Jan 7, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Environment
Artificial intelligence has emerged as a new weapon in the battle for wildlife conservation in Lopé National Park in Gabon. Through machine learning, an algorithm is now able to identify over 25 species for researchers in the Congo Basin, which otherwise would have...
Jan 7, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Business
People could soon talk to dead family members thanks to an artificial intelligence ‘ghostbot’. Microsoft has applied for a patent for an app that could digitally reincarnate the deceased by using images, voice data, social media posts, electronic...
Jan 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Scientists have developed a machine-learning method that crunches massive amounts of data to help determine which existing medications could improve outcomes in diseases for which they are not prescribed. The intent of this work is to speed up drug repurposing, which...
Jan 7, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial Automation
While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity:...
Jan 7, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
There have long been arguments over whether vehicles should be classified as self-driving, mostly because the technology is closer to driver assistance features that require regular intervention from humans. Waymo believes the label gives consumers a false impression...
Dec 17, 2020 | Healthcare, Robots
One of the biggest challenges and heartbreaks of the coronavirus pandemic comes when a COVID infected person is, by necessity, cut off from their family. Hospitals and long-term care facilities are restricting or in some cases prohibiting visitors in efforts to reduce...
Dec 17, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Battery packs for electric cars checked off a milestone this year — just an ever-so-slight ray of sunshine on what’s been a pretty gloomy 2020. For the first time, prices slid under $100 per kilowatt hour, and thorough analysis shows prices fell...
Dec 17, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Defense
The Air Force allowed an artificial-intelligence algorithm to control sensor and navigation systems on a U2 Dragon Lady spy plane in a training flight Tuesday, officials said, marking what is believed to be the first known use of AI onboard a U.S. military aircraft....
Dec 17, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq and TASE: FRSX), an innovator in automotive vision systems, announced today that the Company will join the University of Michigan’s TechLab at Mcity 2021 startup cohort, managed by the Center for Entrepreneurship, to further...
Dec 17, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Mobility
After six years in business, Zoox – Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company – unveiled its first self-driving taxi. The firm on Monday took the wraps off of an electric “purpose-built robotaxi” that it developed for its future...
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