The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.
Imagine if you can just snap your fingers or issue a verbal command for a table, a chair or any other furniture to assemble right in front of you. That's what a team of researchers from the Swiss Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) hopes to achieve by developing Lego-like robotic blocks called Roombots that can stick to each other and form different structures.
Google's acquisition of DeepMind Technologies last month was a huge deal. By snatching up the artificial intelligence company, Google signified a growing interest in deep learning. But what does this buzzword actually mean? DeepMind was founded in 2012 by neuroscientist and former teenage chess prodigy Demis Hassabis and two colleagues.
Recently, Adam Coates and others at Stanford developed a deep learning system with over 11 billion learnable parameters. One of the key drivers to progress in deep learning has been the ability to scale up these algorithms. Ng's team at Google had previously reported a system that required 16,000 CPU cores to train a system with 1 billion parameters.
The Internet of things has been on everyone's lips (and pen) lately, as the biggest new source of money, customer product innovation, investment opportunities, and Sci-Fi-worthy stories (like those of everyone who's part of the Cyborg Foundation - really, look it up).
Turns out, Amazon built its real-time data streaming processing service Kinesis because it was trying to solve some of its own internal data streaming issues.
Studying cultural variation around the world has always been expensive, time-consuming work. Which is why the newfound ability to mine the data from location-based social networks is revolutionizing this science. The habits and behaviors that define a culture are complex and fascinating. But measuring them is a difficult task.
Law enforcement agencies are turning to social network theory to better understand the behaviors and habits of criminal gangs. The study of social networks is providing dramatic insights into the nature of our society and how we are connected to one another. So it's no surprise that law enforcement agencies want to get in on the act.
You, my dear human, are essentially a bag of water held up against gravity by various wonders of physics, chemistry, and biology. Computers, on the other hand, tend to be square slab-like things with awkward angles and uncompromisingly hard corners.
We have developed a process that will allow anyone to build professional models for 3D printing without the need to learn complex software.
NASA is funding research into 3D-printed food. As Quartz reveals, mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor received a $125,000 grant from the agency to build a prototype 3D printer with the aim of automating food creation.
As the Internet of Things or IoT becomes popular in mainstream consciousness, connected objects and devices are the holy grail for most companies and researchers. Researchers at Microsoft may have taken the first step in building an IoT ecosystem for 3D printing. Andy Wilson At this year's SIGGRAPH conference for computer graphics [...]
When Facebook announced their $2 billion acquisition of Oculus Rift, Jaunt swears it took them by surprise. The small Silicon Valley company is working on the goal of creating cameras and audio recording equipment that lets anyone create a fully immersive, 360-degree virtual world.
We have created an immersive gaming environment unlike anything you have experienced before. This full body simulation allows players to literally walk around a large digital space in complete three dimensions. You move one hand in the real world, you'll move one hand in the virtual one.
Spansion says it can eliminate the need to put a battery in the tiny sensors that will deliver the measurements from the Internet of things." That should make it much more affordable to deploy billions of such sensors. The new solution uses chips that can harvest their own energy from the sun, vibration, or heat.
A pug-size robot named pioneer slowly rolls up to the Captain America action figure on the carpet. They're facing off inside a rough model of a child's bedroom that the wireless-chip maker Qualcomm has set up in a trailer.
Admit it: you want to play Iron Man's Tony Stark, manipulating amazing inventions and taking over the world. June 2014, you'll have your chance. That's when Meta's aviator-style MetaPro "holographic" glasses - a consumer version of the $667 Meta 1 developer version* - will ship.
