The resounding win by a Google artificial intelligence program over a champion in the complex board game Go this month was a statement — not so much to professional game players as to Google... Read more
Microsoft’s HoloLens wants to bring 3D people into your living room. HoloLens marks a new phase for both entertainment and communication, connecting both fields with the possibilities of aug... Read more
Creating quite a buzz among robotics enthusiasts and media outlets, a number of robotic security guards recently toured Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus during an industry event. Today, the... Read more
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experimen... Read more
Pioneering work using touchless technology for vascular surgery is now being extended to neurosurgery. Dr Mark Rouncefield and Dr Gerardo Gonzalez from the School of Computing and Communicat... Read more
“MixFab:A mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication” creates a way for non-specialists to make their own 3D models and print them out. The research is to be given the Best Pap... Read more
Human interaction with robots is about to get a little more personal. Meet the face of tomorrow’s interactive technology. An increasingly important – and sometimes frustrating – part o... Read more
The data center of the future might do more than crunch and store information. In addition to serving web pages, streaming Netflix videos, and hosting social networks, data centers might pro... Read more
CONDOLEEZZA RICE trained to be a concert pianist. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was a professional clarinet and saxophone player. The hedge fund billionaire Bruce K... Read more
Remote control capabilities, including the ability to decipher users’ moods Intel Israel’s R&D center in Haifa is in charge of developing a 3-D camera, which is to be launched next year.... Read more
We’ve known for a while now that just about every company under the sun is making a smartwatch. Apple, Microsoft, Google, LG … you name the manufacturer, and it probably a wrist-... Read more
Ubi Interactive has moved one step forward toward achieving visuals seen in science- fiction movies for years. Ubi with assistance from Microsoft has created technology that will turn any su... Read more
In a move that will thrill advertisers but make at least some members of the public queasy, a European outdoor advertising firm is rolling out ads using face detection this week. The technol... Read more
Details of a touchscreen showing 3D images that can be felt and manipulated have been published by Microsoft’s research unit. The project combines an LCD flat panel screen with force s... Read more
Leap Motion is on its way. With the clock ticking down to the PC gesture controller’s July 22 launch, Leap has a brand new teaser video that showcases the device’s interaction with Windows.... Read more
