dog plus

Augmented-reality glasses for dogs? Yes. The U.S. Army and its research arms are not short on ideas. In their view, dogs with “augmented vision capabilities,” combined with their natural sense …

Σύμμαχοι εντόμων

Besides teaching robotic weapons the joy of cooperation and initiative, the American DARPA, the technological arm of the U.S. military, wants to genetically modify (and mass-produce) insects to enlist them …

Collaboration above all…

The announcement itself is undeniably dystopian. Last November, the American DARPA (who else?) announced that it had successfully conducted a live-fire exercise of collaborative robotic weapons—airborne, ground and maritime—without real-time …

NEIL

NEIL (Never Ending Image Learning) has been running at Carnegie Mellon University in the US since July 2013, 24 hours a day. Guided by computer vision algorithms, it scans millions …

Technology, total war and creative destruction

An illusion hovers over the first world, that war is somewhere else, in spatial and temporal terms. It happens on the fringes of civilization and does not concern “our world” …

Through the war, SIRI will be born!

It shouldn’t surprise you, because it has become a commonplace. So, if we go back a bit in the history of smart voice assistants, in 2003, we’ll find the U.S. …