Research at Purdue University funded through a National Science Foundation grant has led to development of a new kind of toy-building kit that allows children to create robots and control them remotely like a puppeteer. The new kit, called Ziro, was developed in research led by Karthik Ramani, the Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and co-founder and chief scientist of the company ZeroUI, with locations at the Purdue Research Park and in San Jose, California. Ziro is the first commercial application of ZeroUI's gesture-based Natural User Interface technology platform. Sensors in a "smart glove" communicate with wireless motorized modules, enabling users to direct the robotic creations with the lift of a finger or flick of a wrist in real-time. Research funding was provided as part of the NSF grant to both the university as well as through the Small Business Innovation Research program, designed to move innovations from discovery to commercialization. The NSF is nurturing a national innovation ecosystem through development of technologies, products and processes that benefit society.

Prince performs during the halftime show of the NFL's Super Bowl XLI football game between the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts in Miami, Florida, on Feb. 4, 2007. Celebrities and musical artists spoke out online Thursday to pay tribute to musical icon Prince, calling the singer and multi-instrumentalist a "musical genius," "a visionary musician and artist" and "a true legend." The singer's publicist Yvette Nelson-Schure told the Associated Press that Prince died at his suburban Minneapolis home Thursday. Many expressed admiration for Prince's musical abilities and his legacy as an artist. He was a true legend and a musical genius!

Welcome to the 10th part of our of our machine learning regression tutorial within our Machine Learning with Python tutorial series. We've just recently finished creating a working linear regression model, and now we're curious what is next. Right now, we can easily look at the data, and decide how "accurate" the regression line is to some degree. What happens, however, when your linear regression model is applied within 20 hierarchical layers in a neural network? Not only this, but your model works in steps, or windows, of say 100 data points at a time, within a dataset of 5 million datapoints.

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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.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 28, 2016) - Umbo CV, an artificial intelligence start-up and provider of event recognition systems that think and learn like humans for the professional security industry, announced that it completed a 2.8 million round of seed funding led by AppWorks Ventures. Also participating were Mesh Ventures, Fortune Global 500 Wistron Corp. and Phison Electronics. Up to now, the security industry has grappled with ways to receive real-time notifications of intruders or incidents, having tested pre-defined algorithms-based systems that failed. Umbo CV aims to solve this problem. The company has developed algorithms to link images from multiple cameras, thus giving machines a more in-depth understanding of real-time occurrences.

'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.

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

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

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