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IBM’s Watson Will Morph Polite Pepper Into An Ultra-Intelligent Evil Genius
Pepper is super cute and remarkably well-mannered… for now. Now that IBM has announced that the talking, emotion-reading robot will interface with Watson, lil Pep could turn into a smiling, evil robotic mastermind; adorable leader of the human-enslaving resistance.
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Sharp Will Sell This Mini Robot As A Smartphone. Would You Use It?
Earlier this year, we reported on Tomotaka Takahashi, the famous engineer who sent the first talking robot into space, and his plans to make robots as popular a consumer electronic as smartphones. He’d been teasing a humanoid phone to debut this year, and here it is: a cutesy, talking, limbed phone that hitches rides in…
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Japanese Cell Phone Companies Are Competing To Sell Robots, Too
Here in the US, telecom giants like Verizon and AT&T fight for their share of customer data plans. But Japan’s own telecom outfits are embroiled in an additional head-to-head: selling robots.
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The 2 Million SHU Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is The World’s Hottest
The Habanero pepper has a maximum hotness of 350,000 Scoville Heat Units. That’s nothing — like eating an Altoid — compared to the mouth-searing Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. It tops out at over two million SHU and has just been named the world’s hottest pepper.