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Machines are now almost as good as humans at object recognition, and the turning point occurred in 2012, say computer scientists.
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Machines are now almost as good as humans at object recognition, and the turning point occurred in 2012, say computer scientists.
This year’s Lemelson-MIT Prize winner discusses grassroots ways for boosting the number of women in technology and business.
The latest in autonomous farming is a robot that weaves between corn stalks, applying fertilizer as it goes.This summer a Minnesota startup began deploying an autonomous robot that rolls between corn plants spraying crop fertilizer.
MONDAY 8. SEPTEMBER 2014
To make sapphire screens, Apple would need to source high-quality raw material and be clever about incorporating it into devices.At Apple’s latest product unveiling tomorrow, CEO Tim Cook may sing the praises of super-strong sapphire, and proclaim it as the perfect screen material for its new iGadgets.
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server this week.Cell Fate Reprogramming By Control Of Intracellular Network Dynamics
Datacoup will pay you $10 a month for access to your credit card and Facebook data.Datacoup, one of the first companies to offer people money in exchange for their personal data, has finished a closed trial of its service and is now opening it to anyone (see “Sell Your Personal Data for $8 a...
FRIDAY 5. SEPTEMBER 2014
Tesla’s gigafactory plan depends on selling 10 times more cars by 2020 than it does today.Tesla’s much publicized “gigafactory”—to be built in Nevada, the company announced on Thursday—is a gamble that demand for electric vehicles will increase rapidly in coming years. In fact, for the factory to truly pay off and make batteries substantially cheaper, as Tesla hopes, the company will...
Tablets and laptops coming later this year will be able to constantly listen for voice commands thanks to new chips from Intel.A new line of mobile chips unveiled by Intel today makes it possible to wake up a laptop or tablet simply by saying “Hello, computer.” Once it has been awoken, the computer can operate as a voice-controlled virtual assistant. You might call out “Hello, computer, what...
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.The Masked Avengers The New Yorker has a long piece about Anonymous, tracing its history and the people behind some of its best-known attacks. —Nanette Byrnes, senior editor, Business...
A new way to track heart and breathing data, demonstrated with Google Glass, could heighten interest in wearable sensors.Besides projecting directions and e-mails in front of your face, Google Glass can also measure biological signs like heart and breathing rates, according to new research. The work suggests a new way for wearable devices to track a person’s stress level and provide instant...
It’s always been hard to capture 3-D virtual models of complex shapes. Not anymore.
It’s always been hard to capture 3D virtual models of complex shapes. Not any more.
Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.
THURSDAY 4. SEPTEMBER 2014
Collaborative software development can be hugely successful or fail spectacularly. An analysis of the metadata associated with these projects is teasing apart the difference.
Biometrics researchers are using off-the-shelf fingerprint sensors and new software to track vaccination records of young children in Africa.Billions of dollars a year are spent vaccinating children in developing countries, but about half as many immunizations are administered as could be because of unreliable vaccination records. Biometric researchers from Michigan State University have developed...
Google’s crack at a quantum computer is a bid to change computing forever.Google is about to begin designing and building hardware for a quantum computer, a machine that exploits quantum physics to solve problems that would take any conventional computer millions of years.
WEDNESDAY 3. SEPTEMBER 2014
Connected appliances such as TVs can provide hackers a way into your house.Connecting a new appliance to your home’s Wi-Fi network or broadband modem could increase the risk that data such as passwords will be taken from computers in your house. Such is the warning from antivirus company Kaspersky Lab in a forthcoming report on the side effects of more and more home devices being connected to...
A Canadian startup turns to software to improve the quality and reduce the size of smartphone cameras.Fitting the hardware for a high-quality camera into a slender smartphone is tricky. The smoother a camera lens, the less distortion it will produce. But if a lens is too small, the effect of any distortion is magnified. As a result, you sometimes see a bulge sticking out of handsets to accommodate...
TUESDAY 2. SEPTEMBER 2014
Can genome-editing technology revive the idea of genetically modified livestock?Four years ago, Scott Fahrenkrug saw an ABC News segment about the dehorning of dairy cows, a painful procedure that makes the animals safer to handle. The shaky undercover video showed a black-and-white Holstein heifer moaning and bucking as a farmhand burned off its horns with a hot iron.
Can genome-editing technology revive the idea of genetically modified livestock?Four years ago, Scott Fahrenkrug saw an ABC News segment about the dehorning of dairy cows, a painful procedure that makes the animals safer to handle. The shaky undercover video showed a black-and-white Holstein heifer moaning and bucking as a farmhand burned off its horns with a hot iron.
Computer criminals are increasingly capturing valuable information stored on hospital computer networks.Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the computer networks of hospitals—one recently announced theft involved data from 4.5 million people who had received treatment from Community Health Systems (CHS), a company that runs more than 200 hospitals. Malware attacks are on the rise in many...
Mobile phone data is revolutionising the way researchers study human mobility. But these analyses are worryingly susceptible to hidden bias, say researchers
In the past few years, Big Data has morphed from being yet another IT buzzword into a virtual tsunami sweeping over enterprises and consumers alike. Humans, organizations, devices, and machines of all types now contribute huge waves of data into what’s being called the data universe. And just like the other, real universe, the data universe continues to expand rapidly.
A startup called Algorithmia wants to connect underused algorithms with those who want to make sense of data.A startup called Algorithmia has a new twist on online matchmaking. Its website is a place for businesses with piles of data to find researchers with a dreamboat algorithm that could extract insights–and profits–from it...