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Fully autonomous AI driving company AImotive expands to the U.S.

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Level 5 self-driving tech is the highest variety, which aims for fully autonomous vehicles with no need of human steering mechanisms. AdasWorks, a Budapest-based startup launched in 2015, is charing its name to AImotive and expanding to a new U.S.-based Mountain View office to further its efforts in making Level 5 autonomy a lived reality for people and cars. AImotive's goal is to offer a full suite of self-driving enabling technologies to carmakers, via its full-stack aiDrive offering, which includes a number of AI-powered engines for learning to identify different objects organized by class, landmark-based location recognition, real-time object tracking and control of not only gas and brake, but other car features including headlights and horn. AImotive also offers aiKit, which covers collection, simulation and data testing; and aiWare, the hardware designed for use in vehicles, provided embedded computing for advanced neural networks used to drive its AI. AImotive's aim is to provide scalable Level 5 autonomy to carmakers regardless of chips used, with technology that can truly work at the global level, across different geographies, climates, environmental conditions and cultures.


Devastated Tinder users forced to spend a night alone after the app goes down

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Devastated Tinder users are forced to spend a night alone after the app goes down AGAIN deleting everyone's matches Users across the UK, Europe and parts of the US reported issues, including messages not sending, matches being deleted and problems logging in. All my matches on tinder got deleted' Amazon's Spotify-rival arrives in the UK: Music Unlimited... Is Apple expanding into digital GLASSES? Report suggests the... Two-thirds of internet users live under censorship as global... WhatsApp finally launches video calls: Feature will come to... Amazon's Spotify-rival arrives in the UK: Music Unlimited... Is Apple expanding into digital GLASSES? Report suggests the... Two-thirds of internet users live under censorship as global... WhatsApp finally launches video calls: Feature will come to... Gavin Lynn joked'My tinder is not working, this is seriously getting in the way of my search for a future bride' Others compared the outage to current events this year, with Tory Vettori tweeting: 'Earthquakes, flooding and Tinder is broken. Oh universe, will you ever stop punishing our country?!' Chase James tweeted: 'First Donald Trump wins the election and now Tinder deletes all of my matches?


Machine Learning and the colours of Haute Couture... - International Blog

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Machine Learning and Haute Couture may not be what you expect to hear in the same sentence. But can Machine Learning help the creative side of fashion? There are plenty of examples where machine learning is applied within fashion retailing to do predictive stock assortments, trend forecasting and much more, but I was interested in the more creative side of fashion. One example is Google's Muze project. It hasn't exactly received universal acclaim and OMG! personally I would not be seen dead in it!


Apps are dying. Long live the subservient bots ready to fulfil your every desire

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The app boom is over. There are now more than 4.2 million apps available for Android and iOS, but three-quarters of American smartphone users download a grand total of zero new apps per month. They might be mostly free and easy to access, but apps are struggling to make it on to our phones and tablets. According to comScore, we spend the majority of our screen time using just three apps, with the average American spending almost half their time in just one. With the eyeballs of the world glued to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat and Skype, developers have started turning once-simple chat apps into complex ecosystems. And at the centre of this change is a horde of subservient bots. You've just walked into your kitchen after a long week. "Play Etta James," you say.


5-Step Solution to Trump's Greatest Dilemma: How to develop the technology agenda and still deliver on job creation promise? - TheAiPost

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Campaign rhetoric will calm down. People will return to their daily lives and America will go back to focusing on its future. Trump's victory, largely led by the voices that got ignored by the previous administrations, provides a clear mandate for the Trump administration. The minor problem: when it comes to technology, the Trump mandate is mostly silent. The major problem:technology strategy by the Trump administration can be at odds with the low-to-medium skilled job creation promise on one hand or lead to decline in American competitiveness on the other hand.


