Nvidia, Baidu team up to build self-driving car AI

Nvidia, Baidu team up to build self-driving car AI

Baidu and Nvidia have teamed up to announce the use of artificial intelligence to build a cloud-to-car autonomous car platform. While Baidu plans to use the technology for its own fleet of cars, it also wants to make it available for global car makers.

The new partnership would mean combining Baidu’s cloud platform and mapping technology along with Nvidia’s self-driving computing platform to build solutions for HD Maps, Level 3 autonomous vehicle control and automated parking, claims an Nvidia blogpost.

 “We’re going to bring together the technical capabilities and the expertise in AI and the scale of two world-class AI companies to build the self-driving car architecture from end-to-end, from top-to-bottom, from the cloud to the car,” Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said.

“We can start applying these capabilities to solve the grand challenges of AI, one of which is intelligent machines. One of the intelligent machines we would like to build in the future is the self-driving car,” he added. The aim is to make driving safer. And reduce the number of traffic fatalities while making transportation accessible to everyone including elderly, disabled and children. However, TheVerge points out, “This won’t be a fully autonomous driving system, however. The companies are only shooting

 for Level 3 autonomy, which is sort of like the awkward teenage stage of self-driving. It means a car can drive itself in some, but not all, circumstances; humans won’t need to closely monitor the car’s driving, but a human driver will need to take over here and there.”

Build 2016: Top 10 announcements by Microsoft

Build 2016: Top 10 announcements by Microsoft

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      Microsoft on the first day of its ongoing annual Build developer conference in San Francisco made several announcements. Many of which will help developers to create applications on its Universal Windows Platform with ease. The software giant gave a glimpse of what users can expect from Windows platform in the near future. 

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          Microsoft has announced the next major upgrade to Windows 10 will come around July 29 — on its first anniversary. The free update will roll out on all Windows devices- PCs, tablets, phones, Xbox One, Microsoft HoloLens and IOT. Microsoft Insiders will get it before it is officially rolled out to the masses.

Three 
         Microsoft has introduced Bash shell on Windows 10. It will be available with the anniversary update. With this, developers will be able to work on .sh Bash scripts natively on Windows 10 and not via virtualization. Microsoft has worked with Canonical to deliver a complete Ubuntu environment on Windows. 

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       With Microsoft taking Xbox One to Windows 10, any retail unit of it can be converted into a development kit. The preview version of the same was announced. This is aimed at making it easier for hobbyist game developers to create something, which they can experience. 

Five
        Microsoft is all set to make Cortana more useful to its users in 13 countries, including India. CEO Satya Nadella has put Cortana at the heart of its Mobile/Cloud first mission, which Microsoft calls conversation as a platform. Cortana will be available everywhere on all platforms. These include Windows, iOS, Android, Xbox etc.

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        Microsoft is looking ahead to add pen support across Windows 10 and not just restrict to specific apps. It claims to have made it easy for developers to do so. Microsoft’s pen support called Windows Ink will power intelligent sticky notes, Map apps and others. There is a new sketchbook to doodle with digital rulers. 

Seven
       HoloLens Development Edition is for developers and enterprises in the US and Canada only. The developer can use the Universal Windows Platform to create new mixed reality with holograms.

Eight 
          Legacy apps can now be placed as Universal Platform apps on Windows Store with the introduction of desktop app converter. App based on Win32 and .NET can be converted to AppX app format with this new tool kit, which is yet to go live.

Nine
           Clearly, Bots are the future for Microsoft. CEO Nadella was quick to get back to the drawing board after its Tay bot was a disaster. But this is not deterring Microsoft on betting big on them. It announced the Bot Framework for developers to create machine learning bots.

Ten
         Cognitive Services is a collection of intelligence APIs that allows systems to see, hear, speak, understand and interpret commands using natural methods of communication. This is another part of the Cortana Intelligent Suite along with the bot framework. 

Eleven
        Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows and Devices Group announced that Windows 10 is now running on over 270 million active devices. Microsoft is aiming to make Windows 10 the most productive development environment for all developers.
        

Smartphones can now help diagnose ear infections

 

        LONDON: Scientists have developed a new cloud-based software that can quickly and accurately diagnose ear infections using a smartphone. Researchers at the Umea University in Sweden and the University of Pretoria in South Africa have developed a method that simplifies the diagnosis of ear infections (otitis media), something which annually affects half a billion children worldwide. The software-based method automatically analyses images from a digital otoscope and enables highly accurate diagnoses. 

         "Because of lack of health personnel in many developing countries, ear infections are often misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all. This may lead to hearing impairments, and even to life-threatening complications," said Claude Laurent, researcher at Umea University.

