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With Peloton Guide, the Fitness Company Bets Big on Body Tracking
No, and yes. But Peloton has plans for the Guide and the new software experience that comes with it. The company wants to count your workout reps, study your progress over time, see which areas of the body you’re...
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As Russia Plots Its Next Move, an AI Listens to the Chatter
A radio transmission between several Russian soldiers in Ukraine in early March, captured from an unencrypted channel, reveals panicked and confused comrades retreating after coming under artillery fire.“Vostok, I am Sneg 02. On the highway we have to turn...
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TikTok’s Black Box Obscures Its Role in Russia’s War
Ten days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, TikTok announced it had suspended new posts from Russian accounts due to the country’s new “fake news” law. But the company was quieter about a second policy shift—one that blocked TikTok users...
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This Cheetah Robot Taught Itself How to Sprint in a Weird Way
It’s probably for the best that human babies can’t run 9 miles per hour shortly after birth. It takes years of practice to crawl and then walk well, during which time mothers don’t have to worry about their children...
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Russia’s Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
A Russian “suicide drone” that boasts the ability to identify targets using artificial intelligence has been spotted in images of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.Photographs showing what appears to be the KUB-BLA, a type of lethal drone known as...
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Russian Missiles and Space Debris Could Threaten Satellites
Five hundred miles above Earth, there’s a growing layer of trash. Space debris made up of used rocket bodies and dead satellites hurtles through space, moving at almost 18,000 miles per hour. And the US Space Surveillance Network says...
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It’s Like GPT-3 but for Code—Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws
Code pours from Feross Aboukhadijeh’s fingers.As a devotee of the open source software movement, he has written immensely popular web apps, peer-to-peer file exchanges, and more than 100 other pieces of code that he has given away, all in...
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Review: ’After Yang’ Will Make You Grieve For a Robot
Someone at a robot company once told me a story about one of its bomb disposal machines. The soldiers who had been using the robot in Afghanistan were dismayed after it returned from repairs. They said that the robot's...
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Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian Soldiers
On March 1, Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, posted a short video on Telegram in which a cheery bearded soldier stood before a line of tanks clanking down a road under an overcast sky. In an accompanying post, Kadyrov assured...
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Why ‘The Andy Warhol Diaries’ Recreated the Artist’s Voice With AI
Back in 1982, Andy Warhol was, somewhat infamously, turned into a robot. The machine was made by a Disney Imagineering veteran for a project that never really took off, but Warhol liked his animatronic self. “Machines have less problems,”...
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Ucraina, ultime notizie. Usa sequestrano 1 miliardo di dollari a oligarca russo
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