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Oct 28, 2017
Google Debuts Software to Open Up Quantum Computers for Chemists
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: computing, information science, quantum physics
Google unveiled software aimed at making it easier for scientists to use the quantum computers in a move designed to give a boost to the nascent industry.
The software, which is open-source and free to use, could be used by chemists and material scientists to adapt algorithms and equations to run on quantum computers. It comes at a time when Google, IBM, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and D-Wave Systems Inc. are all pushing to create quantum computers that can be used for commercial applications.
Oct 28, 2017
Using robot companions to help pediatric patients recover
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Oct 28, 2017
This ex-Googler is bringing self-driving excavators to construction sites
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Built Robotics has raised $15 million in a round led by NEA to do for construction equipment what Waymo is doing for automobiles.
Oct 28, 2017
An alarming sentence about automation from Bank of America’s tech chief should put Wall Streeters on notice
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Bank of America’s chief tech officer says that the technological shift is happening too fast for folks on Wall Street to adapt.
Job losses are on the way.
Oct 28, 2017
3D printer makes first wearable ‘battery’
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, mobile phones, sustainability, wearables
Imagine printing off a wristband that charges your smartphone or electric car with cheap supplies from a local hardware store.
That’s the direction materials research is heading at Brunel University London where scientists have become the first to simply and affordably 3D print a flexible, wearable ‘battery’.
The technique opens the way for novel designs for super-efficient, wearable power for phones, electric cars, medical implants like pacemakers and more.
Oct 28, 2017
How Electricity Could Replace Opioids In Treating Chronic Pain
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: biotech/medical
The neuromodulation market is poised to be worth $3.9 billion this year. It could also replace opioids in treating some forms of chronic pain.
Oct 28, 2017
Saudi Arabia becomes first country to grant citizenship to a robot
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI
LONDON: A humanoid robot took the stage at the Future Investment Initiative yesterday and had an amusing exchange with the host to the delight of hundreds of delegates.
Smartphones were held aloft as Sophia, a robot designed by Hong Kong company Hanson Robotics, gave a presentation that demonstrated her capacity for human expression.
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Oct 28, 2017
Meet Penny, an AI tool that can predict wealth from space
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: robotics/AI, space
Since emerging as a species we have seen the world through only human eyes. Over the last few decades, we have added satellite imagery to that terrestrial viewpoint. Now, with recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), we are not only able to see more from space but to see the world in new ways too.
One example is “Penny”, a new AI platform that from space can predict median income of an area on Earth. It may even help us make cities smarter than is humanly possible. We’re already using machines to make sense of the world as it is; the possibility before us is that machines help us create a world as it should be and have us question the nature of the thinking behind its design.
Penny is a free tool built using high-resolution imagery from DigitalGlobe, income data from the US census, neural network expertise from Carnegie Mellon and intuitive visualizations from Stamen Design. It’s a virtual cityscape (for New York City and St. Louis, so far), where AI has been trained to recognize, with uncanny accuracy, patterns of neighbourhood wealth (trees, parking lots, brownstones and freeways) by correlating census data with satellite imagery.
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