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Apple using former Blackberry engineers in Canada to develop self-driving car systems
Apple Inc. is working on an operating system for a self-driving car with the help of a new set of Canadian engineers, according to a recent Bloomberg report. The recently hired engineers previously worked at BlackBerry Ltd. and are presently still working on home turf in a suburb close to the capital city of Ottawa. The ...
Twitter’s woes continue as report says 300+ staff about to be laid off
Twitter Inc. may lay off as many as 300 people this week in the wake of a failed attempt to find a buyer, according to a new report. The job cuts were reported by Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources. The social media platform will lose around 8 percent of its total workforce of 3,860 employees, almost ...
This AI predicts the outcome of human rights trials
An artificial intelligence system has already successfully predicted the outcome of hundreds of cases at the European Court of Human Rights, according to rsearchers from the University College London and the universities of Sheffield and Pennsylvania who developed it. According to reports, the AI “judge” examined data sets for 584 cases, with all cases either ...
Mark Zuckerberg fires back at critics opposing Peter Thiel’s Trump support
“We care deeply about diversity,” wrote Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (above) in what is believed to be an internal Facebook post to employees. Zuckerberg was addressing criticism aimed at Facebook for its board member, Peter Thiel’s $1.25 million donation to Republican candidate Donald Trump. The donation caused a stir of grievance in what seems ...
Bill Gates, Tim Cook targeted by Clinton campaign as potential running mates
A WikiLeaks email dump has revealed that two of tech’s biggest names, CEO of Apple Inc. Tim Cook and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, were part of list made-up of 39 people viewed as potential running mates for Hillary Clinton. The list was compiled by Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta. Podesta had arranged the list into what ...
A future of ad drones could be annoying – and effective
There has been much speculation over the possibility of a near future in which drones zipping around above heads in all directions becomes normal, whether it’s the burrito dropping drone earlier this year or CNN’s recent mission to see how useful news gathering drones could be. But it’s Uber Technologies Inc. that now has showcased a use of drones that ...
Interfacing machines with the human brain: Paralyzed man has sense of touch again
It was more than decade ago that Nathan Copeland had the experience of touching something with his hands. Following a catastrophic car crash that injured his spinal cord, Copeland was paralyzed and lost all feeling in his fingers. Now, thanks to medical breakthroughs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, he can feel again. Reported ...
Barack Obama on artificial ‘white male’ intelligence and the kinks that make us human
U.S. President Barack Obama is no stranger to artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies despite not being known for his interest in computer technology. The President reportedly just got rid of his Blackberry, and the world seemed mightily surprised the day he was photographed donning a virtual reality headset. Nonetheless, earlier this year Obama showed some tech ...
Police using surveillance tool on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
Social media analytics platform Geofeedia had been feeding information from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to law enforcement, according to a report just released by the American Civil Liberties Union. Once the ACLU announced its findings, the social media giants were reported to have severed ties with Geofeedia, although in another report ACLU states that police are using ...
The technology that brought a dead friend back from the grave
Arguably the creepiest installment of the outstanding, tech-influenced horror series, “Black Mirror“, is the episode in which a grief stricken woman brings her boyfriend back from dead. “I’ll Be Right Back” and the entire “Black Mirror” series – a new U.S. version of which is coming to Netflix very soon – takes emerging computer technology ...
