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Carmen Sandiego returns to Google Earth with a new caper
Google Earth first made use of its rich global 3D visualization as a backdrop for a Carmen Sandiego tie-in back in March, but today there’s a new adventure to explore. After solving The Crown Je
Volvo teams up with Nvidia to develop self-driving commercial and industrial trucks
Volvo and Nvidia announced a new partnership today aimed at developing the next-generation decision-making engine for Volvo Group’s fully autonomous commercial trucks and industrial service vehi
Enterprise healthcare platform Collective Health raises $205M led by SoftBank
SoftBank’s Vision Fund may be facing some challenges when it comes to restocking its massive reserves, but the firm famous for cutting big checks is leading a sizeable round for Collective Healt
Domino’s serves up self-driving pizza delivery pilot in Houston
Domino’s really emphasizes its commitment to “innovation,” but even if it’s a marketing tactic, the global pizza brand does indeed walk the walk. Case in point: It’s laun
Intel is doing the hard work necessary to make sure robots can operate your microwave
Training computers and robots to not only understand and recognize objects (like an oven, for instance, as distinct from a dishwasher) is pretty crucial to getting them to a point where they can manag
NASA taps CMU to develop robots to help turn pits on the Moon into potential habitats
Lunar rovers are cool — but imagine how much cooler they’d be if they could also rappel. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will try to make rappelling robots a reality, after havin
MIT develops a system to give robots more human senses
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a new system that could equip robots with something we take for granted: the ability to link multiple
Original Content podcast: ‘Black Mirror’ returns with one of its strongest seasons
Less than six months after releasing the disappointing interactive experiment “Bandersnatch,” Netflix’s science fiction anthology series “Black Mirror” is back with three
NASA asks private companies to share how they might supply the Lunar Gateway
NASA’s stated goal of sending the first woman ever, and the first man since the Apollo program, to the Moon involves setting up a new space station that will orbit the Moon, which is supposed to
Volvo’s sporty looking Vera self-driving electric truck will go to work in Sweden
The Vera autonomous, electric truck from Volvo’s trucking subsidiary is not what you might expect in a transport truck — it looks like a road-hugging sportscar, something emphasized by its
NASA’s OSIRIX-REx probe sets a space record with a close orbit of weird asteroid Bennu
If you follow space news at all, you may have heard of Bennu — the near-Earth asteroid that has a slim (but higher than most) chance of colliding with our planet sometime nearly 200 years from n
Apple snuck a Raptors tribute into its Canadian home page
The Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA Championship last night, which is probably not news to you if you’re A) Canadian (like me) or B) a basketball fan. But unless you’re starting your Frid
Tesla’s in-car touchscreens are getting YouTube support
Tesla has consistently been adding software to its in-car touchscreen infotainment displays — including sometimes things that probably leave a lot of people scratching their heads. During a spec
Pioneering private space explorer Anousheh Ansari welcomes ISS commercialization
Xprize CEO and Prodea founder Anousheh Ansari dreamed of being an astronaut as a child growing up in Iran, but, understandably, most people around her were skeptical about her ambitions. Yet in 2006,
Airbnb launches ‘Adventures’ for tourists seeking more thrills
Airbnb has debuted a new extension of its growing business in providing travel experiences in addition to temporary housing. Called Airbnb Adventures, it’s effectively a collection of tours and
Expedition installs highest weather stations on Earth atop Mount Everest
A recent research expedition to Mount Everest that wrapped up this week recorded a number of global records and world-firsts, including installing weather stations at the highest elevation ever on Ear
We won’t be listening to music in a decade according to Vinod Khosla
Depending on who you ask, the advantage of technology based on artificial or machine intelligence could be a topsy-turvy funhouse mirror world — even in some very fundamental ways. “I actu
Why Vinod Khosla thinks radiologists still practicing in 10 years will be ‘causing deaths’
Doubling down on comments he’s made throughout the years regarding AI’s potential impact on the medical industry, legendary Silicon Valley investor and Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosl
Creative Destruction Lab’s second Super Session is an intense two-day startup testbed
Canadian startup program Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) escapes succinct description in some ways — it’s an accelerator, to be sure, and an incubator. Startups show up and present to a com
MIT develops a better way for robots to predict human movement
People and robots working together has tremendous potential for factory and construction site settings, but robots are also potentially incredibly dangerous to people, especially when they’re la