Park your warehouse in the air over the city; deliver via drone.

Originally shared by Gregor J. Rothfuss

fun, if somewhat impractical for the time being.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/get_ready_for_amazons_creepy_and_marvelous_floating_warehouses_of_the_skya

Robot arm. Hundred bucks.

Originally shared by Arduino

The LittleArm is a 3D-printed robot powered by an Arduino and a couple metal-gear servos.

(via Make:)

http://bit.ly/2hub6Pf

Early science fiction (or its predecessor, “scientific romance”) often featured a lone scientist making a breakthrough in his (always his) home laboratory. These days, we know that important science isn’t done that way; you need a big lab with lots of expensive equipment and a dozen people with PhDs in order to achieve anything, and even then it takes years.

Only… maybe that’s not always the case.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

“[I]n the same way that anyone can now experiment with software and electronics, we should be able to experiment with plug-and-play biotechnology.”

–Julie Legault, founder & CEO, Amino Labs http://suhub.co/2ir6nuu

http://suhub.co/2hwQdD5

It knows when you are sleeping. It knows when you’re awake…

Originally shared by HACKADAY

It is interesting to see the wide coverage of a police investigation looking to harvest data from the Amazon Echo, the always-listening home automation device you may know as Alexa. A murder investigation has led them to issue Amazon a warrant to fork…

http://hackaday.com/2016/12/28/police-want-alexa-data-people-begin-to-realize-its-listening

Via Larry Panozzo, an upbeat look at the potential of deep learning and AI.

Originally shared by Firas Hermez

The title says it all…

https://backchannel.com/the-ai-takeover-is-coming-lets-embrace-it-d764d61f83a

An alternate view to many: perhaps technological unemployment isn’t a threat after all?

Originally shared by Daniel Lemire

The threat of technological unemployment

http://lemire.me/blog/2016/12/26/the-threat-of-technological-unemployment/

c.c. Mark Lewis

http://lemire.me/blog/2016/12/26/the-threat-of-technological-unemployment/

This is a good summary, which isn’t just a retread of material I’ve seen before. In particular, I hadn’t previously heard that there’s a project to bring literacy to a billion people with the help of AI.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

The AI revolution is here, and the most obvious question to ask as 2016 draws to an end is: what’s next?

http://suhub.co/2hri4EK

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Can we repurpose the capacities of smartphones to improve health diagnostics on a global scale?

http://suhub.co/2it039q