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120Bobby’s Reading List - Week 10, 2013
It’s less offensive, but weirder, than you think…
Quit overreacting to automated advertising
Hackers steal Bitcoins, of course
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Bobby’s Reading List - Week 8, 2013
Bobby’s Reading List - Week 7, 2013
Raytheon’s Spook Google, RIOT, is pretty cool.
Get Malinese news from a talking cat
Computers are better at diagnosing illness than doctors.
Replacing fences with cow guidance implants
Digital rube goldberg machine: Exercise or your food will rot
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Bobby’s Reading List - Week 6, 2013
Man/Chatbot collaborative screenwriting.
Educating children for their future as the slave technicians of the robot overlords
GPS is a military technology, and intentionally crippled in consumer models. OpenPS could be an open alternative.
OMNI has posted old issues to Archive.org, includng William Gibson’s short stories
British military pays $193,750 per drone for tiny helicopters with cameras onboard. Seems reasonable?
Impatient? Skip to 19:00.
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Bobby’s Reading List - Week 5, 2013
Bobby’s Reading List - Week 4, 2013
Newest DARPA project sounds like the beginning of an HP Lovecraft story
Earliest computer art is, of course, a sexy lady
Copyrights and Patents are for insecure people who don’t believe they will ever have another good idea
Print your own humanoid robot*
Google did not kill that donkey
Some robots are gross and stupid
I wouldn’t have guessed we would have designer jetpacks before functional jetpacks, but here we are.
3D Printed dresses on Paris catwalks
Unconvincing report that robots will create more jobs
*Humanoid robots are dumb. Task best done by bipedal, five fingered workers? We got those already.
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Bobby’s Reading List - Week 3, 2013
Swarms of Micro Robot Bugs
Wayne Dobson does not have your phone
Hmmm… maybe this gets 3D Printing protected by the NRA?
Suggestions to make Siri more like an actual assistant
HandBrakeBatch allows you to, surprise, batch convert videos with HandBrake
Detroit moving steadily toward the future outlined in the prophetic Robocop.
Recursion Flower Cool code art
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Bobby’s Reading List - Week 2, 2013
Compressorhead!
Ultraman gets work at a noodle shop
New Lego Mindstorms look sweet
John Robb is on a roll with his Dronenet proposal:
An open drone network vs. closed logistics networks
What a Dronet (a more compressed spelling?) can leverage
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Bobby’s Reading List - Week 1, 2013
Books
War in the Age of Intelligent Machines Old, but still interesting. Amazon Associate link.
Links
The Dronefather An interview with Abe Karem, aeronautic engineer who has been critical to the development of UAVs.
Rent-a-Drone Japanese security firm is offering rental drones.
A Brief History of the Autopen Even the president’s job can be done by robots.
Art of Creative Coding PBS produced introduction to Code Art.
Interview with Enbo Lu Enbo is a competitor in the Automated Trading Championships; a high frequency trading contest held late last year.
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