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Sep 30, 2017
How chatbots could change customer service over the next 5 years
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Sep 30, 2017
Electric car-sharing service begins in Singapore
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: sustainability, transportation
Sep 30, 2017
Apple just released new information about how facial recognition on the iPhone X works
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, security
Apple updated the security and privacy information on its website on Wednesday, revealing new details about how its new facial-recognition technology works.
The new details come about a month before Apple’s most advanced iPhone, the iPhone X, goes on sale. The banner feature of the iPhone X is a facial-recognition tool called Face ID that unlocks the phone, replacing the fingerprint sensor.
Since Face ID and its corresponding 3D camera, called TrueDepth, were announced earlier this month, the technology has attracted a lot of attention and speculation from privacy advocates and security experts. Sen. Al Franken even wrote an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook with 10 questions about the technology.
Sep 30, 2017
Evaporating Water Could Power Almost 70% of The US Electrical Grid
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, sustainability
It’s not every day scientists say a new kind of renewable energy could satisfy the majority of our power needs, so when they do, it’s worth leaning in close.
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that energy harvested from the evaporation of water in US lakes and reservoirs could power nearly 70 percent of the nation’s electricity demands, generating a whopping 325 gigawatts of electricity.
Alongside the great strides being made in solar and wind, biophysicist Ozgur Sahin from Columbia University says natural evaporation represents a massive unexplored resource of environmentally clean power generation, just waiting to be tapped.
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Sep 30, 2017
The future isn’t about hardware or software
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, futurism
Click on photo to start video.
It’s about making technology work for you.
Video : Selfie Drone which obeys your palm
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Sep 30, 2017
Vacuum company Dyson is building an electric car
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: sustainability, transportation
Sep 30, 2017
Bill Gates now uses an Android phone
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, mobile phones
Windows Phone has been dead for a good year now, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has decided it’s also time to move on. In an interview with Fox News Sunday (spotted by On MSFT), Gates reveals he’s now using an Android phone. While Gates doesn’t reveal the exact model, he does note that it has “a lot of Microsoft software” on it, which could suggest it’s a special Microsoft Edition Samsung Galaxy S8 handset with bundled software.
Microsoft started selling the Samsung Galaxy S8 handset in its retail stores earlier this year, and it includes apps like Office, OneDrive, Cortana, and Outlook. Any Android phone also supports these apps, but Microsoft’s customized S8 does suggest the company might continue to offer this for other Android devices in the future.
While Gates is switching to Android, he’s still not interested in an iPhone. Gates famously banned iPhones and iPods at home in the past, but he does admit that Steve Jobs was a “genius” in the Fox interview. Gates is still using Windows-based PCs, but he’s still not switching over to an iPhone, despite the Steve Jobs praise.
Sep 30, 2017
This simple device turns polluted air into power
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: materials, particle physics
Sep 30, 2017
“Holy Grail” Microchip Might Surpass the Power of the Human Brain
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, neuroscience
Scientists from several universities published a paper in Science Advances, in which they reveal their progress toward the “holy grail” of computing: a light-based microchip that truly rivals the speed and parallel processing of the human brain.
Scientists at the University of Exeter have made a landmark breakthrough in the quest for the “holy grail” of computing: human-brain-mimicking microchips able to store and process information on par with homo sapiens, according to a new Science Advances release.
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