‘Poster Girl’ Explores the Surveillance State’s Allure
“Divergent” author Veronica Roth’s new novel is about a young women coming to terms with the authoritarian regime that manipulated her.
Beware the Distraction of the Twitter Mob Campaign
A kerfuffle over Bayonetta voice actor Hellena Taylor’s pay reveals the often hollow structure of social media activism.
How to Set Up Your New Android Phone (2022)
Welcome to your shiny new Google-powered smartphone. It will be up and ready in no time with these handy tips.
The ‘M3GAN’ Dance Meme: Vicious Dolls Could Dominate 2023
Fans have been recutting the film’s trailer to make its namesake robot do choreo to Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion. Chucky could never.
What the Soup-Throwing Climate Activists Got Right
Plus: Pipeline vandals, ketchup on hot dogs, and a billion missing crabs.
A broader definition of learning could help stimulate interdisciplinary research
By embracing a broader definition of learning that includes any behavioral adaption developed in response to regular features of an environment, researchers could better collaborate across the fields of psychology, computer science, sociology, and genetics, according to a new Perspectives on Psychological Science article.
Scared of injections? Try a wearable soft robot to ease aversion to needles
Researchers have shown that pain experienced by patients during medical treatments can be considerably alleviated by holding and experiencing the motions of a soft furry robot. Based on measures of pain, fear, and biomarker collection, the researchers believe that the robot can improve patient experience.
Tentacle robot can gently grasp fragile objects
If you’ve ever played the claw game at an arcade, you know how hard it is to grab and hold onto objects using robotics grippers. Imagine how much more nerve-wracking that game would be if, instead of plush stuffed animals, you were trying to grab a fragile piece of endangered coral or a priceless artifact …
Sensat creates digital twins for public infrastructure to improve productivity, raises $20M
London-based Sensat raised $20.5M to help commercialize digital twins for infrastructure projects in energy, rail and telecommunications.Read More
OpenAI offers early look at DALL-E API, showcases text-to-image use case
The DALL-E API hasn’t yet been officially announced, but OpenAI shared details about an early customer already testing the API.Read More