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Apple Inc. has never publicly admitted to running Project Titan, it’s smart car initiative to bring fully autonomous driving to the world. In other words, a self-driving car. But haven’t several other companies already launched similar projects, you ask? Yes, they have, but none of them have been as secretive as Apple has. In many…
Where Google failed to take the lead in augmented reality hardware with their Google Glass project, other players in the market are picking up where they left off. Microsoft, Facebook and even Google are still in the game, but it now has a new entrant – SnapChat. SnapChat is a social media application where users…
In 2014, Stanford University put together a panel of brilliant minds from academia and industry to do a One Hundred Year Study on the progress of artificial intelligence and how it will impact our daily lives. They have now reported their findings over the past two years. The report is bone dry and boring as heck,…
The day when we’ll be sitting at the wheel of a car traveling at 100 miles per hour and responding to our work emails on an iPad may be a few years away yet, but Microsoft and Mercedes are creating something that will allow you to be more productive while you drive. What Does “In Car…
There has been a torrent of bad news streaming from Alphabet in the past few weeks, making it clear that the company that has always looked like many different companies under one umbrella is finally making an attempt to get its house in order. It is not that many things were wrong under Alphabet, Google’s…
Today’s cars are getting smarter by the year. With internet connectivity coming standard on most new vehicles, several automakers and technology companies are entering this niche market to provide on-board infotainment, mapping and other applications. The hardware is already built into many cars, but it’s the integration with smartphones that makes this an extremely useful…
What if your car were a WiFi hotspot and you could use it to access the Internet from any device no matter where you are? Wouldn’t that be super-convenient? That will soon be possible with Tesla’s Model S and Model X electric vehicles. Tesla already owns the tech – the chip and module set – that…
Hot on the heels of confirmed reports that China is getting ready to equip cruise missiles with artificial intelligence targeting capability, a “summer study” on autonomy done by the Defense Science Board shows that the U.S. has already been thinking of weaponizing artificial intelligence. The DSB is a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of…
For the first time in the world (or outside it) space scientists will have help from artificial intelligence. Mars rover Curiosity, which landed in Mars slightly over four years ago on August 6, 2012, has been sending valuable data from the planet’s surface since then. Until now, the selection of soil and rocks for being…
It’s not easy being a leader in your field. No matter what you do, there will be critics and, worse, enemies. Tesla is familiar to criticism, but they may also need to get used to legal action against them because of the Autopilot function on the recent Model S crash. In what seems to be…
Imagine breaking into an elite circle of technology giants and announcing that you’re going to be the first company to introduce a fleet of self-driving cars in the United States. Well, Uber has just done that with its announcement that car-hailing service users will soon be able to call a driverless cab in the city of…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly making a shift from the research and development stage to touching our lives wherever we go. With so many applications to choose from, it can get confusing as to what exactly artificial intelligence will be able to do over the next five to ten years. Here’s a glimpse of the…
In an extremely generous gesture, gaming chipmaker Nvidia donated a supercomputer to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s pet project, OpenAI. The computer, called the DGX-1, literally has the power of “250 servers in a box”, giving it the capability required to compute the complex algorithms involved in artificial intelligence projects. According to Fortune, Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun…
According to Maximilian Doemling, who is BMW’s senior manager for “highly automated driving”, the German carmaker will be launching its own fleet of self-driving cars in China in the next five years. The move seems to be a peer-pressure reaction to the feverish activities that are being conducted by companies like Apple (iCar), Google, Tesla, Ford, General Motors…
In a definitive “world’s first” achievement, Maryland-based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Local Motors teams up with IBM Watson Internet of Things to offer a first of its kind experience to residents of National Harbor, MD. Dubbed Olli, the vehicle is the first EV – or any kind of vehicle, for that matter – that has…
