Two dancers performing on a stage.png Damien Henry Technical Program Manager, Google Arts & Culture Published Nov 22, 2019 At the Google Arts & Culture Lab in Paris, we’re all about exploring the relationship between art and technology. Since 2012, we’ve worked with artists and creators from many fields, developing experiments that let you design…
Splice is blowing up like a hit song. The audio sample marketplace has doubled revenue and user count in a year, and now reaches 3 million musicians. Many pay $7.99 for unlimited access, and 70% of subscribers visit weekly to hunt down the freshest and trendiest sounds to give their tracks that special something. But […]
Robotics and AI is one of the hottest scientific mashups in the tech industry today. If you play a role in these world-changing technologies, join us at TC Sessions: Robotics & AI on March 3, 2020 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. What could be better than spending an entire day focused on melding minds with…
Sci-fi eye If you’re scared now, just wait until you see the future of face recognition technology, writes Gareth L Powell October’s issue of The Engineer featured an article discussing the controversy surrounding trials of live facial recognition (LFR) technology by South Wales Police and the Metropolitan Police. Put simply, LFR technology enables a computer […]
A US startup backed by Bill Gates is targeting solar thermal energy hitting 1,500°C that can transform carbon-heavy industrial processes and create zero-carbon fuels. Heliogen uses advanced computer vision software to align a large array of mirrors with extreme precision in order to reflect sunlight to a single target. The California-based company claims it has […]
Aircraft with aeroelastic wings make first successful test flights as result of six-country collaborative effort The seven-metre wingspan test aircraft at the Oberpfaffenhofen research airfield. Image: Fabian Vogl, TUM Researchers from the Technological University of Munich (TUM) and the German Aerospace Centre, DLR, led the test flights from an airfield in Oberpfaffenhofen. The tests involved […]
Guy Martin has driven JCB into the record books for the second time this year after hitting 135.191mph in a Fastrac tractor at Elvington Airfield in York. The achievement follows JCB’s first Guinness World Record for the fastest tractor at Elvington in June. Called Fastrac One, it reached 103.6mph with Martin – a mechanic, motorbike […]
Researchers at Rice University are studying 3D printing plastic structures that mimic tubulanes — theoretical nanotube structures predicted to have extraordinary strength. The result has been very strong and very compressible structures that can actually resist bullets. As an experiment, the researchers fired projectiles at 5.8 km/s at a block of plastic and at a…
HBR Staff/Unsplash Any examination of bias in AI needs to recognize the fact that these biases mainly stem from humans’ inherent biases. The models and systems we create and train are a reflection of ourselves. So it’s no surprise to find that AI is learning gender bias from humans. For instance, natural language processing (NLP), […]
Starburst, the company that’s looking to monetize the open-source Presto distributed query engine, today announced that it has raised a $22 million funding round led by Index Ventures, with the firm’s partner Mike Volpi joining the board. The general idea behind Presto is to allow anybody to use the standard SQL query language to run […]