Photon-driven data storage could be fast, efficient, pushing the capacity beyond current limits. The ability to store huge amounts of data in ever smaller devices has changed the way we live: gone are cassettes, floppy disks and clunky external drives. Our favourite songs, films, docs and scientific databases can be stored on devices that have […]
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AI software helped NASA dream up this spider-like interplanetary lander
Using an AI design process, engineers at software company Autodesk and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory came up with a new interplanetary lander concept that could explore distant moons like Europa and Enceladus. Its slim design weighs less than most of the landers that NASA has already sent to other planets and moons. Autodesk announced its […]
Google is absorbing DeepMind’s health care unit to create an ‘AI assistant for nurses and doctors’
As part of an ongoing reorganization of its health care efforts, Google has announced that it’s absorbing DeepMind Health, a part of its London-based AI lab DeepMind. In a blog post, DeepMind’s founders said it was a “major milestone” for the company that would help turn its Streams app — which it developed to help […]
Microsoft patches Windows zero-day used by multiple cyber-espionage groups
Microsoft released today its monthly roll-up of security patches known as Patch Tuesday. This month, the Redmond-based company has fixed 62 security flaws. Among the 62 fixes, there is also a fix for a zero-day vulnerability that was under active exploitation before today’s patches were made available. ZERO-DAY EXPLOITED BY MULTIPLE APTS The zero-day, tracked […]
Amazon’s Echo Buttons now perform whole routines with a tap
Amazon’s Echo Buttons are now useful for considerably more than playing party games. The company has enabled support for performing Alexa routines by tapping a button. You can turn on the lights without talking to your speaker, or let guests cue music without having to remember the specific commands. In that sense, it’s a more […]
The 3 Ways That Artificial Intelligence Will Change Content Marketing
In many ways, artificial intelligence (AI) is already influencing digital marketing in general, and content marketing in particular. But the truth is, there is so much more to come – so many more changes and improvements that AI will surely bring to content marketing. In this blog post, I’m going to explore some of these […]
YouTube’s VR app arrives on Oculus Go
Facebook’s standalone Oculus Go headset is getting a huge dose of immersive entertainment courtesy of YouTube VR. Announced at the Oculus Connect 5 event in September, the app is now available for the entry-level device via the Oculus Store. It follows its launch on almost every other leading VR headset, including PlayStation VR, Daydream, HTC […]
Facebook says Monday’s outage was the result of a ‘routine test’
Did Facebook go down for you Monday? You were not alone. The most popular social network went down early Monday afternoon, showing users who tried to access its site broken error messages saying “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.” The outage knocked out […]
Apple Admits There Are Hardware Issues With Its IPhone X And 13-Inch MacBook Pro
On Friday, Apple announced that two of its products – the iPhone X and the 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) – have known hardware issues. Bloomberg first reported on these issues after being posted on Apple’s support pages on Friday. Apple said that on some iPhone X devices, display screens are experiencing touch issues. Those issues […]
Could data costs kill your AI startup?
Data gives AI startups a defensive moat: The more data the startup collects to train an AI model, the better that model will perform, making it difficult for a new entrant to catch up. That data does not come for free, however, and many AI startups see their margins eroded by this additional cost. You […]
Netflix for Wii will stop working after January 31st, 2019
Do you have an old Wii hooked up in the bedroom solely to watch Netflix? You might want to look for an alternative in the near future. Netflix has emailed customers and posted a notice warning that Nintendo will “suspend” Netflix and other streaming video services on the Wii after January 31st, 2019. The shutdown […]
Google Pixel 3 overheating issues are causing some phones to shut down
Google’s Pixel 3 has seen its fair share of issues since its October 18 launch, including problems saving photos, memory management problems and appearances of a horrifying second notch. Now, we can add yet another hiccup into the mix: an overheating issue is causing Google’s latest flagship to completely shut itself down while charging, as […]