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         Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new system that allows Web users to share self-selected aspects of their online activity with their friends and the general public. The hope is to give users themselves, as well as academics and other scientists conducting research in the public interest, access to the same type of browsing data that big Web companies currently collect and mine to better target products to individual consumers.

USB 3.0 Speeds Up Performance on External Devices

USB 3.0 Speeds Up Performance on External Devices

    The USB connector has been one of the greatest success stories in the history of computing, with more than 2 billion USB-connected devices sold to date. But in an age of terabyte hard drives, the once-cool throughput of 480 megabits per second that a USB 2.0 device can realistically provide just doesn't cut it any longer.

What is it?
     USB 3.0 (aka "SuperSpeed USB") promises to increase performance by a factor of 10, pushing the theoretical maximum throughput of the connector all the way up to 4.8 gigabits per second, or processing roughly the equivalent of an entire CD-R disc every second. USB 3.0 devices will use a slightly different connector, but USB 3.0 ports are expected to be backward-compatible with current USB plugs, and vice versa. USB 3.0 should also greatly enhance the power efficiency of USB devices, while increasing the juice (nearly one full amp, up from 0.1 amps) available to them. That means faster charging times for your iPod--and probably even more bizarre USB-connected gear like the toy rocket launchers and beverage coolers that have been festooning people's desks.
When is it coming? 
     The USB 3.0 spec is nearly finished, with consumer gear now predicted to come in 2010. Meanwhile, a host of competing high-speed plugs--DisplayPort, eSATA, and HDMI--will soon become commonplace on PCs, driven largely by the onset of high-def video. Even FireWire is looking at an imminent upgrade of up to 3.2 gbps performance. The port proliferation may make for a baffling landscape on the back of a new PC, but you will at least have plenty of high-performance options for hooking up peripherals.

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GD:Should voters be given a NOTA (None Of The Above) choice?

GD:Should voters be given a NOTA (None Of The Above) choice?

In my point of view introducing the option NOTA is correct. We choose to vote for the right leader that he/she should be favor for the people and that would lead to the right society. If a person thought that none of the leaders are thankful to people then he can choose NOTA so that the government can take the proper measurements in giving the chance to the right person to enter into the constitution. So in my point of view NOTA is one of the important option in election so that every citizen can hold their opinion and while introducing this it should be aware to all the people so that nothing wrong can be attempted. ========================================================================

 Hello friends! From my point of view NOTA is a good technique. To improve the thinking of the people who think election is simply a time wasting system. I think two button are provided for each candidate that is positive or negative. Those who think the person will the candidate is good for society will give the positive vote and who doesn't will give negative. Thank you.

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Hello guys, I am in the favor of NOTA because people from different origin are get settled in different states of our country and they posses the right to vote, if they were for more than 5 years. So people expresses his interest towards elective candidate by not to go for vote method. But it result in win of those who are not good. If we appoint NOTA then peoples who initially do not vote they will Vote. And second step is that there should provide one more NOTA button for each candidate. So if candidate obtain 40% NOTA of the number of votes he obtained then One more BIll should have to pass Which state that he or his party have to give Fine for selecting wrong candidate and that amount should be in proportion of Amount required to take re-election. Hence, this also gives benefits to people without wasting their money for this re- election.

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வயர் இணைப்பு இல்லாமல், இணைய தள வசதியை பெறுவதற்காக பயன்படுத்தப்படும் வைபை(WiFi) விட 100 மடங்கு வேகம் அதிகமான லைபை(LIFI) எனும் தொழில்நுட்பத்தை விஞ்ஞானிகள் உருவாக்கி உள்ளனர். நாம் இப்போது, வைபை என்ற தொழில்நுட்பத்தை பயன்படுத்தி வருகிறோம். அதன் மூலம், ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட தொலைவில் இருந்து கம்ப்யூட்டர், செல்போன், லேப்டாப், லேப்லெட் ஆகியவற்றில் இணையதள வசதிகளை பெறுகிறோம். ஆனாலும் வைபை மூலம் தகவல்களையோ அல்லது அப்ளிகேஷனையோ பதிவிறக்கம் செய்யும் போது மிகவும் தாமதமாகிறது என்ற கருத்து பரவலாக உண்டு. அதனால் வைபை-யை விட 100 மடங்கு வேகமாக செயல்படும் லைபை என்ற தொழில்நுட்பத்தை எஸ்டோனியா நாட்டைச் சேர்ந்த விஞ்ஞானிகள் கண்டுபிடித்துள்ளனர். இதன் மூலம் அப்ளிகேஷன்களை அதிவேக முறையில் பதிவிறக்கம் செய்ய முடியும். இந்த லைபை வருங்காலத்தில் புதிய புரட்சியை ஏற்படுத்தும் என்பது உறுதி.

