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Theres a lot of money up for grabs if you can land (softly) on the moon

Posted in Science on 16th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

Googles Lunar XPrize just announced new prizes.

Why GE's use of Google Glass marks a turning point for AR

Posted in Business on 15th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

By exploiting the new enterprise edition of Google Glass and AR software from Upskill, GE Aviation shows how AR is changing the factory floor.

DeepMind AI teaches itself about the world by watching videos

Posted in Software on 12th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

DeepMind has developed an AI that teaches itself to recognise a range of visual and audio concepts just by watching tiny snippets of video.

Facebook and Google had 99% of online ad growth

Posted in Business on 28th Jul, 2017
by Alex Muller

Facebooks and Alphabet Inc.s Google took 99% of the online ad industrys growth last year, according to Pivotal Research.

Google Cloud gets a new networking algorithm that boosts internet throughput

Posted in Online on 22nd Jul, 2017
by Alex Muller

The general idea here is to improve on the existing congestion-control algorithms for internet traffic, which have been around since the 1980s.