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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop idea could be coming to Moscow
Los Angeles-based startup Hyperloop One has reached a deal with the city of Moscow that could bring the high-tech transit concept to the Russian capital, and at least one Russian industrialist hopes that the experimental technology will play a major role in current efforts to re-establish the ancient Silk Road that transported goods between China and Europe. “Hyperloop” ...
Sony agrees to multi-million dollar settlement for ditching Linux on PS3
Sony Corp has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement that will finally put to rest its long battle over a little-used feature on early PlayStation 3 consoles called OtherOS. While the PlayStation 3 had its own custom operating system developed by Sony, early editions of the console also included an obscure feature called OtherOS, which allowed ...
Reddit sleuthing worked for once with arrest of national park vandal
Nothing gets the Reddit community excited more than a good old-fashioned witch hunt, and the members of the social sharing site recently managed to get it right for once, leading to the arrest and conviction of a vandal who had been defacing multiple US national parks with graffiti. According to The Guardian, 23-year-old Casey Nocket has received two years ...
Tumblr’s live video feature integrates with YouTube, YouNow, and more
Yesterday, Yahoo, Inc.-owned social blogging site Tumblr teased that it would be unveiling a new live video feature this week, and today that feature has arrived with a few unexpected surprises. When Tumblr said it would be offering live video, the obvious prediction would be that it would go down the route of Facebook Live ...
Machine learning leads the pack in AI research and dollars
It is no secret that artificial intelligence is one of the hottest tech trends of today, but there is a wide range of research fields that falls under the umbrella of AI. According to data from Venture Scanner, machine learning research is the clear leader in the industry by a wide margin, despite the fact ...
Trapit launches account-based social selling tool powered by AI
It has been more than a year since content discovery tool Trapit pivoted into an AI-powered social selling platform, and today the company has launched a new service that it says will allow salespeople to directly engage with prospective customers from the top of the sales funnel to the bottom. With over 1.09 billion daily users ...
Facebook’s long-term plan includes getting everyone online
It is probably obvious by now that social media is more than a short-term fad, and no company has proven that fact better than Facebook, which boasts a daily user base of more than 1.09 billion people on its core platform alone. When you add in its other services like Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook seems ...
Tumblr is set to launch a live video service this week
It seems like everyone in the tech industry is jumping on the live video streaming bandwagon, which already includes major companies like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Google. Now it looks like Yahoo, Inc. wants to be part of the cool crowd too, as its microblog platform Tumblr is set to launch its own live video ...
Musk’s OpenAI plans on building a household robot and AI agent
OpenAI, the opensource, non-profit artificial intelligence research firm founded by Elon Musk, has outlined some of its future goals, which include building both a household robot and an ultra-smart AI agent. “OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible,” OpenAI said in a blog ...
Jeff Bezos: The government should offer “a very large prize to whoever first brings back some Mars samples”
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is no longer the highly funded juggernaut that it was in the 1960s, and these days private companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are becoming more and more important in the development of spacefaring technology. According to Bezos, this can actually be a good ...