It’s perfectly natural for a red-blooded American to, once they have procured their first real drone, experiment with attaching a flame thrower to it. But it turns out that this harmless hobby is frowned upon by the biggest buzzkills in the world… the feds. Yes, the FAA has gone and published a notice that drones…
via FAA threatens $25,000 fine for weaponizing drones — TechCrunch
Robots powered by artificial intelligence have been popping up in hotels, airports and shopping malls. Now, they’re showing up at assisted living homes, too. With names like Stevie, Paro and Pillo, these robots can do everything from keeping the elderly company to reminding them to take their medication at the right time. “Robotics has the…
via Meet the AI Robots Helping Take Care of Elderly Patients — TIME
I did a bit of a double take when I first saw this announcement. IDrive, an online cloud storage and backup service, is launching a face recognition API today that goes up against the likes of AWS Rekognition and others. That seems like a bit of an odd move for a backup company, but it…
via Backup service IDrive launches a face recognition API for developers — TechCrunch
(CHICAGO) — A Chicago judge on Friday named a special prosecutor to look into why state prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against Jussie Smollett that accused him of staging a racist, anti-gay attack against himself and lying about it to investigators. The former “Empire” actor, who is black and gay, maintains that the January attack was…
via Judge Appoints Special Prosecutor to Jussie Smollett Case to Examine Why Charges Were Dropped — TIME
Netflix is testing a new way to help users find TV shows and movies they’ll want to watch with the launch of a “Collections” feature, currently in testing on iOS devices. While Netflix today already offers thematic suggestions of things to watch, based on your Netflix viewing history, Collections aren’t only based on themes. According…
via Netflix tests human-driven curation with launch of ‘Collections’ — TechCrunch
With glass interior walls, exposed plumbing and a staff of young researchers dressed like Urban Outfitters models, New York University’s AI Now Institute could easily be mistaken for the offices of any one of New York’s innumerable tech startups. For many of those small companies (and quite a few larger ones) the objective is straightforward:…
via Meet the Researchers Working to Make Sure Artificial Intelligence Is a Force for Good — TIME
A bounty of unreleased jungle pressure from the golden era. Equinox (aka Marlon Sterling) kicked off his music career back in 1993, when he released The Brain Crew EP with Bizzy B; he was only 15 at the time. Now, 8205 Recordings has managed to convince Sterling to go back to his archive and dig…
On Friday, an unusual kind of vessel set sail from the Arctic city of Murmansk, Russia, for a destination in the country’s far east––a floating nuclear power plant equipped with two reactors. The vessel, dubbed the Akademik Lomonosov, is set to travel about 2,900 miles to the Arctic port town of Pevek, which has a…
The rumors have been suggesting it for a while now, and fans have been pretty much begging for it… and it’s happening: Ewan McGregor will return to the role of Obi-Wan for a new Disney+ series. Disney dropped the news at a panel during D23 this evening, almost immediately after premiering the trailer for its…
via Confirmed: Disney is making an Obi-Wan series with Ewan McGregor — TechCrunch
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