Robots for occupational therapy + Research for smarter computers + Resistance to EU plans + X-ray telescope dispute + CarPlay with iOS 16 + USB-C mandatory
Eliza, a computer program from 1966 for communication between humans and machines in natural language, is today understood as the basis of artificial intelligence . In the meantime, the development has reached the point where AI-controlled robots support patients in occupational therapy. But the research goes on and the Max Planck Institute and Google have agreed on a partnership for this. A newly founded and Google-funded research center aims to “smarter” Develop computers and algorithms. Meanwhile, resistance to the EU’s plans to ask large Internet companies to pay for the data networks is growing – a brief overview of the most important reports.
Scientists in Greifswald are currently testing the use of robots modeled on humans in the therapy of stroke patients. While more and more people are affected by the consequences of a stroke and need intensive training to reduce mobility restrictions, there are not enough therapists. Humanoid robots, which have extensive patient and therapy knowledge and are able to learn thanks to artificial intelligence, could be a solution: Robots to help stroke patients with movement therapy.
But what comes after these robo-therapists? To even “smarter” To develop computers, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and Google have a strategic partnership to establish a research center closed. This will conduct basic research in the areas of computer graphics, computer vision and the interrelationship between man and machine. It is also about artificial intelligence and machine learning: Google and the Max Planck Institute are jointly researching more intelligent computers.
Numerous international organizations are criticizing the plans of the EU -Commission to share the US online services in the infrastructure costs of the major European network operators. This would “dramatically change the regulatory framework that supports the free and open Internet,” warn 31 civil society organizations in an open letter to Commission Vice President Margrete Vestager and Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton. When it comes to net neutrality, opposition to the EU’s plans for Big Tech’s cost-sharing is growing.
There is also opposition to plans by Russia’s Space Agency to reactivate the German X-ray telescope eRosita without consent, thereby risking damaging it. eRosita is installed on the Russian Spektr-RG space telescope and was deactivated in response to the war of aggression against Ukraine. Roskosmos now claims to have ordered the instrument’s reactivation, but the head of the mission warns against going it alone at eRosita: Russia wants to reactivate German X-ray telescope without permission.
In the shadow of the announced next big generation of Apple CarPlay, there are also some new functions that with iOS 16 in the fall come into play. Those who are already using CarPlay, which provides many iPhone functions in car infotainment systems, can look forward to a series of improvements. This includes tank apps that show where the cheapest prices are at the moment. These are popular on the iPhone, but you couldn’t find them on the CarPlay screen: These new CarPlay functions will already be available with iOS 16 in autumn.
Apple’s iPhone will probably have to do without its own connection (lighting) in the future, because mobile phones and numerous other electronic devices will have to in the EU have a have a uniform charging socket. Negotiators from the EU states and the European Parliament agreed on USB-C as the standard charging socket. Accordingly, the regulation applies to smartphones, tablets, cameras, headphones and portable speakers. That’s more devices than originally planned: USB-C as charging standard for cellphones and peripherals coming in 2024.
