Archives for November, 2018 - Page 16
Facial recognition technology, which is widely used by law enforcement agencies, has amassed its fair share of controversies internationally. From Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft, leading tech giants have come under the scanner because the facial recognition they sold to the law enforcement agencies was allegedly used to track users. These big tech corporations apply computer…
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Trailers have transitioned from being played after the movie to being tailored as a teaser releasing one year before the main film hits the theatres. The core of this transition relied heavily on customer behaviour just like any other business venture. Film-makers condense the full-length feature into a 2-minute trailer which displays probable awe-inducing scenes…
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China’s press agency Xinhua becomes the first one to reveal the world’s first AI news anchor, in collaboration with a Beijing-based search engine company called Sogou, in the fifth World Internet Conference held in China on Wednesday. The AI anchor looks like a male human and has the voice that sounds like a professional male…
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At a time when automotive manufacturers are exploring autonomous technology, Nissan is taking brain-computer interface forward with its brain-to-vehicle (B2V) technology. This cutting-edge automation enables drivers to control their cars using their thoughts. Showcased at the CES trade show in Las Vegas in January this year, this technology decodes the driver’s brainwave activity through a…
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There are numerous open source tools available in the market for network analysis such as NetworkX, iGraph packages in R and Gephi, among others. Of all the tools, Gephi, is considered the most recommended tool which can help one visualise over 100,000 nodes easily. Other free tools include Social Networks Visualizer and NodeXL, which are…
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Brain-to-brain interaction has been an idea of science fiction for a lot of years. For example, in X-Men comics Charles Xavier uses the Cerebro to find mutants; and Dr Will Caster works on a human to computer interface in the movie Transcendence. But now, the brain-to-brain interface is becoming a concept in the real world.…
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Unlocking The Brain Most of today’s crucial machine learning algorithms have come from research into neuroscience. A recent study showed that hippocampus, a vital part of the brain is responsible for the replays of those experiences during rest and sleep. This offline repetition grants brain to learn afresh from successes or failures that happened in…
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In the early 1960s, AI pioneer Herbert Simon observed that in a span of two decades, machines will match the cognitive abilities of humankind. Predictions like these motivated theorists, sceptics and thinkers from a cross-section of domains to find ways to use computers to perform routine tasks. From Heron’s Automatons in the first century to…
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Has the rise of containers and microservices challenged the dominance of Hadoop and other big data platform players? The shift to containers has clearly turned the virtualisation landscape on its head. Now, leading cloud majors are providing a range of big data services with or without Hadoop. By embracing containers, organisations are taking a crucial…
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Big Data has seen a swift rise in China with Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou, becoming the pilot zone for Big Data. Since gaining popularity in the country, it has seen wide applications in government management, business and daily life. In fact, there are reports of a new direct air link (flight) between Guiyang and Bengaluru, India’s Silicon…
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