Researchers Hacked The Brakes Of A Corvette With Text Messages. Security researchers have discovered a way to cut the brakes of a car by hacking into it through an Internet-enabled dongle. A team from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) gained access to the onboard computer of a 2013 Corvette by sending text messages to a plugged-in gadget that measures a car's location and speed for insurance companies. "We acquired some of these things, reverse engineered them, and along the way found that they had a whole bunch of security deficiencies," UCSD computer security professor Stefan Savage told Wired. Savage’s team worked with dongles manufactured by French firm Mobile Devices, whose products are used by auto manufacturers and many third-party vendors. Although the USCD group was only able to cut the Corvette’s brakes when it was driving at slow speed, the hack's success indicates that more security flaws are a real concern when it comes to connected cars.
Read more about the Corvette hack over at Wired. IBM's Watson Can Now Help You Kick Ass In Fantasy Football. Looking for a little competitive edge in your fantasy football league this year? How about a little help from IBM's Watson? Today, IBM announced it has teamed up with Edge Up Sports, a company that provides analysis for hard-core fantasy sports players, on an app that could help you dominate your league. Watson is best known as the computer system that autonomously vanquished the world’s best Jeopardy players during a highly publicized competition in 2011. In the years since then, IBM has applied the system to a wide range of computing problems in industries like health care, banking, retail, and education. The system is based on Watson’s ability to understand natural language queries and analyze huge data sets. In recent weeks, IBM has rolled out new Watson tools that could help you see, help city residents get better services, and even moderate the tone of your writing.
In other words, the app could help you crush your friends. [Images: courtesy of IBM] Building better tomorrows. Combinatorial evolution Having come to grips with methods for understanding likely technological evolution, let us shift the attention to actually building better tomorrows. Another lens for understanding how technology behaves is through combinatorial evolution, or how all existing technologies evolved from a number of preceding technologies. Take the example of YouTube, which in under a decade helped radically reshape the medium of broadcasting. YouTube’s runaway success can’t be pinned to a single factor, but part of their triumph can be attributed to good timing. Were it not for devices like the Flip video camera, the falling price of digital storage, and the surge of broadband internet users around the world, YouTube would probably had gone the way of so many other turn of the millennium video streaming services.
This exercise can be done retroactively to understand the history of any particular technology, but it can also be done to imagine potential futures. Human + A.I. = Your Digital Future — Silicon Guild — Medium. Human + A.I. = Your Digital Future In the new film Ex Machina, a reclusive billionaire invents a robotic artificial intelligence. To test whether his invention is indistinguishable from a human being, he helicopters-in a young engineer to see if he falls in love with the robot. Today, making machines and humans indistinguishable from each other is no longer science fiction, it’s good business.
In fact, a wave of startups are part of a new trend that promises to radically simplify our lives by making it harder to determine whether we’re communicating with a person or computer code. In my last post I discussed how I use some of these services and in this post, I’ll go deeper into what this trend is all about. I’ll look into how pairing new technologies with human assistants will result in tremendous new products, which promise to enhance our lives — that is, until the robots completely take over and destroy us all. Messaging is the Medium Better Than Bots What is it Good For? 1. 2. 3. Why Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking Are Warning of an AI Arms Race | Inc.com. In an open letter signed by more than 1,000 AI and robotics experts--plus such entrepreneurs as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn--researchers state that the development of autonomous weapons technology would almost certainly lead to a global arms race.
Such a race would likely result in terrorists and dictators acquiring the technology for things like assassinations and widespread murder, the authors argue. Researchers presented the letter at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence on Monday in Buenos Aires. Autonomous weapons refer only to machines that "select and engage targets without human intervention. " It excludes such machines as remotely piloted drones, which require humans to fire ammunition and drop bombs. The authors of the letter describe autonomous weapons as "the third revolution in warfare," following the advent of gunpowder and nuclear weapons.
Sublimotion: gastronomia e alta tecnologia. Não há como negar que o estamos na Era das Experiências. E, o mercado de restaurantes é um dos mais focados nisto. Desde aquele botecão que serve uma comida de pedreiro super delícia até a alta gastronomia, o que importa é experiência que os clientes têm que faz a diferença.
