Hanson Robotics, the people who presented the world with the human-like robot Sophia have added a new member to their family. She’s called “Little Sophia,” and is a 14-inch robot meant to get kids hyped on STEM, coding and AI. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ MORE FROM MASHABLE …
Read More »Tesla Drivers Are Getting Screwed by the Polar Vortex
Don’t you hate it when you’re out in the cold and your phone dies because the battery is KILLED by the temperature? Now imagine that, but it’s your car. Tesla drivers living in the middle of freezing temperatures sweeping the Midwest are reporting that their cars are suffering in performance …
Read More »Soon You’ll Be Able to Lose to This Jenga-playing Robot
Robots, they might take your jobs tomorrow, and they could be beating you at Jenga sooner than that. MIT researchers have taught a robot the basics of the classic table-top game, and well it’s pretty impressive because they had to make it understand physics and the sense of touch. Bravo, …
Read More »Real-World Star Trek-like ‘Replicator’ Makes Objects Appear Out Of Nowhere
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory invented a new 3D printer, which they nicknamed “replicator” after the infamous Star Trek device. The printer makes objects appear seemingly out of thin air by using an off-the-shelf video projector to beam light into a cylinder of light-sensitive resin. ► Subscribe …
Read More »Google Launched A Live Transcription App To Help Deaf People
Google partnered with Gallaudet University to design an app that translates spoken words from 70 languages and dialects into text in real time. Live Transcribe was specifically designed to help deaf and hard-of-hearing people. The app has been rolled out in limited beta for Android devices, and from now on …
Read More »This 3D Printed Robot Taught Itself To Ice Skate
Researchers at the Computational Robotics Lab of ETH Zurich have built a four-legged robot that taught itself how to ice skate. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ MORE FROM MASHABLE • Video – https://youtu.be/6ElleCub6uM • Video – https://youtu.be/jAu1ZsTCA64 • Video – https://youtu.be/W8T6fYt9-tA Subscribe to Mashable: http://on.mash.to/subscribe Best of playlist: https://on.mash.to/BestOf MASHABLE ACROSS THE WEB …
Read More »We Have Finally Witnessed the Samsung Galaxy Fold
Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is a $1,980 folding smartphone which expands from a 4.6-inch phone to a 7.3-inch tablet. The Galaxy Fold has six cameras: three on the back, two inside, and one on the front when it’s folded. It also has high-end specs, with 12GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, …
Read More »Pictionary Has Entered the Digital Age with “Pictionary Air”
Welcome to 2019, where even Pictionary has an app. That’s right, “Pictionary Air” is here, and it features an app and nifty pen to draw in the air with. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ MORE FROM MASHABLE • Video – https://youtu.be/6ElleCub6uM • Video – https://youtu.be/jAu1ZsTCA64 • Video – https://youtu.be/W8T6fYt9-tA Subscribe to …
Read More »This Space Harpoon Could Be A Solution To Our Growing Space Junk Problem
The RemoveDEBRIS mission has successfully tested a harpoon that was designed to capture space junk in orbit. This marks the second successful attempt for the research team. In September 2018, they deployed a net that wrapped itself around an orbiting piece of debris. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ …
Read More »Can You Tell Between a Real and Computer-Generated Face?
The internet is filed with crap. So much so that even stuff that looks legitimate is still just a bunch of doodie wrapped up nicely. Now two University of Washington professors are trying to wake us up to this fact with their Calling Bullshit project, which features a fun little …
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