Nissan will target 1m electrified vehicle sales each year by 2022, the Japanese automaker has announced today, though not all of those cars will do away with internal combustion altogether. The plan is part of the company’s ambitious “Nissan M.O.V.E. to 2022” roadmap, which includes not only EVs and hybrids but a push for autonomous driving, too. As is the … Continue reading
Earlier this week, Mozilla announced that it was pulling its Facebook ads in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and continued concerns over data security. Now Sonos has announced it will also be pulling ads, but not just from Facebook. For one…
We saw a number of genuinely unique and innovative games at the Indie Megabooth during 2018, but few can compete with the sheer adorableness of Juicy Realm from Spacecan — even when you’re gunning down Uzi-wielding anthropomorphic pears.
It has been a week since the bombshell reports on Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook user data dropped and already the social media giant is facing at least four lawsuits. Along with a class action suit filed earlier this week on behalf of Faceboo…
DJI is a company that most people know as a drone maker, but it seems that the company is broadening their customer base and getting more into commercial projects. The company has recently announced that they have entered into a partnership with Japanese construction company Komatsu Smart Construction.
This will see DJI supply the construction company with as many as 1,000 customized Matrice 100 drones. They will also come with Skycatch imaging technology that helps to process drone images into 3D models. This is expected to help companies create maps and point clouds which in turn will allow them to discover any mistakes, predict delays, and so on, all of which could help them end up saving money.
According to Chikashi Shike, Executive Office of Smart Construction Division at Komatsu, “Conducting a site survey using a drone used to take hours. However, by implementing Explore1, users can carry out surveying quickly and easily. Now it is possible to perform drone surveying every day. Taking off, landing and flight route setting are all automated. Ground Control Points (GCPs) are no longer needed. 3D data is immediately generated and an entire construction site can be visually checked with the 3D map. The Explore1 is a true game changer for the construction site.”
No word on how much this deal is said to be worth to DJI, but chances are it is pretty lucrative considering the price of the Matrice 100 drone alone.
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In some parts of the world, clocking off work punctuality is the norm. However there are other parts of the world where staying past your regular work hours is not only expected, but also the norm where leaving on time, or at least before your boss leaves can almost be seen as a faux pas.
South Korea is one of those places where the country has over the years developed a “culture” of working overtime which is obviously unhealthy, so much so that the South Korean government has come up with a way to prevent that. In a bid to encourage employees to leave work on time, the government will shut down all computers after a certain time.
This is expected to roll out in stages where it will begin at 8PM in the first month, 7:30pm in the second month, and finally at 7PM in the third month where the program is expected to be in full-swing. Note that this only applies to those working in the government which means that for those in the private sector, no such luck, although hopefully employers will take a cue and implement something similar to encourage a better work-life balance.
Interestingly enough while this on paper sounds like good news, apparently 67.1% of government workers have asked to be exempted from this new program. It is possible that by going home early it just means that work will just end up piling up, work that needs to be done anyway.
South Korea To Curb Overworking By Shutting Down Computers , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
According to the rumors and a bit of back and forth, it has been suggested by some that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will not feature an in-display fingerprint sensor. However according to a new report out of Korea (via SamMobile), it seems that might change as Samsung is now in the process of making a decision.
The report is saying that Samsung Display has come up with 3-4 solutions with regards to an in-display fingerprint sensor, and that the company is expected to make a decision soon on what they will go with. It is possible that Samsung might not go with any of the solutions and keep to the rear-mounted sensor which is what some are saying, or Samsung could pick one of the solutions and go with it.
It also seems that due to Samsung having yet to make a decision that as a result, the Note 9’s design has yet to be finalized due to fact that the design will be dependent on what Samsung decides on the fingerprint feature. That being said, Samsung did previously hint that they would release the feature when they believe that it works 100% of the time.
This led to some speculation that maybe it might not arrive in time for the Note 9, but this latest report seems to suggest that it might. Either way it’s probably best taken with a grain of salt for now since we’ll probably have to wait quite a bit before we see it.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Might Come With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
There are some parts of the world that don’t have access to clean, drinkable water and might also live in places that experience drought. However it looks like researchers at MIT might have the answer to that problem as they have field tested a device that has the ability to draw water from desert air.
This is not necessarily a new concept and was actually proposed back in 2017, but now it looks like the researchers have field tested their concept in the dry air of Tempe, Arizona and have confirmed that it works. However this is only just the beginning as the researchers are saying that there is still a lot of work left to be done in order to scale up the process.
The concept of drawing water from moisture in the air isn’t new and has been explored by others in the past, but according to researchers, this is usually dependent on there being enough humidity to draw the water from. However this system is based on a new high-surface-area materials called metal-organic frameworks that can extract potable water from dry desert air that only has 10% humidity.
The tests also found that using the MOF did not result in impurities leaching into the water. When exactly this will become a product that can be used for day-to-day use remains to be seen, but the progress made is admirable.
Researchers Create Device That Can Harvest Water From Desert Air , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Whether or not it will come to pass remains to be seen, but one of the fears behind developing artificial intelligence (AI) is that one day it might become sentient and overthrow humanity, much like in James Cameron’s Terminator. Now it looks like EA could be helping it along because they have created a self-learning AI that actually taught itself how to play Battlefield 1. Yup, now there exists an AI that knows how to shoot and strategizes.
Jokes aside, this AI was created at Search for Extraordinary Experiences Division (SEED), a team at EA that was created to explore interactive entertainment. According to SEED’s technical director Magnus Nordin, this was inspired by an AI created by Alphabet’s DeepMind that taught itself how to play old Atari games where he wondered if AI could be smart enough to teach itself a more modern and complex title such as Battlefield.
According to Nordin, tests of the AI have gone pretty well. “We have conducted playtests, pitting AI agents against human players in a simplified game mode, restricted to handguns. While the human players outperformed the agents, it wasn’t a complete blowout by any stretch. The agent is pretty proficient at the basic Battlefield gameplay, and has taught itself to alter its behavior depending on certain triggers, like being low on ammo or health.”
It also seems that some of the participants in the tests requested that the AI be marked so that they could be properly distinguished, which Nordin takes as a good testament to how well they performed to the point where they might be confused with human players. EA isn’t the first to use games to test AI. A couple of years ago DeepMind worked with Blizzard to see if AI could self-learn how to play StarCraft 2.
EA Created An AI That Taught Itself How To Play Battlefiled 1 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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