Sempre que saímos para comer queremos ser surpreendidos, de forma positiva – claro! -, pelo menos no paladar. A experiência máxima é podermos nos maravilharmos nos cinco sentidos. Muitos restaurantes já o fazem com bem. Ao ver a sala branca, a impressão que tive deve ser a mesma do pintor ao ver uma tela da mesma cor: qualquer coisa pode acontecer lá. Mas, não é só uma combinação de imagens interativas, chef altamente conceituado e local mágico – Ibiza – que tem o potencial de fazer esta uma experiência única.
Há alguns anos um experimento de um jantar era feito às cegas fez grande sucesso. O MasterChef flertou com isto. É, a brincadeira só está começando e eu não vejo a hora de descer pro play. :) This Industrial Exoskeleton Helps Workers Carry Their Loads. Welders, grinders, and other industrial tools can be very heavy, and they can take a serious physical toll on men and women who use them all day long. A new exoskeleton under development promises to lift away all that weight, allowing workers to do their jobs without suffering. The new exoskeleton is from Ekso Bionics, a Richmond, California, company that has already established itself as a leader in the medical field and the military.
Its innovative suits are designed to transfer weight to the ground, significantly reducing the burden those who wear them must carry. Dozens of rehab centers around the country are employing the company’s suits to help people who’ve had strokes or spinal injuries learn to walk again, and soldiers use the company’s exoskeletons to help carry much more heavy gear than they could without assistance. I recently got a chance to try out the new suit. First, though, I had to try carrying an industrial grinder without any help. How Industrial Systems Are Turning into Digital Services. To some, ball bearings are boring, even though these small steel spheres are what keep everything from factory machines and wind turbines as well as cars, trucks, planes, and trains moving smoothly and safely.
But to Sweden-based SKF Group — the leading company in the $76 billion global market for ball bearing systems — these objects are heroic, destined to become the “brains of rotating machinery” by transmitting data to boost performance, reduce downtime, and prevent accidents. Yet even though SKF has a century-long track record of keeping the wheels of industry turning, this new vision of bearings with brains by no means assures that SKF will prosper in the changeover in technology represented by the internet of things, in which every conceivable object can become a node on the net. So far, much of the attention around smart, connected products has been around consumer-facing goods like watches and thermostats. Building an industrial internet strategy.
Mobile Day: como repensar sua estratégia mobile. Google Cardboard Is a Huge Business Opportunity | Inc.com. What does it take to build a company these days? How about some free Google software, a piece of cardboard, and some ingenuity? At their annual techfest held in San Francisco this week called Google I/O, the biggest company in search announced updates to the most ambitiously low-budget project ever invented. You rip off a piece from a box and download some instructions. Then, you grab some some code and build an app.
It helps if you can also make some virtual reality video, and GoPro has a new 16-camera camera ring to help. The result is an app that transport the viewer to another world-sometimes literally (if it's a science fiction game) or just figuratively. An app might show you ocean where you can reach out and "touch" a dolphin or swim around a coral reef. OK, what the heck is going on here? According to KZER Worldwide, the virtual reality industry will grow to a whopping $5.2B value by 2018. It has all of the hallmarks of a major ground-floor trend. Small business idea? At I/O, Google Previews a World of Scarily Smart Devices. Google unveiled several highly anticipated announcements around old and new operating systems at Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference, in San Francisco Thursday.
Throughout the two-hour keynote, Google returned to one key message: its long-term focus on machine learning is paying off -- and you'll see the results surfacing everywhere from its photo storing service, which can sort images automatically by people and places, to its self-driving cars, which will be driving around Mountain View very soon.
The company's knowledge graph, which refers to everything Google understands about the world, continues to expand and is the foundation for its new wave of smarter services. Below are three new features and products you'll see rolling out soon. The Update Google's mobile operating system will receive an update called Android M, which aims to improve the user experience in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Take Google's new mobile payment service. Right Now, Google. Spooky Quantum Action Might Hold the Universe Together. Brian Swingle was a graduate student studying the physics of matter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he decided to take a few classes in string theory to round out his education—“because, why not?”
