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AI Traffic Lights Could Shorten Your Commute

October 26, 2016

Pittsburgh is installing traffic lights controlled by artificial intelligence, and they could be coming to your city soon.

Your commute could get a lot shorter without you even knowing thanks to traffic lights with artificial intelligence brains inside.

Over the past couple years, a startup named Surtrac has been mentally upgrading traffic lights in Pittsburgh with artificial intelligence. These lights collect data on the amount of traffic from cameras and radar signals, and the network of lights coordinates to ensure that all the traffic passes through intersections as fast as possible.

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Microsoft’s speech recognition is now as accurate as a human’s

October 25, 2016

Robots are now just as good at transcribing speech as humans.

According to a paper published yesterday, a team of Microsoft engineers in the Artificial Intelligence and Research division reported their system reached a word error rate (WER) of 5.9 percent, a figure that is roughly equal to that of human abilities.

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Former Apple engineers created $1,500 oven that automatically recognizes different foods and cooks them

October 20, 2016

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If you’re an amateur cook, roasting a rack of lamb or baking fresh bread in an oven can feel daunting.

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This is The First Car That Could Challenge Tesla’s Electric Dominance

October 20, 2016

Chinese-backed Atieva plans to debut the Atvus sedan before the end of the year.

Over the last few months, we’ve been entertained by Edna, a Mercedes Metris work van with a 900-hp electric drivetrain developed by Chinese-backed electric car company Atieva. Edna notably beat a Ferrari 458 Speciale, Tesla Model S, and Nissan GT-R in a drag race, which has generated excitement around its mysterious creators.

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Brain-Controlled Bionic Legs Are Here At Last

October 20, 2016

NO, REALLY. AMPUTEES HAVE BEEN TESTING THEM FOR OVER A YEAR

For a full decade, Gudmundur Olafsson was unable to move his right ankle. That’s because it wasn’t there. Olafsson’s amputated lower leg was the delayed casualty of an accident from his childhood in Iceland, when he was hit by an oil truck. “I lived in pain for 28 years,” says Olafsson. “After 50-plus operations, I had it off.” For years after the operation he wore a Proprio Foot, a prosthetic with a motorized, battery-powered ankle, sold by the Reykjavik-based company Ossur.

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This is what you get when you give a 3D printer artificial intelligence

October 20, 2016

A London-based startup has combined some of today’s most disruptive technologies in a bid to change the way we’ll build the future. By retrofitting industrial robots with 3D printing guns and artificial intelligence algorithms, Ai Build has constructed machines that can see, create, and even learn from their mistakes.

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Futurist Thomas Frey predicts farming drones, driverless streets

October 20, 2016

What will Iowa’s farms look like when the combines and tractors drive themselves?

How will Des Moines’ banking and insurance sectors fare when supercomputers run financial markets?

Where will Iowans live when a self-driving car can take them anywhere with the tap of a smartphone?

These are the kind of questions Thomas Frey ponders.

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Scientists discover how to help nerve fibres repair themselves

October 18, 2016

A whole new way to treat paralysis.

Scientists have figured out how to make nerve fibres repair themselves in mice, having identified a gene that inhibits fibre regrowth when nerve connections become damaged.

This gene, called Cacna2d2, acts as ‘molecular brake’, but now that we know how to turn the brake off, it could help us to develop treatments for conditions like paralysis and other spinal cord injuries.

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The future of wearables: Silkworms fed graphene produce ‘super silk’

October 16, 2016

Graphene just keeps getting better and better. The so-called super material – a one-atom-thick layer of carbon that has proven to be incredibly strong, flexible, light and conductive – has now been fed to larval silkworms which then created “mechanically enhanced silk”.

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Indigo Is Mapping Plant Microbiomes To Produce The Next Generation Of Crops

October 13, 2016

David Perry thinks the secret to agricultural challenges like drought resistance might lie in the bacteria that live in a bunch of grass on the beach.

That’s just one example that Indigo, a company that analyzes the microbiomes of plants to produce seed coatings that impart various attributes, is looking into as a way to combat difficult conditions for various crops. Indigo is launching today after having raised $56 million in financing over the course of its life.

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The Future of Camping Could be in This High-Tech Tent

October 11, 2016

For those who prefer the comforts of home to pitching a tent in the great outdoors, a new innovation could make you rethink roughing it. The past few years have seen a new suite of products take the camping world by storm, offering high-tech, if not downright luxurious, alternatives to the basic nylon-and-metal tents of the past. One standout is the self-generating tent, a futuristic shelter conceived by Korean designers Shim Jieun, Won Boram, Oh Seobin, Kook Soo Jeong, and Seok Jiyoung.

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