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(PDF) SYZYGY Digital Insight Report 2017 : How People Feel About AI
[Business]
2017/11/16 10:58
How People Feel about AI: What Marketers Need to Know reveals how the public feels about AI today and provides insights for businesses and brands looking to use or promote AI technology.This empathy quiz tests your ability to feel how others are feeling. At SYZYGY, we believe in the power of empathy and we’ve conducted a survey to find out how people feel about artificial intelligence, technol...
(PDF) A New Way to Find Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives - DeepXplore
[Tech]
2017/11/16 10:58
Most software bugs won’t kill you. A possibly lethal exception could be the error that leads a self-driving car’s AI to make the wrong decision at the wrong time. That is why researchers developed a bug-hunting method that can systematically expose bad decision-making by the deep learning algorithms deployed in online services and autonomous vehicles.The new DeepXplore method uses at least th...
Visa Introduces New Payment Wearables for Fans Attending the Olympic Winter Games
[Tech]
2017/11/16 10:57
Fans and Team Visa Athletes will enjoy the convenience and style of Visa payment-enabled gloves, stickers and commemorative Olympic pins.These new payment items created by Visa were designed to assist customers to pay for items in South Korea in the coldest of temperatures.Planning to head to South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics? Luckily for Visa card members, they’ll have the chance to pi...
Investing in Bitcoin: Survey & Report
[Consumer]
2017/11/16 10:57
The price of Bitcoin has risen dramatically since the start of the year. The virtual currency now trades at $9,349 (as of 11/26), up from $997 at the start of 2017. While the price of Bitcoin is slightly off its high of $9,478, there have been no signs of slowing media coverage, headlines, or new investor demand.In September, LendEDU asked 1,000 Americans a series of questions about Bitcoin as...
(Video) AI Startup Embodied Intelligence Wants Robots to Learn From Humans in Virtual Reality
[Tech]
2017/11/16 10:57
Embodied Intelligence wants to use AI and VR to teach robots new skills, like how to manipulate wires, much faster.Depending on who you ask, robotic grasping has been solved for a while now. That is, the act of physically grasping an object, not dropping it, and then doing something useful is a thing that robots are comfortable with. The difficult part is deciding what to grasp and how to grasp...
(Video) This Handheld 3D Body Scanning Device Could Replace the MRI
[Tech]
2017/11/16 10:57
Why can't handheld ultrasound devices come with the same motion-sensing technology inside a video game controller? Using the motion-sensing technology from a Nintendo Wii.- ER doctors and engineers have harnessed the motion-sensing technology in Nintendo Wii controllers to build a new kind of 3D body scanner.- It's not as precise as the technology in an MRI machine or a CT scan, but it's much q...
Bossa Nova Raises $17.5M for Retail Robots That Monitor Inventory
[Investing]
2017/11/16 10:56
Bossa Nova, a company that builds robots to track inventory on store shelves, announced today that it has raised a $17.5 million round of series B funding.Paxion Capital Partners led the round, which included participation from Intel Capital, WRV Capital, Lucas Venture Group, and Cota Capital.The company’s robots are designed to autonomously navigate a store and take stock of what’s on the sh...
3D-Printing 'Five Farming Bridges' to Regenerate War-Torn Mosul
[Design]
2017/11/16 10:56
Vincent callebaut has presented his winning project for the rifat chadirji prize, a competition that called for ideas to rebuild iraq’s liberated areas in mosul. titled ‘five farming bridges’. The concept puts forward the construction of affordable and adaptable bridges topped with modular housing units. the inhabited bridges are seen as a strategy to rebuild a new city over the ruins of the...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Making it in America : Revitalizing US Manufacturing
[Business]
2017/11/15 10:43
The erosion of US manufacturing isn’t a foregone conclusion. The decade ahead—with increased demand, new technology, and value chain optimization—will give the sector a chance to turn around.US manufacturing is not what it was a generation ago. Its contraction has been felt by firms, suppliers, workers, and entire communities. In fact, the erosion of manufacturing has contributed two-thirds...
