Month: October 2020

  1. Self Driving

Waymo’s driverless cars were involved in 18 accidents over 20 months

6.1 million autonomous miles have been driven by Waymo’s driverless vehicles in Phoenix , Arizona, including 65,000 miles without a person behind the wheel from 2019 to the first nine months of 2020. That’s according to data released today by Waymo from a recent internal study that examined a portion of accidents involving the Waymo […]
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  1. Artificial Intelligence

AI Weekly: In a chaotic year, AI is quietly accelerating the pace of space exploration

Here on Earth, where the pandemic is exploding again in regions of the world that were once active in controlling it, the year 2020 continues to be challenging. Along with Poland and the Czech Republic, Germany registered a record number of cases this week, while the U.S. counted 500,000 new cases. It’s the background to […]
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  1. Tech

Memory resistors based on graphene display promise for brain-based computing.

New ways of computing are coming to the fore as development in conventional computing slows. A team of engineers is trying to pioneer a form of computation at Penn State that mimics the efficiency of the neural networks of the brain while leveraging the analog nature of the brain. Digital, consisting of two states, on-off […]
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  1. Tech

Raxio to build Ethiopia’s first private data center in Addis Ababa

The Raxio Group (Raxio) has acquired land at the ICT Park, in the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to build the country’s first private uptime certified Tier III colocation data centre. The site, purchased through Raxio’s fully owned subsidiary in Ethiopia, Raxio Data Centre PLC (Raxio Ethiopia) is set to be commission in the third quarter of 2021. Once completed, Raxio Ethiopia will offer its customers an optimised environment for their IT equipment in a state of the art, modular facility, fully equipped with leading technology, security, AC/DC power compatibility and redundancy.
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  1. Tech

LG announces PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier

LG’s wearable air purifier allows users to take in clean, filtered air with its Dual Fans and patented Respiratory Sensor. Meanwhile, the Respiratory Sensor detects the cycle and volume of the wearer’s breath and adjusts the dual three-speed fans accordingly. The fans automatically speed up to assist air intake and slow down to reduce resistance when exhaling to make breathing effortless.
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  1. Self Driving

Mercedes targets evolution rather than revolution in self-driving car push

(Reuters) Competitor Mercedes-Benz says it has built a similar device, but stops short of allowing members of the public to take it on urban roads, as Tesla promotes the cutting edge quality of its current Complete Self Driving program. The German leaders in the development of advanced driver assistance systems ( ADAS) are taking a […]
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  1. Robotics

Google’s Transporter Network uses minimal data to teach robots to stack blocks

Google researchers claim they have built a Transporter Network AI model architecture that allows object-grasping robots to reason about which visual signals are relevant and how they should be rearranged in a scene. The researchers say their Transporter Networks have achieved “superior” efficiency during experiments on a variety of tasks, including stacking a block pyramid, […]
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  1. Artificial Intelligence

Intel acquires AI software optimization platform SigOpt

Intel announced today that it will acquire SigOpt, a company based in San Francisco that is building a platform to optimize models of AI applications. The terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were not announced, but Intel says it plans to use SigOpt’s technology to accelerate, amplify, and scale AI software tools […]
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  1. Artificial Intelligence

Intel Geospatial is a cloud platform for AI-powered imagery analytics

Intel today quietly released Intel Geospatial, a cloud platform that provides geovisual workloads with data engineering solutions, 3D visualizations, and simple analytics tools. Intel says it is designed to provide access across an ecosystem of partners to 2D and 3D geospatial data and applications, addressing use cases such as vegetation control, fire risk assessment and […]
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  1. Self Driving

Self-Driving Cars Can Also Self-Design A Whole New Traffic Code

There are a billion drivers, each a different entity, so the use of the law makes sense. But there will never be more than a handful of robocar driving systems in any given area, and probably not more than a hundred or so world-wide. Unlike the human drivers, it will be possible to get representatives from each robocar system in a town or nation in one room at the same time.
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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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