German engineer Albert Beer has continued to work on his Sub1 robot since achieving the record for the Fastest robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube back in January 2016, and now, the robot can solve a cub in just 0.637 seconds! [Guinness World Records]
One government plans to make it mandatory for all new homes built in towns and cities to have electric car charging points. It’s part of the United Kingdom’s long-term plan to phase out traditional cars. The plan is to ban the sales of new petrol (gas) and diesel cars from 2040 onwards, a target that’s […]
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Samsung is said to have developed a high-capacity curved battery. It would be a key part in plans to make its flagship Galaxy phone foldable. The Galaxy X is widely expected to go on sale next year, with the main point of contention being whether it will be an ordinary level of expensive or eye-wateringly […]
Samsung is to sell 8K televisions by the end of the year. Meanwhile some 4K set owners can while away the wait for widespread content by turning their home into a licensed art gallery. The 8K sets are likely to be officially launched at a tech show at the end of August and then put […]
IBM computers are to automatically edit highlight reels of Wimbledon tennis matches. They will look for player emotional displays among other cues. The videos will be uploaded to the website of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, which organizes the Wimbledon Championship. The idea is to have clips of every game on the six main […]
Wow, this is really impressive! A deep learning AI from Nvidia that turns 30FPS footage into high quality 240FPS slow motion footage and 60FPS videos into 480FPS. Researchers from NVIDIA developed a deep learning-based system that can produce high-quality slow-motion videos from a 30-frame-per-second video, outperforming various state-of-the-art methods that aim to do the same. […]
Uber has applied for a patent to spot would-be passengers who are drunk. Even if granted and used, the patent wouldn’t necessarily mean such passengers would be denied access to the service. The patent – filed in 2016 but only just made public – uses the euphemism “predicting user state” but the detail and context […]
A US supercomputer has become the first to pass the 100 petaflops barrier… and in fact doubled it. ‘Summit’, housed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, isn’t yet ‘officially’ the world’s fastest computer, but will almost certainly take the crown in the next bi-annual list from the TOP500 project. The current […]
I have wondered for quite some time how vending machines tell the difference between actual coins or fake money and slugs. It’s actually pretty straight forward, but cool to see anyway. Definitely a cool insight into how these machines work (and also, for those wondering, the amazing Skittle vending machines you see in photo above […]