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Snap to Lay Off 10% of its Workforce
Snap Inc., the parent company overseeing Snapchat, has announced its intention to downsize its workforce by more than 500 employees, as disclosed in a...
Tesla Sued for ‘Deceptive Claims’ About So-Called Self-Driving Cars
Tesla Inc was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action accusing the electric car company of misleading the public by falsely advertising its...
New Apple Patent Would Allow For Socially Distant Selfies
A newly granted Apple patent would allow users to generate selfies with a group of people residing at distant, separate locations.
The patent titled, Generating...
Tesla Unveils Futuristic ‘Cybertruck’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the cybertruck, Tesla’s hyped electric pickup truck, at its Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, just outside Los Angeles.
The most...
AI Company Xanadu Awarded DARPA Grant to Further Advance Quantum Machine Learning
Xanadu, a quantum computing and advanced AI company developing quantum hardware and software solutions, has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)...
Apple Warns iPhone 5 Users To Update iOS or Get Locked Out of Some Features
Apple has warned iPhone 5 users to update their software before the weekend or face losing access to the internet.
According to Apple, users who do...
Microsoft Acquires jClarity to Boost Java Workloads on Azure
Microsoft announced on Monday that it is acquiring jClarity, a contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK project, to support their continued contributions to open source while...
Researchers Develop System to Generate Song Lyrics That Match the Style of Specific Artists
Researchers at the University of Waterloo, Canada, say they have developed a system for generating song lyrics lines conditioned on the style of a...
NYPD Unveils 14 Newly Acquired Drones and Special Unit to Operate Them
The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Tuesday announced its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program, which will be comprised of newly acquired Unmanned Aerial...
Waymo Launches Commercial Self-Driving Taxi Service
Alphabet’s Waymo on Wednesday unveiled its commercial self-driving service, Waymo One, to hundreds of early riders who have already been using their technology.
Riders will...
These Two Fellows Are The World’s First AI News Anchors, Courtesy of China
China’s Xinhua news agency says creepy news anchors will help save production costs.
China's state news agency has unveiled two rather sharply dressed AI news...
Rolls-Royce, Intel Collaborate to Build Autonomous Ships
Rolls-Royce is partnering with Intel on designs for sophisticated intelligent shipping systems that will make commercial shipping safer, the parties announced on Tuesday.
The new...
Walmart Files Patent for IoT-Enabled Shopping carts That Track Biometric Data of Customers
Walmart has filed a patent for a shopping cart that monitors the biometric information of a customer through the handle.
The patent, published in August,...
EU-Funded Initiative Develops Low Cost Navigation System for Drones
An EU-funded initiative has developed a low-cost positioning and navigation system for unmanned aerial systems (UASs), commonly referred to as drones.
UASs have attracted growing...
Mitsubishi, Renault and Nissan Partner With Google to Power Vehicles With Android
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi and Google on Tuesday announced a technology partnership to embed the Android operating system in vehicles sold by the world’s leading automotive alliance,...
Killer Robots: What No One Is Talking About
Countries should quickly agree on a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots "before it is too late," activists said Monday as talks...
Microsoft Advocates for Regulation of Facial Recognition Tech
Microsoft President Brad Smith on Friday called for greater government oversight and corporate responsibility regarding the growing application of facial recognition technology. According to...
IBM’s AI System Publicly Debates Humans
An artificial intelligence (AI) system from IBM on Monday engaged in a live, public debate with humans. The debate, which was held at IBM’s...
EU to Boost Acceleration of AI Adoption With 1.5 Billion Euros Investment
The European Commission said Wednesday it will accelerate the development of artificial intelligence with an investment of 1.5 billion euros ($1.83 billion) by 2020....
Lethal Autonomous Drone Weapon Systems to Identify Targets With Self-Learning Algorithms
For the most part, current military aerial weapon systems are still controlled by people, but all that is set to change with the push...
Nokia, Vodafone Collaborate to Set up 4G Network on Moon
Vofafone Germany is collaborating with Audi and Nokia to set up 4G network on the moon by 2019.
According to Vodafone, the 4G network will...
Spacex’s Tesla Roadstar Puts the Pedal to the Metal, Misses Mars and Heads for Asteroid Belt
Elon Musk’s Tesla roadstar dummy has more to worry about than the liberal dousing of radiation it is getting from its prime position on...
