On Fridays I post here my favorite stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find inspirational.
Salesforce has developed an AI algorithm that summarizes the text of long documents amazingly well:
Image: Salesforce Research
Security monitor cameras from startup Lighthouse can recognize people and also what they’re doing:
Image: Lighthouse
Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL developed a robot that learns by demonstration and teaches other robots:
Image: Engadget
Understanding way heat moves from one particle to another could change the way we power the world:
Image: Ricardo Bessa/Quanta Magazine
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how AI will eventually subsume all software in every industry:
Image: Shutterstock
The lack of understanding about AI foretells huge problems as workforce displacement accelerates:
Alex Knight/Unsplash
Lowe’s is giving some of its workers exoskeletons to help lift heavy objects:
Image: Lowe’s
IBM has unveiled its most powerful quantum computer processor yet – 17 cubits, up from 5 last year:
Image: Connie Zhou/IBM
Amazon is reportedly considering a plan to break into the multibillion-dollar pharmacy market:
Image: Pixabay
Researchers used tiny bubbles, stem cells and gene therapy to heal major bone fractures in pigs:
Image: Science/NAAS
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