IBM’s ‘Rodent Brain’ Chip Could Make Our Phones Hyper-Smart
Some researchers who got their hands on the chip at an engineering workshop in Colorado the previous month have already fashioned software that can identify images, recognize spoken words, and understand natural language. Basically, they’re using the chip to run “deep learning” algorithms, the same algorithms that drive the internet’s latest AI services.
August 17, 2015 at 10:51AM
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Pretty much anyone on Earth with a radio can call the International Space Station and chat with astronauts
If you have a ham radio, used by radio amateurs to chat on public frequencies, it actually isn’t terribly difficult. Last week, Adrian Lane of Gloucestershire, England, proved the point when he contacted the station and chatted with a US astronaut for about 45 seconds.
August 17, 2015 at 08:44AM
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Who Do We Blame When Artificial Intelligence Systems Go Wrong?
Regulation is about ensuring that AI systems are as safe as possible; liability is about establishing who we can blame — or, more accurately, get legal redress from — when something goes wrong.
August 16, 2015 at 07:29PM
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Even Adam Savage Is Stunned By This 73,000 FPS Footage Of A Pistol Firing
When the “Mythbusters” host — who does cool and crazy things for a living — says this recording is amazing, we believe him.
August 16, 2015 at 08:59AM
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How Google X Head Astro Teller Defends Moonshot Projects
A revealing conversation days before Google’s Alphabet reorganization.
August 16, 2015 at 03:36AM
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Can A New Festival Become The Sundance Of Virtual Reality?
A new startup called Kaleidoscope is trying to reframe the presentation of virtual reality. In an effort to throw off the tech-demo VR trope, Kaleidoscope is organizing a VR film festival in Portland and LA, showing the cities the best that VR has to offer.
August 15, 2015 at 07:27PM
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AT&T Helped The NSA Spy On An Array Of Internet Traffic
The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.
August 15, 2015 at 02:22PM
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Inside The Brutal Life Of Working At Amazon
The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions.
August 15, 2015 at 10:59AM
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How Clinton’s team went from nonchalant to nervous over e-mail controversy
What had begun five months ago as a relatively narrow question about proper archiving of public records has become a bigger, more politically dangerous one: Whether the then-secretary of state and her close aides, in choosing to use a private e-mail system, disregarded common sense and may have put sensitive information at risk of falling into the wrong hands.
August 15, 2015 at 08:00AM
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Lovin’ their elevator: why Germans are loopy about their revolving lifts
Doorless cabins, known as paternosters, are used for everything from speed dating to concerts. Now fans are fighting off attempts to restrict their use because of safety fears.
August 15, 2015 at 08:00AM
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