The trajectory of air travel changed after a chance meeting between the president of American Airlines, and an IBM salesman — on an American flight. IBM, at the time, was working on a new communication system for the US Air Force. It involved a network of computers that sent and received
Street signs are designed for people, but more and more car "vision" systems are relying on them for their own guidance. Is there a point where we need to develop physical infrastructure for AI processing? Security researchers have demonstrated how Tesla's Autopilot driver-assistance systems can be
Every time someone enters one of the 18 shops using the tech cameras scan their faces. These CCTV images are converted to numerical data and compared against a watchlist of ‘suspects’ to see if there’s a match. If a match is made, staff within the store receive notifications on
There are regular onions, and then there are onions too sexy for Facebook, a Canadian seed and garden supply store recently discovered. The Seed Company by EW Gaze, in St John's, Newfoundland, had wanted to post a seemingly innocent advert for Walla Walla onion seeds on Facebook. But
Many Covid cases were initially missed or under-reported due to... spreadsheets and file size limits: This glitch meant that 15,841 cases between September 25 and October 2 were left out of the reported daily coronavirus cases. The issue occurred because some files containing positive test results exceeded the maximum