[NEWS] Five tech links: Apple, AI, Beresheet 2, agricultural robots, gene editing

[rfmcdonald]

• Wired notes that Apple is transforming itself into a luxury brand. Is this an unsustainable niche?


• Wired examines how Google's human AI experts are trying to train artificial intelligences to do their work.


• Universe Today notes that SpaceIL is planning to return to the Moon with a Beresheet 2 probe.


• The New Yorker looks at the progress made towards the roboticization of agriculture, looking at strawberry harvesting in particular. Can it be done?


• Stephen Buranyi writes at the NYR Daily about the impact of gene editing technologies on humanity. How will we manage them? Can we?

Comments

[dewline]

I would prefer that Apple not try too hard to be a luxury brand. Their hardware has been too useful to me up to now for that.