(ANTIMEDIA) — In the town of Kisarazu in the southwest Chiba Prefecture of Japan, there’s a creepy entity with glowing red eyes skulking the rural countryside. Its name is “Super Monster Wolf,” and it’s a solar-rechargeable robot on loan from the Japan Agricultural Cooperative, which seeks to use a revolutionary robotics innovation to protect the local crops […]
(TIM) — Speaking at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and festival on March 11, billionaire polymath pioneer Elon Musk warned “AI is far more dangerous than nukes” regarding the dangers associated with the rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence (AI). “I’m very close to the cutting edge in AI and it scares the hell out of me,” […]
(ANTIMEDIA) — In January, tech giant IBM was able to happily report to investors that after 22 consecutive quarters — nearly six years — of declining revenue growth, the company saw gains in the last quarter of 2017. In a news release, executives clearly identified the reason for the turnaround at IBM, a century-year-old institution that began as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. […]
(ZHE) — The Robot uprising has had a minor setback as a Pasadena burger joint was forced to take its brand new burger-flipping robot, “Flippy,” offline after the first day due to slow performance, reports USA Today. Except, it wasn’t Flippy’s fault. The restaurant, Cali Burger, says that while Flippy held up its end of the deal – there weren’t […]
(ZHE) — Bitcoin’s Tokyo Whale (not to be confused with that Tokyo Whale) revealed on Wednesday that he has sold off about $400 million in bitcoin and bitcoin cash since late September. Nobuaki Kobayashi, bankruptcy trustee for Mt. Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange in the world before hackers absconded with tens of thousands of customers’ bitcoins worth billions at […]
(ANTIMEDIA) — A federal crackdown may be looming over the cryptocurrency world. On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a warning on “potentially unlawful” online platforms used to trade digital assets. “The SEC staff has concerns that many online trading platforms appear to investors as SEC-registered and regulated marketplaces when they are not,” the statement read. “Many platforms refer to themselves […]
(ZHE) — While there are plenty of stories of artificial intelligence gone wrong, it seems many recent new owners of Amazon’s Alexa devices have been rudely woken by “bone-chillingly creepy” laughing from their AI friend. As The Daily Mail reports, some users say their Alexa-enabled gadgets start laughing totally unprompted. So Alexa decided to laugh randomly while I was […]
(ANTIMEDIA) — Only months after it was disclosed that the Pentagon was using artificial intelligence (AI) to hunt for terrorists, officials have now acknowledged that Google has been collaborating with the Department of Defense to use AI in analyzing drone footage. The disclosure comes amid an uproar among Google employees who aren’t happy to be assisting in the development […]
(ANTIMEDIA) — Facebook’s user data gathering prowess has been common knowledge for some time now, but one journalist’s impromptu experiment suggests it is even more ubiquitous and pervasive than previously believed. Nick Whigham, a reporter for the New Zealand Herald, decided to test out a feature on Facebook that allows users to download a ‘secret’ file showing how […]
(TMU) — Go, Ethiopia! The African nation is doing its part to reduce the continent’s burgeoning trash crisis. One of the ways it is doing so is by building Africa’s first energy plant that converts trash into electricity. For nearly fifty years, Ethiopia’s largest trash dump, Koshe, was home to hundreds of people. Those who lived nearby would […]
