The US dollar is taking a beating on Wall Street, measured by a popular index. The blame is partly on the revival of the EURUSD euro, -0.01% as European leaders forged a historic fiscal pact to lift the eurozone economy out of the coronavirus pandemic that has brought much of …
Read More »Facebook’s AI team teaches robots to recognize rooms
Screenshot: Carnegie Mellon University If you’re visiting a friend and you find yourself stumbling sleepy at home in the middle of the night, basic common sense tells you that if you see a refrigerator, you’re probably in their kitchen. But a bathroom? More than likely you are in a bathroom. …
Read More »Micron earnings show memory sales surge, forecast suggests more of the same as stocks surge
Shares of Micron Technology Inc. rose on Monday after the memory chip maker said sales increased in the third quarter and are expected to exceed expectations in the last period of its fiscal year. Micron MU, + 1.35% reported third-quarter net income of $ 803 million, or 71 cents per …
Read More »New Moon space suits on the Moon will get a boost from AI
A few months NASA recently unveiled its next-generation space suit that astronauts will wear when they return to the moon in 2024 as part of the agency’s plan to establish a permanent human presence on the lunar surface. The Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or xEMU, is NASA’s first major upgrade to …
Read More »How Nvidia moved from gaming to AI to riding with Mercedes
Text size Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz. If you’ve ever spent hours pushing buttons on a video game controller, I’d like to thank you for your service. I’m starting to think you helped invent driverless cars. You may have also participated in cancer treatments. See Tuesday, Nvidia (ticker: NVDA), a powerhouse of …
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