Month: August 2020

  1. AI Research

AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies

Artificial intelligence is beginning to be usefully deployed in almost every industry from customer call centers and finance to drug research. Yet the field is also plagued by relentless hype, opaque jargon and esoteric technology making it difficult for outsiders identify the most interesting companies. To cut through the spin, Forbes partnered with venture firms Sequoia Capital […]
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  1. Ideas

This AI Expert From Senegal Is Helping Showcase Africans In STEM

Adji Bousso Dieng will be Princeton’s School of Engineering’s first Black female faculty. ADJI BOUSSO DIENG Adji Bousso Dieng will be Princeton’s School of Engineering’s first Black female faculty. Not only has Adji Bousso Dieng, an AI researcher from Senegal, contributed to the field of generative modeling and about to become one of the first […]
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  1. Artificial Intelligence

These 7 technology trends will shape companies

These 7 developments in technology will influence industries. Like no other driving force, innovations are transforming the daily world of work. Consequently , it is necessary for businesses to track recent trends closely. Innovative technologies, in particular, uncovers tremendous optimization capacity in terms of increasing performance. Furthermore, a continual modification to one’s own business models […]
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  1. Tech

Pandemic-fueled automation is gobbling up jobs, and we’ll never get them back

Getty Images/Digital Trends Graphic The COVID-19 pandemic has had massive economic impacts in the United States, and one of the problems many companies have been facing as a result is how to keep business moving along without putting employees at risk of being infected. As you might expect, one of the ways many businesses are […]
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  1. Artificial Intelligence

Wild new ‘brainsourcing’ technique trains A.I. directly with human brainwaves

Picture a room full of desks, numbering more than two dozen in total. At each identical desk, there is a computer with a person sitting in front of it playing a simple identification game. The game asks the user to complete an assortment of basic recognition tasks, such as choosing which photo out of a […]
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  1. Artificial Intelligence

The U.S. wastes $161B worth of food every year. A.I. is helping us fix that

“[When you see pictures of food waste] it just blows you away,” said Stefan Kalb, a former food wholesaler. “I mean, shopping cart after shopping cart of food waste. What happens with the merchandisers when they walk through the store, and they’re pulling products that have expired, is that they’ll put it in a shopping […]
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  1. Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk shows off futuristic Neuralink and the robot that implants it

As promised, Elon Musk held a conference today detailing Neuralink, an implantable device that would, according to Musk, solve certain problems related to brain and spine function. As an implant — and unlike many prototypes of similar concepts we’ve seen over the years — Neuralink will be entirely implanted within the recipient’s body, hiding it […]
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  1. AI Robotics

Exotec Solutions unveils ‘3D’ robotic retail order system

Exotec Solutions unveils ‘3D’ robotic retail order system After three months of production and training at its Cestas site (33), the Cdiscount e-commerce firm is announcing its new logistics ally: the Skypod order planning system based on a fleet of 3D logistics robots. A French invention generated by Exotec Solutions’ young development that it plans […]
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  1. Security

Contracts, hacks, and Google: What to consider before you get a home security system

Consumers have more choices than ever to protect their homes, but those choices come with trade-offs. It has never been easier or cheaper to put some kind of security system in your home. I know this from personal experience. As one of the relatively small minority of Americans who has been the victim of a […]
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Good Reads

Tool for predicting pedestrian flow expands its reach

When urban development takes place, a traffic impact assessment is often needed before a project is approved: What will happen to auto traffic if a new apartment building or business complex is constructed, or if a road is widened? On the other hand, new developments affect foot traffic as well — and yet few places study the effects of urban change on pedestrians.
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Tool for predicting pedestrian flow expands its reach

When urban development takes place, a traffic impact assessment is often needed before a project is approved: What will happen to auto traffic if a new apartment building or business complex is constructed, or if a road is widened? On the other hand, new developments affect foot traffic as well — and yet few places study the effects of urban change on pedestrians.
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AI Weekly: EU facial recognition ban highlights need for U.S. legislation

This week, The European Parliament, the body responsible for adopting European Union (EU) legislation, passed a non-binding resolution calling for a ban on law enforcement use of facial recognition technology in public places. The resolution, which also proposes a moratorium on the deployment of predictive policing software, would restrict the use of remote biometric identification unless it’s to fight “serious” crime, such as kidnapping and terrorism.
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Trending

Meet This Year’s WIRED25: People Who Are Making Things Better

WHEN SARTRE SAID hell is other people, he wasn’t living through 2020. Right now, other people are the only thing between us and species collapse. Not just the people we occasionally encounter behind fugly masks—but the experts and innovators out in the world, leading the way. The 17-year-old hacker building his own coronavirus tracker. The […]
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A graffiti representing a nurse by artist David "S.I.D." Perez is pictured on a wall and part of a serie to pay tribute to essential workers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Gland, Switzerland, April 5, 2020. (Reuters)

Ethiopia marks six months of COVID-19 – Analysis and Visualization

13 September marks six months since the first coronavirus announced in Ethiopia.In the half-year since then, reported cases are close to 64 Thousend, with more than 996 deaths. At the onset, COVID-19 mainly affected the capital city. However, the virus is now moving from high-density urban areas to informal settlements and then onward to rural […]
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AI and self driving car

Present international artificial intelligence (AI) inventory and progression in self-driving vehicle research and development Complementary subjects in technology are also artificial intelligence ( AI) and self-driving vehicles. In brief, without someone involved, you just can’t debate one. While AI has been rapidly applied in different areas, a new hot topic has been the way you […]
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