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Swipebuster: New website lets you check whether someone is using Tinder

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


Humanity Needs Universal Basic Income in Order to Stop Impeding Progress

Huffington Post - Tech news and opinion

I believe Richard Feynman was one of our greatest scientific minds. He had a very particular way of looking at the world thanks to his father, and it was to look at the world around him as if he were a Martian. Like a fish born into water, it's hard to actually see water as being water, because it's all a fish ever knows. And so as humans, it's a good idea to try and step outside of our usual frame of mind, to see what it is we as humans think and do, from the perspective of a mind totally alien to our everyday environment. With that in mind, here's what humans are doing right now, from the perspective of someone from far, far away... What an interesting place and an interesting time it is for a visit.


The car that fixes ITSELF: Hyundai concept vehicle spots faults and repairs them before the driver even knows there was a problem

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Trips to the mechanics can be intimidating and often expensive for those unfamiliar with what's under their car's hood. But vehicles of the future could detect maintenance issues and fix them before they become a problem, potentially putting mechanics out of work. Hyundai is working on a'smart maintenance service' that it claims will'remotely diagnose and fix vehicle issues before they become apparent.' Cars of the future could detect maintenance issues and fix them before they become a problem, potentially putting mechanics out of work. However, no more details have been revealed and MailOnline has asked the firm to clarify.


Woman with 1 arm becomes competitive rock climber - High school students design prosthetic leg for dog

FOX News

Sianagh Gallagher of York was born without a left arm, shoulder blade or collarbone -- but that didn't stop her from taking up rock-climbing nine years ago, and becoming the captain of her country's paraclimbing team. "Growing up with my disability never really held me back from doing anything. If anything, I was more determined to get things done and prove myself to people," Gallagher, 19, told Barcroft Media. Gallagher -- Europe's lone paraclimber -- struggled to learn how to tie her shoes and peel an egg, but was at ease working her way to the top of a rock wall. "It was the first time I'd been really good at a sport," she said.


HTC Vive: Virtual reality headset finally delivered to customers

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence - DATAVERSITY

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The roots of modern Artificial Intelligence, or AI, can be traced back to the classical philosophers of Greece, and their efforts to model human thinking as a system of symbols. More recently, in the 1940s, a school of thought called "Connectionism" was developed to study the process of thinking. In 1950, a man named Alan Turing wrote a paper suggesting how to test a "thinking" machine. He believed if a machine could carry on a conversation by way of a teleprinter, imitating a human with no noticeable differences, the machine could be described as thinking. His paper was followed in 1952 by the Hodgkin-Huxley model of the brain as neurons forming an electrical network, with individual neurons firing in all-or-nothing (on/off) pulses.


Deep Learning in Healthcare Summit

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Confirm your place early to avoid disappointment. For enquiries on Startup/Academic ticket availability and eligibility please contact: pcurtis@re-work.co Student/Academic passes are only available to those in full-time positions. Current Student/Academic ID must be shown at registration. Startups must be less than 3 years old and have raised less than 3m in funding.


The Promise of Total Automation

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Cécile B. Evans, How happy a Thing Can Be, 2014. The word'automation' is appearing in places that would have seemed unlikely to most people less than a decade ago: journalism, art, design or law. Robots and algorithms are being increasingly convincing at doing things just like humans. The Promise of Total Automation, an exhibition recently opened at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, looks at our troubled relationship with machines. Technical devices that were originally designed to serve and assist us and are now getting smarter and harder to control and comprehend.


Money 20/20 Europe: Data scientists are farmers and machine learning is statistics on steroids

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Data scientists can provide firms with access to a magical world of machine learning and all that it promises. This question was posed to a panel of experts in the field at Money 20/20 Europe in Copenhagen. Jay van Zyle of Innosect, moderating, asked if a data scientist is now just a computer person that went on a statistics course, or conversely, a stats person that went on a computer programming course? Or is it entirely a new discipline? Marco Bressan, chief data scientist, BBVA provided an elegant analogy to illustrate the plight of the data scientist: "One simple way is to look at data scientists doing machine learning as farmers. While traditional software developers you could look at more like manufacturers. "Traditional software developers would put modules together, and that would come out one machine.


Convoy of the future

FOX News

Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler is sending a convoy of three autonomous big rigs from its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, to Rotterdam, Holland, as part of the European Union-sponsored European Truck Platooning Challenge of 2016. Based on the series-produced Actros model, the three trucks are equipped with Mercedes' Highway Pilot Connect software, which relies on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology to let the rigs travel in what Daimler calls a platoon. Data about the road ahead gathered by the lead truck is constantly transferred to the two other trucks via a Wi-Fi connection, so each vehicle knows precisely when to accelerate, when to brake, and when to turn without requiring any human input. However, the driver must remain alert and focused on the road ahead. The trucks in the platoon follow each other in 50-foot intervals, which boosts gas mileage by up to ten percent by reducing drag.