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The Next Step in Nanotechnology
January 28, 2017
Every year the silicon computer chip shrinks in size by half and doubles in power, enabling our devices to become more mobile and accessible. But what happens when our chips can't get any smaller? George Tulevski researches the unseen and untapped world of nanomaterials. His current work: developing chemical processes to compel billions of carbon nanotubes to assemble themselves into the patterns needed to build circuits, much the same way natural organisms build intricate, diverse and elegant structures....
January 28, 2017
Every year the silicon computer chip shrinks in size by half and doubles in power, enabling our devices to become more mobile and accessible. But what happens when our chips can't get any smaller? George Tulevski researches the unseen and untapped world of nanomaterials. His current work: developing chemical processes to compel billions of carbon nanotubes to assemble themselves into the patterns needed to build circuits, much the same way natural organisms build intricate, diverse and elegant structures....
BMW Will Deploy Self-Driving 7-Series on Roads This Year
January 21, 2017
BMW AG will dispatch a fleet of autonomous vehicles to U.S. and European cities in this year’s second half, the next step in its partnership with Mobileye NV and Intel Corp. to introduce fully self-driving vehicles by 2021. The German automaker will put 40 of its 7-Series sedans on the road and train them to drive in urban areas, Klaus Froehlich, BMW’s head of development, said in an interview. The goal is to apply the gathered data toward producing the iNext, which will supplant the 7-Series...
January 21, 2017
BMW AG will dispatch a fleet of autonomous vehicles to U.S. and European cities in this year’s second half, the next step in its partnership with Mobileye NV and Intel Corp. to introduce fully self-driving vehicles by 2021. The German automaker will put 40 of its 7-Series sedans on the road and train them to drive in urban areas, Klaus Froehlich, BMW’s head of development, said in an interview. The goal is to apply the gathered data toward producing the iNext, which will supplant the 7-Series...
Incorporate Technology Because It’s What Your Clients Expect From You As A Professional
January 21, 2017
Times are not changing. Times have changed. If you hit your stride 20 years ago and are doing just fine with your Dewey decimal...
January 21, 2017
Times are not changing. Times have changed. If you hit your stride 20 years ago and are doing just fine with your Dewey decimal...
Will Robots Ever Have Emotions?
January 6, 2017
Humans have emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger; and maybe otheranimals have them too. Robots are getting increasingly smarter, for example, the driverless cars that are now navigating city streets. What would it take to make a robot emotional, and would we ever want them to have that capacity? According to obsolete ideas, rationality and emotion are fundamentally opposed because rationality is a cold, calculating practice using deductive logic, probabilities, and utilities....
January 6, 2017
Humans have emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger; and maybe otheranimals have them too. Robots are getting increasingly smarter, for example, the driverless cars that are now navigating city streets. What would it take to make a robot emotional, and would we ever want them to have that capacity? According to obsolete ideas, rationality and emotion are fundamentally opposed because rationality is a cold, calculating practice using deductive logic, probabilities, and utilities....
5 Legal Tech Startup Areas to Watch in 2017
January 1, 2017
While 2015 was marked by major investments in legal tech organizations like Avvo and kCura (who raked in $71 million and $125 million in venture capital investments, respectively), 2016 lacked the same the same robust investing climate. That said, venture capitalists, accelerators, and other investors in legal tech demonstrated some continued interest in a few areas that are likely to carry into 2017. Legal tech entrepreneurs may want to look into these 5 areas for their next big project:
January 1, 2017
While 2015 was marked by major investments in legal tech organizations like Avvo and kCura (who raked in $71 million and $125 million in venture capital investments, respectively), 2016 lacked the same the same robust investing climate. That said, venture capitalists, accelerators, and other investors in legal tech demonstrated some continued interest in a few areas that are likely to carry into 2017. Legal tech entrepreneurs may want to look into these 5 areas for their next big project:
Tesla Ahead of Google, Uber, Ford in Autonomous Car Race
December 26, 2016
There was, in hindsight, a clear element of risk to Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to install Autopilot hardware in every car coming off the production line since October 2014. It paid a price, with federal regulators probing the deadly crash of a Model S while in driver-assist mode and critics slamming Tesla for rolling the technology out too soon. But there was also a reward. The company has collected more than 1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles operating under diverse...
December 26, 2016
There was, in hindsight, a clear element of risk to Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to install Autopilot hardware in every car coming off the production line since October 2014. It paid a price, with federal regulators probing the deadly crash of a Model S while in driver-assist mode and critics slamming Tesla for rolling the technology out too soon. But there was also a reward. The company has collected more than 1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles operating under diverse...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Shows Off Jarvis, The AI Butler He Built
December 20, 2016
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday (19 December) showed off his very own artificial intelligence (AI) system that he created in his spare time this year. Inspired by Jarvis, the virtual assistant created by Tony Stark in Marvel's Iron Man comics, Zuckerberg said his personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI system to run his household. "My goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence - where we're further along than people realise and where we're still...
December 20, 2016
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday (19 December) showed off his very own artificial intelligence (AI) system that he created in his spare time this year. Inspired by Jarvis, the virtual assistant created by Tony Stark in Marvel's Iron Man comics, Zuckerberg said his personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI system to run his household. "My goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence - where we're further along than people realise and where we're still...
How Blockchain Will Radically Transform the Economy
December 10, 2016
Say hello to the decentralized economy — the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex...
December 10, 2016
Say hello to the decentralized economy — the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex...
Why Facebook Rules the World
December 4, 2016
One day, when historians tell the strange story of the 21st century, this age of software and smartphones, populism and Pokemon,...
December 4, 2016
One day, when historians tell the strange story of the 21st century, this age of software and smartphones, populism and Pokemon,...
Google Music Tries To Read Your Mood
December 3, 2016
Google says its music tool will get smarter with playlists that take into account location, time and even the weather. It’s...
December 3, 2016
Google says its music tool will get smarter with playlists that take into account location, time and even the weather. It’s...
