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Google is launching a global competition to develop AI

Google is launching a global competition to develop AI

Google is giving the prize of $25 million to the group with the best AI solution for the world’s issues. The contest, the AI Impact Challenge was announced on October 29 at AI for Social Good event held at the company’s Sunnyvale, California office. Whereby the...

A new eco-friendly battery that can get a plane off the ground

A new eco-friendly battery that can get a plane off the ground

A manufacturing trick with magnetic fields produces a battery that may discharge fast enough to get an aircraft off the ground. Yet-Ming Chiang, a materials science professor at MIT, and his colleague Viswanathan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at...

Can robot be a better leader than politician?

Can robot be a better leader than politician?

With no emotions, machines could make fair, rational decision with concrete evidence; in addition there will not be corruption as well as unethical behavior. So can we entrust robots making decision for us? Can robot leaders do better than our politicians? The...

Elliot Salloway in Memoriam

Elliot Salloway in Memoriam

- By Llewellyn King, Executive Producer and Host "White House Chronicle" on PBS - Dr. Elliot Salloway, Executive Social Media Director of the Boston Global Forum Elliot Salloway was my friend but, in his way, he was a friend of everyone. Elliot was committed -- albeit...