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…
MIT’s Cilllia makes 3D Printing of Hair easy
These days, it may seem as if 3-D printers can spit out just about anything, from a full-sized sports car, to edible food, to human skin. But some things have defied the…
IBM Watson-powered “Olli” is unveiled in Washington DC. Olli is a 3D-printed minibus
Local Motors is the leading vehicle technology integrator and creator of the world’s first 3D-printed cars. It has introduced the first self-driving vehicle to integrate the advanced cognitive computing capabilities of IBM…
Twitter has acquired Magic Pony Technology
Twitter has acquired a London-based technology company ” Magic Pony Technology ” that has developed novel machine learning techniques for visual processing. “Magic Pony’s technology – based on research by the team…
Grandma’s super-polite Google Search goes viral
An 86-year-old grandmother’s extremely polite use of Google’s search engine has gone viral. John told the BBC that he came across the search when he was at the home of his 86-year-old…