Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk is talking to Israel about tunnels provided by the Boring Company. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed his government was in talks with Elon Musk about tapping into Boring’s tunneling solutions to address infrastructure concerns. Israel has traffic congestion problems. Netanyahu appears to have just won a close election in …
Next-generation supercomputing capability promises major discoveries, scientific advancements, and new applications in research By Rob Johnson “Exascale systems are the fastest computers humans have ever built. Because of that, we will soon attack extremely complex problems not possible before,” said Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director for computing, environment and life sciences at Argonne National Laboratory …
Billboards seem to have been around forever. Putting forward their offering for anyone passing to see. When they were invented they almost reigned supreme. They were big, they were noticeable and they got the message out there. Now, with smartphones and other technologies capturing attention, static billboards tend to merge into the background unnoticed. With …
Laoyaoba reports that Tesla production equipment will be installed in the Shanghai Gigafactory in May 2019. Some Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory production lines will be start mass-production by the end of 2019. This is reported from statements made at a Tuesday meeting with Tesla President of Automotive Jerome Guillen and Shanghai Deputy Mayor Wu Qing. They …
Russian defense manufacturer JSC Almaz Antey has patented a drone armed with a shotgun. Over 6 years ago, there is a video of a drone armed with a recoiless AA-12 automatic shotgun. SOURCES- Foxtrot Alpha, Youtube Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. …
Tesla Autopilot recognizes lanes and assists control by identifying road traffic markings. Tencent Keen Labs proved that by placing interference stickers on the road, the Autopilot system will capture this information and make an abnormal judgment, which causes the vehicle to enter into the reverse lane. Tesla stated “a driver can easily override Autopilot at …
Elon Musk tweeted pictures of a Tesla Semi delivering Tesla passenger electric cars. The Tesla Semi was not expected to be in full production until 2020. However, it appears that Tesla will be using a few dozen of the Tesla Semi’s and could start delivering some pre-order Semi trucks in 2019. Tesla will start making …
Breakthroughs in deep learning are inspiring the evolution of AI. But will this “deep learning + X” model drive AI to its fullest potential? While problem solving with more data and deeper models has a place in AI’s evolution, not every problem can be solved by this model. Samsung NEXT not only enables “deep learning …
Dmitri Dolgov is the CTO and VP of Engineering, Waymo. Dmitri briefly reviewed the self-driving car work ten to 15 years ago from the DARPA grand challenge to today. They initially chose 10 driving routes and driving about 100,000 miles to teach and test its AI to get to the point of a workable prototype. …
Researchers have used an ensemble of NV− centers in diamond for implementing different types of quantum heat engines. They have used these to demonstrate the equivalence of the power output of two different engine types, continuous and two-stroke, for small actions. Additionally, they have shown that, for very small actions, the engines produce more power …
Sergey Levines is anAssistant Professor, UC BerkeleyRobots That Learn by Doing Sergey is talking about reinforcement learning. Robots can keep learning from its environment with reinforcement learning. We need algorithms for scalable off-policy reinforcement learning. Sergey has examples of a robot teaching itself how to walk forward in about one hour. Robots were able to …