Software & IT

Are You Ready for Sentient Disney Robots?

New York Times: I was en route to meet Groot. Not an imitation Groot conjured with video or those clunky virtual reality goggles. The Walt Disney Company’s secretive research and development division, Imagineering, had promised a walking, talking, emoting Groot, as if…

Can AI Make a Better Fusion Reactor?

IEEE Spectrum: Since the 1940s, physicists have tried, but no one has yet created an efficient nuclear fusion reaction. Meanwhile, AI and machine learning (ML) have, across many industries and applications, proved themselves quite capable at detecting subtle patterns in data that humans can’t recognize. So could neural nets and…

Meet ISAAC, Integrating Robots with the Space Stations of the Future

NASA: In April 2021, Bumble, one of the free-flying Astrobee robots aboard the International Space Station, was put to the test to investigate a simulated anomaly. In the simulation, the station’s life support systems detected a high concentration of carbon…

These are the 100 hottest startups in Europe in 2021

Wired UK: Early in 2011, a couple of WIRED colleagues and I were discussing the incredible speed at which the startup scene in London was growing and the sheer number of innovative companies that were being founded. Something tangible was happening….