Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Robot Buses Are Coming To America
October 30th, 2015Via: Fast Company: Self-driving buses are coming to America. The Bishop Ranch business park in San Ramon, California will be the first place in the U.S. to use French robo-buses to ferry passengers around. … The EZ10 is a driverless bus designed for short hops. It has been deployed in Europe—in Finland, France, and is […]
Wifi Networks Can Now Identify Who You Are Through Walls
October 29th, 2015Via: Gizmodo: Who needs a peep hole when a wifi network will do? Researchers from MIT have developed technology that uses wireless signals to see your silhouette through a wall—and it can even tell you apart from other people, too. The team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab are no strangers to using […]
Google’s Project Loon Internet Balloons to Circle Earth
October 28th, 2015Via: BBC: Google believes it is on course to have enough internet-beaming balloons in the stratosphere to form a ring over part of the world next year. It told the BBC the move would let it trial a continuous data service to people living below the balloons’ path. The declaration coincides with the announcement that […]
Yamaha Shows Motobot Motorcycle-Riding Humanoid Robot
October 28th, 2015Via: Gizmag: Yamaha produced somewhat of a surprise at the Tokyo Motor Show today when it showed a motorcycle-riding robot. Unlike most two-wheeled debutants, Yamaha’s new Motobot isn’t starting out on a small capacity motorcycle, but release images show the humanoid robot riding Yamaha’s most sporting motorcycle, the 1000cc R1M.
Inside the Pentagon’s Effort to Build a Killer Robot
October 28th, 2015Via: Time: The defense program DARPA is working to create an artificial brain—but what will it mean for humanity if it succeeds? … I am headed to the laboratory of Dr. Garrett T. Kenyon, whose program falls under the rubric of synthetic cognition, an attempt to build an artificial brain. Roboticists define artificial brains as […]
Bill Would Give Legal Protection to Firms that Share Data with Government
October 27th, 2015Via: Washington Post: The Senate on Tuesday passed a cybersecurity bill that would give companies legal immunity for sharing data with the federal government, over the protests of some lawmakers and consumer advocates who say that the legislation does not adequately protect Americans’ privacy. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, must now be reconciled […]
‘Zeno Effect’ Verified: Atoms Won’t Move While You Watch
October 27th, 2015Via: Cornell University: One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory – that a system can’t change while you’re watching it – has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. Their work opens the door to a fundamentally new method to control and manipulate the quantum states of atoms and could lead to new […]
Google Employee Living in a Truck in the Company Parking Lot Is Saving 90% of His Income
October 27th, 2015Via: Business Insider: A 23-year-old software engineer at Google is saving about 90% of his take-home pay. When your only fixed living cost is truck insurance, you can save a large chunk of your income. One San Francisco-based Google employee in this exact situation, who lives in a 128-square-foot truck in the company’s parking lot, […]
Citigroup Testing Eye-Scanning ATM
October 27th, 2015Via: NBC: No card reader, no PIN pad, no touch-screen display — how you bank at your ATM could drastically change in the not-so-distant future. Citigroup is testing an automated teller machine made by Canton, Ohio-based Diebold that relies on your smartphone and perhaps an eye scan to dispense your cash.
Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
October 27th, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets. But before they can become widespread, carmakers must solve an impossible ethical dilemma of algorithmic morality.
