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Can you spot Bentley in 57.7 billion pixel image of Dubai

Daily Mail - Science & tech

It is one of the most incredible images of a city ever created - with a hidden surprise. Bentley has revealed a huge interactive 57.7 billion pixels image of the Dubai skyline. Bentley suspended a camera 264 metres up the Cayan Tower – one of Dubai's tallest buildings – to capture what is the world's most detailed landscape image, made up of 1,825 individual frames electronically stitched together. The intricate process took 48 hours and 1,825 frames to create, and downloading the image took a further 18 hours. Bentley suspended a camera 264 metres up the Cayan Tower to capture the image.


Robots could take over 38 percent of U.S. jobs within about 15 years, report says

Los Angeles Times

More than a third of U.S. jobs could be at "high risk" of automation by the early 2030s, a percentage that's greater than in Britain, Germany and Japan, according to a report released Friday. The analysis by accounting and consulting firm PwC focused primarily on the economic outlook in Britain, but it included a section on automation in Britain and elsewhere. In the U.S., 38% of jobs could be at risk of automation, compared with 30% in Britain, 35% in Germany and 21% in Japan. The automation of factories is a big factor for job loss in the U.S. The automation of factories is a big factor for job loss in the U.S. The report emphasizes that these estimates are based on the anticipated capabilities of robotics and artificial intelligence by the early 2030s, and that the pace and direction of technological progress are "uncertain." The key issue is not that the U.S. has more jobs in sectors that are universally ripe for automation, the report says; rather, it's that more U.S. jobs in certain sectors are potentially vulnerable than, say, British jobs in the same sectors.


It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language

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Igor Mordatch is working to build machines that can carry on a conversation. That's something so many people are working on. In Silicon Valley, chatbot is now a bona fide buzzword. He doesn't deal in the AI techniques that typically reach for language. He's a roboticist who began his career as an animator. He spent time at Pixar and worked on Toy Story 3, in between stints as an academic at places like Stanford and the University of Washington, where he taught robots to move like humans.


China Finds a New Source of Cutting-Edge Military Technology: US Startups

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As Washington fiddles, China is investing billions in U.S. startups with cutting-edge products that could have military applications at the same time it is dialing back investments in less critical American industries such as entertainment. A New York Times story this week says that among the startups are companies working on artificial intelligence for military robots, rocket engines, ship sensors and printers that could produce high-tech components such as computer screens for military jets. Many of the firms making such investments are owned by companies controlled by the Chinese government or connected to its leaders. A blog post last December on the website of CB Insights, which tracks startup investments, says that China poured $9.9 billion into new Silicon Valley firms in 2015 and made an additional $3.5 billion in tech investments in the first nine months of last year. The number and size of those tech investments in startups developing military applications were not broken out.


Samsung QLED: A TV screen that is jaw-droppingly good

The Independent - Tech

This year, most of the world's leading manufacturers launched their highest-quality OLED TVs, with price tags to match. The company has now formally announced its own top-of-the-range technology, and it comes with its own new buzzword for you to take on board: QLED. 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 ...


Sky Q Voice Search hands-on review: Talking to your TV has never been more fun and useful

The Independent - Tech

When you're searching for a movie to watch, a remote control isn't the quickest way to go. Mostly it involves using the number keypad and pressing keys repeatedly to invoke the letter you want. When the latest version of Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV set-top boxes arrived, they came with remote controls equipped with microphones. Press a button and you could say "The Lord of the Rings" – which is much quicker than typing it – for the box to find the movies you're after. The latest box from Sky, Sky Q, teasingly came with a remote equipped with a microphone button when it launched more than a year ago.


Robots could take over 38% of U.S. jobs within about 15 years, report says

Los Angeles Times

More than a third of U.S. jobs could be at "high risk" of automation by the early 2030s, a percentage that's greater than in Britain, Germany and Japan, according to a report released Friday. The analysis by accounting and consulting firm PwC focused primarily on the economic outlook in Britain, but it included a section on automation in Britain and elsewhere. In the U.S., 38% of jobs could be at risk of automation, compared with 30% in Britain, 35% in Germany and 21% in Japan. The report emphasizes that these estimates are based on the anticipated capabilities of robotics and artificial intelligence by the early 2030s, and that the pace and direction of technological progress are "uncertain." The key issue is not that the U.S. has more jobs in sectors that are universally ripe for automation, the report says; rather, it's that more U.S. jobs in certain sectors are potentially vulnerable than, say, British jobs in the same sectors.


Automated machine learning company DataRobot raises $54m ZDNet

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DataRobot has raised $54 million in the first close of a Series C round led by New Enterprise Associates. The latest round brings the total amount raised by the Boston, Massachusetts-based company to $111 million, with "significant" additional funding expected in the second close of the round. Data scientists Jeremy Achin and Thomas DeGodoy founded DataRobot in 2012 on the belief that automated machine learning will not only increase productivity for data scientists, but will also open up the world of data science to non-data scientists. The DataRobot platform features hundreds of open-source machine learning algorithms, allowing users to quickly build predictive models. Chris Devaney, COO at DataRobot, told ZDNet that a data scientist would typically look at a set of data, prepare that data, and then train a predictive model -- a process that can take weeks or even months.


World Economic Forum opens Bay Area annex

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

The Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is to open in San Francisco on Friday. SAN FRANCISCO -- The World Economic Forum opens the doors Friday to a new outpost focusing on ways in which science and technology can positively impact society. The Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution aims to reshape industries, challenge regulatory frameworks and redefine "what it means to be a human," Murat Sönmez, a member of the World Economic Forum Managing Board and head of the new center, said in a statement. "We need to urgently develop policy norms and frameworks and apply these innovations to ensure their benefits affect us all," said Sonmez, pointing to jobs of the future, artificial intelligence and ethics, national digital policies, cross border data flows, civil drones, and autonomous vehicles and the environment. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) were planning to open the center at San Francisco's Presidio and play host to more than 120 dignitaries, including Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, University of California at Berkeley President Nicholas Dirks, start-up founders, venture capitalists, and participants from Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Turkey and the UK.


4-Year-Old Boy Saves Unconscious Mother Using iPhone Touch ID, Siri To Call For Help [Listen]

International Business Times

A four-year old boy in the U.K. managed to call the police to aid his unconscious mother by using Touch ID and Siri, authorities said this week. The Metropolitan Police said the boy called 999, the U.K.'s emergency number, on March 7 and told the emergency operator he thought his mother was dead because "she's closing her eyes and she's not breathing." The operator then asked the child where he lived and sent police and an ambulance to the address. Emergency responders arrived 13 minutes after the call was made and broke into the house where they found the boy, his twin brother and a younger brother inside with the mother lying unconscious on the floor. Paramedics gave first aid to the mother at her house and regained consciousness afterwards.