Spacex’s Falcon Heavy, World’s Most Powerful Commercial Rocket, Blasts Off Into Space
SpaceX on Tuesday launched the Falcon Heavy, one of the world’s most powerful rockets. Tthe successful liftoff took place at 3:45 p.m. ET at...
NASA, Russia Join Forces to Explore Deep Space
NASA and Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, said Wednesday they are partnering to explore what they refer to as “the deep space gateway concept.”
Both agencies,...
House Passes Self Drive Act, Bipartisan Driverless Car Bill, Paving Way for Driverless Trucks
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved landmark self-driving car legislation, the SELF DRIVE Act.
The legislation, H.R. 3388, is the first bill passed...
WhatsApp Nets More Than One Billion Daily Users
Messaging app WhatsApp now averages more than one billion daily users each day, according to parent company Facebook. Facebook made this revelation in its...
Tech Firms Urge FCC to Shelve Plans to Reverse Net Neutrality Rules
The Internet Association, a group representing major tech firms including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, on Monday urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
London-Based Startup Blockchain Receives $40M in VC Funding – Largest Series B in Fintech Yet
London-based startup Blockchain, a leading software platform for digital assets, announced last week that they have raised a Series B of $40 million with...
Phillips Lighting Debuts ‘World’s First’ Autonomous Indoor Drone
Philips Lighting, a provider of lighting solutions, announced on Friday what it called “the first application” of an autonomous, indoor drone that uses Visible...
Qualcomm Demonstrates Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles in Motion
Qualcomm Incorporated through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., on Thursday demonstrated dynamic electric vehicle charging (DEVC), which allows vehicles to charge while driving.
Qualcomm Technologies...
HPE Unveils ‘World’s Largest Single-Memory Computer’ Capable of Holding 160 Terabytes of Data
Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday introduced what it called “the world’s largest single-memory computer,” the latest milestone in The Machine research project (The Machine)....
Courier Company Hermes Trials Self-Driving Delivery Robots in London
Courier company Hermes announced last week it is partnering with Starship Technologies to launch a testing program for the use of self-driving delivery robots...
Annual Cap on H-1B Visa For High-Skilled Workers Maxes Out in Only Five Days
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said Friday it has attained a cap of 85,000 H1-B visa applications for the fiscal year, only five...
Toyota to Invest $35 Million in Research to Develop Advanced Materials With AI, Machine Learning
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America, said Thursday it will collaborate with research entities, universities and companies on...
Swift Navigation, Carnegie Robotics Collaborate on Navigation Systems for Autonomous Vehicles
Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based startup building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power autonomous vehicles, is teaming up with Carnegie Robotics, makers of robotic components...
Bosch Collaborates With Nvidia on AI for Autonomous Vehicles
As the race to develop the ultimate self-driving vehicle heats up, Bosch said Monday it is teaming up with Nvidia to develop artificial intelligence...
Raytheon, DARPA Partner on Project to Protect US Power Grid Against Cyberattack
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, has awarded Raytheon multiple contracts to research and develop technologies that will detect...
Siemens, LO3 Energy Collaborate on ‘First-of-its-Kind’ Blockchain Microgrids
Siemens and New York startup LO3 Energy said Monday they are collaborating in the field of innovative microgrids. The goal of the collaboration is...
Engineers Fabricate World’s ‘First’ Semiconductor-Free Microelectronic Device
A team of researchers in the Applied Electromagnetics Group led by electrical engineering professor Dan Sievenpiper at UC San Diego say they have fabricated...
Tesla Acquires Germany’s Grohmann Engineering to Boost In-House Automated Manufacturing
Electric carmaker Tesla said Tuesday it has entered into an agreement to acquire Grohmann Engineering, an engineering company in Prüm, Germany, which will become...
Dept. of Energy Awards $32 Million in Funding for Connected Tech Resulting in Energy Efficiency
The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) on Wednesday announced up to $32 million in funding for what it called “10 innovative projects,”...
U.S. Education Department Launches EdSim Challenge: Seeks Next-Gen Educational Simulations
The U.S. Department of Education has launched the EdSim Challenge, which it says is aimed at stimulating the marketplace for computer-generated virtual and augmented...
IBM Drives Machine Learning Into the Mainstream With Watson-Enabled Platforms
IBM is firing on all gears in its quest to drive machine learning into the mainstream. The company announced a string of collaborations on...
AIM Introduces New RFID Standard for Healthcare Industry
AIM, the worldwide industry association for the automatic identification industry, providing information, educational resources and standards to providers and users of these technologies for...
