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Watch a transforming robot roll, crawl, stand up and fly
“This technology could transform future space explorations, particularly Mars explorations,” says Alireza Ramezani at Northeastern University, Massachusetts. A rover that can fly and navigate difficult terrain could help to collect samples from areas that current rovers can’t easily access, he says.
The Verge
Go read this NYT expose on a creepy new facial recognition database used by US police
“We’ve relied on industry efforts to self-police and not embrace such a risky technology, but now those dams are breaking because there is so much money on the table,” said a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, Woodrow Hartzog, “I don’t see a future where we harness the benefits of face recognition […]
Tech Republic
9 tools to navigate an ‘uncertain future,’ from new book, Whiplash
“Humans are perpetually failing to grasp the significance of their own creations,” write Joi Ito and Jeff Howe in Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future. In the new title, released today, Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and Howe, a journalism professor at Northeastern University andWired contributor, make the case that technology moves […]
Move over Millennials: Generation Z is entrepreneurial and plans on working independently
Millennials might make up the majority of the workforce in the next few years, but Generation Z—made up of people born in the mid-’90s or later—isn’t far behind. There’s something a bit unsettling about the name (are there any generations left after Z?), but according to a new national survey, this segment of the population […]
Google Flu Trends gets it wrong three years running
Google may be a master at data wrangling, but one of its products has been making bogus data-driven predictions. A study of Google’s much-hyped flu tracker has consistently overestimated flu cases in the US for years. It’s a failure that highlights the danger of relying on big data technologies. Google Flu Trends, which launched in 2008, monitors […]
WGBH Radio
Technology And The Future Of The T
Stephanie Pollack says that the answer to the T’s problems won’t come by changing how they do things, but by changing the way they think about what they do.
Boston.com
Manufacturing poised for promising future, Northeastern University study says
After decades of losing factory and assembly line jobs, manufacturing is poised for a promising future in Massachusetts, thanks to corporate investments in cutting-edge technologies and skilled workers who are churning out high-end products faster and cheaper than ever here, a new study says. Barry Bluestone, the lead researcher on the study and director of […]