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Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report? If you haven’t, all you need to know is that it’s about a special police unit that’s able to predict crimes, and is therefore able to arrest criminals before they actually commit those crimes. We don’t have anything close to the t
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 maintaining control of their vehicle. To do this, the company is developing a “guardian angel” system that will automa
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 to embrace the medium in recent years. Playing games is actually a viable, and oftentimes even lucrative career choice these
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 smartphone even supports one. Nextbit has another solution, however, and not only do yo
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 to open two new offices in the home cities of the these universities: Cambridge, Mass
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 however they please. While this openness is one of Wikipedia’s defining characteristics and greatest strengths, it also o
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 your doctor probably won’t help you, because there’s nothing of value that they can do with that information, and
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 can’t keep up. That’s why an Israeli startup by the name of Deep Instinct is developing an artificial neural n
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 companies like Facebook and Google have been especially interested in virtual reality, and have been investing billi
It’s hard being a Bitcoin supporter when criminals are constantly damaging the digital currency’s reputation with their illicit activities, but like it or not, they come with the package. A significant chunk of the people who first adopted Bitcoin did so to support their illegal activiti
Body cameras have become an important topic of discussion amid the string of police brutality cases we’ve seen over the past year or two, and Richard Stallman has his own proposal for how body cameras should be used by police officers. One of the most important people in the tech world, Stallm
Amazon doesn’t plan on replacing human workers with robots anytime soon, but that’s simply because technology hasn’t progressed to the point where robots are as efficient as humans in many tasks. That doesn’t mean the company isn’t trying, however, as Amazon awarded $20
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