“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” ~William Bruce Cameron I noticed it halfway through the conversation. We were outside a café on a warm Saturday, close enough to the next table that I could hear someone laughing behind me. The person across from me was telling…
Why robot safety assurance must account for attacks that can change how a machine sees, decides, and acts. Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can it remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing…
Robotics Australia Group and HowToRobot are offering AI to help businesses get automation. Source: HowToRobot Australia lags behind most other industrialized countries in terms of robot adoption, with a robot density of 134 robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees, according to the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. The world average is 162. HowToRobot and Robotics…
This week in stories we’re tracking here at The Debrief: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope was launched on Sunday, and experts think this could be one of its most important discoveries in the years ahead. Meanwhile, scientists have discovered a magnetic “clock” in ancient pottery that could help museums distinguish real artifacts from modern fakes….
New research suggests ancient pottery may contain a magnetic “clock,” providing researchers with a lasting record of how long ago ceramic artifacts were created. According to scientists at the University of California, San Diego, the newly-developed method allows this lingering magnetic signal to help distinguish genuinely ancient clay artifacts from modern forgeries. In experiments, clay…
High in the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists working at an ancient pre-Hispanic settlement nearly 3,400 meters above sea level might not have expected to uncover evidence of sophisticated ancient technology. However, that is precisely what was unearthed during excavations at the Wancasanga archaeological site, a location first identified more than three decades ago that is only…
Now that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on its way toward its Lagrange Point 2 (L2) destination, more of its mission goals are coming into focus, including the possibility that it could detect an Earth-like planet orbiting a star like our own Sun using gravitational microlensing. The Roman team said such a detection…
A new theoretical kind of extraterrestrial life could survive the harsh acid clouds of Venus, according to MIT researchers. Despite longstanding conceptions that Venus would be too deadly for even the hardiest of extremophiles, new evidence suggests a rethinking of life from the ground up may be in order. The work was revealed in a…
The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial sent a note to the judge on Monday morning, on day four of deliberations, and revealed that they could not come to a unanimous decision. The jury is comprised of 9 women and 3 men. Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children to death in January 2023. The…
Image: Wikimedia Commons Following the murder of conservative icon Charlie Kirk in 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported that more than 100 educators across the state of Texas faced investigations for their vile, hateful, and violent content celebrating his assassination. Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) began the investigations into…
