Happy Friday, kittens! A fraught week it has been, and that’s not even counting the family scene at Thanksgiving! Let’s pray that upcoming holidays are less dramatic. May you live in uninteresting times, kittens! But not just yet, as our… Read More ›
Hmm, I guess this puts it on par with most Redditors. Source: Juggling Robot Deftly Handles Balls A well-designed robot can do any action a human can do. Whether this is an acrobatic performance, or just writing with a pen, there’s… Read More ›
I know, kittens, that’s a huge GIF, but that’s a huge message, isn’t it? Rest in peace, Rowdy Roddy, our greatest hero. Next to Rowsdower. Zap Rowsdower. America gets the government it deserves, but Canada gets the heroes it needs,… Read More ›
Why are robots so freaking focused on breakfast foods?In today’s morning roundup we linked to an article about how one neural network mistook the Starship Enterprise for a waffle iron (which version: we geeks think it matters). Seriously, we want… Read More ›
Top of the morning to you, kittens! We chez Cryptosphere always like to start off the day by looking at a well-dressed man, and if we didn’t happen to stock the HQ with one the night before, well, we have… Read More ›
Tonight’s feature movie is so bad I doubt the copyright holder will even bother hitting YouTube with a takedown notice. It has 5.9 out of ten on IMDB. It’s Android, from 1982, starring Klaus Kinski, which is a perfect storm… Read More ›
Welcome to Thursday, kittens! Just over a month to go till the holidays; you got my list, right? RIGHT? It’s the one that starts with “pony” and ends with “Julian Assange.” To while away the hours waiting for the happy… Read More ›
The latest in our ongoing coverage of the escalating Drone wars. Currently, biowarriors are kicking drone ass: first former sheeple, current rebel Rambro, and now this Unnamed Terror from the Skies. RMIT UAS Research team dogfights with the king of… Read More ›
Today’s loooooooong read from the dusty recesses of the distant digital past, which is to say 1993 which was 21 years ago GOD I’M OLD, comes to us from philosopher and mathematician Verner Vinge. In this seminal paper in the… Read More ›
The Net; you never know what you’re gonna catch. The other day I caught up with ancient-by-internet-standards cinematic classic The Net and was surprised by a) how prescient it was b) the fact that I appear to have become Sandra… Read More ›
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