DataScience Digest - Collection of the top news, articles, videos, podcasts, events, books and presentations on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Langu
The publication of this week’s open letter by leading technology academics protesting Google’s role in drone murder exposes the partnership between the major technology giants and the US military/intelligence complex.
More than 3,000 Google employees have signed an open letter to management, urging the company to pull out of a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to aid with video imagery used by drones.
As floods threaten the livelihoods of Thailand's rubber farmers, global tyremakers are turning to innovative sources of the material — including dandelions
Robohub is a non-profit online communication platform that brings together experts in robotics research, start-ups, business, and education from around the world.
Does anyone know who William Shakespeare is? Playwright, England’s national poet and the world’s genius, and the Bard of Avon? Yes, of course you do. How about George North? Anyone? Crickets. And yet according to a new academic book being published on February 16th, Shakespeare made good use of the work of George
MIT and SenseTime today announced that SenseTime, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, is joining MIT's efforts to define the next frontier of human and machine intelligence.
System assembles and parses data from WiFi internet sniffer, police checkpoints, banking records and more, and notifies police if it flags anything suspicious
Precise control of thedistribution of specific proteins is essential for many biological processes. An LMU team has now described a new model for intracellular pattern formation. Here, the shape of the cell itself plays a ...
The formation of self-organizing molecular patterns in cells is a critical component of many biological processes. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have proposed a new theory to explain how ...
Cornell researchers are taking 3-D printing and 3-D modeling to a new level by using augmented reality (AR) to allow designers to design in physical space while a robotic arm rapidly prints the work.
State-backed technology drive likely to prompt US, Europe to upgrade national security reviews of Chinese investment, according to China Dashboard report
Adrian Chen writes about the Google Arts & Culture app’s facial-recognition algorithm and how it relates to the ideas of John Berger and Joy Buolamwini.
Companies offering Chinese families a second opinion on treatment from US-based physicians amid concerns over China’s underfunded and overstretched medical system
The country’s ‘second-tier’ urban areas are benefitting from increasing numbers of skilled workers who are tiring of the strain of living in the megacities
Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou generated an eighth of national output last year, fuelling concerns the government isn’t spreading out resources
When traditional institutes refused him a loan, Deng Linjie turned to Chinese social media for help, vowing to return money he took with 20 per cent interest
This expands the range of procedures surgical robots can be involved in, and thus the size of the market. Da Vinci itself has four arms, three of which...
Sameer Syed There's a big difference when it comes to work life balance, says Sameer Syed (L). When investment banker Sameer Syed left JP Morgan for the world
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents
It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees without a comprehensive view of what the proverbial forest looks like. As a result, here's a compiled a list of..
Hyderabad received 248.3 mm of rainfall in the first 15 days of October. This is the highest rainfall during October in the last 100 years. In October 1916, Hyderabad received 355.1 mm of rainfall, which is an all-time record.
These technologies all have staying power. They will affect the economy and our politics, improve medicine, or influence our culture. Some are unfolding now; others will take a decade or more to develop. But you should know about all of them right now.