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shared by Maria Gurova on 14 Dec 15 - No Cached

Tesla founder Elon Musk, big-name venture capitalist Peter Thiel, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and several other notable tech names have launched a new artificial intelligence startup called OpenAI,
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OpenAI has the talent to compete with the industry’s top artificial intelligence outfits, including Google and Facebook—but the company has been setup as a non-profit.
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The apparent aim is to build systems based on deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence that has proven extremely adept in recent years at identifying images, recognizing spoken words, translating from one language to another, and, to a certain extent, understanding the natural way that we humans talk.
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intend to open source their work, freely sharing it with the world at large. Recently, Google open sourced the core software engine, TensorFlow, that drives its deep learning services, and just this week, Facebook open sourced its deep learning hardware.
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OpenAI says, its backers have committed $1 billion to the project.
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shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached

OpenBCI, a Kickstarter project by Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, aims to fill this need by offering makers, hobbyists, and other geeky tinkerers a fully open-source prototyping platform for designing whatever mind-control UIs they can dream up
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100 Famous Movie Quotes, Visualized
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The only thing that will lead to the tipping point of BCI practicality is simultaneous and rapid hardware and software iteration; Joel and I both believe that this type of rapid technological innovation cannot take place behind closed doors, hence our unfaltering mission to keep OpenBCI totally open source and include as many people of varying disciplines as possible
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OpenBCI is designing the Lego blocks; someone else will build the castle.
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Making EEG-controlled novelties is one thing, but designing better medical devices to enable paralyzed people to move their wheelchairs, or locked-in patients to communicate, is a truly noble enterprise
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shared by Vladimir Antonov on 26 Oct 15 - No Cached

Assembling is half the fun
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by building the robot you'll learn the basics of 3D modeling, electronics, mobile app coding and Arduino programming
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platform is fully Open Access, meaning everyone will be able to freely modify all of its aspects
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founders promised to make the source code, as well as all the blueprints and 3D models free and accessible to everyone.
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shared by Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15 - No Cached

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem
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Yet many are realising that the gadgets we chuck away can be ripped apart and transformed into something new – brand new technology, or even art.
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In 2012, we discarded 48.9 million tonnes of electrical and electronic products. If current trends continue, by 2017, the annual amount of e-waste produced globally will reach 65.4 million tonnes – that’s roughly 20% of the weight of all the people living on Earth.
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Using parts and wires from old computers, scanners and photocopiers (some of it for free, but most bought), and an Arduino electronics card as the brain, they managed to put together a working prototype for a few hundred euros (see below).
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“In Togo, there are many people who can’t have access to computers, because they don’t have money to buy a new computer,” says Allahare. “But we have many computers that are broken and not working. It’s sometimes just a little piece that is spoiled in it. W.Jies can help people get connected, get information, and help kids learn ICT from low-cost computers.”
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