NASA can’t yet put a scientist on Mars. But in its next rover mission to the Red Planet, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is hoping to use artificial intelligence to at least put the equivalent of a talented research assistant there. Steve Chien, head of the AI Group at NASA JPL, envisions working with the Mars […]
Not happy with beating us at complex games, computers now want to belittle us. Last year Cosmos reported on the development of AlphaGo Zero, a program that can take us to the cleaners at the fiendishly difficult game of Go without any training (hence the “zero” bit). It works out the strategy itself. AlphaGo Zero […]
The office of CTO for AI at Microsoft now has a stonking great “vacant” sign plastered on it, as previous incumbent Joseph Sirosh this week trotted off to become CTO of Compass, a New York-based real-estate outfit. Sirosh joined the gang at Redmond just over five years ago in July 2013, having worked for more […]
Google has officially announced that it’s shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment. The news isn’t entirely unsurprising, given that Google had already paused investment in Allo back in April. Back then, the head of the communications group at Google, Anil Sabharwal, noted that “[Allo] as a whole […]
Apple today officially released iOS 12.1.1 to the public, teasing in the update’s release notes that it includes “eSIM for additional carriers iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max.” Corresponding with today’s iOS update, AT&T has officially become the first major US carrier to support eSIM for iPhone. AT&T detailed the launch in a support document updated […]
Researchers have created new artificial intelligence that could spell the end for one of the most widely used website security systems. The new algorithm, based on deep learning methods, is the most effective solver of captcha security and authentication systems to date and is able to defeat versions of text captcha schemes used to defend […]
You’d never know by looking at the brick-like phone that it’s one of the fastest devices on the planet. The generic-looking handset is a prototype design that Qualcomm made to showcase 5G, but it — and another prototype made by Samsung — prove that the age of 5G phones and networks is coming fast. Qualcomm, […]
Huawei and Xiaomi were almost solely responsible for smartphone sales growing in Q3 2018, according to Gartner’s latest figures. Gartner research director Anshul Gupta claimed that global smartphone sales would’ve been down 5.2 percent if Huawei and Xiaomi’s results were removed from the list. The tracking firm found that Huawei firmly held on to its […]
Over the years, people have pondered what a viable competitor to Steam’s dominance would look like. Who would pull it off? What would be their silver bullet, capable of hobbling even Valve’s game-slinging behemoth? Late last week, Valve announced that Steam will take a lesser cut of revenues from games that sell $10 and $50 […]
Jamie Lin founded the Taipei-based accelerator AppWorks in 2009. Having began coding and building his own computers at the age of 10, he co-founded his first ecommerce startup, Hotcool, in 1999 and went on to co-found Intumit, Social Sauce, and Muse Games. Lin received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from National Taiwan University and MBA […]
A team from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US is developing a new, deep learning-assisted system to reproduce art with a 3D printer to make more accurate, convincing reproductions. The system combines a process known as halftoning, which uses little dots of ink, and a […]
ONE OF THE joys of Touch ID is how seamlessly it works. It rarely takes more than an instant to unlock your iPhone or approve a purchase. But recently a handful of scam apps have turned that ease of use against anyone unlucky enough to download them. In separately reported incidents, apps posing as health […]
