C3.ai’s platform allows for the gluing together of AI programs in rapid fashion. “What would otherwise have taken months of programming by a data scientist can actually be done literally in days using the C3.ai platform.” One of the most intriguing artificial intelligence firms to grab the public’s attention in the past year is C3.ai, […]
Singapore is looking to expand its use of cameras and technology to better support law enforcers and first responders. These include plans to tap sensors, video analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and drones to ease manpower shortages and improve service efficiencies. As it is, the police have deployed almost 90,000 cameras in public locations such […]
By Michael Le Page Hospitals are at full capacity in Araraquara in São Paulo, Brazil Igor Do Vale/ZUMA Wire/Shutterst Health officials in the UK are trying to trace someone who tested positive for the P.1 coronavirus variant first detected in Brazil after sending in a home test kit without contact details. So far, only six […]
Running the clock back on the enigmatic pair of Martian moons Phobos and Deimos gives researchers insight to their possible origin. A recent study provides crucial clues on the possible ‘origin story’ for the two tiny moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos. Modern astronomy provides us with a snapshot, a look at the present state […]
It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot which, if built, would digitally resurrect the dead. Using AI and machine learning, the proposed chatbot would bring our digital persona back to life for our family and friends to talk to. When pressed on the technology, Microsoft representatives admitted that the chatbot was […]
Oh my Word. Tech companies are often busy catching up with each other. more Technically Incorrect “Look what they’ve done! We have to do the same or our very walls will collapse around us!” No, I’m not specifically referring to Facebook here. In fact, I’m marveling at the latest little snippet to emerge from the […]
Framework Laptop For obvious reasons (including a tightly confined working area and the price of discrete components) the DIY laptop market has never come close to the desktop one, despite periodic attempts to provide buyers the opportunity to swap out parts on their notebook. In fact, the industry has moved in the opposite direction, with […]
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers from the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar object in our Solar System. In honor of the observatory that first spotted it, this object (designated 1I/2017 U1) was officially named ‘Oumuamua by the IAU – a Hawaiian term loosely translated as “Scout” (or, “a messenger […]
By Adam Vaughan A demonstration in Paris, France, during the 2015 climate negotiations Thibault Camus/AP/Shutterstock The world is wildly off track meeting the Paris Agreement goal of holding temperature rises to 1.5°C, despite a recent series of more ambitious national climate plans by the European Union, the UK and other countries, a United Nations assessment […]
Skillful, but not necessarily trustworthy? Amazon It was only the other day that I was wondering whether it would be fun to have a cuckoo clock in my kitchen. more Technically Incorrect An Amazon Alexa-powered cuckoo clock, that is. I concluded that the idea was arrant bonkers, as are most things Alexa-enabled. But we all […]