by Warp Institute | Aug 13, 2021 | 📈 Human Progress, 🤖 Robotics, 🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Facebook has released Droidlet, which is an open platform based on open-source code. With the help of the Droidlet, you can build an embodied robot that can recognize natural language, navigate its surroundings and react to some input. Robots built in the Droidlet...
by Warp Institute | Aug 12, 2021 | Blockchain, 📈 Human Progress
The cryptocurrency Ethereum is currently based, just like Bitcoin, on "proof of work." This means that machines solve difficult mathematical problems to verify transactions. But the Ethereum network is about to be updated and will in the future be based on...
by Warp Institute | Aug 12, 2021 | 📈 Human Progress
Unlike when species like pandas and elephants decline in number, birds are rarely mentioned in discussions. In order to improve awareness about avian species loss, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has developed an app that recognizes bird songs in the name of...
by Warp Institute | Aug 11, 2021 | 📈 Human Progress
Entropy increases over time; that is the second law of thermodynamics, which is also said to prove the direction of the flow of time. An object or system of objects will reach a stage of equilibrium, at which point no changes will occur, and it is impossible to...
by Warp Institute | Aug 11, 2021 | 📈 Human Progress, 🚘 Transportation
To bend time and space, large amounts of energy are needed. For the time being, that remains an indisputable fact. But if we had a spaceship that could bend time and space, we could potentially travel faster than the speed of light. That’s what’s...
