Tesla and SolarCity leapt an important hurdle Thursday: getting shareholder sign off for the proposed acquisition of the latter by the former. Respective shareholder votes at both companies signaled a
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Liquid silicon: Computer chips could bridge the gap between computation and storage
Software written by Jing Li, right, and her students — including Jialiang Zhang, left — allows programmers to directly use existing coding languages with the new Liquid Silicon chips. Credit:
The Waterologies Solardistech is a solar water treatment plant for tiny towns
Water treatment is a massively pressing issue. Hundreds of thousands of people die each ear from lack of clean water and a small, portable filtration system could have saved them.
Hyundai partners with WaiveCar for free, ad-supported EV car sharing
Every automaker seems to be partnering up for car sharing, and Hyundai is no exception. The carmaker is teaming up with WaiveCar, a startup offering ad-supported car sharing with a
GE pushes forward into a program market
GE eyes program giants The foe GE has a eyes on are a normal program giants. IBM is requesting low training in Watson to know and envision a poise of
New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training
Whether they are surfing the web in search of surf and turf, or browsing for the perfect grass-fed beef burger, more than 90 percent of U.S. consumers search online for
Google teaches machines to become more fluent translators
Quentin Hardy of The New York Times said it well: The tech industry is trying “to topple the Tower of Babel.” He said that 80 to 90 percent of the
Jaguar’s first electric SUV aims for 80% charge in 90 minutes
Jaguar’s showing off the I-PACE, an electric concept SUV that it’s aiming to bring to production sometime in 2018. The I-PACE looks like a sensible small utility vehicle, with a
Green-screen keying method cuts time, boosts quality in film compositing
Credit: Disney Research Filming an actor in front of a green screen and then superimposing the actor over another background is commonplace in feature film production, but getting rid of
Researchers have a better way to predict flight delays
Sina Khanmohammadi, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate in systems science within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University. Credit: Jonathan
Government contingency step delicately on AI ethics
Personal data Walport also lifted a spook of AI infringing on regulations such as a 1998 Data Protection Act and, in a future, a European Union (EU) General Data Protection
Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions—about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain
LawOS—regulations as society’s operating system
Credit: Santa Fe Institute Much as Linux, Windows, and iOS coordinate the execution of computing applications, laws coordinate the execution of human society. When new kinds of interactions emerge –
HP sponsors cyber confidence investigate chair during Birmingham University
Different perspectives Shiu pronounced a new investigate chair is a vicious step in bringing opposite perspectives together to make improved swell by enabling deeper conversations over a longer duration of
Accelerating cancer research with deep learning
A representation of a deep learning neural network designed to intelligently extract text-based information from cancer pathology reports. Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Despite steady progress in detection and treatment