Elon Musk's OpenAI is working on a robot butler - CNET
Enlarge ImageElon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and co-chair of OpenAI. ATD OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence research company, wants to put a household robot under your roof. In a post signed by ex-Googler Ilya Sutskever, CTO Greg Brockman and company co-chairs Sam Altman and Elon Musk...
Richard Gurley Drew, the man who invented sticky tape - CNET
Enlarge Image 3M The humble roll of Sellotape is a staple in every kitchen's miscellaneous drawer, one of those everyday items we simply take for granted. When you stop to think about it, it's actually rather ingenious.It took a college dropout to think of it. Richard Gurley Drew, bo in Mi esota on ...
Google's five rules for AI safety - CNET
Chris Olah at Google Research has, in a blog post on Tuesday, spelled out the five big questions about how to develop smarter, safer artificial intelligence.The post came alongside a research paper Google released in collaboration with OpenAI, Stanford and Berkley called Concrete Problems in AI Safe...
NASA app launches on Apple TV - CNET
It's been available on other platforms for a while, but the NASA app on Tuesday launched on Apple TV. The free app was already available on iPhone, iPad, Android and Amazon's Fire OS, and has been downloaded 17 million times across all platforms.The move to Apple's media streaming box means that get...
Wait, Mark Zuckerberg tapes up his webcam? - CNET
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageDoes he use Zuck tape? Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook Instagram now has 500 million users.This is a time for celebration. At least, for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After all, his company owns the si...
Tumblr launches live video service - CNET
Tumblr Tumblr has now officially entered the live video streaming space, alongside fellow social networks Facebook and Twitter, which have Live and Periscope respectively. The launch comes the same day Twitter a ounced it was expanding its video length from 30 seconds to 140 seconds.Unlike Twitter a...