San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable

3 years ago

Law enforcement says that in some scenarios a lethal robot is the only way to protect public safety. Experts say…

Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework

3 years ago

The Heliconia hacking tool exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome, Windows Defender, and Firefox, according to company security researchers.

Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare

3 years ago

Protesters are calling for China to ease restrictions most nations have already ditched. But the country faces a fraught path…

Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest

3 years ago

As carbon concentrations rise, conditions are becoming more like they were 3 million years ago, when the area was wetter…

Electric Vehicles Cut US Gas Consumption by a Measly 0.54%

3 years ago

A new report shows that national gasoline usage barely changed in 2021, despite increasing EV adoption.

Making ‘transport’ robots smarter

3 years ago

Imagine a team of humans and robots working together to process online orders -- real-life workers strategically positioned among their…

Caregiving simulator advances research in assistive robotics

3 years ago

Caregiving robots would be transformative for people with disabilities and their caretakers, but few research groups are working in this…

Sampling and pipelining method speeds up deep learning on large graphs

3 years ago

Graphs, a potentially extensive web of nodes connected by edges, can be used to express and interrogate relationships between data,…

Basketball study automates patterns of play to compare teams’ performance

3 years ago

New analysis of elite women's basketball automatically pinpoints a team's chances of high or low scoring plays despite the ball's…

Better Language Models Without Massive Compute

3 years ago

Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team In recent years, language models (LMs) have…