Almost everyone can figure it out, right? It’s obviously the cheap labor! But wait a second here, is it the only reason why a multi billion dollar company like Apple is doing most of its manufacturing outside the United States? Well, actually there is more. Over the years, many news websites have covered this issue ...
Young children learn languages by detecting different patterns. Throughout the learning process, they try to find patterns in specific data set, which help them discover and optimize grammar structures for better language acquisition. Just like that, online translators use machine learning algorithms for optimizing their translation engine in order to provide better and understandable results. ...
Caltech researchers have created an autonomous molecular machine that can execute operations at nanoscale. This DNA nanorobot can walk around surface, pick up some specific molecules and drop them off in predetermined locations. Like electromechanical robots that are sent off to other planets to study their surroundings, these molecular robots are developed to explore tiny locations where human cannot ...
The human brain is designed to do things that even machines cannot do, from solving complex mathematical equations to making important decisions. But sometimes even our powerful brain gets fooled easily. How? As we know our brain uses several human senses to judge something and react according to them. So technically, it just takes a pair ...
A new study done by the researchers from the University of Washington suggests that our planet is now entering into a whole new geological era. The proposed era will be dominated by increased levels of emissions and man-made materials. The team named it the Anthropocene era. According to paper’s lead author ecologist Marina Alberti, our planet could ...
Our smartphones are packed with sophisticated and high end technologies that help us to do different kinds of work and to enjoy these features we have to pay money. But there is actually a piece of technology that is free and also extremely important for other features to function properly. It is called GPS or Global Positioning System. ...
Since all torrent sites are dying, pirates are exploring other famous platforms to spread copyrighted content on the internet. They have started using cloud storage services (like Google Drive and Dropbox) to share movies and TV shows. Google received around 4,800 DMCA takedown request for illegal content hosted on their cloud storage service, Google Drive. ...
It won’t be wrong to call Bill Gates the modern day Nostradamus. Gates predictions over the years have mostly come true, then whether it’s his predictions about smartphones, social media sites, personal discussion boards or the internet of things. Here are his latest predictions that could change the world for the better and it could be on ...
For over 8 years, WhatsApp has been providing its services for free. Now it is planning to make money by facilitating conversations between enterprise business and customers. It has not happened all of the sudden, they planned this for years. The company once had a very strict focus on customer-based messaging service only, with many ...
The first cloudless (almost cloudfree) mosaic of the Earth is released, complete with an enormous 80 trillion pixels, 80,766,853,715,974 pixels to be exact. The mosaic of picture was captured by the European Space Agency using Sentinel-2 satellites. The two satellites (Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B) orbit at an altitude of 490 miles. The mosaic was attached together by an Austrian mapping ...
Last week during a press conference, Russian president Vladimir Putin joined the ever growing international debates about the worldwide race to master Artificial Intelligence. ‘AI is the future not only of Russia, but for the entire world and humankind,” said Putin.’ Of course, there are huge opportunities, but it also includes the threats that we can’t foresee ...
Memphis Meats, a San Francisco based “clean” food technology startup primary focusing on meat products recently announced that they have raised a capital of $17 million in the initial round of fundraising. The company found its investors in the form of several big domestic and international companies, including European venture capital firm Atomico, SOSV, and half a ...