Designed for remote retrieval tasks, the Snatcher can shoots it steel proboscis out nearly a meter in just 600 milliseconds. Its designers imagine usages for it on drones, however we can see it potentially being deployed on satellites too.
Weve most likely all had the experience over the last couple of months of being in public when the desire to cough hits. Masked or not, you struggle to eliminate back the tickle, lest someone hear your sternutation and believes youre infected. Now its possible for a computer to cough-shame you, thanks to a deep learning cough locater. The design was trained versus recordings of people coughing and is coupled to an acoustic electronic camera, which recognizes the cougher with a bounding box and a contour image of the cough which looks for all the world like a virtual cloud of microorganisms. Its genuinely intriguing technology, sort of the general public health variation of ShotSpotter, but we question itll be of much useful use in public; if you desire to find somebody who has just coughed, somebody imitating this will likely already be on the case.
Mentioning our wicked overlords, appears like it another one of those “oopsies” moment for Google when it “unintentionally” triggered a few of its wise speakers to listen into family occasions without the wake word. In this case, a user reported getting a text about a smoke alarm going off in their home. The alarm was not a surprise, because the user was cooking at the time, however the alert was, given that they didnt decide into that particular service. Googles reaction was that an upgrade pressed to the speaker unintentionally activated that feature, a circumstance that they say has given that been corrected. To be clear, this is a fascinating feature and among the more engaging use cases weve seen for a wise speaker, however its something we had actually definitely desire to sign off on prior to its triggered. Yes, accidents happen, but these type of accidents seem to occur to Google a dreadful lot recently.
Possibly bad news for those of us who choose not to be absorbed into the Google hive mind: Mozilla appears to be on the rocks. Pointing out revenue problems, the maker of Firefox and other popular tools will be trimming 250 employees, about a quarter of its labor force, and shuttering its workplace in Taipei. CEO Mitchell Baker particularly pointed out that “advancement tools, internal tooling, and platform feature advancement” in the Firefox group would see decreased investment. That seems a little specious to us, but whatever the reason for the downturn in income, heres hoping that Mozilla can keep Firefox alive.
CEO Mitchell Baker particularly discussed that “advancement tools, internal tooling, and platform function development” in the Firefox group would see lowered financial investment. That appears a little specious to us, however whatever the factor for the decline in earnings, heres hoping that Mozilla can keep Firefox alive.
Yes, accidents occur, however these kinds of accidents appear to occur to Google an awful lot lately.
Modern jet fighter innovation is advancing rapidly, so much so that the forces they can use throughout extreme maneuvers can rapidly be deadly to pilots. Provided that people arent likely to progress the capability to withstand turning into a puddle of goo under high g-forces anytime quickly, fighters of the future will likely integrate AI of some sort. To prepare for that scenario, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is running some AI fighter competitions this week that actually look fascinating.
