Date Published: Dec 16, 2010 - 7:00 am
Theres an interesting discussion on Slashdot today about how to
store digital images underground in a format still readable 25
years later. There are some interesting suggestions.One person
proposes avoiding problems with changing memory formats by putting
a whole computer into the time capsule. Only a power supply would
be needed to view them in the f
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The helicopter in the video below may look dangerously out of
control. But it is being piloted by a piece of software able to
perform the chaos manoeuvre shown for indefinite
periods.Researchers in the Stanford University AI Lab have created
software able to learn complex aerobatics from human pilots.Using
the data from a suite of sensors accele
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US Americans do, according to Christoph Bartneck at the Technical
University of Munich. He thinks that crossing the uncanny valley
overcoming the revulsion we feel towards robots that are almost,
but not quite, humanlike is something that a society does
together.Bartneck showed Japanese and US citizens a number of
photos and asked them to rate them for
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While some people may choose to mark the release of a DVD of the
Terminator TV show by buying in a pizza, UK academic roboticist
Noel Sharkey wrote a report on the future of policing robots. Not
for free of course Warner paid him to.You can download the project
from Sharkeys webpage here .doc format.Whatever you think of that
arrangement, Sharkey,
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