new conductive yarn allows to build multi-touch right into your pants.
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Soli
new gesture recognition tech uses radar to achieve super high resolution.
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Waymo debuts
a person in a wheelchair chasing a duck with a broomstick. In circles. In the middle of the street. “This is not something we likely would have anticipated”
Humans are terrible drivers
In any given daylight moment in America, there are 660K people behind the wheel who are checking their devices instead of watching the road
the data from this research should make us want these cars sooner, instead of being scared.
Bazel
hermetic builds are a thing. that’s one puzzle piece how you keep a code base with mumble millions of LOC healthy. One of the best perks of being an engineer at Google is now open source. Our build system is just awesome.
FaceNet
On the widely used Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset, we achieve a new record accuracy of 99.63%
humans are at 97.5%
Rowhammer
One exploit uses rowhammer-induced bit flips to gain kernel privileges on x86-64 Linux when run as an unprivileged userland process
Superhuman arcade games
Hours after encountering its first video game, and without any human coaching, the AI has not only become better than any human player but has also discovered a way to win that its creator never imagined. A game like Crazy Climber is a closer analogue to the real world than chess is, and in the real world humans still have the edge. Moreover, whereas Deep Blue was highly specialized, and preprogrammed by human grandmasters with a library of moves and rules, DeepMind is able to use the same all-purpose code for a wide array of games.
Batch Normalization
we improve upon the best published result on ImageNet classification: reaching 4.9% top-5 validation error, exceeding the accuracy of human raters
Gregor J. Rothfuss 