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Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash

51 Examples of Growth Hacking Strategies and Techniques

These days its not enough for a new company to turn a tidy profit and reinvest it in long term growth. For todays startup businesses growth is the only metric of success and companies are looking for ever more ingenious ways of bringing new users onboard with their products or services… growth hacking strategies.

The material science of building a light sail to take us to Alpha Centauri

Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2

Welcome to the new 2018 edition of fast.ai’s second 7 week course, Cutting Edge Deep Learning For Coders, Part 2, where you’ll learn the latest developments in deep learning, how to read and implement new academic papers, and how to solve challenging end-to-end problems such as natural language translation. You’ll develop a deep understanding of neural network foundations, the most important recent advances in the fields, and how to implement them in the world’s fastest deep learning libraries, fastai and pytorch. This course contains all new material, so if you’ve already completed the 2017 version, you’ll find plenty here to keep you busy too!

MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars to Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map

Real-Time AI: Microsoft Announces Preview of Project Brainwave

That’s where Microsoft’s Project Brainwave could come in. Project Brainwave is a hardware architecture designed to accelerate real-time AI calculations. The Project Brainwave architecture is deployed on a type of computer chip from Intel called a field programmable gate array, or FPGA, to make real-time AI calculations at competitive cost and with the industry’s lowest latency, or lag time.

For the first time, two CubeSats have gone interplanetary

The first CubeSats launched in 2003, and in less than a decade, more than 100 had reached orbit around Earth. The aerospace industry has debated whether the 2kg to 15kg microsatellites are a fad, a toy, or a disruptive technology that will change the way we ultimately observe and study Earth and the rest of the Solar System. However, what is now beyond doubt is that the first CubeSats have gone interplanetary.

Why spinning lidar sensors might be around for another decade

Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again

Tick-borne diseases have been ‘steadily going up every year … as the diseases expand to new areas around the country,’ Lyle Peterson of the CDC told reporters in a recent conference call announcing the updated infection estimates. Lyme disease accounts for about 80 percent of the tick-borne illnesses in the U.S.

12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income