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Humans just got a step closer to being able to think a message into someone else's brain on the other side of the world: in a first-of-its-kind study, an international team of researchers has successfully achieved brain-to-brain transmission of information between humans. The team, comprising researchers from Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Starlab Barcelona in Spain, and Axilum Robotics in Strasbourg, France, used a number of technologies that enabled them to send messages from India to France -- a distance of 5,000 miles (8046.72km) -- without performing invasive surgery on the test subjects. (via Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans achieved for the first time - CNET)

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Bouton, M. E. (2004). Context and behavioral processes in extinction. Learning and Memory, 11, 485-494.

Imagine going to check in at the airport and being greeted by your very own virtual assistant on the self-check screen – a friendly face so real you could be talking to someone over Skype. Artificial intelligence is here, and it could be seen in our airports within the next 18 months, thanks to two New Zealand companies recently signing a deal to develop interactive avatar technology for self-service check-ins around the world. BCS Group, an Auckland-based company providing baggage handling, self-service check-in and other technology to airports and airlines, has paired up with Oscar-winning Kiwi engineer Dr Mark Sagar to bring the self-service check-in experience to life. (via Real life avatars: At an airport check-in near you - soon :: Idealog :: the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation)

Baby X is growing up. (via BabyX v3.0 Interactive Simulation on Vimeo)

For introverts, the blood flow is focused on the areas of the brain necessary for the following: memory recall, self-talk, making future plans, or problem solving. The introvert pathway is much longer and more complex and requires the use of a different neurotransmitter known as acetylcholine. (via An Introvert's Guide to Networking)

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ROS (Robotic Operating System)

This video montage of robot projects has some fascinating footage. Interestingly ROS is all about the software in a field that mostly fetishizes the hardware.

ROS is a flexible framework for writing robot software. It is a collection of tools, libraries, and conventions that aim to simplify the task of creating complex and robust robot behavior across a wide variety of robotic platforms.

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Are you tuned in to the emotions of others? Or have you been accused of being insensitive?

What your face says The premise is simple – a smartphone device will encode a user’s facial expressions using the built in camera. The device will then infer the emotional state of the user and modify any response accordingly: feeling sad? Maybe it’s a good time to show the funny advertisement feeling angry? Perhaps the difficulty level of a game should be lowered feeling happy? Show a shopper the products he bought the last time he was happy. The logic of such technology draws support from a popular belief that we can “read” the emotional states of others by looking at their faces (via Your smartphone is looking at you – but can it read your emotions?)

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The Pentagon Basically Wants to Merge You With a Robot Adam Rawnsley, thedailybeast.com

From artificial mammal brains to prosthetics that feel like real limbs, the military’s blue-sky researchers are aiming to bring man and machine closer than ever before.

You’ve probably never looked at a mammal’s brain and thought “Gee, I wish…

It has been estimated that Earth’s population spends approximately 3 billion hours per week playing computer games, an impressive statistic which seems to point to an inherent affinity humans have towards gaming. Designers have been taking notice of this fact, and in turn are introducing more gamified elements into people’s everyday lives, particularly when it comes to health care. Imagine if every time you picked up your phone to play a game you were actually helping yourself get a bit closer to your health or fitness goals? The net benefit of these activities would be more people taking an active role in managing their wellness. (via How Playing Video Games Could Be The Path To Wellness [Future Of Health] - PSFK)

Ultrathin slices of mouse brains offer a mesmerizing look at how brain cells communicate at the tiniest scale (via Beautiful 3-D Brain Scans Show Every Synapse)

The famous neurologist Viktor Frankl once said, “A human being is a deciding being.” But if our decisions can be hacked by model-assisted corporations, then we have to admit that perhaps we cease to be human as we’ve known it. Instead of being unique or special, we all become predictable and expected, nothing but products of previous measured actions. The promise of better machine learning then is not to bring machines up to the level of humans but to bring humans down to the level of machines. (via Data privacy, machine learning and the destruction of mysterious humanity — Tech News and Analysis)

Most of the innovations that make a robot like Baxter possible have occurred in just the past few years. They’ve taken place in areas where improvement had been frustratingly slow for a long time, and where the best thinking often led to the conclusion that it wouldn’t speed up. But then digital progress became sudden after being gradual for so long. This happened in multiple areas, from artificial intelligence to self-driving cars to robotics. (via Baxter and the Second Machine Age — Science and Technology — Medium)

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The Robots of CES 2014

Compared to TVs, cameras, wearables and even 3D printers, robots make up a pretty small fraction of what is on the show floor here on CES. But there are enough of them to signify our move into a world where robots in the home and at work will definitely be a reality.

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