Apple is buying a Seattle-area startup to get smarter about artificial intelligence
With artificial intelligence clearly the next big thing for the giants of tech, Apple is buying a Seattle machine learning startup. The company confirmed to Recode it is buying Turi, which earlier in life was known as both GraphLab and Dato, It grew out of the GraphLab open-source project, which companies such as Pandora used to power recommendations. Carlos Guestrin Carlos Guestrin "Apple buys smaller companies from time to time and we generally do not discuss our purposes or plans,"..>> view originalHow do sunflowers follow the sun's path? A circadian clock revealed.
True to their name, young sunflowers greet the sun each morning with their heads turned east to catch its rays. Throughout the day, they follow its movement until the sun sets in the west at night, and the cycle begins again.But just how sunflowers can do that has long been a mystery – until now. According to a new study published in the journal Science, the heliotropic sunflower uses both circadian rhythms and heliotropism (bending and turning toward the light) to enhance its performance in th..>> view originalGoogle's Self-Driving Car Leader Exits
The face of the Google self-driving car effort has left the project at a crucial juncture as the company tries to transition its driverless-car technology into a commercial product. Chris Urmson, the project’s chief technology officer and former director, said in a blog post Friday that he was leaving Google parent Alphabet Inc. and was “ready for a fresh challenge.” He gave no clear reason for his departure nor hint of his...>> view originalSnapchat's biggest threat is its own design
With the introduction of Instagram stories this week, the internet had a collective conniption fit over the cloning of one of Snapchat’s most popular features. Now, in addition to posting a pristine filtered photo to your Instagram timeline, you also can snap a rough selfie, doodle over it, and watch it disappear after 24 hours. Instagram didn’t even bother to alter the name, and its CEO doesn’t seem embarrassed about it. "You’re going to see stories pop up in other networks over time, because ..>> view originalWhat to do about toxic waste buried in Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps
Climate change is bringing a lot of first-time environmental challenges, as well as many unprecedented political challenges. And one such climate change challenge could be particularly political.Greenland's ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, this significant snow and ice loss could cause buried toxic waste to resurface unexpectedly.Camp Century was a US military base built on and under the Greenland ice..>> view originalMicrosoft: Two Windows 10 feature updates coming in 2017
While a number of us Microsoft watchers have been saying for a while that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update would be Microsoft's only feature update to Windows 10 in 2016, now Microsoft officials are acknowledging the same. In a recent TechNet article itemizing new IT pro features for the Anniversary Update (codenamed "Redstone 1"), Microsoft officials included this line:"Windows 10, version 1607 is our third Windows 10 feature update released. Based on feedback from organizations moving to W..>> view originalNew particle hopes fade as LHC data 'bump' disappears
Media captionDisappointment: Cern's Dr Marco Delmastro speaks to Horizon on BBC2 Hopes for the imminent discovery of a particle that might fundamentally change our understanding of the Universe have been put on hold. Results from the Large Hadron Collider show that a "bump" in the machine's data, previously rumoured to represent a new particle, has gone away.The discovery of new particles, which could trigger a paradigm shift in physics, may still be years away.All the latest LHC results ar..>> view original
Monday, August 8, 2016
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