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AR, IoT & AI: Rapidly Advancing Technology in Education
The third annual RE•WORK Future of Education workshop will take place in London on 20 June as part of London Technology Week, bringing together education practitioners, technologists, edtech startups, investors and policy leaders to discuss, explore and collaborate to discover how rapidly advancing technology will impact education. Topics explored will include: Wearable Technology, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Gamification, Internet of Things, Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction and Facial Recognition. Over the past two years 200 attendees have come together to share their insights into technological advancements, as well as discuss key areas such as: What experience do we want students and teachers to have? How can we make these technologies purposeful? What problem are we trying to solve?
'Humans' Season 2 Adds Carrie-Anne Moss, Sam Palladio & More To Cast
Carrie Anne-Moss (Jessica Jones), Sam Palladio (Nashville), Marshall Allman (Prison Break) Sonya Cassidy (Olympus) and Letitia Wright (Cucumber/Banana) have joined the Season 2 cast of AMC and Channel 4 sci-fi drama series Humans. Moss will play Dr. Athena Morrow, a pre-eminent Artificial Intelligence expert who is driven by her own motives to create a new kind of machine consciousness. Palladio is Ed, a struggling café owner trying to breathe life into his family business; Allman plays Milo Khoury, a young Silicon Valley billionaire, founder and CEO of a leading technology company; intent on changing the world. Humans is produced by Kudos in association with Matador Films, The eight-episode second season is slated to premiere in the UK in late 2016 and 2017 in the U.S.
Russia to Set Up Online 'Drone' Testing Site (VIDEO) / Sputnik International
The other day, the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) hosted a meeting on the development of robot technologies during the implementation of projects for the National Technology Initiative. Meeting participants watched a presentation of an international project to create an online site for testing unmanned equipment. Russia's KAMAZ Automotive Plant and IT solutions developer Cognitive Technologies have said they are ready to unveil the first Russian-made autonomous truck, an autopilot system that can detect road signs, lane markings and other vehicles. According to developers, the first autonomous commercial trucks could reach production by 2020. Some estimates show that the use of online testing sites will make it possible to save up to two billion rubles that would otherwise be spent on real-life tests and simulated real-life situations.
BMW WELCOMES the Future: Artificial Intelligence. Livestream.
Don't miss the livestream on April 21st at 7.45 pm (CET) – right here! Artificial Intelligence is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is an effort to built machines which can learn from their environment, from mistakes and from people. Machines that can learn is the field within aritificial intelligence which is the most observed today. Dr. Werner Huber (Manager Highly Automated Driving BMW Group) "Human or Robot – who will control our future vehicle?"
Learn to stop worrying and love the smart machines you'll be working alongside in the future
Many young college graduates find the working world to be a scary place. That goes double in light of recent technological changes. As computers take over customer service, filing and other tasks associated with entry-level jobs, young people today may find it harder to gain a foothold. And in the long term, experts from Oxford University professors to Yale economist and Nobel laureate Robert Schiller have warned that automation and artificial intelligence could make many professions obsolete. That's not exactly the stuff of inspiration for young people who are at the very beginning of their careers.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON: Moving slowly towards a basic income grant
REMEMBER the basic income grant South African labour unions, churches and NGOs campaigned for back in the 1990s and early "noughties", but on which Trevor Manuel's Treasury frowned on as a fiscal nonstarter? Silicon Valley A-lister Sam Altman thinks the US will have to adopt something like it within the next generation or two -- and he's not alone. Altman is founder and president of Y Combinator, the seed-stage tech investor that helped launch Airbnb and Dropbox. As co-chairman of OpenAI, he is working with Elon Musk to see that artificial intelligence, as it approaches and perhaps surpasses the human variety, benefits mankind. He believes that while technology will generate vast new wealth, it will in the process destroy much traditional employment without replacing it.
Paris terror attacks suspect charged in shootout before Brussels bombings - Drone manufacturers combat growing terror threat
Paris terror attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been charged over a deadly shootout with police days before the Brussels bombings. One Islamist suspect was killed and four police were wounded in a gun battle at an apartment in the Forest district of Brussels on March 15. The raid came three days before Abdeslam was arrested and a week before the Brussels attacks on 22 March. Abdeslam's lawyer Sven Mary told AFP: "He has been charged with attempted murder either alone or jointly." Abdeslam is due to be extradited to France in the coming days to face charges over last November's attacks in Paris.
'Qwerty effect' causes people to prefer words written with letters on the right
'Our initial scepticism about the hypothesis of the effect raised our curiosity, it could be a good example of how human-computer interaction can have an fundamental effect on human communication,' Dr Garcia told MailOnline. 'We thought data from the web was a good opportunity to test the effect, and to our surprise we found evidence supporting its existence and illustrating some of its limitations.' The pair looked at millions of English-language product names and titles of books, films and video clips that appeared on 11 websites. The websites included Amazon, YouTube and Rotten Tomatoes. Dr David Garcia and Professor Markus Strohmaier wanted to see if the effect had any impact on the way we use words across the web.
China Exporting Military Drones Worth Millions Of Dollars
China exported military drones worth hundreds of millions of dollars to over 10 countries, state-run media said Thursday. The Asian powerhouse also plans to sell unmanned aircraft capable of launching laser-guided bombs. Chinese drones "have bigger payloads, which means they can carry more weapons" than their rivals, Shi Wen, chief drone designer at the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, told the China Daily newspaper. Shi did not name the countries that bought the drones, the numbers of drones sold or the exact deal value, but said that the academy's most valuable sale was worth "hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars." The report added that the drones are named Cai Hong, which means rainbow.
Drone Strikes Account For More US Military Attacks Than Conventional Warplanes
American drones fired more ammunition last year than manned warplanes for the first time, according to new data analyzed by Reuters. The news comes three years after U.S. President Barack Obama said that a drawdown of U.S. military forces after 2014 would "reduce the need for unmanned strikes." The data shows just how much American forces have come to rely on the unmanned vehicles to carry out missions in the Middle East and abroad, even while human rights organizations and some foreign governments have raised concerns over what they call an unnecessary amount of civilian casualties. "In recent months it's definitely flowed more," Lieutenant Colonel Michael Navicky, who commands the Air Force's 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, said. "We've seen increased weapons deployment in the past few months, and the demand is insatiable."