He recalled—although he initially paid little heed to the concepts he encountered in those classes. But as he delved deeper, he began to see unexpected similarities between his own work, in which he used so-called tensor networks to predict the properties of exotic materials, and string theory’s approach to black-hole physics and quantum gravity. “I realized there was something profound going on,” he said. Tensors crop up all over physics—they’re simply mathematical objects that can represent multiple numbers at the same time.
For example, a velocity vector is a simple tensor: It captures values for both the speed and the direction of motion. Swingle is one of a growing number of physicists who see the value in adapting tensor networks to cosmology. Many Bodies, One Network. The Golden Age Of Quantum Computing Is Upon Us (Once We Solve These Tiny Problems) Quantum computing is not easy. Researchers at IBM recently announced that they had taken a step toward solving one of its biggest challenges: developing a better way to detect and correct annoying errors. In a blog post, Mark Ritter, who oversees scientists and engineers at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, says: "I believe we’re entering what will come to be seen as the golden age of quantum computing research. " His team, he wrote, is "on the forefront of efforts to create the first true quantum computer.
" First, what that would mean: A quantum computer harnesses the science of the very small—the strange behavior of subatomic particles—to solve problems that are computationally infeasible for a classical computer or simply take too long. How molecules interact at the quantum level, for example, is difficult to study in a laboratory and impossible to simulate on a classical computer but could be simulated on a quantum computer. How "Quantum" Works But there's a catch. How to Scale Up. The Future of Consumer Tech Is About Making You Forget It's There. When Apple introduced the iPad 2 in 2011, it laid out a noble goal for the future of technology.
"Technology alone is not enough," an Apple ad proclaimed. "Faster, thinner, lighter, those are all good things, but when technology gets out of the way, everything becomes more delightful, even magical. That's when you leap forward. " With the iPad, the notion of technology getting out of the way meant designing a computer so easy to use that the apps took center stage. But the result was in some sense counterproductive; we've become so sucked into our phones and tablets that technology is actually getting in the way of the real world.
It's not going to be like that forever. Wearables return to the real world The cynical way to view wearable technology is as yet another intrusion—another set of screens to keep us separated from the physical world. The Disappearing Smart Home But he also notes how easily things can go wrong. New Smarts for Dumb Cameras Room For The Familiar. DroneBase Lets Any Business Rent A Drone And Pilot.
You don’t want to own a drone. Or learn to fly a drone. Or hire someone full-time to fly a drone. And you definitely don’t want to pay for a helicopter, plane or satellite. You just want some aerial photos or videos of your work site, real estate or infrastructure. DroneBase lets you commission a drone and its pilot for commercial jobs. DroneBase has the potential to both disrupt old ways of getting aerial imagery or doing heavy industry inspections, but also open up options to businesses that couldn’t afford it.
From Military To Everybody “I was a marine infantry officer,” DroneBase co-founder Dan Burton tells me. After his tour, Burton came to California and learned about the budding commercial UAV business. Meanwhile, he grew closer to the community of drone hobbyists turned part-time professionals. So Burton came up with DroneBase to solve problems on both sides. Drones For Hire For now, DroneBase is focused on three verticals: Turning Passion Into A Profession. Why Your Best Managers Soon May Not Be Humans. We've long been hearing that technology is replacing employees, but now it appears that management positions increasingly may also be automated. Virtual management systems may take over traditional management tasks like hiring, assigning work, and making evaluations, writes Devin Fidler of the nonprofit research group Institute for the Future in Harvard Business Review.
To illustrate, Fidler's organization created a prototype called iCEO, which uses software platforms to assign work to people. The Institute tasked iCEO with creating a 124-page report for a Fortune 50 company. To begin the daunting project, the virtual management system asked workers on Mechanical Turk (Amazon's crowdsourced-labor tool) to curate articles on the topic. In all, iCEO coordinated with 23 people across the world, finishing the report in weeks. Managers may counter that "a computer may be more efficient than I am, but I get paid for coming up with ideas. " These Autonomous Drones May Soon Deliver Your Lunch (And Your Medicine)
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