The Santa tracker presented by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) dates to 1955. The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long Christmas tradition of tracking Santa’s…
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Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal
Characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are piled on a street in San Francisco on July 24, 2023. A little more than a year ago, Elon…
China approves 105 online games after draft curbs trigger massive losses
People play online games in an internet cafe in Fuyang in central China’s Anhui province Friday, March 1, 2019. China’s authority in charge of press and publications has approved 105…
AI pioneer says public discourse on intelligent machines must give ‘proper respect to human agency’
Credit: CC0 Public Domain She’s an important figure behind today’s artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up…
Enhancing Motor Learning with Visual-Motor Illusions
Summary: Researchers found that visual aids creating illusions of movement, like screens showing a hand’s motion, can enhance motor performance and early-stage motor learning. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy revealed distinct brain…
NASA flies drones autonomously for air taxi research
An Alta-8 small Unmanned Aircraft System testbed vehicle flies above NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Flying beyond visual line of sight from observers on the ground required special…
Artists use tech weapons against AI copycats
Artists such as Karla Ortiz in San Francisco, California, are seeking technical and legal ways to protect their styles as artificial intelligence ‘learns’ to copy works found online. Artists under…
‘Urban mining’ offers green solution to old solar panels
Workers push damaged solar panels into a machine to be recycled at the We Recycle Solar plant in Yuma, Arizona. As the world pivots from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable…
Insect compasses, fire-fighting vines: 2023’s nature-inspired tech
Some insects – such as ants and bees – navigate visually based on the intensity and polarization of sunlight. Even as human-caused climate change threatens the environment, nature continues to…
Kids’ Trust in Robots vs Humans: A Study in Selective Learning
Summary: A new study explores how children aged three to five gauge the reliability of information from humans and robots. The study found that children display selective trust based on…
