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Baidu and Nvidia team up to make smarter self-driving cars
Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. and Chinese Internet giant Baidu Inc. have announced a new partnership to develop bring Baidu’s powerful cloud platform and deep learning tools to Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle self-driving computing platform. The two companies say that the partnership will allow them to create better high-definition maps, as well as to achieve Level 3 autonomous vehicle control ...
Harvard’s soft robot octopus could be a big step for autonomous robots
The field of robotics has seen incredible advancements over the last few decades, and today they are used for everything from industrial manufacturing to vacuuming your floor and scaring your dog. But even with all of these advancements, robots tend to be made of rigid structures and fixed joints that are only capable of certain ...
Edtech platform Coursera targets enterprise with ‘Coursera for Business’
Online learning platform Coursera has just announced a new service aimed at tailoring its educational tools for big companies. The new Coursera for Business offers curated learning plans and powerful analytics, as well as the ability for businesses to create their own customized, co-branded portals for their Coursera services. According to Coursera CEO Rick Levin, who previously served as president of ...
Mozilla calls for changes to “outdated” EU copyright laws
Mozilla, the creators of popular internet browser Firefox, have called on the European Union to change its copyright laws, which Mozilla accuses of stifling innovation. The organization has created a petition asking that the EU update its laws “for the 21st century.” In its petition, Mozilla noted that under current EU laws, it is technically illegal to create a ...
Google Play launches festival to highlight indie Android games
Alphabet Inc. (Google) has announced that it is launching a small game festival for its app store Google Play, with hopes to shine a spotlight on a number of high-quality mobile games developed by independent studios. The Indie Games Festival is set to take place on September 24 in San Francisco. Google says that it has invited around ...
Square partners with two competitors to expand its payment platform
Square, Inc., which was founded by Twitter, Inc. co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, has made a name for itself as the go-to point-of-sales solution for many small businesses, and now the company has announced that it will be able to support even more businesses thanks to new integrations with TouchBistro and Vend, two rival point-of-sales companies. According ...
Look out Twitch: Facebook Live’s major integration with Blizzard is here
Blizzard Entertainment Inc., the studio behind massively popular games like World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and Overwatch, has just rolled out a new update to its game client that adds built-in Facebook Live streaming support to all of its titles. Blizzard first revealed its partnership with Facebook back in June, and now the feature is finally available in the Americas, with Europe ...
Facebook open sources its computer vision tools
Facebook has announced that it will be open sourcing several of the computer vision tools it has developed, including DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet. All three tools were developed by the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) team, with the goal of teaching computers to intelligently breakdown what images and recognize objects, locations, and people. According to Facebook, the company ...
Voice recognition now faster and more accurate than typing, says Stanford study
If you have ever had to type out a lengthy message on your phone, chances are you got frustrated with how long the process took and how many mistakes you had to fix along the way. But it is still better than dealing with a hit-or-miss voice recognition program, right? Not according to a new ...
Dexta Robotics shows off exoskeleton glove that could revolutionize VR controls
Chinese robotics firm Dexta Robotics got VR fans excited in 2014 when it launched a Kickstarter PBC project for Dexmo, an exoskeleton VR control glove, but those hopes were later dashed when the company cancelled the campaign after raising only $55,165 of its $200,000 goal. Failed Kickstarters are nothing new, but it seems that Dexta has remained hard ...
