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(PDF) Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Exceed Human Performance
[Tech]
2017/06/04 10:09
Trucking will be computerized long before surgery, computer scientists say.Artificial intelligence is changing the world and doing it at breakneck speed. The promise is that intelligent machines will be able to do every task better and more cheaply than humans. Rightly or wrongly, one industry after another is falling under its spell, even though few have benefited significantly so far.And that...
(Infographic) Future Medicine In The Movies
[Tech]
2017/06/04 10:08
What can we expect to see in the next few decades as medicine progresses? You might think that science fiction and movies are just stories. Pie in the sky. But often, ideas for future procedures are dreamt up in the films we call entertainment. This infographic from Gap Medics looks at this in more detail.Infographic : https://zd8gdskuk147af9c26ulrbok-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/...
Craft Beer Drinkers Often Judge a Beer by its Packaging
[Consumer]
2017/06/04 10:07
It’s hard to imagine today’s U.S. beer market without the craft sub-sector. But that wasn’t always the case. In fact, annual craft sales have grown more than 65% in the past five years, with sales of almost $5.8 billion for the year ended Jan. 28, 2017. But that much growth has sparked just as much—if not more—competition, which has been a boon for consumers. On the flipside, however, the...
JetBlue Will Test Facial Recognition for Boarding
[Business]
2017/06/04 10:06
Forget the boarding pass. JetBlue will just scan your face.The airline will test facial-recognition check-in next month for flights from Boston to Aruba, the latest attempt by the industry to streamline boarding.Passengers will step up to a camera, and the kiosk will compare the facial scan to passport photos in the U.S. customs database to confirm the match. (You still have to bring your passp...
Google Now Understands Language at 95% Accuracy, Has Impoved by 20% in 2 years
[Tech]
2017/06/04 10:05
Google now understands human language with a 95% accuracy, thanks to improvements in machine learning.This allows the company to detect voice and act upon it in a meaningful way, and will clearly be of a huge benefit to the Google Assistant, a core Google product that is available on a lot of Android phones.What's notable, though, is not only the figure, but how Google arrived at it: the compan...
(Video) These Connected Yoga Pants Help Correct Your Posture - Nadi X
[Product]
2017/06/04 10:04
Nadi X uses technology integrated into the fabric of the pants to subtly guide you to a better yoga pose.No matter if you’re an experienced yoga guru or just a beginner, a little help with getting the perfect form is always appreciated. Billie Whitehouse, founder of Wearable X, first gave us a sneak peak of Nadi X, the company’s latest innovative yoga pants, at our PSFK 2017 conference. Now t...
Print is NOT Dead -
[Design]
2017/06/04 10:03
The designer of the Print camera concept raises an important question? 20 years later, when you want to show your kids or grandkids snippets and memories of your life as a young person, what will you do? Direct them to your Instagram? Or provide them with a Google Drive link? No, right?Memories are best preserved and relived in the tactile format, and that’s why Polaroid is making its comeback...
AI Is Eating Software by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
[Business]
2017/06/01 10:40
We’re delivering AI for every computing platform, every framework and every human endeavor. The remarkable success of our GPU Technology Conference this month demonstrated to anyone still in doubt the extraordinary momentum of the AI revolution. Throughout the four-day event here in Silicon Valley, attendees from the world’s leading companies in media and entertainment, manufacturing, healthc...
(Video) Nescafé : The Hello Bench
[Business]
2017/06/01 10:40
Creating new relationships it’s harder than you think, even when you are in the midst of hundreds of thousands of people. To do so, you need a spark, a new opportunity and, of course, a red mug. That's exactly what we did with The Nescafé Hello Bench during the Salone del Mobile in Milan: a bench that gets shorter when two people sit on it. Two sensors activate the bench and let two strangers...
