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Tokyo-based robotics company Preferred Networks demonstrated its mostly effective but super slow tidying robots at a Japanese convention.
Robotics

Hate clutter? This robot can help you out.

A new Microsoft patent for a circular input system could change how we type in virtual reality, making the process far more intuitive.
Virtual Reality

The company has patented a new kind of virtual keyboard.

Made of Mars says it's developing the technology to convert Martian minerals into materials we can use to "build the space civilization of tomorrow."  
Mars

One startup is learning to manufacture goods out of raw materials on the Red Planet.

Waymo's newly published AV safety guidelines tell law enforcement officials and first responders how they should deal with crashed AVs.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo is helping shape the future of AV safety.

The USDA has lifted regulations on growing a genetically modified cotton plant with edible cottonseeds, and it could eventually help feed the world.
Science & Energy

But you're not allowed to eat it. Yet.

Glimpse: Virtual Reality For The Masses Might Solve The Problems Social Media Started
Virtual Reality

Interacting with others in virtual reality could help us have interactions similar to those we have in the real world.

These ever-so-edgy novelists are using artificial intelligence to spit out new books. We're over it, to be perfectly honest.
Artificial Intelligence

Get over yourselves, authors!

The Chinese city of Chengdu plans to launch an artificial moon into the sky to provide light during the night, eliminated the need for streetlights.
Moon

The move could save the city $2.8 billion dollars over five years.

When it shipped the first Apple Watch with a heart rate monitor, the tech giant didn't realize the impact it could have on users' heart health.
Health & Medicine

Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet all want to heal your heart.

Get Ready for Pills Programmed to Respond to Your Cells’ Individual Needs
Health & Medicine

New research uses strands of DNA to create logic gates.

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm
Artificial Intelligence

Baidu will join Apple, Google, and others in shaping the future of AI.

How to Generate (Almost) Anything is collaborating with their custom AI systems to bring bizarre foods, clothes, and art into the real world.
Artificial Intelligence

The MIT group calls itself "How to Generate (Almost) Anything," and it wants to make AI available to the masses.

Members of the military are using Facebook to incite violence and fuel hatred against a Muslim ethic group in the Asian nation of Myanmar.
Future Society

Facebook is the 21st century propaganda machine.

A Chinese-made robot can automatically zap mosquitos to stop the spread of disease. It's like a Roomba meets the Terminator.
Robotics

Let's hope its aim is good.

In 2017, Bina48 became the first AI-powered robot to complete a college-level course, and now, it's the first to co-teach one.
Artificial Intelligence

"The interesting part was that [the cadets] were taking notes.”

Canada legalizing weed could be an opportunity for medical researchers who believe the cannabis plant could hold the key to promising new treatments.
Health & Medicine

The United States risks brain drain if it doesn't follow suit.

Panasonic’s Horse-Style Blinders for Humans Are Like a Dystopian Cubicle For Your Face
Prosthetics and Devices

We'd rather work from home.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found a way to predict if a person was going to be depressed by analyzing their Facebook data.
Artificial Intelligence

Would you let psychologists read your entire Facebook history?

This Electric Chewing Gum Never Runs out of Flavor
Virtual Reality

And it could foreshadow the future of VR.

This Group is Giving Away Art Robots to Public Schools
Robotics

Giving kids automated tools can unlock new creative impulses.