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Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel

In the quest to create intelligent robots, designers tend to focus on purely rational, cognitive capacities. It’s tempting to disregard emotion entirely, or include only as much as necessary. But without emotion to help determine the personal significance of objects and actions, I doubt that true intelligence can exist – not the kind that beats human opponents at chess or the game of Go, but the sort of smarts that we humans recognise as such.

Samsung Securities’ $105 Billion Fat-Finger Share Error Triggers Urgent Regulator Inquiry

Today’s Oceans and a 94M-Year-Old Catastrophe

The ocean is losing its oxygen. Last week, in a sweeping analysis in the journal Science, scientists put it starkly: Over the past 50 years, the volume of the ocean with no oxygen at all has quadrupled, while oxygen-deprived swaths of the open seas have expanded by the size of the European Union.

Google works out a fascinating, slightly scary way for AI to isolate voices in a crowd

The Magic Leap One Experience

I have modeled the ML1 as closely as possible with respect to the view through it based on the available evidence. I’m providing the model I used so others can verify or challenge my results and cut through the debates about whether it will look different based on how the human visual system works, which is, of course, different than a camera.

15 Types of Regression you should know

Regression techniques are one of the most popular statistical techniques used for predictive modeling and data mining tasks. On average, analytics professionals know only 2-3 types of regression which are commonly used in real world. They are linear and logistic regression.

A physical constant’s value shouldn’t depend on how you measure it

Nobody Knows How This Part of Mars Exploded

On the scarred terrain of Arabia Terra, a region on Mars that serves as the setting for The Martian, lies a mysterious pockmark known as Ismenia Patera. New imagery released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday reveals dimensions of this feature that help contextualize its geological evolution (though its origins remain unresolved).

The Art of Soldering

The story of solder, the unsung hero of the digital revolution that benefits from a low melting point. It’s what keeps the circuits attached to the silicon.

Someone has entered an AI in a Japanese mayoral race