Researchers at Princeton and the University of Washington have developed an ultracompact camera the size of a grain of salt. The camera can capture 720x720 images in full color and wavelengths between 400 and 700 nm, similar to regular camera lens setups that are up to 500,000 times larger....
Google's parent company Alphabet has deployed more than 100 autonomous robots [https://x.company/blog/posts/everyday-robots/] around its offices to do cleaning and run other errands. The robots were developed by Alphabet’s Everyday Robots [https://x.company/projects/everyday-robots/], a venture in the company’s experimental X division....
The province of Henan in China is building a surveillance system to detect journalists and other “people of concern,” according to documents reviewed by BBC News [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59441379]. The system will use a 3,000 facial camera recognition grid linked to various national and regional databases...
Researchers at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila) in Quebec have developed an AI-driven tool, “This Climate Does Not Exist,” that can visualize the future impacts of climate change anywhere on the planet. The tool uses a machine learning (ML) framework called generative adversarial networks (GANs) to re-create Google...
It’s the 40th anniversary of The Rolling Stones’ 1981 album “Tattoo You,” and Boston Dynamics is celebrating it with a new video of their robodog Spot dancing and lip-syncing to “Start Me Up.” These days, when it’s not practicing its dancing skills, Spot can be found working as...
During a recent interview with CNBC, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that the global chip shortage would continue until at least 2023. Gelsinger noted that the ongoing chip crisis affected Intel’s PC business in Q3 of 2021 and that while every quarter is getting incrementally better, the industry won’...
