Big oil turns to Big Data for Big Savings on drilling operations

Sensor laden drilling operations are going increasingly hi-tech. In the shale oil industry today, tiny sensors are being attached to production gear to harvest data on right about everything: from pumping pressure, rotational speed of drill bits, heat generated by drilling activity, almost every conceivable variable in the drilling operation is being captured. This sensor-laden…

Continental joins Intel, BMW and Mobileye led self-driving platform

This collaborative effort will shift into production gear in 2021. On Tuesday Continental disclosed it would be join the self-driving platform pioneered by Intel, BMW and Mobileye in efforts aimed at integrating the handling of components and software. This integration of hardware and software data has accelerated the pace of development of self-driving vehicles and…

Japan seeks to commercialise drone deliveries and self-driving trucks by 2020 and 2022, respectively

The strategy document is an eye opener for companies who want to invest in Japan. On June 9, Japan aims to finalise policies regarding the drone deliveries in the country from 2020 as well as commercialisation of self-driving trucks by 2022, as per two sources familiar with the matter at hand. The move could inject…

Major U.S. tech companies press Congress for increased transparency in internet surveillance programs

A bipartisan group is in the process of drafting legislation which is expected to address some, if not all, of the concerns raised in the said letter. More than two dozen U.S. tech companies in the U.S., including Amazon and Facebook has urged the U.S. Congress to make broad changes to laws that govern internet…

Google offers machine-learning coders a chance to grab $30,000 in cash money and more

Google is looking for coders who can design machine learning algorithms for tagging 700,000 audio video files in its YouTibe-8M dataset. Machine learning coding teams are welcome to join the competition. Although most of us may not have heard of YouTube-8M, for those of you who are into machine learning, YouTube-8M is a big deal,…