Amazon Introduces $2.5 Million Alexa Prize AI Competition
Amazon announced Thursday the launch of the Alexa Prize, an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational artificial intelligence (AI).
The goal...
China Unveils World’s Largest Radio Telescope
The largest radio telescope in the world was opened for business on Sunday in a mountainous region of southwest China's Guizhou Province, according to...
Guardtime Federal, Galois get $1.8M Federal Contract to Verify Blockchain-Based Integrity Monitoring System
Guardtime Federal and Galois announced Tuesday that they have jointly been awarded a $1.8 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)...
DARPA Seeks Proposals to Develop City-Wide Drone Dragnet Systems
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals for wide area surveillance of small unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in urban...
Google’s Project Zero Prize: Hack Android Device and Win $200,000
Google announced Tuesday that it is starting a new contest to capitalize on the success of previous vulnerability programs. The Project Zero Prize is...
Airbus Plans to Test Autonomous Flying Taxis by 2017
First, Uber came up with the concept of self-driving taxis, now, the world’s second largest aeronautical company says it is working on an “air...
Department of Housing, Comcast Partner to Offer Internet Services to 2 Million Households
Comcast and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) ConnectHome initiative said today that public housing and HUD-assisted residents living in Comcast’s...
Microsoft, Researchers Claim ‘Record’ Feat In DNA Storage
Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington say they have reached what they call “an early but important milestone in DNA storage by...
DARPA’s Drone Intelligence Enables Drones Travel In Flocks
In what it called “collaborative unmanned air systems,” the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is working on technology that will enable drones fly...
China’s 93 Petaflop Supercomputer Outranks Others: Processor Locally Made
China has retained its dominance as the country with the fastest computer, this time, with the Sunway TaihuLight at the National Supercomputing Center in...
Quantifind Channels Machine Learning To Help Marketers Increase Revenue
Quantifind, a data-centric technology company, today announced general availability of SIGNUM Analysis, a cloud-based, self-service analytics application that gives marketers a new way to...
Airline Industry To Develop New Black Box Tech For Better Data Recovery
The airline industry today pledged to agree to standards by the end of the year for faster recovery of data to help investigators determine...
Hitachi’s AI Technology Enables Dialogue In Japanese
Hitachi announced today that it has developed a basic artificial intelligence (AI) technology that analyzes huge volumes of Japanese text data on issues that...
FAA To Test British Drone-Jamming Device At US Airports
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is getting ready to test a UK-developed system with the capacity to jam signals to small drones. This is...
This Insect-Like Drone Can Perch Anywhere
A tiny drone referred to as a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) by researchers can fly, hover, and even perch on surfaces, according to a...
Australian Claims He Invented bitcoin: Skepticism Prevails
Craig Wright, an Australian tech entrepreneur, has identified himself as the creator of controversial digital currency bitcoin on Monday, but experts remain divided over...
Microsoft Goes The DNA Storage Route; Partners With Twist Bioscience
Microsoft has given the green light for the acquisition of 10 million strands of DNA from Twist Bioscience, which the company plans to use...
Self-Driving Trucks Powered By Smart Technology Successfully Complete Trip Across Europe
A fleet of self-driving trucks from major manufacturers like Volvo and Daimler has completed the first ever cross-border trip made by a convoy of...
WhatsApp Implements End-To-End Encryption For Its Over 1 Billion Users
Following the latest updates, end-to-end encryption is now available to WhatsApp’s over 1 billion users when they use the app. This means that nobody...
Adobe Prepares Urgent Patch For Flash Vulnerability
Adobe announced April 5 that it would soon issue an emergency update for its widely used Flash Player software due to a flaw which,...
BBC Gives Out Micro Bit Computers To One Million Youngsters To ‘Inspire’ Next-Gen Coders
BBC is making good on a promise it made in May 2015 to distribute tiny computers to one million children with the intention of...
Linkedln, Google, Others Publish New SMTP Strict Transport Security For Email
Engineers from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Comcast, LinkedIn and 1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology have collaborated to improve email security through the development...
Dyson To Invest $1.4bn In Battery Tech Over Next Five Years
Dyson, the UK-based producer of vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, has announced plans to invest £1 billion ($1.4 billion) into battery technology over the...
Seagate Unveils 10TB Hard Drive For Cloud Data Centers
SeagateTechnologies announced Wednesday the launch of a 10-terabyte helium-filled enterprise-class 3.5-inch hard drive. The helium-filled Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5-inch HDD incorporates seven perpendicular magnetic...
