We may be advancing into an age of prevalent artificial intelligence, but humans have been dreaming about the possibilities of AI for far longer. This is evidenced by AI’s first appearance in film in 1927, before movies even had sound. The relationship between humans and AI in the movies is often complicated, much like it […]
Are robots here to help us or to take away our jobs? Should we live in fear of them or joyfully herald their arrival? On one hand, roboticists are working hard behind closed research and development doors to create more useful robotic technologies. This includes tools to improve our daily lives, or to carry out […]
There have been people willing to predict the future of technology ever since the first technologies were developed. Since the creation of computers, however, we’ve seen an explosion in both the pace of innovation and the volume of prognostication on all sorts of technology trends. We think there’s a lot to be learned from some […]
What happens to our digital data after we’re gone? Recent legal proceedings surrounding the death of a 15-year-old German girl sought to sort out just that. The girl was hit and killed by a train in 2012, and her parents have spent years in court seeking to gain access to her Facebook account in the […]
Fake news isn’t just annoying. It can also have tragic, and sometimes deadly, consequences. Facebook-owned WhatsApp has contributed to the chaos that’s spread across 10 Indian states since May, which is when rumors about child abductions and child traffickers began to circulate on the messaging app via a falsified video. Since then, about a dozen […]
Barbie has been many things over the years, but “robotics engineer” is probably the last career her creators expected for her when she debuted 59 years ago. Even G.I. Joe’s creators probably never imagined that the other half of the battle would be fought with robotic drones. Mattel’s Barbie brand introduced the Robotics Engineer Barbie […]