Brandon Vigliarolo

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers ... See more

The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations. Boeing announced on Monday that it had successfully flown the MQ-25A ... See more

It's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead - sort of - with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. Philadelphia-based computer programmer M... See more

KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week. This week on the Kettle, systems editor Tobias Mann and cybersecurity editor J... See more

Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems. DARPA's Deep Thoughts program , for which the agency issued a solicitation... See more