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The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge

The plan to 3D-print a bridge in mid-air was always bonkers. How could a technology best known for creating flimsy prototypes and personalized action figures be used for permanent construction projects? Well, the team at MX3D in Amsterdam just answered all of the hard questions and revealed it: the world’s first 3D-printed bridge.

Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

Researchers Think There Could Be Alien Life Floating in the Clouds of Venus

Satellite images from highly oblique angles are pretty mindblowing

Founded in 2010 by three former NASA scientists, Planet Labs has been among the forefront of several companies seeking to provide high-quality, commercially available imagery of planet Earth. As such, it has the capability to look all around the world, in real time.

Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline

What if physiologists were the only people who study human behavior at all scales: from how the human body functions, to how social norms emerge, to how the stock market functions, to how we create, share, and consume culture? What if neuroscientists were the only people tasked with studying criminal behavior, designing educational curricula, and devising policies to fight tax evasion?

Norman: Psychopath AI

We present you Norman, world’s first psychopath AI. Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, and represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms.

Starting Today, All Cars In Europe Can Call The Police Themselves

Wristband Lets the Brain Control a Computer with a Thought and a Twitch

Distribute messages effectively in serverless applications

In the following post, I will shed some light on how to distribute messages between AWS Lambda functions, taking in consideration service decoupling, end-to-end performance, troubleshooting, and more.

Buzzword Convergence: Making Sense of Quantum Neural Blockchain AI

What happens if you take four of today’s most popular buzzwords and string them together? Does the result mean anything? Given that today is April 1 (as well as being Easter Sunday), I thought it’d be fun to explore this.