Antarctica has shed an iceberg that’s big enough to fill Lake Michigan. It weighs about 1 trillion metric tonnes. It may be the third-largest iceberg recorded since satellites began taking photos of Earth. Human activity likely isn’t responsible for this event,…
Alphabet — Google’s parent company — has an artificial intelligence company, called DeepMind. The company has developed an AI that has managed to learn how to walk, run, jump, and climb without any prior guidance. The result is as impressive…
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University warned President Trump to stop blocking Twitter users. The freedom of speech organization sent the president a letter last month arguing that when Twitter is used by a President, it operates as…
If you have been around algorithmic trading for a while you have probably heard some version of the “switch” concept. This is one of the holy grails of systematic trading, describing an ability to be able to change the way…
The new Audi A8 revealed by the automaker today features a new level of self-driving for production vehicles – Level 3 autonomy, which actually allows drivers to stop monitoring the vehicle under certain conditions – and where allowed by law…
Brain training apps such as Lumosity and Elevate are supposedly useful in order to keep your cognitive skills sharp, but there’s been quite a bit of doubt cast on whether they are actually useful. Now, scientists led by University of…
Open-source software isn’t so much built, it grows. And today, the open-source blockchain consortium Hyperledger has announced that its first production-ready solution for building applications, Fabric, has finished that process. But even before the formal release of Fabric 1.0 today, hundreds of…
Image: Wikipedia In the same hotel where Alexander Graham Bell once demoed coast-to-coast telephone calls, Microsoft will announce plans for a new white space internet service on Tuesday. This ludicrous technology sends broadband internet wirelessly over the unused channels of…
Monday night marked the beginning of Amazon Prime Day, a day-long sales event in which Amazon advertises a steady stream of special offers to members of its Prime subscription service. The event lasts through Tuesday, and, if history is any…
The rapid rise in popularity of voice-activated virtual assistants—artificial intelligence (AI) devices such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home—is significantly influencing consumer behavior, according to a study by Toluna. The real-time digital consumer insights company conducted a survey of more…