Will Programming Become Obsolete? by Kevin Morris, Electronic Engineering Journal Tell a crowd of nerds that software is coming to an end, and you’ll get laughed out of the bar. The very notion that the amount of software and software development in the world will do anything besides continue on an exponential growth curve…
A 13-year-old boy and an amateur archaeologist have unearthed a significant trove in Germany which may have belonged to the Danish king Harald “Bluetooth” who brought Christianity to Denmark.
Government indifference toward AI could let the US lose ground to rival countries. But what would a good AI plan actually look like? By Will Knight, MIT Technology Review Politicians worldwide are stealing one of the US government’s best ideas by drawing up ambitious plans to make the most of advances in artificial intelligence.…
Machines in one FedEx facility are directly replacing human roles but there are no pink slips, yet. The news: The New York Times says the firm is using five autonomous “tuggers” to move large, oddly shaped items around a freight depot in North Carolina. What they do: The tugs are akin to autonomous cars…
Just like graphene or Elon Musk’s startups, 5G has become a technology savior. Proponents tout the poorly defined wireless technology as the path to virtual reality, telemedicine, and self-driving cars.
