First commercial autonomous bus services hit Singapore roads
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Country's first commercial driverless bus services will run two routes at Singapore Science Park 2 and Jurong Island over a three-month pilot, during which data will be collected to assess the viability of the on-demand service as well as passenger safety and service reliability.
They look so friendly, as they roll along your shopping mall. Some, though, are concerned about what robot cops are really up to.
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Microsoft is touting GM and its autonomous vehicle subsidiary Cruise as adopting Azure as their 'preferred' cloud provider.
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Because COVID drove customers to postpone upgrades last year, the latest annual update of Oracle database packs two years’ worth of new features. And it’s adding icing to the cake with a new low-code/no-code developer cloud service with a free tier to draw rookie developers.
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The Nvidia Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit is an AI computer designed for manufacturers, students and embedded developers. The kit enables you to create parallel artificial intelligence frameworks like image classification or speech processing on an easy-to-use platform running on as little as 5 watts.
Microsoft has added a slew of new data lake features to Synapse Analytics, based on Apache Spark. It also integrates Azure Data Factory, Power BI and Azure Machine Learning. These features are still in public preview, but that's good enough for us to take a visual tour of what's new.
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The AAEON BOXER-8120AI equipped with NVIDIA Jetson TX2 can be hooked up to thermal and CCTV cameras and can be used to monitor entrances and other areas with high-volume foot traffic.
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Multiple partners are involved in a national skills initiative that will see Microsoft and Generation "upskill" and place tech-enabled jobs for up to 1,000 Singaporeans over two years, who will pick up skillsets such as Java and Python.
The report provides three design principles that can be integrated to promote ethical behaviour when creating, deploying, and using technology.
NASA chief engineer Dr. Adam Steltzner talks to Tonya Hall about "the Dark Room" -- the moment where teams find themselves stuck with no viable options.
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Dr. Conor Nixon, astronomer and planetary scientist at NASA, explains to Tonya Hall why a strange molecule found in Saturn's moon is such an important discovery.
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By using eye-gazing technology to let people select pre-written phrases to be spoken aloud.
Tonya Hall talks to Dr. Liz MacDonald, space physicist at NASA, about the importance of auroras and how a mysterious phenomenon was identified thanks to a citizen science project.
The new device has been designed to detect brain seizures in patients after brain surgery.
It will then invest $75 million into the business it has sold as part of the deal.
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