TECH & INNOVATIONResearchers at Paris's Pierre and Marie Curie University have created robots that can use experiences from simulated lives to "heal" themselves. This makes robots more autonomous, effective, and robust-and more capable of disaster relief work.
How do you enable a robotic bird to fly? You launch it off the back of a fast little roach. How do you enable a robotic bird to fly? You launch it off the back of a fast little roach.
Robots that can learn? Yes they can, at least with these new algorithms. A UC Berkeley research team has created algorithms that allow robots to use trial and error to learn motor tasks. This is a process that is much closer to the ways that humans think and learn, making it a major artificial intelligence milestone.
The man responsible for the "golden record" on Voyager now wants to beam crowdsourced data to the New Horizons probe to take with it as it leaves the solar system.
Elon Musk’s visions haven’t just changed the tech industry, they’ve changed the world and even space exploration. But a new venture and interest in batteries will mean that Tesla is expanding into the solar energy game, and Musk is offering home owners the opportunity to capitalize on the power of the Sun.
In a new collaborative study between researchers with Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University, Disney is taking the next step of endeavoring into the industry of 3D printing—and they’re planning to land with a soft fall.
The European Union's executive branch slapped the Internet tech giant Google with official antitrust charges on Wednesday, alleging that the company abuses its dominance in Internet searches. At the same time, the EU also opened a new probe into its Android mobile operating system.
Computer security researchers said they have discovered a new variation in an old vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system that cold allow hackers to steal login credentials from hundreds of millions of PCs.
Public ISPs argue that they adhere to net neutrality rules on their own and do not need the interference of the FCC. The agency, however, says that the new rules provide a means for consumers to complain about potential nefarious activities of ISPs.
The European Union is putting pressure on US tech giants such as Google, Facebook and even Apple in regards to the companies' business practices and privacy settings. According to the EU officials, the European Commission is close to formally filing antitrust charges against Google, and it is also stepping up its investigation of Facebook's privacy policies
A Chinese Internet administrator blasted Google on Thursday, after the U.S.-based tech giant decided to stop recognizing digital certificates issued by the group, following a lapse in security.
Sony's PlayStation Music platform backed by Spotify has launched for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. With the help of Spotify, Sony has been enable to bring more than 30 million songs and 1.5 billion different playlists, making it easier than ever for gamers to put a soundtrack to their gaming sessions.
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you know that Microsoft has finally realized that Internet Explorer is pretty much dead losing out to the likes of Google's Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. To that end, they have undertaken the design of a new browser, Spartan, and with it they hope to regain some of the market share they have lost over the years.
Slack Technologies is the latest company to fall victim to hackers, exposing the private information of up to 500,000 users, such as email addresses, telephone numbers, Skype IDs and any other information that its users might have entered.
Ever think that those younger doctors with their new-fangled ways aren’t nearly as good as the seasoned pros? Well while you might think that the veterans have the advantage, researchers are now saying that in the battle of old versus new it’s technique not technology that wins the race. In fact, if properly done, new techniques hold far greater possibilities for improvement than older techniques, and the new surgeons learning these techniques directly in school may be the the best adept to their correct implementation.
A startup company has developed a new 3D printing technology that uses light and oxygen to print solid objects at speeds 25 to 100 times faster than current 3D printing technology.
Though many believed that technology powerhouse Apple would prevail against what the company is calling a “patent troll”, this week Apple was ordered to pay $532.9 million in fines as a result of patent infringements. And while the petitioner, Smartflash won’t receive its full $852 million in damages, the ruling is setting a pretty hefty precedent for future lawsuits against the technological innovator.
While articles this week have pointed to the potential implications of UC Irvine’s newest research, be it in the pharmaceutical or the food industry in spite of its current limitations, now lead author Gregory Weiss is stepping up and answering the question of: Why would we want to unboil an egg?
Looking to boost the integrity of nanofilaments, important in commercial manufacturing and technology, researchers from Oxford University recently investigated how the filaments are spun in nature. Pulling inspiration from outside in their gardens, the researchers from the UK captured female Uloborus plumipes commonly known as “feather-legged lace weavers” and watched them spin their webs.
Looking just outside into their gardens for a bit of inspiration, one group of Oxford University researchers has sought out to discover how common spider species spin such long, ornate fiber while only being a few nanometers thick. Hoping to reveal nature’s secret, which may someday revolutionize the technological industry as manufacturers find new ways of commercially spinning nano-scale filaments, the researchers captured female Uloborus plumipes commonly known as “feather-legged lace weavers” and watched them spin their webs.
Google boss Eric Schmidt has predicted that the Internet will soon be so pervasive that it will become a part of every facet of our lives that soon it will effectively "disappear" into the background.
