28 Pixelated Bits of Trivia About This Polarizing Digital World of Ours

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28 Pixelated Bits of Trivia About This Polarizing Digital World of Ours
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When you hear about some new robot or A.I. thingamajig, do you say, “Hmm, that’s interesting,” or “Oh my god, we’re all gonna die!"?

We’re pretty split on the matter in the Cracked offices, but who cares what we think, right? And now that we think about it, it honestly doesn’t matter what you think about it either. They’re coming whether we want them to or not. 

So whether you’re doing a deep dive into some article about recent innovations or a deep dive into the woods to never be contacted again, these bad boys will find you. It’s only a matter of time.

Human Skin for Robots

WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM Scientists have made human skin for robots Welcome to the future. Scientists in Japan have managed to craft skin for robots with human-like texture. The skin is water-repellent with self-healing functions.

Selfies

WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM Selfies may be driving plastic surgery Cellphone photos can distort facial features. One study shows that this distortion may be related to an increase in plastic surgery requests that are asking surgeons to fix issues that only exist in photos.

China and Tech Companies

CRACKED.COM I Strange Science Stories China's government has taken a 1% ownership stake in the Beijing subsid- iary of Bytedance, and one of 3 seats on their board of directors. Observers say China wants to rein in the power of tech companies. Who will have more data on Americans? Zuckerberg or Beijing? G

Netflix

GRACKED.COM C Strange Science Stories NETFLIX Netflix is trying harder to stop VPN and proxy users from bypassing geographical restrictions. Now some residential users are reporting they're locked out of accessing shows as Netflix blocks suspect IP addresses. Dammit just let me pretend I'm in Japan so I can watch Friends! y

Master Faces

GRACKED COM I Strange Science Stories 9.39% 7.00% 5.53% 4.94% 4.71% 3.62% 2.04% 1.70% 0.85% (b) 11.39% 6.45% 4.84% 4.82% 3.81% 3.32% 2.89% 1.67% 0.97% (c) 9.22% 6.98% 6.94% 6.60% 6.57% 6.14% 3.88% 3.25% 1.84% (d) 16.81% 5.50% 4.83% 3.42% 3.40% 3.09% 3.00% 1.60% 1.49% (c) Scientists have created nine master faces which act like master keys against facial recognition systems. About half the faces in any major dataset can be successfully imperson- ated by one of the nine. All your face are belong to us! N

Holographic Installations

CRACKED.COM C Strange Science Stories The Roddenberry Archive is working on a fully immersive holographic instal- lation of a life-size Starship Enterprise that will be indistinguishable from reality. So it'll be a holodeck which contains the Enterprise... which contains a holodeck... how deep could this go? G

Robot Babies

PURDUE BUILT A CRAWLING TINFOIL ROBOT BABY. THE GOAL? TO INVESTIGATE DUST INHALATION. Turns out breathing in floor debris isn't so bad. Purdue also carefully analyzed the movements of the robot baby itself presumably for potential weaknesses, should we find one speeding toward us in the dead of night. CRACKED.COM

ChatGPT Judges

CRACKED ChatGPT AW ADAPTING TO NEW TECH CHATGPT JUDGING CASES A judge in Colombia caused a stir by using ChatGPT to decide if an autistic child's insurance should cover all of their medical expenses. This sparked a debate about using Al in court, with some (some!) of the judge's colleagues voicing their disapproval.

Emoji Convictions

CRACKED AW ADAPTING TO NEW TECH CONVICTING BASED ON... EMOJI? In Israel, a court case used an emoji-filled text message as proof that someone had agreed to rent an apartment, and they had to pay $2,200 for it even though they never moved in.

Emoji Defamation

AW ADAPTING TO NEW TECH RECOGNIZING EMOJI AS DEFAMATORY SPEECH In Australia, the court decided in Burrows V Houda that using a zipper- face emoji in a particular situation amounted to saying something defamatory. This was the first case of its kind in Australia and, uh, it says a lot about the law getting weird. CRACKED

A.I. Automation

AW ADAPTING TO NEW TECH AUTOMATE EVERYTHING USING Al. In 2019, a court in Beijing set up an online litigation center that uses Al technology. It can record people's testimony using voice recognition, look at case materials, and check information from databases quickly. CRACKED

Wireless Power Transfer

GRAGKED.NOT Thanks to Disney, wireless power transfer is closer than ever. Researchers at Disney found a way to wirelessly charge up to 320 devices in a room. The method currently requires metal walls, but refinements could lower that to a layer of conductive paint.

Quantum Computers

CRACKED.COM Quantum computers are close to being a reality. QUANT Traditional computers work on one calculation at a time, but because of an amazing ability to work in more than one state at once, quantum computers will be capable of working on MILLIONS of calculations simultaneously. It is thought that quantum computing will help solve the most difficult scientific problems, and explore mysteries of the universe.

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28 Pixelated Bits of Trivia About This Polarizing Digital World of Ours

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28 Pixelated Bits of Trivia About This Polarizing Digital World of Ours

Captcha

X K iLL captons Type the two words: САРТСНА ? The squiggly word technique has already been deemed obsolete by both advanced bots and captcha farmers. Why is your site still using the most annoying form of not protecting itself? GRACKED.COM

Kuri

Meet Kuri This little robot will wake you in time for work, greet you when you come home, patrol while you're away, and even send a notice to your phone if the dog is on the couch. Не responds to touch, sight, and sound. He's yours for $699 and is coming this year. CRACKED.COM

Facial Recognition

Face recognition can now be used as an authentication method to pay for your goods and it has already been adopted in many applications and businesses in china. CRACKED.COM

The Smallest-Ever, Remote-Controlled Walking Robot

WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM Scientists have made the smallest-ever, remote- controlled walking robot At only half a millimeter wide, the robot bends, twists, jumps, crawls, and even jumps while being smaller than the width of a coin and looking like a miniature peekytoe crab. We're sure this tech will only be used for good.

Source: ScienceAlert

Robotic Chess Masters

When it comes to chess, our robot overlords have been beating us for 15 years. That's how long it's been since the last time a human beat an AI in a chess tournament. CRACKED.COM

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Language to Code

Strange CRACKED.COM Science Stories sub- indicator -menu cart-icon-w -outer. transparent header# f-menu > li.current_page .sf-menu > ul li a:hover ul #search-btn a:hover span, .sf-menu -menu hover .icon-salient-cart,.ascend impor impo header#top a a which buter A new AI system can turn conversa- tional language into working computer code. It's essentially a translator between English and a dozen different program- ming languages. Turns out learn to code wasn't the best job advice after all!

Source: Axios

No Crypto in Turkey

In Turkey, you can no longer use cryptocurrencies to buy anything at all. Due to rising inflation, people started using crypto for everyday transactions more and more, but the government put a stop to that on April 30, 2021. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: Reuters

Music Recording

The standard for recording in the mid 1960s 4 tracks! Analog! Today, it's usually more like 72 tracks! Digital!

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