Sérgio Figueiredo JrEnergy Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air The Wall Street Journal. - Christopher MimsA world covered in sensors that don’t require batteries is near at hand The idea of a perpetual machine—one that, once set in motion, never stops—is preposterous. The energy it needs must come from somewhere.
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Entire human chess knowledge learned and surpassed by DeepMind's AlphaZero in four hours The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton and Leon WatsonHundreds of years of chess knowledge was learned and then surpassed by Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence algorithm in just four hours, it has emerged. The astonishing programme AlphaZero quickly
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain MIT Technology Review - M. Mitchell Waldrop AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually …
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity The Atlantic - Derek ThompsonHow the secretive Silicon Valley lab is trying to resurrect the lost art of invention A snake-robot designer, a balloon scientist, a liquid-crystals technologist, an extradimensional physicist, a psychology
Sérgio Figueiredo JrTesla How To Make 500,000 Cars Without Humans Forbes - Jon MarkmanElon Musk is obsessed with speed. From rockets to hyperloops to electric cars, fast is kind of his thing. Now he wants to apply the same aesthetic to manufacturing. Critics argue it’s another pipe dream,
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr 5 Biotech Products U.S. Regulators Aren’t Ready For MIT Technology Review - Emily Mullin New techniques being used to produce our food or shape the environment raise regulatory questions. Lab-made meat. Hornless cattle. Designer bacteria. …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrMachine Learning DeepMind's new algorithm adds 'memory' to AI Wired UK - Matt Burgess When DeepMind burst into prominent view in 2014 it taught its machine learning systems how to play Atari games. The system could learn to defeat the …
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr The Surprising Way Selfies Are Driving Phone Design Backchannel - WIRED Staff It started with Apple’s Touch ID and Alibaba’s “selfie pay.” Now companies are building deep biological portraits to secure our phones. When Apple …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrClean Energy Inside the Race To Build Next Generation Battery Technology Inc Magazine - Greg SatellTo solve truly big and complex problems, we need to build new platforms for collaboration. The garage startup has become as much of an American icon in the twenty first century as the automobile and the
Sérgio Figueiredo JrAmazing 7 amazing technologies we'll see by 2030 - Business Insider Business Insider - Corey ProtinThe World Economic forum surveyed over 800 experts to find out what the future will hold. Hollywood's depictions of the future are usually pretty far-fetched — like the flying cars of "Blade Runner" and
Sérgio Figueiredo JrSecurity IBM Watson's next target? Hunting down the hackers Wired UK The world is going through a cybersecurity pandemic. No day passes without a hack or data theft being carried out, discovered, or begrudgingly …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrVirtual Reality Get Ready For Multisensory Virtual Reality That Goes Far Beyond Sight And Sound Forbes - Seth PorgesIn October, I had the opportunity to try out the Rez Synesthesia Suit: A Velcro-on body rig concept that uses countless pulsing motors to add the sense of touch to virtual reality experiences. The experience
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Could we soon 'upgrade' our bodies? Extreme bionics will create modular superhumans Wired UK - Juan Enriquez From peg legs through hook hands and iron fists, for millennia prosthetics were a very poor substitute for our basic biology. No-one would have …
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Alphabet’s Google is searching for its next hit The Economist Harder than ABCAlphabet’s Google is searching for its next hit The rise of voice computing may threaten its lucrative search business “JUDGE a man by …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrTesla Model X Faraday Future SUV smokes a Tesla Model X in intriguing drag race video bgr.com - Yoni Heisler As a hyper-secretive electric car company with a flair for self-promotion and intriguing teaser videos, Faraday Future has been on our radar for …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrBusiness Supersonic Travel Is Booming Fortune - Clay Dillow Starting in the early 2020s, business-class travelers will get something more than mere celebrity-chef-curated menus and flat-reclining seats when …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrTrucking How long before trucking jobs are all automated? Quartz - Michael J. CorenAs far as most truckers can tell, the danger of losing their jobs to robots is still a long, long way off. “I don’t have a single member who’s ready to buy a bunch of automated trucks even if they could,”
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr3D Printing This incredible gadget lets you draw physical 3D objects in mid-air bgr.com - Maren Estrada There’s a reason 3D printing is so popular these days: it’s awesome. Instead of having to spend thousands of dollars working with a prototyping …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrHyperloop Hyperloop One Has Huge Ambitions For New Sci-Fi Transport System Fortune - Chris O'Brien As if building a revolutionary transportation system using magnets and vacuum tubes was not insanely ambitious enough, Hyperloop One has now extended …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrArtificial Intelligence The next global arms race: artificial intelligence NBC News - By Dylan LoveA country’s dexterity with artificial intelligence technology might be the next strong source of national pride and international power. Knowing it would lay the foundation for the future of medicine,
Sérgio Figueiredo JrAugmented Reality Forget high streets, by 2030 everyone will be shopping in virtual reality Wired UK - Matt Burgess Tim Flemming is creating virtual environments for everyone from McDonald's, to Ferrari and John Lewis. The founder of Future Visual says virtual …
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Why chatbots are the last bridge to true AI VentureBeat - Mahieddine Cherif, GetBlyHumans have been storing, retrieving, manipulating, and communicating information since the Sumerians in Mesopotamia developed writing in 3000 BCE. Since then, we have continuously developed more and sophisticated
Sérgio Figueiredo JrRobotics Anticipating Human Behavior Brings Robot Responses to a New Level of Efficiency ieee.org Researchers at Cornell University have created a machine-learning model for generating an appropriate robot response based on evaluating human …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrChatbots Apps are dying. Long live the subservient bots ready to fulfil your every desire Wired UK - James Temperton The app boom is over. There are now more than 4.2 million apps available for Android and iOS, but three-quarters of American smartphone users …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrDriving The road to tomorrow: streets need to be as smart as the cars driving on them Wired UK - Luke Dormehl Flying-car enthusiasts may plan to make roads redundant, and virtual telecommuting evangelists seek to do away with the need to travel at all - but …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrGoogle Why Google’s New Phone Will Soon Be Irrelevant Fortune - Howard Yu Entering the hardware business is nothing unusual for an Internet giant like Google. But in launching its Pixel phone last week, Google (GOOG) is …
Sérgio Figueiredo JrArtificial Intelligence How Economists View the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Fortune - Jonathan Vanian To really understand the impact of artificial intelligence in the modern world, it’s best to think beyond the mega-research projects like those that …
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 - Smarter With Gartner gartner.com Today, a digital stethoscope has the ability to record and store heartbeat and respiratory sounds. Tomorrow, the stethoscope could function as an …
