I would love to see work as described in the article leading to the ability to analyse and quantify the output of journalistic outlets in terms of political bias, accuracy and depth of reporting.

If we had a tool like this, maybe we'd be able to move away from some of the emotive language that we use when talking about outlets like the Mail.

For a moment I thought you were calling the Mail "a great paper", but actually the simple language used by it is probably quite good for this purpose.

Of course, it does mean that if you ask Deep Mind about the cause of anything negative it will probably tell you "immigrants".

or "benefits scroungers"

Yep, foveated rendering. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/foveateddisplay...

Cool stuff, but it needs extremely fast and low latency eye tracking to work effectively. It's not insurmountable, but a significant engineering problem.

Magic Leap is more of an AR solution, like HoloLens, as opposed to VR (as far as anyone can tell, seeing as they haven't demoed anything publicly).

Nvidia's light-field stuff seems to be more of a VR solution, but requires even higher pixel densities. https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...

If your layout system's site looks like complete arse on a major browser like IE, your layout system deserves to be ignored.

+1. Unusable on IE. Screenshot for those not on Windows: http://i.imgur.com/oFoAbAS.png

Looked even worse on my tablet http://i.imgur.com/tP5YSTu.png

Same on Windows Phone. So i guess its not usable for production?

I'm not a morning person either, but you can always ask the organizer to change the time. If you've agreed to meet at 9, stay true to your word.

Flossing is actually less important than most people think. It's far more important to thoroughly brush your teeth, to the extent that most of the time that people spend flossing would be better off used for brushing.

Flossing doesn't protect against caries, but can provide some benefits for gum health.

as a child, I was told that my teeth were fairly well protected against cavities on the open surfaces by cursory brushing, by virtue of my sealants- but that flossing was equally if not more important since those inter-tooth pockets were the only places where food could hang out, firmly pressed against the enamel.

There actually hadn't been much research done on it until relatively recently (and probably still not enough), so your dentist was just following the common knowledge of the time.

Here's a link: http://www.cochrane.org/CD008829/ORAL_flossing-to-reduce-gum...

Sounds like a good (but dirty) move if they want to purchase it cheap.

Yep, once it's done it can just navigate to the nearest acetone reservoir in the body.

"Making the entire robot dissolve in water is a bit trickier, but the researchers seem confident that it’ll be possible in the near future."

But if it dissolves in water how is it supposed to make it anywhere inside your body? There's lots of water in there.

Same problem, there isn't really any pure water in your body to dissolve robots in either.

I downvoted your comment for the following reasons:

1. If you had read/comprehended the article you would understand how they plan to address this concern.

2. Really, even without reading the article, your comment just shows a failure of imagination. It's really not hard to see how this early prototype might be developed into more mature, useful applications.

Thank you for sharing your reasons for downvoting, but you're wrong. I did read the article, I do understand their plans and I didn't have a failure of imagination. It's cool tech, and I made a flippant joke in response to someone's comment.

Demoing that you can (partially) dissolve something in acetone or even water is not terribly impressive, even if their self-folding and mode of locomotion is pretty cool.

People have been watching movies at 24fps for so long that they've been trained to put their brains into movie mode and suspend their disbelief when they see something at that rate.

There were similar outcries at the advents of colour movies and "talkies". Once people have watched a few HFR movies, I'm sure they'll get used to it and learn how to suspend their disbelief again.

Maybe, maybe not - it may also depend on the movie being made. I thought the Hobbit was kinda tacky compared to LotR, it seemed to have a much smaller budget, especially in the CGI and extras/makeup department.

But, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now - 3D was kinda crappy too at first, but some years later the movie makers have improved the technique to make it far less annoying. It's become more than just a gimmick now.