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Would you prefer talking to a BlabDroid?
Brent Hoff (left) and Alexander Reben, creators of “Robots in Residence,” hold BlabDroids at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. Hoff and Reben teamed up to see whether they could design a robot that would make people…
AI assistant takes notes at doctor visits
Microsoft and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) developed an AI application that analyzes a doctor’s conversation with a patient and records it in the patient’s electronic health record. Ideally, a doctor using the scribe could devote their full…
Let the data pick your friends
NPR’s All Tech Considered reports on Laurie Frick, an artist who sees data so powerful it can help us pick better friends. “Frick is not very good at assessing the character of friends. After years of working with data, she…
SpaceX Starlink satellite broadband gets off the ground
SpaceX satellite broadband gets off the ground. The rocket is carrying two small satellites that will provide internet access to people around the world. From CNET: After days of delays, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying two small satellites, dubbed…
Schizophrenia patients calmed by playing video game
The BBC reports on a study that found that people with schizophrenia can be trained to control the part of the brain linked to verbal hallucinations by playing a video game. Patients in a small study were able to land…
Get to know the tech behind the Winter Olympics
Intel is capturing 30 events in virtual reality so we can experience the Olympics up close from our couches. BMW created the bobsled, Under Armour spent four years reinventing the speed skating suit, and Columbia outfitted the U.S. freestyle ski…
Don’t keep cell phone next to your body
“The CDHP recommends not keeping your phone in your pocket, not putting it up to your ear for a prolonged amount of time, keeping use low if there are two bars or less, not sleeping near it at night and…
Archivist Writes Code to Find Serial-Killers
There’s a great article in The New Yorker about a former journalist who uses an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country to finds patterns in crime. “Thomas Hargrove is a homicide archivist. For the past…
PBDB can help you discover dinosaurs!
“The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) is a non-governmental, non-profit public resource for paleontological data. It has been organized and operated by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, international group of paleobiological researchers. Its purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for…