If those little green men with antennas exist, they don’t come from Mars. Unless they once lived there, but messed it up and left. The robotic rover Curiosity (literally: curiosity) …
Closed stores
Retail stores are closing as if they’ve been struck by an epidemic. In the USA, the world’s largest retail chain, Sears, announced it will shut more than 70 stores in …
Monitoring details
It’s not just “facial recognition” from a distance that captures the interest of law enforcement mechanisms (and perhaps others). With the title “Eyes in the sky: real-time surveillance system via …
Live tests
It is the largest open-air prison in the world, yet there is no reason for it to be left out of technological developments! The Gaza Strip—meaning its Palestinian captives—is a …
Welcome to our store!
What could this be that appears in the photograph? The reception at a high-tech hotel perhaps? Or maybe at an electronics store? Could it perhaps be the passenger service desk …
Eyes on the back!
It is called “intelligent classroom behavior management system”. And it is – strangely enough – an experimental application that was implemented in a Chinese high school. A camera with facial …
Instant Response
What would the (capitalist) world be like in the 21st century if companies didn’t care about getting better? Google is one of them. Its engineers are working on an application …
Don’t even think about escaping!!!
If the (rather intimidating) machines in the photo above remind you of bulldozers, “you’re close.” They are robotic deep-sea excavators. These particular ones can dig down to depths of 1,000 …
Watson for president!(are smart algorithms better than stupid politicians?)
Almost 70 years ago, precisely on December 28, 1948, a learned monk, with serious philosophical interests and well-informed about the most recent developments in the techno-scientific research of his time, …
Stem cells
Stem cells are the primary type of cells that are created after fertilization, and in the course of organic development they differentiate to create the various organs. For biotechnologists, the …
script and language management technologies
Gregorian calendar omissions 1789, 1871, 1917. Milestone points in the political history of Europe marked by three numbers. Three numbers that automatically refer to and are now identified with a …
The French and the Germans don’t like…
American computer science professor (and machine learning researcher) Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington became internationally known for his 2015 book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the …