Google is building its own ride hailing service, according to a Bloomberg report. The company will likely be integrating its service with its self-driving car technology. There’s a pretty big conflict… Read more »
We knew this day would come, but we didn’t know it would be this soon. According to TechCrunch, Uber is building a research facility in Pittsburgh to invent its own self-driving cars. Not content… Read more »
Carnegie Mellon University is touting a new $3.6 million research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to build machine learning algorithms that can index online sex ads… Read more »
To give our phones better touch, we actually don’t need anything more than what’s on the device according to Chris Harrison, a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Read more »
One of the fascinating paradoxes of small group performance is that the IQ scores of individuals in the group is not a good predictor of group success. What is? Anita Wooley of Carnegie Mellon… Read more »
Imagine going from having only one or two senses to experience the world to five or fifty. That’s what is happening in human-to-computer communications as we develop new user interfaces. Read more »
The National Science Foundation just gave $15 million to three research projects trying to reinvent the internet. Here’s what those projects are doing and why they matter. Read more »
A new research paper out of Carnegie Mellon University suggests that Facebook, LinkedIn, Netflix and other membership-based websites will see steady activity in daily active users while others will flounder. How… Read more »
It turns out that the conventional wisdom about applying pure logical reasoning to making important decisions is wrong. It turns out that people make better decisions when they pause for a… Read more »
A new research project from Carnegie Mellon University, funded by a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation, aims to make microchips smarter and more efficient by analyzing the data… Read more »