Ex-Google robotics head unveils automated home assistant
The former head of Google's robotics division has unveiled a new robot named Stretch that he hopes will prove to be an economical and handy assistant around the home.
Robotics
News tagged with open-source software
Machine learning & AI
New analytical tool locates shooters using smartphone video
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can accurately locate a shooter based on video recordings from as few as three smartphones.
Nov 20, 2019
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Internet
Browser tool aims to help researchers ID malicious websites, code
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an open-source tool that allows users to track and record the behavior of JavaScript programs without alerting the websites that run those programs. The tool, ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Record solar hydrogen production with concentrated sunlight
Hydrogen will play a key role in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. It can be sustainably produced by using solar energy to split water molecules. The resulting clean energy can be stored, used to fuel cars or converted ...
Apr 30, 2019
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Business
Microsoft joins Open Invention Network, brings deep patent portfolio
The non-aggression patent community can put a new feather in its cap, calling out that Microsoft has joined OIN. Shawn Knight in TechSpot: "On Wednesday, it was announced that the Redmond-based technology giant had joined ...
Engineering
Research team develops clinically-validated 3-D printed stethoscope
A team of researchers have developed an open-source, clinically validated template for a 3D printed stethoscope for use in areas of the world with limited access to medical supplies - places where a stethoscope could mean ...
Mar 14, 2018
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Security
Cryptography: Security engineers announce Project Wycheproof
(Tech Xplore)—"Many of the algorithms used in cryptography for encryption, decryption, and authentication are complicated, especially when asymmetric, public key cryptography is being used," said Peter Bright on Monday ...
Machine learning & AI
Research team develops novel metric for evaluation of risk-return tradeoff in off-policy evaluation
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning technique that trains software by mimicking the trial-and-error learning process of humans. It has demonstrated considerable success in many areas that involve sequential ...
18 hours ago
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Business
To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money
Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, "There is not the slightest indication ...
Apr 10, 2024
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Internet
An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?
Outside the world of open-source software, it's likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems. But late last week, security experts uncovered a serious ...
Apr 4, 2024
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