This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 23)

What It's Like to Watch an IBM AI Successfully Debate Humans Dieter Bohn The Verge "It looks like a huge leap beyond that other splashy demonstration we all remember from IBM when Watson mopped the floor with its competition at Jeopardy. The Mission to Build the Ultimate Burger Bot Lauren Smiley Wired "This summer, [Momentum Machines' Alex Vardakostas is] opening the doors to a San Francisco restaurant called Creator and unveiling his gleaming burger bot--a surprisingly beautiful copper and wood machine, its spotless glass chutes stacked with vivid towers of tomato, onion, lettuce, and pickle." Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps Evan Ackerman IEEE Spectrum "[DRAGON] is a modular flying robot powered by ducted fans that can transform literally on the fly, from a square to a snake to anything in between, allowing it to stretch out to pass through small holes and then make whatever other shape you want once it's on the other side." Five Ways You Can Already Become a Cyborg, One Body Part at a Time Rachel Metz MIT Technology Review "We've put together a list to introduce you to some of the most interesting products that can help you upgrade yourself from head to toe--whether you're interested in serious biohacking or just want to check out some cool wearable tech." The US May Soon Have the World's First Space Force Dan Robitzski Futurism "Some in the military have argued that future conflicts may happen off-world, and without a special program committed to readying the US for such a conflict, it may be 50 years before the country is ready.