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10/16/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Technology from the movies is on the way: A look at the many ways it will change our future

Science fiction may become reality sooner rather than later. Of course, when predictions about the future are thrown around, past performance is no guarantee of future results, as they say in the financial industry. A 10-part anthology series airing on Channel 4 in the U.K. called “Electric Dreams” explores the works of Blade Runner author […]

10/13/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Robots will “know” your gender and personality with one handshake — will the Alt-Left have them destroyed for their “binary” judgments?

Researchers in Paris are reportedly developing robot technology that can determine gender based on the human touch. The emotional robot project, within which initial handshake experiments are supposedly correct about gender 75 percent of the time, is under development by the ENSTA ParisTech research team at the Universite Paris-Saclay. Based on the findings, female-to-male handshakes involve less pressure […]

09/20/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Tesla caught “crippling” the battery life of cars, then controlling their discharge capacity from headquarters

Tesla owners in Florida got an early, although temporary, Christmas present, if you can call it that. Those motorists in the Hurricane Irma evacuation zone earlier this month remotely received about 40 additional miles in extended range for their electric cars before they needed a recharge. Tesla vehicles apparently are equipped with the same 75 kWh […]

08/05/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Elon Musk is right to point out that Mark Zuckerberg is a tech moron who knows nothing about the risks of AI

It’s the battle of the billionaires. In this context, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg disagree about the ramifications and unintended consequences of artificial intelligence. For years, Musk — the Tesla and SpaceX CEO — has been warning about the risks to the human race posed by rapidly advancing progress in AI, which could make Terminator-like […]

04/06/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Elon Musk launches company that hopes to merge computers with the human brain

Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX boss, wants to hook up the human brain to a computer. Although the details aren’t fleshed out yet, as it were, Musk evidently bought Neuralink, a California medical research start-up company to develop the technology. While some might conclude this is science fiction, Musk has long warned that rapidly advancing […]

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