Tag: SINGULARITY

Why is Eric Schmidt so in love with the Singularity, and so determined to make Google the company that initiates our complete subservience to The Machines? We guess he just doesn't see it that way. Because, according to Schmidt, we have so many computers in our lives, "you're never lonely, you're never bored." At the Washington Ideas Forum presented by The Atlantic, the Google CEO talked ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Some creative young things out there may be wondering if they could ever use $600 of breathtakingly advanced technology to build simple robots that shuffle back and ...

Sometimes, as we report and thus publicize certain technological advancements, we tech writers feel like a reptile farmer who will one day be gobbled up by his prize gator. Thanks to Tokyo University's Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab (ISI) and its new robotic reporter, we've stumbled upon yet another one of those advancements. According to Singularity Hub, the mechano-journalist is able to ...

If Intel's CTO is correct, then man and machine could merge by the year 2050. Justin Rattner said that Intel's research labs are looking at human-machine interfaces and predicts that promising changes could come sooner than expected. For example, did you know that Intel is working on small, shape-shifting robots called "catoms" -- tiny inside the pocket, a million-strong team of micro-robots ...