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New acciddent with Google’s self driving car. Again, stationary. Now with injuries

Chris Urmson, from Google’s self driving car project, posted a new ‘chapter’ about their experience in learning about self driving vehicles.

Far from celebrate the accidents, such events are critical to understanding how accidents really happen.  Even when you are stationary, or it’s not your fault.  As all drivers learn (or know intuitively one may argue) if a car comes the wrong way straight to your car you’ll be sorry for the outcome – no matter who to blame.

This video is part of the post as an output of information car’s system was dealing with.

 

“When the Toaster Shares Your Data With the Refrigerator, the Bathroom Scale, and Tech Firms” BY VIVEK WADHWA

“Your toaster will soon talk to your toothbrush and your bathroom scale. They will all have a direct line to your car and to the health sensors in your smartphone. I have no idea what they will think of us or what they will gossip about, but our devices will be soon be sharing information about us — with each other and with the companies that make or support them.”… read more

An A.I. personal assistant

x.ai’s Amy is designed to help people arrange meetings.  In a way similar to what a personal assistant would do, Amy handles schedule and sort available time and place of meetings.

In order to this Amy inputs is your preferences and communication with meetings guest.

Could be useful, but still on beta version.  Ironically it’s not yet readily available – but there’s a waiting list…

3D printed (to be) steel bridge

Dutch design company MX3D plans to 3D print a steel bridge in Amsterdam.

The bridge will be designed by Joris Laarman in a collaboration between MX3D, design software company Autodesk, construction company Heijmans and many others; they research, test and share their knowledge within an AMS-3D Building FieldLab.

From September 2015 the progress of the project can be followed in their visitor center. MX3D and the City of Amsterdam are yet to announce the exact location of the bridge.

3D printing wood cellulose

Chalmers University of Technology announced the use of a 3D-bioprinter to produce objects made of cellulose.  And then added carbon nanotubes making way to electricity use in the objects.

Wood cellulose, differently from plastic of metal, does not melt.  Hence a new technique using hydrogel as a fixer.

 

Gold and copper. More complex possibilities for 3D printing.

University of Twente’s researchers Claas Willem Visser, Ralph Pohl, Chao Sun, Gert-Willem Römer, Bert Huis in ‘t Veld, and Detlef Lohse published “Toward 3D Printing of Pure Metals by Laser-Induced Forward Transfer”

Their paper describes 3D printing of gold and copper structures, by piling metal droplets.

Bringing metallic components to 3D printing opens new possibilities of applying electricity and heat conducting components.

“Putting the Data Science into Journalism” By Keith Kirkpatrick

“The key attributes journalists must have—separate fact from opinion, find and develop sources, and curiosity to ask probing, intelligent questions—are still relevant today’s 140-character-or-less, ADHD-esque society. Yet increasingly, journalists dealing with technical topics often found in science or technology are turning to tools that were once solely the province of data analysts and computer scientists.

Data mining, Web scraping, classifying unstructured data types, and creating complex data visualizations uncover data that would be impossible to compile manually.

“It is about giving the audience information that is unique, in-depth, that allows them to explore the data, and also engage with the audience,” says David Herzog, a professor at the University of Missouri…” read story