Archive for the ‘business’ category: Page 290
Nov 30, 2015
Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone With Hybrid Design — By Drew Olanoff & Frederic Lardinois | TechCrunch
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, drones
“Amazon delivered a lovely update on its ‘Prime Air’ project today — almost exactly two years after it showed the first iteration of its drone.”
Nov 27, 2015
Stuart Russell on Why Moral Philosophy Will Be Big Business in Tech
Posted by Matthew White in categories: business, ethics, robotics/AI
Russell also signed the letter, but he says his view is less apocalyptic. He says that, until now, the field of artificial intelligence has been singularly focused on giving robots the ability to make “high-quality” decisions.
“At the moment, we don’t know how to give the robot what you might call human values,” he says.
But Russell believes that as this problem becomes clearer, it’s only natural that people will start to focus their energy on solving it.
Nov 27, 2015
Microsoft Stock Analysis
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, quantum physics, supercomputing
It seems evident that Microsoft is joining other top tech companies in betting on quantum computing with a clear business strategy in mind: to become the market leader in software development platforms for quantum computing. If quantum computers become the next supercomputing revolution in 2025, Microsoft stock will take a quantum leap.
Nov 27, 2015
Driverless cars could spell the end for domestic flights
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, robotics/AI, transportation
Self-driving cars could disrupt the airline and hotel industries within 20 years as people sleep in their vehicles on the road, according to a senior strategist at Audi.
Short-haul travel will be transformed and the hassle of getting to and from airports eliminated, said Sven Schuwirth, vice president of brand strategy and digital business at the German car brand.
Business travellers will be able to avoid taking domestic flights to meetings and will sleep and work in their cars en route instead of checking into city-centre hotels, he said.
Nov 25, 2015
‘Go’ Is the Game Machines Can’t Beat. Google’s Artificial Intelligence Whiz Hints That His Will — By Mark Bergen | Re/code
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, computing, innovation, machine learning, neuroscience, robotics/AI
“When the world’s smartest researchers train computers to become smarter, they like to use games. Go, the two-player board game born in China more than two millennia ago, remains the nut that machines still can’t crack.”
Nov 24, 2015
China to build world’s biggest animal cloning factory in Tianjin
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, business
Tianjin is building the world’s largest animal cloning factory, aiming to produce one million cattle embryos annually, state media reported yesterday.
According to a Xinhua, mainland scientists have signed a deal to establish a 200 million yuan (HK$242 million) commercial animal cloning centre in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area, a government-sponsored business development park.
Its main building was already under construction and due to be completed by June next year, the report said. Among the animals it will clone are sniffer and pet dogs, high-grade beef cattle, racehorses and “non-human primates”. These animals will be used for commercial services and improving breeds.
Nov 23, 2015
Google Glass Successor Dumps Some Glass — By Jessica E. Lessin | The Information
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: augmented reality, business, wearables
“We’ve learned that Google’s revamped Google Glass project, dubbed Project Aura, is working on a wearable with a screen—and at least one without.”
Nov 20, 2015
Medical robots – the future of surgery?
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: biotech/medical, business, robotics/AI
For some people the idea of being operated on by a robot might sound horrifying, particularly if there isn’t even a doctor in the room to check that everything is running smoothly. Surgery is in any case a risky business that few would undertake willingly if it wasn’t absolutely necessary, and it seems unlikely that the spectacle of an enormous machine with mechanical arms attached to surgical scalpels would reassure anyone about having to undergo an operation. However, the use of robotic surgery has spread rapidly in recent years and for some types of operations it is becoming the standard. While there is a lot of controversy surrounding the topic, many doctors see surgical robots as a vital tool to provide better medical care and lower the risks associated with surgery.
History of robotic surgery
The roots of robotic surgery go back to the mid-1980s, when a robotic surgical arm was first used to perform a neurosurgical biopsy. Two years later, the first robot-assisted laparoscopic (i.e. keyhole) operation was conducted, a cholecystectomy. The following years saw continued advances in the area of robotic surgery, which was used for a growing range of surgical procedures. One of the earliest robotic surgical systems to enter into general use was the ROBODOC system, which came on the market in the early 1990s and allowed surgeons conducting hip replacements to mill the femur with more precision that would have been conventionally possible.
