Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 729
Dec 4, 2018
Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google’s
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
In May, Google made quite the splash when it unveiled Duplex, its eerily humanlike voice assistant capable of making restaurant reservations and salon appointments. It seemed to mark a new milestone in speech generation and natural-language understanding, and it pulled back the curtain on what the future of human-AI interaction might look like.
Dec 4, 2018
Exclusive: Sparkly, opal-filled fossils reveal new dinosaur species
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Australian miners uncovered the gem of a find—a dog-size herbivore named Weewarrasaurus pobeni.
Dec 4, 2018
Geminids meteor shower in PH skies from Dec. 14 to Dec. 17, says PAGASA
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
By Ellalyn de Vear-Ruiz
Amazing streaks of light from the Geminids meteor shower will be dazzling the Philippine night skies until December 17.
Dec 3, 2018
IdeaXme — Ambassadors — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, astronomy, biotech/medical, business, disruptive technology, DNA, economics, finance, futurism, health
Space, Oceans, Literature, Entertainment, Sports, Medicine, Fashion, Longevity — Honored to be among this group of thinkers, coming up with the innovative ideas that shape the future — http://radioideaxme.com
Dec 3, 2018
Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun’s north pole
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
The sun has a north pole but no spacecraft has ever photographed it. Now the European Space Agency has cleverly pieced a together picture of it using other images.
Dec 3, 2018
Amazon is ramping up tests of cashierless stores, a move that could see the futuristic tech launched in Whole Foods
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: food, futurism
- Amazon is testing out its cashierless technology in bigger stores, The Wall Street Journal reports.
- Amazon’s cashierless checkout tech tracks the items that shoppers take from shelves and charges them automatically.
- The Journal reports Amazon could roll the tech out to Whole Foods.
Amazon is testing out its cashierless checkout technology in bigger stores — with one eye on Whole Foods, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sources told the Journal that Amazon is testing out the futuristic tech — which tracks and charges for the items shoppers take from the shelves — in Seattle, in a space formatted like a large store.