Bleeding edge: the best of emerging tech

With rock bands doing AR sets that you can project into your living room and a new spin art Snapchat filter, it’s clear that the coronavirus lockdown is pushing mixed reality into new creative spaces. That said, AI is probably ahead this month with a bot that’ll file for clients unemployment benefits in the US, an app that teaches kids to read and, perhaps the most important of all, a machine learning algorithm that draws dick doodles. Oh and some Aussie computer scientists are growing neurons in computer processors to make better neural net processors.