When Mark Zuckerberg built the first version of Facebook in his college dorm room at Harvard, he imagined it as a window that would allow people to look in on the lives of other users. If Google was a search engine for information then Facebook, by contrast, was a search engine for people. Fifteen [...]
Reality hasn’t exactly lived up to the future promised to us in Back to the Future. Our hoverboards don’t hover and occasionally burst into flames, and when we finally got self-lacing sneakers, they cost $720. Things are looking up for 2019 though, when Nike will launch a second generation [...]
Business leaders have traditionally had a somewhat complicated relationship with technology. Many of them instinctively know that its deployment could be transformative for their business although they lack the deep knowledge required to fully understand how and when to invest. Recent research [...]
Once superintelligence arrives, we don’t know if it’s going to be on our side or against us. But in the meantime, you could do a lot worse than training artificial intelligence to respond like humanity’s best friend, the dog. That’s what researchers from the University of Washington and the [...]
Drones are changing photography, but they’re also making it easier and cheaper to perform surveillance, monitor fields and crops, and inspect infrastructure. The problem is that most drones, even ones used in these commercial and industrial settings, wind up facing the same big problem: short [...]
AutoX autonomous driving company announced it will launch a pilot program for retail grocery home delivery service in San Jose, California, this fall. The startup venture’s feature set reads like a tech menu. AutoX combines robotics, artificial intelligence, geo-fencing, and 3D computer [...]
A NEW KIND OF TEACHER. It’s back to school, and you know what that means — time to fire up the computer that teaches you! That’s what primary school students in New Zealand have to look forward to, anyways. They’ll soon be the first students in the world to learn from an artificially [...]
The Las Vegas Data Science Group is a professional group that meets to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used to ingest, transform, explore, analyze & visualize data, obtain predictive & prescriptive insight, develop data products, and exploit business opportunities from data [...]
According to the World Health Organization, a baby dies every minute from infection caused by a lack of safe water and an unclean environment. Testing water typically requires expensive equipment and manual analysis, making it hard for many communities to ensure their water is safe. This is the [...]
A global team of scientists have discovered AI can tell an individual’s personality traits by analysing their eye movements. The scientists used machine learning to discover a link between eye movements and the personality of a person earlier this year. Armed with this information, the [...]