Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle division has confirmed that it’s now flexing its autonomous chops in the trucking realm, too. Waymo has been testing autonomous cars in the wild for some time and has also revealed plans for a self-driving ride-hailing ...
Why this founder sets aside 1 day a week to daydream
Do you make time to daydream? You might want to start. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say that that doing so is actually an indicator of your brain’s efficiency, creativity, and intelligence. Making time for mental space may seem like ...
Nvidia Inception highlights 4 AI startups for enterprise applications
Nvidia is tracking more than 2,800 companies through its Inception program, which was created to identify the best artificial intelligence startups. It does so to find investment opportunities, but the world’s biggest standalone maker of graphics ...
Nvidia Inception identifies the top 4 AI startups for autonomous systems
Nvidia created its Inception program to identify the best artificial intelligence startups — those that will change the world and tap the computing power of Nvidia’s graphics processing unit (GPU) and AI processors. To that end, the company created a ...
Google Maps marks Mario Day by adding a Super Mario Kart to your navigation
In case you missed the memo, tomorrow (March 10) is Mario Day — a day to celebrate the world’s favorite animated plumber. And to mark the occasion, Google has partnered with Mario’s maker Nintendo to bring the character to Google Maps for an entire week.
SuperData: Bethesda rules VR charts with Fallout and Skyrim
If 2016 was the Year of VR, at least from a hardware perspective with the launch of the Rift, Vive, PSVR, and Daydream, then 2017 must have been the Year of VR Software. We not only got amazing breakout experiences like Lone Echo and Echo Arena, but ...
Fallout and Skyrim team brings in live-services experts from Bethesda’s BattleCry studio
Bethesda Softworks canceled its online melee game BattleCry in 2015, so it was weird that the publisher still had a studio named BattleCry Studios. Today, the company announced that it has remedied that oddity by shifting that development group under the ...
USC’s Creating Reality hackathon tackles AR/VR projects starting March 12
Don’t be surprised if you’re strolling by the University of Southern California campus and you see see 400 people decked out in virtual reality headsets next week. The university is hosting Creating Reality, its first VR/AR hackathon. It’s a four-day ...
Google Lens in Pixel’s Assistant can now recognize famous people
Google Lens in Pixel smartphones is now able to recognize photos and depictions of well-known people like actresses, celebrities, and politicians. It’s not clear when the ability to recognize celebrities was added to Lens in Google Assistant. The feature ...
AI Weekly: Virtual assistant competition is more complicated than you think
We’re nearing the end of the beginning for the battle among virtual assistants in the U.S. With the launch of the HomePod, Apple joins Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in having a smart speaker available at all times to answer queries and perform actions.