சுருட்டி மடக்கி வைக்கும் டிவி: அறிமுகப்படுத்துகிறது எல்ஜி

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அதே நவீன தொழில் நுட்பத்துடன் கூடிய பேப்பரைப் போல சுருட்டி மடக்கி வைக்கும் டிவி யை எல்ஜி நிறுவனம் அறிமுகப்படுத்துகிறது. அமெரிக்க நாட்டின் லாஸ் வேகாஸ் நகரில் உலக நுகர்வோர் மின்னணு மற்றும் நுகர்வோர் தொழில்நுட்ப வர்த்தக கண்காட்சி CES 2016 விரைவில் நடைபெறவுள்ளது. இந்த வர்த்தக கண்காட்சியில், முன்னணி மின்னணு நிறுவனமான எல்ஜி புதிய வகை டிவி ஒன்றை அறிமுகப்படுத்தவுள்ளது. இந்த டிவி எல்ஈடி தொழில் நுட்பத்தின் அடுத்தகட்டமான ஓஎல்ஈடி டிஸ்பிளே வசதி கொண்டது. இந்த டிவி யை பேப்பரை சுருட்டுவது போல் சுருட்டிக் கொள்ளலாம். இது இரு புறமிருந்தும் பார்க்கும் வசதி கொண்டதாகவும் மெல்லியதாகவும், வசதிக்கேற்றாற் போல் மடித்துக் கொள்ளும் டிவியாகவும் இருக்கும் என்று எல்ஜி நிறுவனம் தெரிவித்துள்ளது. இதற்கு முன்னர் சாம்சங் நிறுவனம் இதே போல் மடித்துச் செல்லும் தொழில்நுட்பத்தில் ஸ்மார்ட் போனை அறிமுகப்படுத்தியது என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

Driverless taxi on Seoul campus offers glimpse of future

Driverless taxi on Seoul campus offers glimpse of future

SEOUL: A South Korean university is testing a sedan that can pick up and transport passengers without a human driver, giving a glimpse into the future of autonomous public transport.

Seo Seung-Woo, director of the Intelligent Vehicle IT Research Center at Seoul National University, said the university has been testing the driverless taxi to transport handicapped students around campus.

The vehicle, called Snuber, has been navigating the 4,109 square meter (44,200 square foot) campus for the past six months without any accidents. It works in conjunction with a hailing app created by the university.

Companies around the world are betting that automated driving technology will transform public transportation.

In Japan, a company called Robot Taxi plans to offer a full commercial service in 2020. In Greece, driverless buses called CityMobil2 have been tested in real traffic.

General Motors said yesterday it is investing $500 million in ride-hailing company Lyft and forming a partnership that could eventually lead to on-demand, self-driving cars.

South Korean companies, however, have been slow to embrace the self-driving technology. The country's largest carmaker, Hyundai Motor, said it expects to roll out a fully automated car in 2030.

Only this month, Samsung Electronics created a team to focus on autonomous driving.

On the campus of Seoul National University, many heads turn as the grey sedan passes. It has turret on its roof with devices that scan road conditions. Seo's team outfitted the Genesis sedan with a camera, laser scanners and other sensors.

For now, due to regulations banning autonomous vehicles on the roads, a driver is behind the steering wheel and can override the automation in emergency situations.

The car cannot travel faster than 30 kilometers per hour (18.6 miles per hour) because of the speed limit on campus. There are no full traffic lights but researchers have programmed Snuber to navigate around other challenges.

The vehicle applies a brake pedal at a red stop sign and at a pedestrian crosswalk. When another vehicle stops in the middle of the road, the automated sedan will scan the other lanes to detect vehicles traveling from the opposite direction. If there are no other vehicles, the Snuber moves into the oncoming lane to pass the vehicle.

However, it is not yet ready for use outside the relatively controlled campus environment.

"It will take a huge amount of time and effort," said Seo. "We need more tests in real traffic conditions."

HDR tech in TVs promises sharper colours, but not much to watch

HDR, or high dynamic range, promises brighter whites, darker blacks, and a richer range of colors -- at least when you're watching the few select movie titles that get released in the format. Trouble is, there aren't all that many of those yet, and other HDR viewing options are likely to remain scarce for the immediate future.

Even worse, there are likely to be several different flavors of HDR, just to keep TV buyers on their toes.SEOLEDs are more expensive but provide higher contrast, with truer blacks made possible by pixels that turn all the way off. LCDs, by contrast, will give you a brighter image than SEOLEDs, but require a backlight that limits just how black its screen can get. (A similar argument over "true" blacks and higher contrast ratios once raged between proponents of plasma-screen and LCD-screen TVs; LCDs won that round.)

HDR represents the latest effort by the world's television makers to goose demand for new sets. Global television shipments are expected to flatline this year, says research firm IHS -- and that's an improvement over 2015, when shipments fell 4%.

