Watch this self-driving race car hilariously smash into a wall

Oct30
by on October 30, 2020 at 9:00 am
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Autonomous vehicles will save us all! Self-driving cars are the future! …or, so I thought until I watched the following clip. Before we get to that, a bit of background. The video below is from a recent live broadcast of Roborace, the world’s first all autonomous full-scale motor race series. It’s a pretty simple concept: teams use their own electrically powered self-driving vehicles to race around real-life racetracks. All teams use the same chassis and drivetrain, but are responsible for coming up with their own self-driving software to actually drive the car. Like all other motor races, the fastest wins.…

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Should a conscious robot get the same rights as a human?

Oct29
by on October 29, 2020 at 9:55 am
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In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Measure of a Man” Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that Data deserves the same rights as a human being. Naturally, the question arises: What is the basis upon which something has rights? What gives an entity moral standing? The philosopher Peter Singer argues that creatures that can feel pain or suffer have a claim to moral standing. He argues that nonhuman animals have moral standing since they can feel pain and suffer. Limiting it to people would…

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Volcanos on Jupiter’s moon are painting its surface with beautiful colors

Oct28
by on October 28, 2020 at 9:20 am
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For the first time ever, astronomers were able to see the effects of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of the innermost large moon of Jupiter. Io is the most volcanically-active body in the Solar System apart from the Earth. Astronomers know of more than 400 volcanoes strewn across the surface of Io. These eruptions release vast quantities of sulfur gas which freezes, falling to the surface of Io, coating the moon in red, orange, yellow, and white deposits. You’ve got another thin coming, Lucy The atmosphere of Io is astonishingly thin — a billion times thinner than the atmosphere of…

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