by Leroy Hurt | Jan 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: A Kickstarter project called Egg aims to give your cat an autonomous plaything while you’re at the movies or the grocery store or even just in another room. Egg is an ovoid robot that moves around in such a way as to imitate a small...
by Leroy Hurt | Jan 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Utne Reader: Quit Facebook Day, as an expression of the desire to kill one’s networked self, illustrates the need for a language to talk about these tensions, to talk about the darker aspects of the relationship between platforms and individuals. It is obvious...
by Leroy Hurt | Jan 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Top Tech News: In the past six months, Google has acquired seven robotics companies and the search giant is now looking to build its own robots.…Google may be quiet when it comes to the robots, previously being worked on in secret, but based on the companies that...
by Leroy Hurt | Jan 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Reason: The rise and spread of intelligent machines has led to increasing income inequality and anemic job growth. And this dynamic is likely to be permanent.…The American economy is becoming a “hyper-meritocracy” in which workers will either be big...
by Leroy Hurt | Jan 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and NYTimes.com: The first commercial version of the new kind of computer chip is scheduled to be released in 2014. Not only can it automate tasks that now require painstaking programming — for example, moving a robot’s arm smoothly and efficiently —...
