Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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.
Startup OtoSense uses AI to listen to those weird sounds from your car and identify problems:
Image: Espen Friberg, MIT Technology Review
Elon Musk predicts autonomous cars safe enough to sleep thru a trip within 2 years:
Image: Tesla
CRISPR gene-editing techniques could lead to a vaccine for arthritis:
Image: Jerome Walker, Wikimedia Commons
After Harman buy, Samsung is now testing autonomous car tech in Hyundais in South Korea:
Image: Noam Galai/WireImage/Getty Images
Verizon is jumping into the driverless car market, backing autonomous startup Renovo:
Image: Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Chinese tech giant Tencent is opening an AI lab in Seattle, Amazon’s home turf, led by an ex-Microsoft scientist:
Image: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Some virtual reality highlights from the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival VR Arcade:
Image: Tribeca Film Festival, PSFK
Planar Elliptical Runner is an ostrich-inspired robot that pushes the limits of robotic locomotion:
Image: IHMC Robotics
Microsoft is building an augmented reality viewer directly into Windows 10:
Image: Microsoft, The Verge
Deep Genomics is a Canadian company that aims to use machine learning AI to aid in drug discovery:
Image: Niv Bavarsky, MIT Technology Review
Nvidia has made a self-driving AI that let’s you look inside the machine learning black box:
Image: Nvidia
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