Musk claims that, because artificial intelligence is coming, we have two choices. We either make ourselves symbiotically mandatory to the AI or we will basically be destroyed (or end up as pets, but he says that's the "benign scenario"). Check out how he says we have to go about it…direct cortical interface. Sounds like every DARPA business proposal I've read lately. In another clip, Musk also says with AI, we are "unleashing the demon".

While you spent your childhood climbing trees, learning to love Mario and making furtive glances at your first crush, I was playing Star Trek games. That doesn't make me a gamer, but I'm well-qualified to talk about how poorly the series translates to any existing game genre. It's a generalization, sure, but most mainstream games are not about slow, thoughtful collaboration in order to solve problems. But that's why Star Trek: Bridge Crew is so intriguing, since VR offers us the chance to redefine those tired genres. In anticipation of the game's late-November mid-March launch, four Engadget editors tried out a near-finished demo with Ubisoft in London. Bridge Crew tells the story of the USS Aegis NX-1787 and its staff, a Federation vessel designed for long-range surveillance of early-stage civilizations.

An MIT project distorted photos of the capitol building and other famous sites using an artificial intelligence algorithm to make horror images. An MIT project distorted photos of the capitol building and other famous sites using an artificial intelligence algorithm to make horror images. Welcome to the "Nightmare Machine," a horror-imagery project created by three researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan used artificial intelligence algorithms "to learn how haunted houses, or toxic cities look. Then, we apply the learnt style to famous landmarks and present [to] you: AI-powered horror all over the world!"

A capsule carrying 5,300 pounds of food, clothing, spare parts, lab equipment, and science experiments arrived at the International Space Station Sunday morning. Astronauts grabbed the vehicle, called Cygnus, with a robotic arm and pulled it to the station for docking. Over the next month the crew will unload its contents while Cygnus remains tethered to the station. Ultimately, the space station crew will reload the empty vessel with about 4,000 pounds of trash and release it to burn up in the atmosphere in mid-November. But before the vehicle destroys itself, an onboard experiment called Spacecraft Fire Experiment-II, or Saffire-II, will intentionally start a small fire to test how zero gravity and limited oxygen affect flame size and the spread of fire.

The U.S. Air Force announced Friday that it's offering experienced drone pilots a bonus worth up to $175,000 illustrating the military's focus on the evolution of unmanned warfare. The Air Force Times reported that the payout would be $35,000 per year for qualified pilots who agree to a five year commitment. The report of the military's offer came just before the Pentagon controversially sought to recover some hefty reenlistment bonuses. Military officials revealed nearly 10,000 California Army National Guard soldiers were paid too much to go fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an audit first reported by The Los Angeles Times. The paper reported widespread overpayments by California Guard officials under pressure to meet enlistment targets at the height of the wars 10 years ago.

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. When it comes to new technologies and products, we tend to think of "digital" as synonymous with advanced, modern, and high-def, while "analog" is considered retrograde, outmoded, and low-resolution. But if you think analog is dead, you'd be wrong. Analog processing not only remains at the heart of many vital systems we depend on today, it is now going to make its way into a new breed of compute and intelligent systems that will power some of the most exciting technologies of the future: artificial intelligence and robotics.

Tech-savvy farmers have been some of the earliest commercial adopters of drone technology, purchasing 45,000 drones last year alone. But if they were using the drones to check on the condition of their fields, spraying their crops, or keeping tabs on livestock, most of them were technically breaking the law. New U.S. federal rules that went into effect this summer, however, should make it easier for farmers to get a drone's-eye view of their fields. The new rules allow commercial drone operators to get certified via a written test, so long as they fly drones that meet certain weight and altitude guidelines. Before this, operators had to pay for a pilot's license and get a special exemption to use a drone, a slow and cumbersome process.

I should have known it'd be you, Teddy Roosevelt. I was keeping to myself, peaceably prepping rockets for Mars, and then your armada showed up. After all the gifts I sent! When you're swatting Yankee field cannons and battering rams with rockets and fighter jets, what's to complain about? I remember when we obsessed over absurdities like this in the Civilization games.

AliveCor, the leader in FDA-cleared mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) technology for mobile devices, announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to utilize AliveCor's unique measurement technology to unlock previously hidden health indicators in ECG readings. These indicators have the potential to not only improve heart health but also overall health care for a variety of conditions. AliveCor provides the first consumer-ready, clinically validated and FDA-cleared ECG to give patients a more complete view of their heart health, improve proactive monitoring and create a new standard of cardiac care. By using AliveCor's deep machine learning capabilities applied to 10 million of its user ECG recordings, Mayo Clinic and AliveCor will work together to uncover hidden physiological signals to improve heart and overall human health. "Mayo Clinic has pioneered new approaches that may uncover significant measures of physiology that have been hidden in individuals' ECGs," said Vic Gundotra, CEO, AliveCor.

Self-driving convoys were born from a simple military calculus: the fewer people driving vehicles in convoys, the fewer people will die when those convoys get attacked. In 2004, as the Iraq war entered its second year, DARPA offered 1 million to the team of robotics engineers who could make a machine cross 150 miles of the Mojave desert. No team succeeded in the first year, and the furthest only covered 7 miles of desert, but five teams completed the course in 2005. Since then, driverless vehicles have taken the civilian world by storm, with autopilot a key Tesla feature and companies like Uber and Alphabet investing in their own autonomous people-carrying machines. So what happened to the military driverless convoys?