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Patent approved for Apple Watch with generators, displays on band

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An application from February 2015 for modular functional band links in a wearable device was greenlighted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, enabling Apple Inc. to expand the usability of its gadget. Authors note that the electronic gizmos in the segment are limited in size, so they came up with a solution for a strap built from active components. The future Apple Watch may consist…

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Finance app Trigger Finance rolls out Trump tweet alerts

A mobile tool which registers swings in the value of securities that users mark as interesting was expanded to detect keywords in Donald Trump’s infamous microposts. Tweets by the United States president-elect are tracked by Trigger Finance in real time so that investors can react as fast as possible if his remarks are expected to knock down a stock. The financial technology platform was…

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Chinese internet giant starts augmented reality lab

In an effort to tap on its mobile customer base to maintain profits, China’s Baidu Inc. set up an augmented reality (AR) laboratory in the country’s capital. The facility will work on improving the technology and building applications for corporate clients. The end goal will be to make AR technology available to all smartphone users in China, engineers said. Ever since the immense success of…

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Medical robots could be the future of Finland’s elderly care

Thanks to its openness to the use of robotics in everyday life, Finland could become the world’s next pioneer in developing robots for medical assistance. Given the lack of employees and a costly healthcare system, the idea to use automatons for aiding medical workers and the country’s elderly is an enticing option. Marketta Niemelä, a researcher at Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre, said…

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Russian bank to replace 3,000 workers with robots

Russia’s Sberbank seems to be looking to depersonalize its retail sector. It announced it will hire robots to replace humans. To make matters more interesting, the change is not something that is planned to take place in the future, it is happening in the first six months of 2017. The bank is planning to replace lawyers who write claims to retail customers with robots and the process will begin…

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Tesla Gigafactory will be powered by 70MGWT solar farm

Tesla’s Gigafactory 1, a giant battery plant located in Nevada, will be powered with a 70-megawatt solar farm, making the facility almost 100% reliant on renewable energy sources, Electrek reports. The factory will boast the world’s largest rooftop solar array, aside from relying on a combination of geothermal and wind energy. The massive factory situated in Western Nevada produces lithium-ion…

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Apple plans to expand its manufacturing in Arizona

Apple is looking to expand its “high-tech manufacturing” and to make data server cabinets at its existing facility in Mesa, Arizona, according to a report from Business Insider. Mesa facility has been known as a “global command center” since it serves Apple’s cloud operations. Although the tech giant has been relying on outside vendors for its cloud operations, it has been trying to bring the…

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Japanese insurance firm replaces 34 workers with AI system based on IBM's Watson Explorer. Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co., Japan’s insurance company, is laying off 34 workers from its payment assessment department and replacing it with an artificial intelligence (AI) system, Japanese Mainichi reported.

Amazon devises drone combining system, warehouse airship

Collective unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configuration. Two weeks after its first delivery by drone to a customer, it was revealed Amazon.com Inc. has filed for a patent of a solution for connecting the devices phisically and within a network to carry loads heavier than the current five-pound (2.3-kilograme) limit. The online retail titan developed the system for assembling units to expand the…

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Dorsey hints limited editing may be added to Twitter

Reacting to numerous queries, Twitter Inc.’s chief executive Jack Dorsey finally said on Thursday that “a form of edit is def(initely) needed” for the microblogging platform. “We’re thinking a lot about it,” he added. However, the network is often seen as “the public record” and the issue means the feature might be designed to work only for, say, five minutes after posting, said the…

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Obama's AI strategy team calls for framework to cushion affected workers

Obama’s AI strategy team calls for framework to cushion affected workers

As machines reach and surpass humans in more skills over the next two decades, economic policy makers will need to provide safety nets for millions of working Americans who feel the impact of the process, according to an analysis signed by a team from the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Barack Obama. The document released on Wednesday follows up on this year’s string of…

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Self-driving Uber launched in San Francisco

Three months after the introduction in Pittsburgh, Uber Technologies Inc. said its autonomous Volvo XC90s are starting to pick up fares in Fog City. Stereo and mono cameras, the radar and the lidar on top transfer the 360-degree view to the system, which suggests transition to self-driving mode to the vehicle operator − formerly known as the driver. The largest startup in the world said its cars…

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#artificial intelligence #Cars #Featured #self-driving #technology #Top Story #Trends #Uber

U.S. preparing standards for vehicle-to-vehicle communication

The Department of Transportation of the United States drafted a proposal for the introduction of a common digital system aimed at reducing the number of accidents not caused by intoxicated drivers by up to four fifths. Secretary Anthony Foxx explained a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication would be designed to “provide 360-degree situational awareness” in the streets and on the nation’s…

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#Cars #Featured #technology #Transportation #Trends

Nano-generator uses swipes to power phone screens

Scientists created a new nano-generator this week that offers a means of converting the energy expended in a standard touchscreen swipe into sufficient power to illuminate the screen. The device is known as a biocompatible ferroelectret nano-generator (FENG) and is comprised of a paper-thin sheet of layered materials such as silver,…

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#generator #green energy #nanotechnology #Science #technology #Trends

Facebook applies for patent that may be used to detect fake news

After letting algorithms select trending news, Facebook Inc. faced fierce criticism for possible influence on voters in the United States, but the operator of the popular social network has already been working on a system which may be used to fight so-called post-truth. In the first half of last year, the company turned to the Trademark and Patent Office with a solution that is aimed at…

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#AI #artificial intelligence #Facebook #fake news #Featured #machine learning #Top Story #Trends

Google targets 100% green power purchases next year

The search titan decided to tap more on the trend of decreasing bills for wind and solar energy. The strategy revealed in 2007 by Google Inc. to become carbon neutral, reached an important milestone on December 6 when it opened a data center in the Netherlands that is powered 100% from renewable sources. Furthermore, the company decided to get consumption at all its facilities fully covered by…

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#electricity #energy #Featured #Google #grid #renewables #solar power #Top Story #Trends #utilities #wind power

The AI and IoT marriage

Internet of Things (IoT) enabled devices are gaining momentum fast. There will be more than 20 billion connected devices worldwide by 2020 according to Gartner, with about two-thirds in the hands of consumers and the rest put to commercial and industrial use. Utility companies will be able to read meters remotely, trucking fleets will save gas and time on the road, and your home will be…

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#AI #artificial intelligence #Featured #hardware #IoT #machine learning

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