“When Robert Wood came to Harvard University 17 years ago, he wanted to design an insect-sized robot that could fly,” reports the Boston Globe. And finally Last month, technology from Wood’s “RoboBee” project was commercialized for the first time, “spinning out as a surgical-robot startup backed by venture capital firm Read more…
An egghead is one who stands firmly on both feet, in mid-air, on both sides of an issue. — Homer Ferguson
“Can editing code feel more tactile, like painting with Photoshop brushes?” Researchers at GitHub Next asked that question this week — and then supplied the answer. “We added a toolbox of brushes to our Copilot Labs Visual Studio Code extension that can modify your code…. Just select a few lines, Read more…
UpNext, Airbus’s future technology-focused subsidiary, reported on Thursday that it has entered the final three months of testing tech it hopes will automate the process of getting a plane from the air to the gate. The system, called DragonFly, tackles automated operations like diversions, landings, and taxi procedures through a Read more…
An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them, according to a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server in late December1. “I am very worried,” says Sandra Wachter, who studies technology and regulation at the University of Oxford, UK, and Read more…
In the mid-1970s, Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to film Dune (working with artists including H.R. Giger). A documentary about that attempt was filmed by Frank Pavich, who now writes in the New York Times that “The cast would have included Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, Salvador Dalí and Alejandro’s 12-year-old Read more…