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Should we use smartphone apps to treat depression and anxiety?

Posted in Medicine on 14th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

Researchers have looked to gain some concrete information as to how helpful an app can be for patients tackling anxiety and/or depression.

These Five Exponential Trends Are Accelerating Robotics

Posted in Hardware on 12th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

Five exponential trends are shaping and accelerating the future of the robotics industry.

One Million virtual reality fans use Samsung's Gear VR

Posted in Business on 12th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

We've yet to see similar acceptance for Oculus's flagship VR headset: the Oculus Rift. Its high price along with shipment problems may offer more friction in terms of adoption.

Artificial intelligence course creates AI teaching assistant

Posted in Online on 10th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

Jill Watson is a virtual teaching assistant. She was one of nine teaching assistants in an AI online course. And none of the students guessed she wasn't a human.

Viv: The a next generation AI assistant

Posted in Business on 10th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

The real secret sauce of Viv is 'dynamic program generation' which allows the AI assistant to understand intent and generate a program itself to best answer the query.