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Technology Engineering The'Star Trek' technology that came to real life Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. To celebrate Star Trek Day on September 8, the European Space Agency (ESA) released a video of the Star Trek technology that's made it real-life space. So while we still don't have teleporters or deflector shields, ISS astronauts kind of have tricorders like the one used by Captain Christopher Pike in the first episode of the original series. We've also seen the development of technology that resembles Replicators, VISOR, and PADDs. The original premiered on network television in the United States on September 8, 1966.

It's been one future that sci-fi has promised since Star Trek. Microsoft now says that that future is arriving, at least within a small corner of Windows 11. Microsoft is promising that you'll be able to use natural language to change aspects of your Windows 11 Settings menu, and Windows will go out and make those changes for you using "agents," or small bits of AI that will work on your behalf -- at least if you own a Copilot PC with an AI-accelerating NPU onboard. Microsoft has begun to use its Surface devices as a showcase for its latest software, and the new 13-inch Surface Laptop and 12-inch Surface Pro are no exception. They'll serve as launch vehicles for Windows Recall, semantic search, and Click-to-Do, but also brand new features like agentic AI and relighting features for Photos, object editing and sticker generation for Paint, and more.

This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Section 31. When last we saw our Star Trek: Discovery antihero--Her Most Imperial Majesty, Mother of the Fatherland, Overlord of Vulcan, Dominus of Qo'noS, Regina Andor, Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius--back in 2020, she had just come through a particularly rough stretch. Georgiou (if you're nasty, and she certainly is) had … well, for starters, she'd been dragged from the fascist "mirror" universe where she was queen into the "prime" one, and then catapulted 930 years into the future to stop an evil A.I. from wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy. Got that done, thankfully, though not without some sassy shenanigans--but all the travel turned out to be a bit taxing, on both Georgiou's mind and molecules, which were straining like a multiversal rubber band to return backward and across, causing weird flashbacks and a nasty case of the decorporealizing shivers. Luckily, a mysterious sentient hard drive known as "the Sphere" that had been hanging out on her ship, the mushroom-fueled USS Discovery, was able to help locate a solution: a stout little man dressed in tweed and a bowler hat named Carl who was also, ahem, the "Guardian of Forever."

To boldly go where no man has gone before. That's the mission of the USS Enterprise -- and arguably the aim of a 1-million prize being offered through a foundation created to honor the father of the "Star Trek" franchise. The Roddenberry Foundation -- named for Gene Roddenberry -- announced Tuesday that this year's biennial award would focus on artificial intelligence that benefits humanity. Lior Ipp, chief executive of the foundation, told The Times there's a growing recognition that AI is becoming more ubiquitous and will affect all aspects of our lives. "We are trying to … catalyze folks to think about what AI looks like if it's used for good," Ipp said, "and what it means to use AI responsibly, ethically and toward solving some of the thorny global challenges that exist in the world."

Instructing an AI chatbot to answer questions as if it were in the TV show Star Trek seems to improve its mathematical ability, although no one is exactly sure why. Deepfakes are out of control – is it too late to stop them? People who use chatbots like ChatGPT have already recognised that the quality of outputs can be improved by asking the AI to adopt a certain persona, or by bribing or threatening it.

Science fiction, for decades, has been about predicting the future--and warning against it. Even as Star Trek envisioned the wonders of flip phones and iPads, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash warned of the dystopian nature of the metaverse. Throughout 2023, as artificial intelligence has creeped its way into every corner of public, private, and creative life, it's been easy to see the lessons sci-fi tried to teach. On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data was a bot who worked in harmony with organic beings; Hal 9000, in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, (spoiler) goes all murder-y to save its own life. Too often, it seems like the minds pushing AI watched too much Trek and not enough Kubrick.

Our society has interpreted the sudden, dizzying rise of this new chatbot generation through the pop cultural lens of our youth. With it comes the sense that the straightforward "robots will kill us all" stories were prescient (or at least accurately captured the current vibe), and that there was a staggering naivete in the more forgiving "AI civil rights" narratives--famously epitomized by Star Trek's Commander Data, an android who fought to be treated the same as his organic Starfleet colleagues. Patrick Stewart's Captain Picard, defending Data in a trial to prove his sapience, thundered, "Your honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life: Well, there it sits! But far from being a relic of a bygone, more optimistic age, the AI civil rights narrative is more relevant than ever. It just needs to be understood in its proper context.

What does it mean to play a video game as an ensemble rather than a single character? How would it change your experience of people and plot? What if there was no single hero, or perhaps no heroes at all? As Hannah Nicklin, a creative director at independent studio Die Gute Fabrik explains, these are questions that narrative adventure Saltsea Chronicles is attempting to answer, all while telling its own charming story of misfit sailors voyaging across a flooded archipelago to uncover a conspiracy. It's a lofty pitch, and one Nicklin brings back down to earth with a comparison: "Star Trek: The Next Generation without the manifest destiny" – a description that hints at the game's politics and its structure.

Hall of Fame tennis coach Rick Macci weighs in on how fans will react to a computer commentator instead of a human one on'Fox & Friends.' Over the past 150 years or so the predictive power of science fiction has been remarkably prescient about myriad advancements made by humanity. Millions of Americans today walk about with a "Dick Tracy" style "wrist radio," known now as a smartwatch and spaceships and space stations dot the darkness beyond our planet. Last week the FAA even cleared the way for testing a flying car. BIDEN ADMIN, DEMS TRYING TO MAKE AI'WOKE': REPORT Sci-fi has also missed the mark now and then.