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Review: The Moorebot Zeus is my favorite fighting robot yet

Jul03
by on July 3, 2018 at 10:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Reviews


The Moorebot Zeus fighting robot is a pint-sized mechanical pugilist made for serious robotics enthusiasts. We wrote about it in January, during our CES coverage, but now I’ve finally gotten my hands on one. And I’m happy to report it was worth the wait. As far as ‘fighting robots’ go, this isn’t the kind made famous by the BattleBots TV show. This one is built in a similar vein to the Super Anthony robot we reviewed a couple of weeks ago. It’s a fully articulated 35.5cm (14 in) tall biped that you control with a video game controller. It weighs 2.2kg…

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Court rules Yelp can’t be forced to remove reviews

Jul03
by on July 3, 2018 at 10:03 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


The California Supreme Court made life easier for internet review sites this week when it ruled Yelp can’t be forced to remove reviews from a business’s page by legal means. The 4-3 ruling overturned an earlier decision in which a court ordered Yelp to remove a supposedly defamatory review, in spite of the fact that, in that particular case, Yelp wasn’t a defendant and wasn’t allowed to defend itself in court. The Supreme Court originally agreed to review the case in 2016, with the Northern California ACLU coming down on Yelp’s side. The ACLU said in a statement at the…

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Court rules Yelp can’t be forced to remove reviews

Jul03
by on July 3, 2018 at 10:03 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


The California Supreme Court made life easier for internet review sites this week when it ruled Yelp can’t be forced to remove reviews from a business’s page by legal means. The 4-3 ruling overturned an earlier decision in which a court ordered Yelp to remove a supposedly defamatory review, in spite of the fact that, in that particular case, Yelp wasn’t a defendant and wasn’t allowed to defend itself in court. The Supreme Court originally agreed to review the case in 2016, with the Northern California ACLU coming down on Yelp’s side. The ACLU said in a statement at the…

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A beginner’s guide to AI: Neural networks

Jul03
by on July 3, 2018 at 8:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, evergreen


One of the more complex and misunderstood topics making headlines lately is artificial intelligence. People like Elon Musk warn that robots could one day destroy us all, while other experts claim that we’re on the brink of an AI winter and the technology is going nowhere. Making heads or tails of it all is difficult, but the best place to start is with deep learning. Here’s what you need to know. Artificial intelligence has become a focal point for the global tech community thanks to the rise of deep learning. The radical advance of computer vision and natural language processing,…

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Sony’s lonely approach to console gaming is pissing everyone off

Jul03
by on July 3, 2018 at 6:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Where money and pleading won’t work, the gaming industry appears to be trying passive aggression to convince Sony to open itself to crossplay. In this case, I think it might actually work. The details: In this case, the person trying the tactic is Todd Howard of Bethesda. While describing Fallout 76‘s crossplay capabilities to German site GameStar this week, Howard explicitly said it was Sony’s who’s gumming up the works: “You cannot do cross-play in ’76. We’d really love that but right now we can’t. Sony is not as helpful as everyone would like.” Last month, we wrote about Sony’s justifications for keeping itself fenced…

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