Today’s Tech Sightings: Computer 1, Human 0 as Google’s AI Wins First Game in Go Challenge And the battle is on. Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program has soundly beaten professional South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol in their first face-off. Google’s DeepMind’s AlphaGo made a clean 5-0 sweep in the first round of the complicated […]
Computer AI Trounces Go Champ; UN Slams UK Web Snooping
Posted March 9th, 2016 at 12:40 pm (UTC-4)
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Amazon Takes on Math; Bitcoin’s Future Could Be in Developing World
Posted February 2nd, 2016 at 11:45 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Think You Stink at Math? Amazon Wants to Change That Amazon, in collaboration with Stanford University and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is launching a new initiative to help kids and teachers look at math in a more favorable way. The initiative – With Math I Can – has a […]
Internet of Things Devices Still Not Secure; AI Pioneer Minsky Dies
Posted January 26th, 2016 at 11:30 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Forrester: Internet of things Security Years Away From Being Fully-baked A new report from Forrester Research expresses alarm that the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem has glossed over user security while focusing on analytics and growth. The research, based on 27 companies, says security standards are still non-existent and integration issues between […]
Greece Tests Rescue Robots at Sea; Apple Pushes Board Diversity
Posted January 12th, 2016 at 12:10 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Robot Life Preserver Goes to Work in the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis In Mediterranean waters off Greece, rescuing African and Middle Eastern migrants trying to make the perilous voyage to Europe is a daily affair. Looking for help, the Greek Coast Guard invited Texas A&M University’s Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue to […]
LEGO Launches Robot-based Learning Kit; ‘That Dragon, Cancer’
Posted January 5th, 2016 at 11:27 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: LEGO Education Launches New Robot-based Learning System Forget the old way of learning. Kids today have more fun learning their sciences, and LEGO Education just jumped into the ring with a new kit it hopes will be added to school curricula. The kit includes a LEGO brick set, software and servos that will […]
Modular Devices Coming, But Don’t Hold Your Breath
Posted December 18th, 2015 at 11:00 am (UTC-4)
When desktops ruled, upgrading individual computer parts instead of buying a new machine was probably the closest users ever got to having a modular PC with interchangeable parts. But in today’s mobile-driven, disposable-tech world, the only way to upgrade a smartphone is to buy a new one. “We’ve created an environment where it’s just so […]
Internet.org in Kenya; Intel; GitHub; YouTube Takes on Twitch
Posted August 26th, 2015 at 3:02 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Internet.org Seeks Ties With Kenyan Telcos Facebook’s Internet.org has been in touch with several of Kenya’s telecommunications companies for partnerships that could benefit the country, as part of its efforts to connect remote parts of the world to the Internet. How Intel’s Future Goes Way Beyond the PC As the PC market […]
Tech in Ghana; IoT Privacy; Mobile Churn; Lenovo
Posted August 12th, 2015 at 3:06 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Simple Technology Offers Rural Ghana Communities Powerful Communications In Suke, a remote village in northern Ghana, American entrepreneur Cliff Schmidt and local technologist Andy Bayor have found a way to help communities access services not provided locally. Equipped with Talking Book devices, villagers can access agricultural content, health and social messages for […]
Sundar Pichai; Alphabet; IoT Security; Microsoft’s Funny AI
Posted August 11th, 2015 at 3:51 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Who Is Sundar Pichai, Google’s New CEO? Out of the blue, Google announced Monday that it is restructuring. The Google you know will now be a subsidiary lead by a new CEO – Sundar Pichai. The new parent company is called Alphabet. Pichai has been with Google for the past 11 years. […]