Researchers Can Now Access Yahoo’s Largest Machine Learning Dataset
Yahoo announced Thursday the public release of what it called “the largest-ever machine learning dataset to the research community.” The dataset stands at a...
Lenovo, Google Partner To Develop Project Tango Smartphone
Lenovo and Google announced a partnership Thursday to create a new smartphone that makes use of a 3D augmented reality technology known as Project...
ACE Develops Data Recovery Solution for Failed WD Self-Encrypted Drives
ACE Data Recovery, provider of hard drive data recovery services, has developed a custom hardware/software solution that can recover data from failed encrypted Western...
Kroll Ontrack Offers Data Recovery Discount for Select Storage Devices
With dangerous storms causing historic flooding and property damage in Missouri, Illinois, Texas and many other Midwest and Southern states, Kroll Ontrack, a provider...
DriveSavers Recovers Nearly 200 Floppy Disks Belonging to Star Trek Creator
DriveSavers, providers of data recovery, eDiscovery and digital forensic services, said Monday that the company has recovered nearly 200 floppy disks belonging to Star...
Juniper Networks Hack May Have Exposed Encrypted Government Data
The recent breach at computer network company Juniper Networks has U.S. officials worried that hackers working for a foreign government were behind the infiltration....
Lottery Software In Several States Hacked By Insider
Eddie Tipton, a former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, has been convicted of fraud for fixing one jackpot in Des Moines. Prosecutors...
Seattle Virtual-Reality Startup Bags $6 Million VC Fund
Pixvana, a Seattle-based virtual-reality video technology startup, has recently received $6 million in funding from investors. The startup aims to create web-based tools to improve...
Only In Tokyo – Good Drones Catch Bad Drones With Net
Seems like everywhere you look these days, you literally trip over a drone. Even though the technology is still evolving, drones are increasingly being...
Silicon Valley Investors Push Artificial-Intelligence Research Center
Select Silicon Valley investors and allied technology companies revealed Friday they are set to establish an artificial-intelligence research center to develop what they referred...
Chinese UAV Company Tout’s “World’s Most Powerful” Drone Computer
DJI, a China-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturer has released what it calls the “most powerful computer designed for drones.” The Manifold is an...
Tesla’s New Autopilot System Averts Head-0n Collision
A Tesla Model S P85D owner, Jon Hall, an Uber driver, posted a dash cam video on YouTube that seems to demonstrate how the...
Tor Project Launches Tor Messenger, Anonymous Chat App
The Tor Project, a non-profit which runs the Tor network, a system of routes and servers designed to disguise Internet activity, has launched the...
Google to merge Chrome OS and Android
A new report in The Wall Street Journal indicates that Google plans to merge Chrome OS and Android by 2017. Chrome OS is the...
Library of Congress Rulings Greenlight Device Jailbreaking
Vehicle owners, security experts and enthusiasts can now legally tinker with their gadgets due to several exemptions granted by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...
Galaxy View Largest Commercial Android Device, Touts Samsung
Samsung Electronics unveiled the Samsung Galaxy View on Wednesday, which it called the “largest Android mobile device on the market.”
The Galaxy View has a...
Senate Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Bill: Eschews Amendments
Despite months of advocacy by privacy organizations asking Congress to either reform or kill the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) due to privacy concerns,...
Self-Driving Cars? Check Out These Self-Driving Pods!
Two Italian researchers have developed a concept for a new mode of autonomous public transportation which may be released in 2020. The researchers, Tommaso...
Walmart to Test-Drive Drone Delivery
Wal-Mart is set to test the use of drones for home delivery, checking warehouse inventories and curbside pickup. The retail giant applied Monday to...
Machine-Learning Artificial Intelligence to Handle Google Queries
This may be a new setup in the whole search algorithm equation, but Google has introduced a machine-learning artificial intelligence named RankBrain to process...
Tesla Model S Equipped With New Autopilot Software For More Hands-off Driving
Owners of Tesla’s Model S sedan in North America experienced a radical software upgrade to their vehicle as the company “pushed” out a suite...
RWE Seeks to Establish Lemonbeat as International Communications Protocol for Smart Devices
RWE Effizienz GmbH, a provider of smart solutions for energy efficiency and electricity storage solutions, is currently seeking to make the Lemonbeat smart Device...