A top roboticist believes that from becoming a Nobel Prize winner to working in the sex industry, robots will get smart enough to choose their own life path. This has added concerns about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). Sophia is a life-like robot that has 62 facial expressions and can react to spoken word and…
Patent for a network that manages a very specific aspect of the self-driving experience: How autonomous cars navigate reversible lanes, has been awarded to international online retailer Amazon. Reversible lanes are a potential disaster zone for self-driving cars that haven’t yet been programmed to understand those signals and hence reversible lanes indicate a change in direction of…
Its sensor packed platform helps not only consumers but retailers as well. Although technology is continuously reinventing your shopping experience, Intel wants to lend it a helping hand and speed things up. Intel is launching a Responsive Retail Platform which essentially standardizes your in-store shopping experience with a common set of sensors, components and a software…
Although the lists only takes into account their energy usage and does not factor in their attitude, many tech giants will have to source their energy requirements from alternative energy sources to better their grades. Although almost everyone on the planet craves for high speed internet access, it turns out that data centres that power…
The California Air Resource Board and the EPA have found the automaker in violation of their respective laws. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has notified Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) that it is in violation of the Clean Air Act, since its software installed in some of its diesel vehicles increased the emission of its…
While the platform will save hundreds of lives of the fish, it could also play a key role in better understanding the functions of the brain in pre-clinical neurobehavioral studies. In a remarkable development researchers from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering chose the zebrafish to be their virtual lab rats since they are…
If OLED TVs were nuts, we would be the squirrel in Ice Age. They are within reach at last. For most of us, OLED TVs have been the stuff of dreams: they offer incredible picture quality at incredibly high price points. In 2017, their sky high prices are likely to gently land. Their prices have…
It allows the editing of objects after they have been printed, albeit, in an atmosphere free of oxygen. Typically once you have 3D printed an object, there is not much you can do in terms of alterations of its properties. However, it turns out, things aren’t really carved in stone, or plastic in this case.…
While not being limited to North America only, many in the auto industry believe that electric cars will pick up critical momentum in 2017. Industry executives gathered in Detroit this past week for the city’s annual auto show said that fuelling an investment surge is tighter emissions rules in China and Europe leave global carmakers…
While the material is important, structure it turns out is key. Although there have been many reports stating how graphene is essentially gone to save the world with its innumerous powers and applications, in the real world, instances of the demonstration of such abilities have been far and wide. It is in this scenario that…
