Pokémon Go is a location-based augmented reality mobile game developed by Niantic. It was initially released this month i-e in July 2016 for iOS and Android devices, starting with the US and…
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New computer program “Sketch-a-Net” recognises Sketches more accurately than a Human
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have built the first computer program that can recognise hand-drawn sketches better than humans. Known as Sketch-a-Net, the program is capable of correctly identifying…
The switch that could double USB memory
Scientists at Hokkaido University have developed a device that employs both magnetic and electronic signals, which could provide twice the storage capacity of conventional memory devices, such as USB flash drives.
A Shampoo Bottle that Empties Completely – Every Last Drop
It’s one of life’s little annoyances: that last bit of shampoo that won’t quite pour out of the bottle. Or the last bit of hand soap, or dish soap, or laundry detergent….
MIT’s Swarm Architecture makes Parallel Programming Faster and Easier
Computer chips have stopped getting faster. For the past 10 years, chips’ performance improvements have come from the addition of processing units known as cores. In theory, a program on a 64-core…