Editor Blogs
November 2020
Back in 2009, “TV Zombies” from the Electronics TakeBack Coalition invaded the Consumer Electronics Show – the point being that consumer electronics (and batteries, especially) “live on” in landfills.
11 years later, the electronics recycling challenge still plagues the industry, but Wired recently profiled a
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11/30/2020
Alleging “breach of warranty and for unfair and deceptive acts and practices,” a class-action lawsuit is charging Tesla with ignoring suspension defects in Model S and Model X electric vehicles.
We previously covered Tesla’s tussle with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) after a litany of se
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Date:
11/24/2020
Would advanced robots like Boston Dynamics' Atlas agree to pay taxes in the future?
It’s not an empty hypothetical query – our attitudes toward advanced A.I. and taxation, and how the robots, themselves, feel about it, could have profound implications for the very nature of society.
The North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology poses the aforementioned question in the context of automa
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Date:
11/17/2020
Virgin Hyperloop
Is this the future of transportation?
Hey, whatyaknow – it is possible to send humans in pressurized capsules at hypersonic speeds without turning them in goo.
On Sunday, Virgin Hyperloop tested their much-ballyhooed vactrain transportation system on humans for the first time. And while comfort is still a huge question mark – the Hyperloop
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Date:
11/09/2020
Progress or uncanny valley? Or both?
“In climbing toward the goal of making robots appear human, our affinity for them increases until we come to a valley, which I call the uncanny valley.”
- Masahiro Mori, robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1970
Disney Research’s latest robotics demo could be the first exa
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Date:
11/03/2020
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