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Larry Page, co-founder of Google and CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, promised in his annual shareholder's letter that there would be exciting things happening with Project Wing this year. Project Wing is the company's drone delivery project.
Larry Page, cofounder of Google and CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, promised in his annual shareholder's letter that there would be exciting things happening with Project Wing this year. Project Wing is the company's drone delivery project.
As machine learning and robotics improve in the coming decades, hundreds of millions of jobs are likely to disappear, disrupting the economies and trade networks of the entire world. The Industrial Revolution created the urban working class, and much of the social and political history of the 20th century revolved around its problems.
A subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company filed a patent February for a "huggable," "soft body," robot in hopes of eventually introducing a family-friendly therapeutic robot into the market. The inventors of Disney Enterprises say there is a "need for robots that can safely interact with humans, and, particularly, with children," because other designs do not account for comfortability and direct human contact, according to the official filing.
The military has always been at the cutting edge of technology, so it should come as no surprise that the most advanced robots in the world are being built with military applications in mind. While the thought of autonomous machines carrying heavy armaments might make people a bit nervous, they have the potential to dramatically reduce loss of life, allowing soldiers to safely scout locations or breach enemy locations.
A New Jersey startup called Bowery grows leafy greens stacked in columns five high under the watchful eyes of an AI system . The operation, which officially launched last week , uses 95 percent less water than traditional methods and is 100 times more productive on the same footprint of land, according to the company.
Self-driving vehicles could begin tooling down a bustling Atlanta street full of cars, buses, bicyclists and college students, as the city vies with other communities nationwide to test the emerging technology. Atlanta would become one of the largest urban areas for testing self-driving vehicles if plans come together for a demonstration as early as September.
Nisha Gopalan is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering deals and banking. She previously worked for the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones as an editor and a reporter.
Samantha Bee makes one final push for 'Queen' Hillary Rodham Bee isn't voting for Hillary Clinton. She's voting for "Hillary ... Queen BeyoncA Rodham."
A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft leaves a heliport in an artist's rendition released by ride-sharing company Uber in San Francisco, California, US October 27 2016. Photo: Reuters Flying commuters like George Jetson could be whizzing to work through the sky less than 10 years from now, according to ride-services provider Uber, which believes the future of transportation is literally looking up.
Americans face daunting challenges beyond the apparent grasp of the principal contenders for president. Rekindling growth and creating enough good-paying jobs will require wholly rethinking how we educate and socialize young people for work.
Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve have pronounced 2 percent annual economic growth - perhaps a bit less - the new normal. Factoring in labor force growth that implies 1 percent growth for productivity and pre-tax wages, hardly anyone is average these days.
Werner Herzog's new documentary, Lo and Behold , Reveries of a Connected World , begins with religion and never really leaves it behind. As the film opens we are ushered down a hall at UCLA by Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist, on our way to seeing the first computer to communicate over the internet.
The Donald Trump campaign has eagerly leaped on Hillary Clinton 's "short-circuit" comment with a bizarre new "Robot Hillary" ad. One of the criticisms leveled at Clinton from both the left and the right for years has been that she's too robotic and calculating, and that above remark seemed too perfect for critics.
A black Army veteran upset about fatal police shootings of black men and bent on exterminating white police officers killed five lawmen in a sniper attack that layered new anxiety onto a nation already divided... A black Army veteran upset about fatal police shootings of black men and bent on exterminating white police officers killed five lawmen in a sniper attack that layered new anxiety onto a nation already divided about guns... By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BREE FOWLER AP Technology Writers When Dallas police used a bomb-carrying robot to kill a sniper, they also kicked off an ethical debate about technology's use as a... By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BREE FOWLER AP Technology Writers When Dallas police used a bomb-carrying robot to kill a sniper, they also kicked off an ethical debate about technology's use as a... Friends and family of a black Army veteran accused of shooting at passing cars ... (more)
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