In his regular courses at Georgia Tech, the computer science professor had at most a few dozen students. But his online class had 400 students -- students based all over the world; students who viewed his class videos at different times; students with questions. Maybe 10,000 questions over the course of a semester, Goel says. It was more than he and his small staff of teaching assistants could handle. "We were going nuts trying to answer all these questions," he says.

Google has announced a new location-sharing feature for Maps, which could prove both useful and concerning. The app will allow you to reveal your real-time location to your contacts, making it easier to meet up. You can share your whereabouts by sending a link – which is generated when you enable location-sharing by tapping the blue dot that represents where you are – to your contacts. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.

March 23, 2017 --If some NASA researchers have their way, Mars exploration technology of the future may rely on an art form from the past. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has developed a Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) prototype that could change how we explore Mars. The rugged yet portable machine takes its inspiration from the art of origami, which, despite Americans' association with grade-school arts and crafts, is proving to be a cutting-edge design philosophy. Recent developments in the field have led to an explosion of uses ranging from solar panels to bulletproof barriers. What sets PUFFER apart from other rovers is that it folds flat, making its mini-profile even slimmer.

My mother waited two months for her Amazon Echo to arrive. Then, she waited again -- leaving it in the box until I came to help her install it. Any device that requires vocal instructions makes my mother skeptical. She has bad memories of Siri. "She could not understand me," my mom told me.

In a surprise move which shook Baidu's stock, Andrew Ng, Baidu's Chief Scientist and partner with Baidu's founder Robin Li Yanhong in expanding Baidu's AI activities into machine learning, driverless vehicles, and to power AI usage in advertising, maps, takeout delivery, and voice-activated search, resigned. Baidu's AI group has expanded to over 1,300 people in China and Silicon Valley. Ng, who has been with Baidu since 2014 oversaw most of that change. Some see Ng's departure as a setback to their AI efforts, hence the shakeup in the stock price. Others comment that the timing was right both for him and for Baidu.

Max More runs Alcor, an American company which, in exchange for $200,000, will store your corpse in liquid nitrogen until the science exists to revive you. Tim Cannon is a computer programmer who implanted a device the size of a pack of cards into his arm, without the aid of anaesthetics. Zoltan Istvan recently ran for US president and publicised his campaign by driving across the country in a huge vehicle modified to look like a coffin. These are among the unusual individuals Mark O'Connell interviews in his travelogue-style exploration of transhumanism, the movement that campaigns for the direct incorporation of technology into our bodies and minds, and strives to remove ageing as a cause of death. "What are my chances, would you say, of living to a thousand?" the author asks Aubrey de Grey, an established figure in this strange world: "I would say perhaps a little better than fifty-fifty," is the serious reply.

Two years into his gig as chief scientist for Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc., Andrew Ng, the former Google executive who founded the company's artificial-intelligence unit, is pushing Baidu to become a leader in artificial intelligence. "Baidu is clearly playing on the highest levels on the global stage and that takes real innovation," Mr. Ng said. "Frankly there aren't other Chinese companies I bother to benchmark us with." Leading a team of about 800 employees, Mr. Ng says Baidu has become a leader in high-performance computing that has allowed the company to be among the upper echelon of tech firms to apply deep learning -- where computers learn by themselves -- to internet search, improve speech recognition, and develop autonomous-driving cars. Mr. Ng spoke with The Wall Street Journal from Baidu's offices in Sunnyvale, Calif., about data as one of the company's strongest assets, where Chinese tech firms are ahead of U.S. firms, and what it's like to work for a fast-moving Chinese internet company.

NAGOYA – Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. will cooperate on high-speed communication technology for "connected cars," sources said Thursday. Toyota and NTT will jointly study the use of next-generation 5G technology to enable autonomous cars to gather information on traffic conditions and exchange data between self-driving vehicles to ensure smooth and safe operation. Toyota has already developed a communication system which can be used to monitor traffic to avoid congested roads and help drivers navigate during natural disasters. The automaker has also worked with mobile carrier KDDI Corp. to develop a global platform for connected cars, aiming to equip all of its vehicles sold in Japan and the United States with a device to access the network by 2020. Honda Motor Co. and SoftBank Group Corp. are seeking to jointly develop an artificial intelligence-based system for cars that can interact with drivers.

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. are to cooperate on high-speed communication technology needed to commercialize "connected cars," sources close to the matter said Thursday. Toyota and NTT will jointly study the use of next-generation 5G technology to enable autonomous cars to gather various types of information on traffic conditions and exchange data between self-driving vehicles to ensure their smooth and safe operation. Toyota has already developed a communication system for cars which can be used to monitor traffic to avoid congested roads and help drivers navigate during natural disasters. The automaker has tied-up with KDDI Corp., a major Japanese mobile communication carrier, to develop a global platform for connected cars, aiming to equip all of its vehicles sold in Japan and the United States with a device to access the network by 2020. Honda Motor Co. and SoftBank Group Corp. are seeking to jointly develop an artificial intelligence-based system for cars that can interact with drivers.

BEIJING－The chief scientist helping drive Baidu Inc's artificial intelligence push is quitting the search giant, putting at risk its efforts to place the sector at the center of its business revival. Andrew Ng, a Stanford University academic who worked on deep learning at Google Inc's parent company Alphabet Inc before joining Baidu in 2014, said he's leaving the business next month. Ng said he does not plan to join another technology company and will seek to bring AI into sectors such as healthcare and education around the world. The departure comes at a crucial point for the Beijing-based company, as it attempts to revive its fortunes by embracing machine intelligence across all of its business units. His decision to leave comes after Lu Qi joined Baidu as president and chief operating officer in January, with a mandate to reshape the business.