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AI for Good Global Summit welcomes “new frontier” for sustainable development
by Politics-Law-Society News June 7, 2017 The world’s brightest minds in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and humanitarian action will meet with industry leaders and academia at the AI for Good Global...
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A top Uber executive, who obtained the medical records of a customer who was...
An Uber executive obtained medical records of a woman who had been raped during an Uber ride in India, according to multiple sources. He is no longer with the company. The executive in question, Eric...
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The Drone Rules That Never Became Law
The laws governing the use of drones in the United States are changing so fast it can be hard to keep up. But I’d like to explore here some proposed drone rules that never went into effect because the...
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DeepMind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson Actions
The best artificial intelligence still has trouble visually recognizing many of Homer Simpson’s favorite behaviors such as drinking beer, eating chips, eating doughnuts, yawning, and the occasional...
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How Much Can Autonomous Cars Learn from Virtual Worlds?
To be able to drive safely and reliably, autonomous cars need to have a comprehensive understanding of what’s going on around them. They need to recognize other cars, trucks, motorcycles, bikes,...
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Blimps Seem Like the Friendliest Kind of Indoor Flying Robots
Every time we go to a conference, we see flying robots that are getting smaller and more talented, capable of dynamically avoiding all sorts of obstacles, indoors and out. But that’s a lot of work....
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Getting Up Close and Personal with Algorithms
By Dataiku.com Sponsored Post. Getting Up Close and Personal with Algorithms We hear the term “machine learning” a lot these days, usually in the context of predictive analysis and artificial...
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The number of robots sold in the U.S. will jump nearly 300 percent in nine years
The number of industrial robots sold in the U.S. will jump nearly 300 percent in less than a decade, according to a projection from ABI Research. Already, 40 percent more robots were sold last year in...
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We’re looking for robotics companies to pitch and demo at TechCrunch Sessions...
Have a robotic startup or project? We want you on stage at TechCrunch Session: Robotics this July 17 at MIT. We’re looking for students to demo and early stage startups to pitch. If selected, both will...
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The California Senate Just Passed Single-Payer Healthcare
If health care is a right—and it is—the only honest response to the current crisis is the single-payer “Medicare For All” reform that would bring the United States in line with humane and responsible...
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In four years, the price of lab-grown “meat” has fallen by 96%. There’s still...
High-tech alternatives to meat burgers have captured the attention of consumers as they’ve trickled into the market. While black bean burgers are already widely available, plant-based meats that strive...
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Robots role in humanity to be a core topic at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics
At least since Isaac Asimov posited the Three Law of Robotics, many have wondered whether robots would ultimately help or harm humanity. Or maybe do a little of both. Humanity still has time to shape...
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Alphabet is making a drone-tracking system to one day manage a sky full of...
Before thousands of drones hit the skies to make widespread package delivery a reality, there’s going to have to be some kind of air traffic control system to make sure drones can fly autonomously...
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Redditors design worst volume sliders possible
Lil meme going around on Reddit lands right now thought I'd share this meme here on DN. Hope you enjoy consuming this content as much as I did. +more
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In conversation: Joanna Radin on the ‘phenomenon’ of biobanking
When HIV/AIDS became a pandemic, epidemiologists wanted to know where it began. In the 1980s, they found their answer in a freezer filled with blood. This blood had been collected in the 1950s from...
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Teaching teams of drones to work alongside humans and nature
The Robust Reactive Systems Lab just might have the highest ceilings of any laboratory on the Carnegie Mellon campus. It’s big and drafty, and were it not for the rows of computer workstations dotting...
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Softbank is buying robotics firm Boston Dynamics and Schaft from Alphabet
Here’s a surprise turn of events: Softbank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot — has just announced that it is acquiring two robotics companies from Alphabet as part of its own deeper move into...
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Alphabet just sold its division that makes creepy walking robots to SoftBank
Japanese tech giant SoftBank on Thursday announced that it has bought Boston Dynamics, a company that makes humanoid robots, from Alphabet. SoftBank is also acquiring Schaft, another Alphabet robotics...
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Softbank is buying robotics firms Boston Dynamics and Schaft from Alphabet
Here’s a surprise turn of events: Softbank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot and a major M&A player in the tech world — has just announced that it is acquiring two more robotics companies from...
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