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This futuristic machine is Rock’em Sock’em Robots for real

Johnathan Tippett wants to make a giant, human-operated Rock’em Sock’em robot. Well, kinda. He’s calling it Prosthesis, a 7000-pound, two-story-tall “anti-robot.” The Prosthesis runs off of lithium batteries, and is built for the purpose of racing, not fisticuffs, although only one leg of the frame

How Forza 5 uses the cloud to create more human A.I.

Forza Motorsport 5 is launching with the Xbox One, which means we will all soon be racing shiny expensive roadsters against a sentient supercomputer A.I. that’s based in the cloud, eyeing our every move.  “First we have to see what it’s going to continue learning, once there’s a million people train