New: the self-learning neuromorphic chip by imec
…and it can learn to compose and play music as well! A chip that is self-learning, neuromorphic, helps solve the energy problem of the internet of things and can compose music as well....
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Start-up of the Day: From sunlight to fish, Blue Planet Ecosystems wants to shift pisciculture to computerized container systems
Climate change and dwindling agricultural land are major challenges for food and feed production. The supply of animal protein is particularly problematic. The start-up Blue Planet Ecosystems, based...
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Improved level of comfort for babies in incubators thanks to algorithms and pressure sensors
Every year, around 15 million babies are born prematurely worldwide. Almost all of them spend some time in an incubator so that they can gain strength. Each of them is covered in electrodes and...
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Amazon Web Services wants to promote innovation in Germany
In response to the growing cloud computing market in Germany, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened a new, state-of-the-art office in Munich. “Companies from all sectors of the German economy...
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Start-up of the day: Parkbob digitizes mobility processes
Parkbob was launched four years ago with an app for motorists looking for parking space in Vienna. Within a short period of time, the start-up company expanded its services even further. Today, it...
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Start-up of the day: drawing with augmented reality
Learning how to draw has never been easier nor as interesting. The innovative mobile app SketchAR does this by using augmented reality, machine learning and neural networks. It is the first...
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Mathematics as a technology unites sectors and creates innovation
“The future depends on the combination of humanities and mathematics.” That’s what Janne Brok, director of Sioux Lime, says. The company uses mathematics as a technology for...
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Start-up of the day: smart technology for more energy efficiency
In Spain, a start-up founded by passionate professionals aims to contribute to sustainable growth and energy renewal. By developing intelligent platforms, SMARTIVE wants to improve operations and...
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Mobile robots help with rescue operations – thanks to their artificial intelligence
Rescue operations, for example after earthquakes, can be life-threatening for the rescuers. Again and again, the courageous men and women put their lives in danger when they go in search of...
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FPGAS: Cloud Service Hardware with Vulnerabilities
Actually, they’re pretty handy, the FPGAs. The abbreviation stands for Field Programmable Gate Arrays. Their advantage is: these programmable gate arrays are much more flexible than ordinary...
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Work 4.0: Working More Efficiently and having more fun with Artificial Intelligence
Every employee can sing a song about this. You concentrate on one project, it runs fantastically, the ideas flow just like that … and then a colleague comes and interrupts, the phone rings or...
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The Human Brain as an Inspiration for AI developers: what to do when Artificial Intelligence fails?
Actually, artificial intelligence’s (AI) purpose is to help people to cope with complex tasks. AI systems can quickly analyse and interpret the large amounts of data generated by modern big...
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In the search for Alzheimer’s remedy, researchers are exploring the role of DNA
Every second three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. However, reaching the diagnosis takes a long time, on average around 14 months. In people under the age of 65 even 4 years....
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Artificial intelligence for the investigation of swarm behaviour
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) are investigating the swarm behaviour of living beings using artificial intelligence. Previously, this was done with algorithms that were based on...
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The balancing act of an ethical tightrope walker: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Deciphering the human genome is still a mega-job. Artificial intelligence can be a decisive instrument in this process. It seems to allow new therapeutic approaches for serious diseases, but also...
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Impact Investing is what a sustainable business needs now – and Lumo Labs is the example
They are all famous investment organisations and have one thing in common: they are in the business of “Impact Investing”. Adam Draper’s Boost VC, the Rockefeller Foundation, ESG...
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Detect fake news automatically, with software from Fraunhofer
Invented stories, distorted facts: fake news is spreading like wildfire on the internet and is often shared on without thought, particularly on social media. In response, Fraunhofer researchers have...
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, how companies undermine your sovereignty for profit
Imagine it, a smart city, full of sensors and connected technology. Rules are not necessary, because the city controls itself. Garbage is collected when the bins are full, traffic lights set to give...
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Digital Twin Technology: How “copycat” systems are driving development
Digital twin technology, the creation of a digital copy of a device, system, process or person, is fast becoming the norm in innovation, with endless applications in scientific research,...
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Tackling food waste with a Pocket-size food scanner
According to a study by the environmental organization WWF Germany, ten million metric tons of food is thrown in the garbage every year in this country alone, despite still being edible. A mobile...
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Sea Data helps preventing coal dust
When a ship loaded with coal enters a harbour, soon the entire area might be covered with coal dust. A start-up from Gdynia, Poland, has an idea how to prevent that. Last year’s summer was...
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Fruitpunch AI is building an AI research community – with a game
The student team Fruitpunch AI of the Eindhoven University of Technology is organizing an E-sport event for artificial intelligence (AI) in 2019. Besides this being fun for the nerds and geeks among...
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Bringing tech to the farm
Technology is helping farmers feed the world. It can also make agriculture more environmentally friendly – for conventional and organic farmers alike By Kelly Oakes, the Technologist Replacing...
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The battle for batteries
The European Commission wants to build a strong battery industry that can compete with Asia, but has it entered the game too late? By 2020, China will produce more than 70% of the lithium-ion...
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Tailor-made robots for everyone
BREMEN, December 15, 2018 – Robots have long been an important part of industrial production. They are also fulfilling more and more functions in logistics, especially in the internal...
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