Robot Heart, Robot Overlord and Robot Restaurant

  • by: Maarten Schenk

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  • The Verge has a really creepy animation of a human heart being kept alive and beating awaiting transplantation.

  • This article on Glitch.news has been trending for days: supposedly an AI robot based on Philip K. Dick told its creators it would keep humans in a "people zoo".

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  • NPR reports on a new restaurant in San Francisco with almost no human workers where automation is driven to the extreme. At least we will be well fed in the "people zoo" then...

Lead Stories' Trendolizer™ robotically scours social networks worldwide for interesting technology news. Scroll down to see the latest.

Maarten Schenk

Maarten Schenk is the co-founder and COO/CTO of Lead Stories and an expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet.

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