Why big data is good for your health - SWI swissinfo.ch

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At the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg 6,000 patients are waiting for a diagnosis of their rare conditions. Most patients have spent years bouncing from one doctor to another, building up huge dossiers of medical notes. Rare diseases typically take at least five years to correctly name, and sometimes up to 30, by which time it can be too late for effective treatment. "This is an inefficient, costly business," Dr Jurgen Schafer, who heads the German university's medical team, said at a media conference at IBM Zurich in October. "The computer is not going to replace the physician. But with this amount of data, it is completely clear that we don't need more physicians – we need more computer power."


The 30 worst video games of all time – part one

The Guardian

Every gamer has a tale of the worst game they ever played. It may have been the utterly catastrophic sequel to a much-loved classic, a rushed tie-in with a favourite movie, or an experimental new release from a favourite studio. But we've all had that moment of excitedly unwrapping the box, shoving the disc (or cartridge) into the machine and then ... then comes the horrific realisation that you have wasted £45 on the interactive equivalent of a late-career M. Night Shyamalan movie. To create this list, four veteran game writers gathered together to relive our own experiences of this gut-wrenching phenomenon. As hundreds of games are released every year, there are certainly thousands of unmitigated digital disasters that very few people have had to suffer because they sank faster than a pair of solid-iron water wings.


Humans will NOT survive another 1,000 years on Earth, says Stephen Hawking

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Humans will NOT survive another 1,000 years on Earth, says Stephen Hawking: Physicist warns we must'escape beyond our fragile planet' Professor Hawking was giving a talk at the Oxford University Union He urged the audience to take an interest in space travel He said: 'we must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity' He said: 'we must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity' Humans will not survive another 1,000 years on'fragile' Earth, according to Professor Stephen Hawking. Silicon Valley issues plea to Donald Trump to support strong... Mysterious'megafast electrons' are accelerated to the speed... Intelligent aliens are most likely to be MACHINES,... The AI that could tell you how long your flight is REALLY... Silicon Valley issues plea to Donald Trump to support strong... Mysterious'megafast electrons' are accelerated to the speed... Intelligent aliens are most likely to be MACHINES,... The AI that could tell you how long your flight is REALLY... Professor Hawking said: 'I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet' Professor Hawking explained in his talk, titled'The Origin of the Universe', how he was currently working to prove how the origin of the universe did obey the laws of physics as was understood what modern physicists called M-theory (stock image) Mob storm police station and lynch suspected paedophile SNL mocks confident Clinton supporters with Dave Chappelle Chili's manager snatches veteran's free meal after complaint Dashcam footage captures moment van swerves before crashing Got any oink-tment?: Excited piglets take a warm bath Man discovers wife is cheating on him following her with drone Obama on Trump: This office has a way of waking you up Emotional Chelsea Handler fights back tears over election results Pres. Obama: Reflection'healthy' for Democratic party Obama's dig at Clinton over her ground game failures Is this the creepy moment the corpse of a girl OPENS her eyes?


Super Nintendo and me: growing up, recession and role-playing adventures

The Guardian

I don't remember a time we didn't have video games in the house. I grew up in Gregory, Michigan, a small town in the middle of nowhere; a town that literally borders Hell. I wish I was kidding. My dad was a second shift supervisor at a General Motors plant in Detroit. He always wanted to have the latest expensive things; we owned an early home PC and he'd bring home these floppy discs filled with games – they would trade them around at his office.


Data-driven spinning class? How tech is revolutionising fitness

The Guardian

It's Monday lunchtime and gym-goers at Virgin Active in Moorgate, London, are grabbing a bike for their group cycle class. But this isn't any ordinary spin class, where the teacher enthusiastically shouts instructions like "sprint" and "climb" and the backdrop is an uninspiring grey wall. This is the "Pack", a class divided into three teams that compete in a series of interactive challenges while each rider's bike data is tracked in real-time and projected on to a screen. "We created the Pack in response to the growing demand for cycle-based classes and technology that tracks workout progress," says Virgin Active group chief information officer Andy Caddy. "It creates a wholly differentiated group cycle offering."