Automate 2015
Automation is helping companies in every industry become stronger global competitors. To succeed, you need the right solution providers, the right technology, and the right expertise. Automate 2015...
View ArticleThe Dawn of Artificial Intelligence
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, will convene a hearing on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. on “The Dawn of...
View ArticleWelcome to the future of work
With advances in information technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence developing at a rapid rate, workforce dislocations are happening now and are here to stay. As existing trends accelerate...
View ArticleThe Neuroscientist Who’s Building a Better Memory for Humans
In an epidsode of the dystopian near-future series, Black Mirror, a small, implantable device behind the ear grants the ability to remember, access, and replay every moment of your life in perfect...
View ArticleHenrietta Lacks to be further immortalized with portrait at Baltimore City Hall
On the wall in City Hall next to the Board of Estimates room are tributes to great men in Baltimore's history: Portraits of Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Kweisi Mfume and Dr. Ben Carson, among...
View ArticleWhat makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music
The composer Johann Sebastian Bach left behind an incomplete fugue upon his death, either as an unfinished work or perhaps as a puzzle for future composers to solve. A classical music dataset released...
View ArticleDeep Learning Startup Maluuba's AI Wants to Talk to You
Apple’s personal assistant Siri is more of a glorified voice recognition feature of your iPhone than a deep conversation partner. A personal assistant that could truly understand human conversations...
View ArticleGoogle's humanoid robot just mastered walking over rough terrain
Google’s humanoid robot, Atlas, finds new ways to amaze us with each update. In its latest lesson, Atlas learned how to walk over uneven terrain. Over a series of trial-and-error sessions, engineers...
View ArticleDeNA「サイト炎上」MERY、iemoの原罪とカラクリ(山本一郎)
2016年12月2日 20時1分配信 ツイート シェア ブックマーク 山本一郎です。毎日幸せに暮らしています。 ところで、先日来のDeNAのキュレーションメディアについては、健康情報サイト「welq(ウェルク)」を中心にDeNAパレットと称された10個のうちMERYを除く9個のサイトをCEO守安功さんが謝罪とともに非公開化したと発表がありました。...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Kengoro the Sweaty Robot, Camera Drone on a Leash, and the Next...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months;...
View ArticleSelf-driving cars, networks, and the companies and people that are...
Intel is establishing an autonomous driving division; hacker George Hotz is open-sourcing his self-driving software in a bid to become a network company; LiDAR and distancing devices are changing....
View ArticleCristina Andersson: Robots will free us from routine work
Net 1/2014, 2014-04-16Digitalization is swiftly transforming work and society. However, this is just the beginning. The next step is robotization. Robotization is a globally rising trend that is...
View ArticleNew amputation procedure offers promise
Amputation procedures haven't kept pace with prosthetic innovations, a doctor says One team changes this with a new approach that preserves muscle relationships (CNN)The world has watched in wonder as...
View ArticleA Woman Just Stood Up To Trump’s Latest Outburst On Twitter
Donald Trump didn’t like Saturday Night Live last night very much. During the show he tweeted out the following response, saying that the show was completely “unwatchable” and “not funny.” When, in...
View ArticleReplacing a Failed Ebook Reader Battery
Resurrecting a beloved piece of tech can be a trying process when fighting through the mild heartbreak — doubly so if the product has been discontinued. When their old Sony PRS-T1 e-book reader refused...
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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 500 million different people every month – with billions of page views. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like...
View ArticleEcho/Google Home infinite loop
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View ArticleBig Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It
Biomedical research is going big-time: Megaprojects that collect vast stores of data are proliferating rapidly. But scientists' ability to make sense all that information isn't keeping up. This...
View ArticleThe Army’s looking into putting bacteria into its electronics
If you’re not familiar with the terms "synthetic biology" or "biohybrid systems," you may want to add them to your vocabulary. If the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and other research institutions...
View ArticleA New Implant is Being Developed for Enhancing Human Memory
In 1998, Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposed that a computer operates together with our brains as an “extended mind,” potentially offering additional processing capabilities as we work out problems,...
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