On Fridays I post here a roundup of things I’ve mentioned on social media over the prior week, generally stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find interesting.
The NYTimes has added augmented reality to their mobile app:
Image: Evan Grothjan/The New York Times
Intel is making smart glasses called Vaunt that actually look good:
Image: Vjeran Pavic
Drones emerge as new dimension in cyberwar – hackers will soon use UAVs for penetration testing and cellular surveillance:
Image: Andrew Turner/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
The AI threat is distant, but much sooner quantum computers could make conventional cryptography obsolete, bringing another mass remediation crisis along the lines of the Y2K bug:
Image: Scott Eells/Bloomberg News
An AI ethics experiment showed why ethical robots might not be such a good idea after all – it’s trivial for bad actors to make them unethical:
Image: Bristol Robotics Lab
Geneticists are using laser-powered chips to search through DNA faster:
Image: OPTALYSYS
China is rolling out facial recognition smart glasses to its police so that they can ID & track citizens:
Image: People’s Daily, China
PwC economists assessed how and when workers will be affected by automation and identified three waves, the first of which (the rise of algorithms) we are already in:
Image: PIRO4D | PIXABAY
Harvard startup Nebula Genomics wants to sequence your genome, let you retain ownership of it, and then share it on a blockchain:
Image: WYSS INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ENGINEERING AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
To see stories like this throughout the week, follow me on Twitter: @josiah17