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Walmart is reportedly building a video streaming service to take on Netflix

Jul18
by on July 18, 2018 at 5:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


The Information reports that retail giant Walmart is thinking about getting into the streaming video business with a new platform – and edge out the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video with cheaper subscriptions. The company is said to be considering offering plans at under $8 a month, along with an ad-supported free tier. That’d come in at less than Netflix’s cheapest plan in the US ($8 a month) and Amazon Prime Video ($8.99 a month). That’s all well and good, but it’s worth noting that Walmart already has a video streaming service: Vudu. It acquired the platform back…

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Rolls-Royce is working on a robotic cockroach that can fix plane engines

Jul18
by on July 18, 2018 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Cars


Rolls-Royce, a company perhaps best known for airplane engines and fine automobiles, is now creating tiny cockroaches that can crawl inside tight spaces to spot potential problems and perform routine maintenance. These roaches aren’t of the household variety, however; they’re robots. Rolls-Royce‘s robotic roaches (try saying that five times fast) would stand about 15 millimeters tall (about half an inch) and weigh in at just a few ounces. Each would be equipped with a camera as well as optics for 3D scanning that would allow engineers to remotely assess problems before retooling the robo roaches to perform the desired fix.…

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A beginner’s guide to AI: Computer vision and image recognition

Jul17
by on July 17, 2018 at 11:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, evergreen


This is the second story in our continuing series covering the basics of artificial intelligence. While it isn’t necessary to read the first article, which covers neural networks, doing so may add to your understanding of the topics covered in this one. Teaching a computer how to ‘see’ is no small feat. You can slap a camera on a PC, but that won’t give it sight. In order for a machine to actually view the world like people or animals do, it relies on computer vision and image recognition. Computer vision is what powers a bar code scanner’s ability to “see”…

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