SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES: A woman died of her injuries after being struck by a Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona, police said on Monday, and the ride hailing company said it had suspended its autonomous vehicle program across the United States and Canada. The accident in Tempe, Arizona, marked the first fatality from a self-driving […]
Study finds engaging young children in conversation is more important for brain development than “dumping words” on them. A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income families. This “30-million-word gap” correlates with significant differences in tests […]
Selfies today have become the most common form of self-expression. But a major pain point for all selfielovin’ folk has by far been ”pictures that are not that realistic”. When a guy takes a selfie, he often finds himself looking too pale in the picture – either the face contour is not distinct, or his […]
NEW DELHI: TeamIndus, a private company that hoped to reach the moon by December 31 this year, has dropped out of the global race for the Google Lunar X Prize. TeamIndus was competing for the $35 million prize money, for which five teams from across the world are in fray. The challenge involved a putting […]
Wipro believes the new strategy will eventually help put it back on the growth pedestal India’s third-largest software services exporter is making its most aggressive push to get its over 120,000 engineers to learn newer technologies. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Bengaluru: Wipro Ltd’s chief executive AbidaliNeemuchwala has a simple message for its engineers looking to earn […]
SINGAPORE: The world’s first self-driving taxis began picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday. Select members of the public can hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, […]
In Greenville, S.C., G.E. makes giant gas turbines. The turbines can be brought to market in half the usual five years through changes in design and production made possible by digital technology. Credit Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times It may not qualify as a lightning-bolt eureka moment, but Jeffrey R. Immelt, chief […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) could make every company and employee smarter, faster, and more productive Over the last 30 years, consumers have reaped the benefits of dramatic technological advances. In many countries, most people now have in their pockets a personal computer more powerful than the mainframes of the 1980s. The Atari 800XL computer that I […]
The guidelines promise strong oversight and bets on automated technology to improve safety The regulators will have to balance the commercial interests of companies including Google, Tesla and Uber with concerns over public safety. Photo: AP Washington: Federal auto safety regulators in the US on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation’s highways […]
MIT researchers have made a machine that can read your feelings through radio waves. Machines can now tell how you feel, even if you put on your best poker face. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have found a way to detect human emotions purely through radio signals. Using a device […]
