As the US men’s basketball team limped to a first Olympics loss since 2004, a robot gave them a lesson in elite-level shooting. The six-foot-ten machine rolled onto the court during half-time of the US’ defeat to France and started swishing jump shots like a red-hot Steph Curry. Known as CUE, the droid was developed by Toyota engineers as a demonstration of machine learning. The bot uses inbuilt sensors and 3D mapping to locate the basket....
Elon Musk hopes to put computer chips in our brains that will enable “human-AI symbiosis.” But for now, he’s focused on making monkeys play video games. Musk’s Neuralink startup posted a video today of a primate playing Pong with its mind. The nine-year-old macaque, called Pager, has a Neuralink implanted in his brain. Pager was first trained to play Pong with a joystick in return for a banana smoothie reward....
An unmanned drone has refueled another aircraft during flight for the first time, a milestone that the US Navy says could help change futurewarfighting. Boeing’s unmannedMQ-25 Stringray plugged a hose into a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet and pumped 325 pounds of fuel into the fighter jet on June 4, the manufacturer announced on Monday. The 4.5-hour test was conducted from the MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois. During the flight, the Super Hornet’s pilot flew as close as 20 feet from the Stingray, to ensure the performance and stability of the operation....
Last week, Teslafinallyreleased the fabled Beta 9 update of its Full Self-Driving package to users in the company’s “Early Access Program.” Sounds AMAZING but…you shouldn’t trust it too much. As a matter of fact, the company itself warned that the software update “may do the wrong thing at the worst time.” While some Tesla lovers might turn a blind eye tothe dangers of complacency, the video above shows that the softwaredoeshave a number of serious limitations....
Apple’s keynote address has now been posted on its site and is available for you to stream. You can see the keynote by clickinghereor on the image below. Apple announced its new iPhone 4S model at the event, along with iCloud’s release date and the newSiri assistant feature. TheiPhone 4S will be released on October 14thand will be available for pre-order on October 7th. iCloud and iTunes Match will beavailable alongside iOS 5 on October 12th....
