The first gun-toting robotic combat soldiers set to be deployed: Unlike many of it’s flying robotic (UAV) brethren, the weaponised Talon is not autonomous, being under the direct control of a soldier watching from up to a mile away through an array of cameras which can include both night and thermal vision. SWORDS is completely…

Continued from Part 2. Once we reach the point of the CUI (Conversational User Interface), interacting with computers will more and more like interacting with intelligent beings. Computers will seem to be more personable and will seem to possess intelligence long before they actually reach a point where they could seriously be considered as autonomous…

In spite of rapid increases in computational power over the past few years, we still use keyboards and mice to interact with our computers. With the advent of tablet PCs and advances in handwriting recognition (Newton, we hardly knew ye), we now can combine computerization with something that to us feels more “natural.” Writing with…