Nineteen-year-old Go player Ke Jie (L) makes a move during the first match against Google’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo in Wuzhen, China Chinese netizens fumed Thursday over a government ban
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New Smart Fortwo EV: fewer dollars, more miles
Mercedes-Benz announced the price of its new electric 2017 Smart Fortwo: $23,800 for the hard-top coupe and $28,000 for the cabrio with a sliding canvas roof. The new coupe’s price
AI wins as Google algorithm beats No. 1 Go player (Update)
China’s 19-year-old Go player Ke Jie (L) makes a move during the first match against Google’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo Google’s computer algorithm AlphaGo narrowly beat the world’s top-ranked player
Google AI programme beats top-ranked Go player
China’s 19-year-old Go player Ke Jie (L) makes a move during the first match against Google’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo Google’s computer programme AlphaGo beat the world’s top-ranked player in
Humanitarian efforts could be aided by AI
Social network diagram. Credit: Daniel Tenerife/Wikipedia Researchers have developed an AI algorithm to accurately predict the gender of pre-paid mobile phone users, which could be useful in crises. Phone tracking
Ready, Set, Go! Rematch of man vs machine in ancient game
Google’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo will face the world’s top-ranked Go player, China’s 19-year-old Ke Jie, in a contest expected to end in another victory for rapid advances in AI
U. of C. Medicine, Google hope to use patterns in patient records to predict health
As a patient, your electronic medical record contains a wealth of information about you: vital signs, notes from physicians and medications. Doctors use that information to track your medical history
Optimizing power networks for tomorrow’s smart cities
Lehigh industrial engineering Ph.D. candidate Jie Liu won an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award to study power systems and data analytics at IBM Research-Ireland, one of 12 IBM research laboratories in
Interview: Mark Potter, CTO, HPE
Compute energy over compare One area of seductiveness for this record is how it could be practical to build a high-performance computer (HPC), such as an exaflop-scale supercomputer. The Machine
Advancing cancer immunotherapy with computer simulations and data analysis
A scanning electron micrograph of a human T lymphocyte (also called a T cell) from the immune system of a healthy donor. Immunotherapy fights cancer by supercharging the immune system’s
Disney Research transforms movie-quality animations for interactive viewing
The cyberattack that spread malicious software around the world, shutting down networks at hospitals, banks and government agencies, was stemmed by a young British researcher and an inexpensive domain registration,
SolarCity founder Lyndon Rive is leaving Tesla in June
Lyndon Rive, the CEO and co-founder of SolarCity prior to its acquisition by Tesla, will leave the automaker/energy company in June. Rive announced his departure on Monday in an interview with Reuters,
HP Enterprise unveils computer ‘for era of Big Data’
Meg Whitman, chief executive of HP Enterprise, said, “The secrets to the next great scientific breakthrough, industry-changing innovation, or life-altering technology hide in plain sight behind the mountains of data
Val.ai lets self-driving cars bid for parking spots
Where will self-driving cars go once they drop you off? In big cities, parking can be expensive and take forever to find. But TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon team Val.ai built
CityConnect shows you how climate change will impact your own home
We’ve all seen the maps that show Florida being consumed by rising sea levels. But many of us still underestimate the impact of climate change because we can’t actually visualize its