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Toyota is creating a "guardian angel" system for its cars
Not everyone is open to the idea of self-driving cars, and Toyota wants to ensure that those people can still enjoy most of the benefits of self-driving cars while still...
Video games might speed up artificial intelligence development
Video games have evolved immensely over the past forty years, and for those of us who experienced this evolution first-hand, it can be strange to see how society has come...
Google can now determine the location of almost any image
Tobias Weyand, a computer vision specialist, and a couple of his co-workers at Google have developed a deep-learning machine that determine with a surprising amount of accuracy where a photo...
Reviews for the cloud-first Robin smartphone are coming in
Storage anxiety is something that most smartphone owners are painfully familiar with, and the only solution is to drop some extra cash on more internal storage, or buy a microSD, assuming your...
Toyota is developing an artificially intelligent vehicle safety system
Earlier today, the Toyota Research Institute announced a number of new artificial intelligence and robotics research projects, including some collaborative projects with the likes of MIT and Stanford. It even plans...
Researchers have developed the first light-based microprocessor
A group of researchers from Berkeley, Boulder, and MIT have successfully demonstrated a microprocessor that transmits data through optical connections instead of electrical wires, which the researchers claim allows it transmit data at...
Wikipedia is using artificial intelligence to attract more contributors
Although a handful of restrictions have been put in place over the years to reduce online vandalism, people are still more or less free to create and modify Wikipedia pages...
Your fitness tracker data is pretty much useless for doctors
Wearable gadgets are a great way to gather information on your fitness and health habits, but what do you do with that information once you've gathered it? Giving it to...
Next-generation anti-virus software will work like a human brain
Evading anti-virus software isn't exactly easy, but if malware authors have a mind to do so, they can design their malware to mutate in such a way that anti-virus software...
Disney is investing millions in virtual reality technology
The virtual reality market is still in its infancy, which is why so many companies are practically tripping over each other trying to establish a dominant position in the market. Tech...