1. Home
  2. Discover
  3. Technology
  4. H+ Weekly

H+ Weekly - H+ Weekly - Issue #374

.
H+ WEEKLY
 
.
Issue #374
This week - whatever happened to the transhumanists; synthetic embryos; wandering robots; virtual influencers; and more!
SPONSORED
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Popular Programming Languages by O'Reilly
Plus up your coding skills and broaden your software development knowledge with this bundle of ebooks from O’Reilly! This library of resources is perfect for programmers who need to be fluent in a variety of popular languages, including Robust Python, Programming Scala, JavaScript Cookbook, and more. Broaden your coding knowledge base, and help support Code for America with your purchase!

MORE THAN A HUMAN
Forever young, beautiful and scandal-free: The rise of South Korea's virtual influencers
Rozy is a social media influencer from South Korea with over 140K followers on Instagram. She travels around the world, promotes brands and does other things an influencer does. But she is not real. Rozy is the first South Korean virtual influencer and could be one of many to follow suit.

Whatever Happened to the Transhumanists?
George Dvorsky looks back at his 20 years of being involved in the transhumanism movement and asks the question Whatever happened to the transhumanists? Short answer - transhumanism kinda is already here. “We are living in a partially transhuman world”, said Anders Sandberg quoted in this article. The long answer starts with the history of the movement, its impact in the late 90s and early 2000s on the technology we use every day and what is the future of transhumanism.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
YOLOv7 Breakdown
YOLO (You Only Look Once) is one of the most popular object detection algorithms available. This article explains how the algorithm is built and how it works without diving into too technical details.

Irony machine: Why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognize irony?
Since Blake Lemoine announced that Google's AI is consciousness, the question of how to define and measure consciousness has been on many people's minds. One approach, this article argues, is to study irony and use it as a mark for measuring consciousness.

ROBOTICS
Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
Drones are not delivering our groceries yet but they have found a place in smuggling contraband to prisons. All it takes is a cheap off-the-shelf drone dropping cargo in the middle of the night, forcing prisons are investing in countermeasures like nets, jamming systems or their own fleet of drones.

Wandering Robots in the Wild
When you are building a robot, ideally you want your robot to know exactly where it is all the time and be able to figure out on its own where to go. Designers of Kuri, however, challenged these assumptions and explored what can happen if the robot just wanders around and if needed, asks a human for help.

Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B
Amazon announced plans to acquire iRobot - the creators of Roomba robot vacuum cleaners - for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion.

BIOTECHNOLOGY
Scientists create world’s first ‘synthetic embryos’
Researchers have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos” in a groundbreaking feat that bypassed the need for sperm, eggs and fertilisation. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel found that stem cells from mice could be made to self-assemble into early embryo-like structures with an intestinal tract, the beginnings of a brain, and a beating heart.

Protein-Designing AI Opens Door to Medicines Humans Couldn’t Dream Up
Researchers have trained AI to generate new proteins, some of them not seen in nature. Their work may find use in designing and speeding up the process of creating new drugs or vaccines.
This issue was brought to you by our awesome patrons Eric, Andrew, dux and Tom! You too can support the newsletter on Patreon.
Thank you for subscribing,
Conrad Gray (@conradthegray)

If you have any questions or suggestions, just reply to this email or tweet at @hplusweekly. I'd like to hear what do you think about H+ Weekly.
Follow H+ Weekly!
Facebook
Twitter
Medium
LinkedIn

You are receiving this email because you signed in to H+ Weekly newsletter

Our mailing address is:
H+ Weekly
London
London, London EC4 2AA
United Kingdom

Add us to your address book


Unsubscribe    Update subscription preferences 






This email was sent to you
why did I get this?    unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences
H+ Weekly · London · London, London EC4 2AA · United Kingdom

Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp

Older messages

H+ Weekly - Issue #373

Friday, July 29, 2022

Turning dead spiders into robots; DNA-based artificial neural networks; 3% of new code at Google is AI-generated; and more! . H+ WEEKLY . Issue #373 View this email in your browser This week - turning

H+ Weekly - Issue #372

Friday, July 22, 2022

A digital celebrity from China; Sony's racing AI is fast and nice; the UK to build a drone superhighway; radio-controlled fruit flies; and more! . H+ WEEKLY . Issue #372 View this email in your

H+ Weekly - Issue #371

Friday, July 15, 2022

DeepMind's AI learns simple physics like a baby; autonomous cars jammed San Francisco; the coming AI chip boom; and more! . H+ WEEKLY . Issue #371 View this email in your browser This week -

H+ Weekly - Issue #370

Friday, July 8, 2022

AI training speed increased twofold; autonomous drones that inspect UK's power grid; growing plants in the dark; and more! . H+ WEEKLY . Issue #370 View this email in your browser This week - AI

H+ Weekly - Issue #369

Friday, July 1, 2022

OpenAI's AI learns to play Minecraft from YouTube; a robotic vest that acts as an extra layer of muscles; a robotic skin that feels pain; and more! . H+ WEEKLY . Issue #369 View this email in your

You Might Also Like

Sunday Digest | Featuring 'The Countries With the Most Air Pollution in 2023' 📊

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Every visualization published this week, in one place. Visual Capitalist Sunday Digest logo Apr 28, 2024 | View Online | Subscribe | VC+ The Best of This Week's Visuals Presented by Voronoi: The

Android Weekly #620

Sunday, April 28, 2024

View in web browser 620 April 28th, 2024 Articles & Tutorials Sponsored How DoorDash Manages Mobile Releases Ever wonder how the big names in mobile engineering manage the human side of their app

President Biden signs TikTok bill

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Plus: Robotaxis face new legislation in California and more View this email online in your browser By Anthony Ha Sunday, April 28, 2024 Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch A bill forcing TikTok

New Alpine.js Sort plugin, Laravel 11.5, and more - №510

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Your Laravel week in review ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

This Week's Daily Tip Roundup

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Missed some of this week's tips? No problem. We've compiled all of them here in one convenient place for you to enjoy. Happy learning! iPhoneLife Logo View In Browser Your Tip of the Day is

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #164 - A Thousand Fans

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Edition 164 of my newsletter, discussing Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and more! Sébastien Dubois DeveloPassion's Newsletter DeveloPassion's

Nobody Likes a Know-It-All: Smaller LLMs are Gaining Momentum

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Phi-3 and OpenELM, two major small model releases this week. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

Retro Recomendo: Music

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Recomendo - issue #408 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

Your Phone’s Other Number 📱

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Let's talk about your phone's IMEI number. Here's a version for your browser. Hunting for the end of the long tail • April 27, 2024 Today in Tedium: As you may know, Tedium is a blog and/or

🕹️ How to Play Retro Games for Free on iPhone — Why I Can't Live Without an eReader

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Also: Anker MagGo (Qi2) Power Bank Review, and More! How-To Geek Logo April 27, 2024 📩 Get expert reviews, the hottest deals, how-to's, breaking news, and more delivered directly to your inbox by