Stories tagged "humans" - Page 5

See some robots being developed by researchers who are experimenting with different ways for humans and robots to interact.

With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. This was just one of the difficult lessons writer Benjamin Skinner learned while researching his book, <em>A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery.</em> He discusses the challen

People who are concerned about climate change struggle with carbon offsets. Do they make a difference? And if they do make a difference, how can you tell which programs have real quality? It all comes down to measurement, testing, and accountability.

Japan is perhaps the closest country to a future where humans and intelligent robots routinely live side by side and interact socially.

People are usually off the mark when trying to predict whether they'll enjoy a future event, says a Harvard psychologist. It all has to do with alternatives

The newly sequenced genome of a one-celled, planktonic marine organism, reported Feb. 14 in the journal Nature, is already telling scientists about the evolutionary changes that accompanied the jump from one-celled life forms to multicellular animals like

Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.

An expose of conversational terrorism cheap shot tactics to notice and avoid. HOW NOT TO TALK! Read 'em and laugh - or weep if you must.

The Web is becoming biased, like the mainstream media is (owned by the world's largest media companies).

Many executives see themselves as prodigious multitaskers -- checking e-mail while simultaneously talking on the phone, eyeing stock quotes, and performing all sorts of other busywork. But they're probably doing a lousy job if they're trying to focus ...