On (most) Fridays I post here a roundup of interesting things I’ve read and/or posted on social media since my last roundup, generally stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find interesting.
Featured Image: Sam Byford / The Verge
In other emotion-manipulating AI news, a German study showed that people had a hard time shutting down robots when asked by the robot not to:
Image: PLOS/TNW
Swiss researchers at EPFL developed a virtual reality jacket that can be used to pilot drones:
Image: Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne via AP
Bioengineers in Texas are closer than ever to lab-grown lungs:
Image: JOAN NICHOLS
Naked Labs’ 3D body scanner can make head-to-toe scans of your body and measure stats like fat mass and lean mass:
Image: NAKED LABS
The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deep fakes – fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI:
Image: SUNY
Testing by the IIHS has found what Google’s Waymo engineers discovered years ago, that semi-autonomous cars are dangerous because of the “handoff problem” – humans just can’t react quickly enough:
Image: AP Photo/David Zalubowski
After years of work and billions of dollars in venture funding, Magic Leap’s mixed reality headset the ML One is finally available to developers:
Image: ALICIA VERA
Ford is rolling out EksoVest exoskeletons in 15 of its factories to test whether they are ready for prime time:
Image: Ford
NEC has announced it will provide a facial recognition system for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, to identify over 300,000 people at the games:
Image: Sam Byford / The Verge
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