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During an interview with Bloomberg, Apple CEO Tim cook has indirectly confirmed the fact that the employees of his company, among other things, actively working on Autonomous systems for unmanned vehicles. Rumors about this went a very long time. Some even believed that one day Apple will show his fans a real Apple Car. However,…

Obvious for man to artificial intelligence can become an impossible task in the company, so DeepMind decided to teach the neural network to think abstractly and to connect to other neural networks in order to help and work together to solve complex problems. To teach the AI to recognize pictures is easy, but to determine…

Suitcases. Our faithful companions during long trips and air travel. We carefully stacked them things that we may need away from home. Then wind the film bags to the porters they are not soiled and not damaged (or to protect their possessions from theft – here’s as you like). Some bags even have built-with wheels…

Image: damn_unique/Flickr Evolution has already solved many of the challenges engineers are confronted with on a daily basis. Think about octopuses, for example. We frequently report on soft robotics here at Gizmodo. Octopuses are essentially brilliant, eight-armed soft robots. So when it comes to solving other underwater challenges, like adhesives staying sticky underwater, a team…

Image: Henk Tanis “This case concerns the second known case of twinning, the first case of conjoined twins in Phocoena phocoena, the fourth known case of parapagus dicephalus in a cetacean species and the tenth known case of conjoined twinning in a cetacean species,” the researchers wrote. Their work has been published in Deinsea. Not…

Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum/US DOE/Renee Comet/Keith Weller/Wikimedia Commons There are a vocal minority of folks who simply don’t want to drink pasteurized milk. Maybe they’re worried about the nutritional content, or not getting the good bacteria they need. Sure, they’re potentially subjecting themselves to tuberculosis or a Listeria infection, but it’s still a vocal group.…

E3 is here and that means it’s crazy gaming gear time! From Microsoft’s latest Xbox to a tiny Atari 2600, here’s the coolest stuff we saw this week. Microsoft Xbox One X The name reveals someone’s love of the letter X, but the console itself is pretty cool. Six months after Sony launched its 4K…

Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum/Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff/katoisi/Wikimedia Commons Despite thousands of years of pant-crapping history, there’s a surprising amount we don’t know about diarrhea. There’s a couple ways we’ve figured out how to treat the symptom. But lots of scientists’ understanding of diarrhea—from illnesses like traveler’s diarrhea—is more based on intuition than data. An international team of researchers…

Image: Antarctic Heritage Fund Fantastic news: the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has recovered a 118-year-old watercolor painting from famed polar explorer, Dr. Edward Wilson. The painting was almost perfectly preserved, but hidden among dust, mold, and penguin shit. Apparently, penguins can’t be bothered with fine art. Antarctic Heritage Trust paper conservator Josefin Bergmark-Jimenez found…