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How to get hit by a self-driving car

How to get hit by a self-driving car

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Daniel Coppen recently teamed up with media artist Tomo Kihara to develop “How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car,” a street-based game designed to improve people detection in autonomous vehicles by challenging people to avoid being recognized by an object-detection algorithm. 

Participants use creative maneuvers like cartwheels and disguises to test and potentially enhance the AI’s ability to identify pedestrians in varied and unpredictable scenarios.  The game’s creators hope to conduct a global tour to gather diverse data, aiming to share it with researchers and self-driving car developers for better training of these systems.

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Mattress review sites are completely corrupt

Mattress review sites are completely corrupt

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What started as a Fast Company reporter getting a free mattress from a friend’s friend led to a web of lawsuits, corruption, and a revelation of just exactly how blurred internet reviews and advertisings had become.

The long story short? A great number of mattress review sites are often simply paid advertising for mattress companies. In other cases, the mattress company simply buys out the review site. This happened in 2016 – so you can probably expect this method of taking over review sites to have become even more popular.

Some of the worst offenders? Bed-in-a-box company Casper was known to sue bloggers that gave unfavorable reviews while promoting bloggers that gave good reviews. Casper apparently tried to use cyber-warfare tactics and even tried to buy out a review site that tried to blow the whistle on them.

Or maybe just go outside and live it yourself

Or maybe just go outside and live it yourself

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There’s a new life simulator game inZOI that takes the idea of The Sims and updates it for modern graphics. The 4K gameplay trailer shows an incredibly detailed virtual world and with its avatars going grocery shopping, cooking fried chicken, watering plants, and going to the gym.

Or, maybe just go out and live real life in infinite resolution.

Programmable Music Box

Programmable Music Box

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Most music boxes can only play one song, but why not make a music box that is fully programmable? The Muro Box can play any song by using computer-controlled wheels to pluck the metal forks. You can program it using a mobile app or a MIDI device. It has a 40-note chromatic scale, and more than 50,000 songs in a downloadable library.

It’s going for an eye watering $995 pledge on Kickstarter. I think it’s ridiculously steep for a few dozen stepper motors and an app, but they do offer a smaller $299 version.