139 CCNT “Gen Alpha & Titan Athletics” - 05.15.2019

This week, AI to tell us who to vote for, China makes real life Angry Bird truck, Generation Alpha is here, and humanity will be engineered to titans by the year 2100. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE!

AGG for the WEEK of May 9th-May 15th

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS!

San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology - The New York Times

 

TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY!

DARPA Hosts Rocket Contest for Speedy Space Deliveries on Cheddar

Scientists help artificial intelligence outsmart hackers | Science | AAAS

Coming of Age in the Age of AI: The First Fully Digital Generation

Mackmyra Whiskey Partners With Microsoft and Fourkind | AI-Generated Whisky

Chinese Military Truck Launches Killer Drones Like Artillery

Watch a Leech-Like Robot Crawl Its Way up a Wall

Avoid the politics and let artificial intelligence decide your vote in the next election

Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop • The Register

Addressing the Biases Plaguing Algorithms

Now You Can Experiment With OpenAI’s “Dangerous” Fake News AI

A new AI acquired humanlike ‘number sense’ on its own | Science News

Use this cutting-edge AI text generator to write stories, poems, news articles, and more - The Verge

 

CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS!

Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise. - The New York Times

 

SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Has a New History Channel Show About Aliens | Pitchfork

BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM

We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance - Nautilus - Pocket

Russia joins in global gene-editing bonanza

The new "sharecroppers": AI programs are being powered by thousands of low wage workers - Axios

Finding Out You Have a Genetic Mutation May Not Be as Bad as You Think - Bloomberg

Tastier Tomatoes May Be Making a Comeback Thanks to Genetics | Smart News | Smithsonian

The Hunt for a CRISPR Antidote Just Heated Up

 

GAMING!

These Grotesque Pokémon Were Drawn By a Neural Network

Rage 2 Easter egg pokes fun at Elon Musk - CNET

 

CRYPTOCURRENCY AND THE B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN

Satoshi Website's Bitcoin Reveal Was Even Stupider Than We Imagined

 

THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS

Girl's Request For Dragon And Telepathy Studies Rejected Along With $5 'Bribe' : NPR

 

FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE

Everything You Need to Know About Tomorrow's Starlink Launch

Elon Musk's Starlink Could Bring Back Net Neutrality and Upend the Internet | Inverse

Jeff Bezos wants Blue Origin to bring the workforce to space - Axios

 

BIRDS AREN’T REAL

Hummingbird Robots 1, Drones 0

https://www.texasmonthly.com/article/beware-the-grackle/