TV makers are still touting the previous new new thing -- 4K, or ultra high-definition, sets, which have four times the pixels of current high-definition screens. While 4K has stopped the bleeding, it hasn't jolted the TV industry back to life, not least because such high resolution only makes sense if you sit up close and get a very large screen.

HDR faces some similar challenges. As with 4K, studios have to release movies and shows in the new format for owners to get the most out of new HDR sets. To date, there have been only a handful of releases, including "The Martian" and Amazon's original series "Mozart in the Jungle." More are coming, and Netflix aims to join Amazon this year in streaming some HDR titles, but getting an HDR-ready set still mostly means preparing for the future.

It's the same chicken-and-the-egg problem that previously confronted would-be buyers of Blu-ray discs, high-definition TV, 3D TV and most recently, 4K.

Beyond that, there's the complicated issue of choosing between different versions of HDR. For starters, your version of HDR may look better or worse depending on the kind of set you get.

Basically, only two types of TV screens can display HDR: those using organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), now built only by LG; and liquid crystal display (LCD) panels that use quantum dots, which are being made by everyone else.

Then comes the next wrinkle: a new proliferation of HDR-related marketing labels. For instance, there are actually two ways of defining "premium" HDR technology - one for OLED sets and one for LCDs. The LCD standard allows a brighter screen with less contrast, but the Ultra HD Alliance of electronics manufacturers, studios and distributors says both deserve the tag "Ultra HD Premium."

At least those sets will offer better pictures when you watch HDR-compatible programming. But many lower-end sets will also play HDR-formatted shows, just without the technology's trademark wider color and brightness range - and they'll still be able to boast of "HDR compatibility" even if it's largely meaningless.

Confused yet? You probably won't be alone. "People can understand that more pixels is better than fewer," says IHS's TV analyst Paul Gagnon. "When you start talking about color gamut and HDR, people's eyes start to glaze over."

Set manufacturers aren't making it any easier on us. LG, for instance, has three levels of HDR: "HDR Pro" for its top-of-the-line OLED sets, "HDR Plus" for high-end 4K TVs with contrast-limited LCD screens, and then a lower level simply called "HDR" that still promises better color display than vanilla high-def sets - for instance, by displaying less "banding" on a sky with complex shades of blue.

LG's director of new product development for home entertainment, Tim Alessi, acknowledges the challenge: "We definitely need to do a good job on educating the consumer on what HDR is all about."

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Human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's most dire problems

In an article published in the journal Science, the authors present a new vision of human computation (the science of crowd-powered systems), which pushes beyond traditional limits, and takes on hard problems that until recently have remained out of reach.

Humans surpass machines at many things, ranging from simple pattern recognition to creative abstraction. With the help of computers, these cognitive abilities can be effectively combined into multidimensional collaborative networks that achieve what traditional problem-solving cannot.

Most of today's human computation systems rely on sending bite-sized 'micro-tasks' to many individuals and then stitching together the results. For example, 165,000 volunteers in EyeWire have analyzed thousands of images online to help build the world's most complete map of human retinal neurons.

This microtasking approach alone cannot address the tough challenges we face today, say the authors. A radically new approach is needed to solve "wicked problems" - those that involve many interacting systems that are constantly changing, and whose solutions have unforeseen consequences (e.g., corruption resulting from financial aid given in response to a natural disaster).

New human computation technologies can help. Recent techniques provide real-time access to crowd-based inputs, where individual contributions can be processed by a computer and sent to the next person for improvement or analysis of a different kind. This enables the construction of more flexible collaborative environments that can better address the most challenging issues.

This idea is already taking shape in several human computation projects, including YardMap.org, which was launched by the Cornell in 2012 to map global conservation efforts one parcel at a time.

"By sharing and observing practices in a map-based social network, people can begin to relate their individual efforts to the global conservation potential of living and working landscapes," says Janis Dickinson, Professor and Director of Citizen Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

YardMap allows participants to interact and build on each other's work - something that crowdsourcing alone cannot achieve. The project serves as an important model for how such bottom-up, socially networked systems can bring about scalable changes how we manage residential landscapes.

HCI has recently set out to use crowd-power to accelerate Cornell-based Alzheimer's disease research. WeCureAlz.com combines two successful microtasking systems into an interactive analytic pipeline that builds blood flow models of mouse brains. The stardust@home system, which was used to search for comet dust in one million images of aerogel, is being adapted to identify stalled blood vessels, which will then be pinpointed in the brain by a modified version of the EyeWire system.

"By enabling members of the general public to play some simple online game, we expect to reduce the time to treatment discovery from decades to just a few years", says HCI director and lead author, Dr. Pietro Michelucci. "This gives an opportunity for anyone, including the tech-savvy generation of caregivers and early stage AD patients, to take the matter into their own hands."