facebook data leak

Adiantku 6 days ago

The news: The personal data of 533 million Facebook users in more than 106 countries was found to be freely available online last weekend. The...

YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux 1 min read

YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux

Adiantku 6 days ago

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki previously said problematic content on YouTube is a fraction of 1 percent of what’s posted on the platform. | Michael...

The future of work is uniquely human 1 min read

The future of work is uniquely human

Adiantku 1 week ago

The disruptive shifts of 2020, including covid-19 shutdowns that led to millions of workers working remotely, forced organizations to radically rethink everything from worker...

The number of billionaires spiked by 30% during the pandemic 1 min read

The number of billionaires spiked by 30% during the pandemic

Adiantku 1 week ago

The rise in billionaires’ net worths during the Covid-19 pandemic has reinvigorated the debate about their role in society. | David Ryder/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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The CDC’s $1.75 billion sequencing boom may be throwing money at the wrong problem 1 min read

The CDC’s $1.75 billion sequencing boom may be throwing money at the wrong problem

Adiantku 1 week ago

Shortly after President Biden was inaugurated, the man who was being given command of his coronavirus response had a message about what America needed...

Tim Cook hints that Apple is making its own autonomous car 1 min read

Tim Cook hints that Apple is making its own autonomous car

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Apple, led by CEO Tim Cook, might finally be ready to produce its own line of cars. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The Apple car, if...

Error-riddled data sets are warping our sense of how good AI really is 1 min read

Error-riddled data sets are warping our sense of how good AI really is

Adiantku 1 week ago

The 10 most cited AI data sets are riddled with label errors, according to a new study out of MIT, and it’s distorting our...

The FDA just made cheap, rapid, at-home Covid-19 testing even easier to get 1 min read

The FDA just made cheap, rapid, at-home Covid-19 testing even easier to get

Adiantku 1 week ago

A woman makes her way to the Covid-19 testing site at the California State University Los Angeles campus on February 3. | Genaro Molina/Los...

Space Technology

Forget Boston Dynamics. This robot taught itself to walk

Amazon is way ahead in the historic warehouse union vote. The battle’s still not over.

What you need to know about the Facebook data leak

YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux

The future of work is uniquely human

The number of billionaires spiked by 30% during the pandemic

The CDC’s $1.75 billion sequencing boom may be throwing money at the wrong problem

Tim Cook hints that Apple is making its own autonomous car

Error-riddled data sets are warping our sense of how good AI really is

The FDA just made cheap, rapid, at-home Covid-19 testing even easier to get

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