Virtual Reality might kick-start the PC market
Current PC’s don't have the spec
Before Christmas we were saying that the reason the PC market is in the dole-drums is because there is nothing around which would lead you to need to upgrade, but now it appears that there might be – virtual reality.
Facebook open sources its artificial intelligence
Because everyone wants Facebook’s intelligence
Social notworking site Facebook has announced it will open source its artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.
MIT develops fuzzy computer
Fuzzy makes us human
Researchers at MIT, New York University, and the University of Toronto have developed a computer system which can create fuzzy systems like humans
Reality will be the next big thing
Augmented and virtual everything by 2020
New research suggests that the next big thing in technology will be augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR).
Apple converts Nvidia's AI expert
Acadamy Award winner Jonathan Cohen
Missionaries from the fruity cargo cult Apple’s HR department have converted one of Nvidia’s top AI brains.
Apple tries to buy intelligence
Running out of ideas
Desperate to find new ways to flog its iPhones in a dying market, fruity cargo cult Apple is turning to artificial intelligence.
HTC Vive headset aiming for October
Seen at Comic-Con
HTC received some attention for its new wireless controllers for its HTC Vive headset at San Diego Comic-Con 2015 and it appears that they will be in the shops in mid-October.
Nvidia adds AI improvements to CUDA
Updated to 16-bit floating point arithmetic
Nvidia has sexed up its CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) parallel programming platform and application programming interface.
More intelligent chip cores on the way
Synopsys releases AI core design
Synopsys, a company that licenses software and intellectual property to the biggest names in chip making, showed off a new image-processor core which it thinks could be the future.
Computers more intelligent than humans soon
Bill Gates fears the end of humanity
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Sir William Gates III has joined the growing ranks of those who believe that artificial intelligence could result in the end of humanity.