Google
has revealed its first self-driving car prototype, which as you guessed
requires no driver. The prototype accommodates for two passengers and
is missing quite a few of the features you'd expect to see in a standard
car. With no need for a steering wheel, mirrors or braking and
accelerating pedals, the car comes fully equipped with special software
and sensors that feed information into an onboard computer, which then
drives the car.
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At Google, artificial intelligence isn’t just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online search engines that instantly recognize digital images. It’s also a way of improving the efficiency of the massive data centers that underpin the company’s entire online empire.
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Augmented reality company Metaio is developing "Thermal Touch," a technology that combines infrared and visible light cameras to detect the heat signature from your fingers and turn any object into a touchscreen. The technology could be embedded in the smartphones and wearable devices of the future to offer new ways of interacting with our environment.
Watson, IBM's supercomputer made famous three years ago for beating the very best human opponents at a game of Jeopardy,
now comes with an impressive new feature. When asked to discuss any
topic, it can autonomously scan its knowledge database for relevant
content, "understand" the data, and argue both for and against that
topic.
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Butterfleye
is a wireless home surveillance camera that’s joining the growing ranks
of intelligent, smartphone connected webcam systems designed to keep
watch while you’re out and about. In addition to allowing you to check
in on a live video feed whenever you like via iPhone, this smart camera
comes equipped with a thermal sensor, motion detector, and facial
recognition technology.
Japanese
company Power Japan Plus has announced the development and planned
mass-production of "Ryden," a disruptive carbon battery that can be
charged 20 times faster than an ordinary lithium-ion cell. The battery,
which is cheap to manufacture, safe, and environmentally friendly, could
be ideal to improve the range and charging times of electric cars.
Researchers from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies
(CINVESTAV) in Mexico have developed a pair of glasses that use a
combination of ultrasound, GPS, stereoscopic vision and artificial
intelligence to help the visually impaired to navigate their
environment. The device, perhaps the most sophisticated of its kind, is
slated to reach mass production early next year and will likely cost up
to US$1,500.
Google is working with Wi-Fi equipment maker Ruckus Wireless to
build a large-scale Wi-Fi network in the cloud off of which any
business could hang its wireless routers, according to a source familiar
with the project who asked not to be named.
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The 3D format has had something of a renaissance in recent years, but
the technology still has some way to go before the potential of
"real-life" multiperspective 3D can be realized. The Camera Culture
group at the MIT Media Lab is developing a new 3D video projection
system that doesn't require glasses and provides different users
different perspective angles of the same object. The team sees it not as
a final answer, but as a transitional system that sits between current
technologies and true holographic video.
A group of researchers from Tufts University, Brown University and the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are collaborating with the US Navy in a
multi-year effort to explore how they might create robots endowed with
their own sense of morality. If they are successful, they will create an
artificial intelligence able to autonomously assess a difficult
situation and then make complex ethical decisions that can override the
rigid instructions it was given.
By David Szondy
The chemical tree got a bit of a shake this week with scientists at IBM
announcing the discovery of the first new class of polymer materials in
decades. Discovered using a combination of lab experiments and computer
modelling, the new plastics have properties that could potentially have
a huge impact in manufacturing, transportation, aerospace, and micro
electronics.
By Lakshmi Sandhana
Getting a needle into a patient's vein can sometimes be a complicated process, especially if the veins aren't visible. Vein-spotting spectacles that see through a patient's skin could help avoid the damage caused by repeated needle pricks, and that's exactly what researchers at the University Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Malaysia, are developing. Their Smart Veins Locator is a wearable head-mounted display that allows nurses to see the patient's veins in real-time, by overlaying a map of their veins on top of their skin.
Getting a needle into a patient's vein can sometimes be a complicated process, especially if the veins aren't visible. Vein-spotting spectacles that see through a patient's skin could help avoid the damage caused by repeated needle pricks, and that's exactly what researchers at the University Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Malaysia, are developing. Their Smart Veins Locator is a wearable head-mounted display that allows nurses to see the patient's veins in real-time, by overlaying a map of their veins on top of their skin.
By Dario Borghino
Taking inspiration from the defense mechanism of the bombardier beetle, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a film that, when damaged, instantly releases a hot foam to discourage malicious actions. The technology could be used as a simple, yet elegant and reliable way of discouraging theft and vandalism on ATM machines.
Taking inspiration from the defense mechanism of the bombardier beetle, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a film that, when damaged, instantly releases a hot foam to discourage malicious actions. The technology could be used as a simple, yet elegant and reliable way of discouraging theft and vandalism on ATM machines.
Think about it like this: In the Book of Genesis, God is the ultimate
programmer, creating all of existence in a monster six-day hackathon.
Or, if you don’t like Biblical metaphors, you can think about it in simpler terms. Robert Moses
was a programmer, shaping and re-shaping the layout of New York City
for more than 50 years. Drug developers are programmers, twiddling
enzymes to cure what ails us. Even pickup artists and conmen are
programmers, running social scripts on people to elicit certain
emotional results.
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Bitcoin may be the future of digital money, but it has a big problem here in the United States: why use it to buy anything when millions of merchants already accept debit and credit cards?Today, if you want to buy a bottle of lemonade with bitcoins, you need to scan a QR code with your phone or email a long bitcoin address to the seller. For most people, buying with bitcoins just isn’t as easy as Visa or MasterCard.
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