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Robocar Movie From Pre-Talky Days
This short silent movie, called “The Automatic Motorist,” imagines an old-timey car, running boards and all, being driven by a robot chauffeur. And the film came out in 1911, apparently providing the...
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Montreal-based Startup Ora Releases Novel Graphene-Based Headphones
Graphene has long been touted as a miracle material that would deliver everything from tiny, ultralow-power transistors to the vastly long and ultrastrong cable needed for a space elevator. And yet, 13...
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Face tracking with Arduino and Android
Computer vision has traditionally relied on an assortment of rather involved components. On the other hand, everything you need to do this complicated task is readily available on an Android phone. The...
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Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision
Tesla has hired deep learning and computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy in a key Autopilot role, Karpathy most recently held a role as a researcher at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence non-profit...
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you fail by default.
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Synthetic Genomics’ "Breakthrough" Algae Produces Twice as Much Oil
Xconomy San Diego — [Updated 6/19/17 1:17 pm. See below.] The San Diego biotech company Synthetic Genomics and supermajor ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) said today they have successfully inserted a gene in a...
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The company that builds the robots that make Teslas wants to build home robots
Industrial machines that build cars and the machines that work in your home are worlds apart. But the CEO of Kuka, one of the biggest industrial robot makers, said in an interview in the Financial...
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An impressive collection of circuit diagrams for Arduino electronics
"Oh my god, this is beautiful!," "What IS this?; this is SO cool!" It's not often you get such reactions (especially from non-techies) for a nerdy computer hardware and electronics book filled with...
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Hunting for Antibiotics in the World’s Dirtiest Places
On a chilly autumn morning in northwest London, just outside the Euston train station, Adam Roberts stops at the top of an outdoor staircase, looks around for police, and tries to appear inconspicuous....
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Robots offer the elderly a helping hand
by Research-Innovation News June 20, 2017 by Helen Massy-Beresford Low birth rates and higher life expectancies mean that those over 65 years old now will account for 28.7 % of Europe’s population by...
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Scientists Demonstrate "Liquid Light" at Room Temperature for the...
In Brief Researchers from Italy and Canada have made liquid light at room temperatures for the first time. The work paves the way for studying quantum hydrodynamics further and for future applications...
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Amazon and Google are snagging star scientists from top academic institutions
Seattle's prestigious Institute for Systems Biology has long been a draw for star experimental scientists. But it's now in a battle for talent with some deep-pocketed competitors: Amazon and Google....
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
“I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be...
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Global race toward exascale will drive supercomputing, AI to masses
For the first time in 21 years, the United States no longer claimed even the bronze medal. With this week’s release of the latest Top 500 supercomputer ranking, the top three fastest supercomputers in...
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In the General AI Challenge, Teams Compete for $5 Million
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. We owe the success of numerous state-of-the-art artificial...
View ArticleIntel is bringing 5G, drones, and VR to the Olympics in 2018
The next Olympic Games are gonna be lit... with technology. Intel, which became an official Olympic Partner on Wednesday (and makes most of the CPUs inside today's PCs and all of them on Macs),...
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Henry Markram Talks Brain Simulation
Editor's Pick Artificial intelligence is progressing rapidly, and its impact on our daily lives will only increase. Today, there are still many things humans can do that computers can’t. But will it...
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Watch This Robot Navigate Like a Rat
Rats are nimble navigators, able to find their way around, under, and over obstacles, and through the tightest spaces. Roboticists have long dreamed of giving their creations similar navigation skills....
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Drone “Fireworks,” 5G communications, and Streaming VR Coming to Olympic Games
Who needs fireworks when you’ve got drones? Or event tickets when you’ve got virtual reality? That’s Intel’s message as it prepares to bring technology to the 2018 Winter Olympics and future Olympic...
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