Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

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“Come to bed, Mouse. I know how to cheer you up,” he says. “I’m not brooding,” Annie says. She is fresh from her shower, rubbing lotion into her legs. Her dark hair hangs in wet clumps along one side ...

When the U.S. gambling laws loosened in 2018, the many and various ways it would destroy people’s lives were widely predicted. It wasn’t hard to guess: you just had to look at every other country ...

Drake called Spotify “Botify” during a live stream, creating irony as he faces the same bot allegations in a class-action lawsuit. Drake took a pointed jab at Spotify during a recent live stream with ...

You’re gonna love me for this. Say you’re calling customer service because you need help. Maybe your bill is wrong, your service is down or you want a refund. Instead of a person, a cheerful AI voice ...

An AI-assisted analysis found that internet rumors claiming Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” album subtly promoted white supremacy were driven by bot-like accounts and a handful of bad actors.

Two new studies involving thousands of participants examined how chatbots can influence political beliefs. Bloomberg Creative via Getty Images Artificial intelligence chatbots are changing the world, ...

Google sees 3.2x more webpages than OpenAI. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wants Google to separate search crawling from AI crawling. Cloudflare has blocked 416 billion AI bot requests for customers ...

I spent the last week talking to three different religious chatbots about my struggles and questions — Bible Chat, Christian AI and Text With Jesus. There has been ample news coverage of the concerns ...

Playstation's Black Friday sale is now live, offering sweet deals like $100 off PS5 consoles, savings on dozens of games, and much more. It's rare that Sony discounts its limited edition DualSense ...

A simple database permission change triggered a global failure, highlighting how self-inflicted software errors now cause more disruptions than cyberattacks. A massive outage at content delivery ...