Joe McNally, a world renowned photographer, posted an jaw-dropping photo to Instagram last week that had some people begging to question just how exactly he managed to pull it off. McNally posted the photo to Instagram with this message: “My old battered shoes climbed the [world’s] tallest building today. What an amazing structure! Tweeting from
Hitachi unveiled an automated transport vehicle on Tuesday that can be controlled via a smartphone or tablet. The ROPITS, short for Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System — say that three times fast, is a single-seat vehicle that uses cameras and laser distance sensors to gauge obstacles and avoid pedestrians. The Hitachi transport vehicle has
Google acquired DNNresearch, a neural network research startup, on Tuesday after awarding the research team from the University of Toronto $600,000 for its work in language and image processing. The company was founded by Professor Geoffrey Hinton and two graduate students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, working in the university’s computer science department. DNNresearch, or
Samsung recently filed for a “2D 3D Movie & Still” trademark and it has some fans wondering if the manufacturing giant might be including a 3D camera in its Galaxy S4 model, which is scheduled for debut this Thursday. The Samsung trademark, published on March 5, was submitted under International Classification 009, which by definition