NEC has announced that it will provide a large-scale facial recognition system for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The system will be used to identify over 300,000 people at the games, including athletes, volunteers, media, and other staff. It’s the first time that facial recognition technology will be used for this purpose at an Olympic...
(Reuters) - Retail giant Walmart Inc (WMT.N) said on Tuesday it entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) for wider use of cloud and artificial intelligence technology, in a sign of major rivals of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) coming together.
The five-year agreement will leverage the full range of Microsoft’s cloud solutions, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, to...
It sounds like something Q, the tech guy in James bond movies, would create: A plane that lands on a runway, shrugs its wings off, turns into a train and rolls on to rails to drop you off at your local station.
That's what a French entrepreneur, who's made millions by connecting engineers with industrial groups, is pitching to Boeing...
Academic secretary of the Department of Chemistry of ANAS, director of academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives academician Vagif Farzaliev wrote a review of monograph "Aromatic Thiols and Their Derivatives", authored by professor of Baku State University I.A.Aliyev and the staff of the A.Favorsky Irkutsk Chemical Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ph.D....
The next meeting of the Presidium of ANAS was held on July 11. By the decision of the Presidium academician Vagif Farzaliyev was appointed as academic secretary of the Division of Chemical Sciences of ANAS. The meeting also considered the issue of new composition of scientific divisions of ANAS. It was noted that the Bureau meeting of each division...
In accordance with the decree № 51 of the President of ANAS from January 23, 2018, the competition "Master-2018" was announced to support the development of the scientific achievements of masters and to stimulate the activity of masters who achieved high results in the field of education and science.
To participate in the contest, 47 masters of ANAS submitted their...
In Izmir, Turkey there has been held the international olympiad of scientific ideas and projects of schoolchildren "OKSEF-2018". According to the information of the delegation member, the chairman of the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists of the Institute of Chemistry of Additives of ANAS, Associate Professor Afsun Sujayev, at this important event, attended by 120 people with 60...
In collaboration with Puma, MIT Design Lab is developing products with a biological makeup. The idea behind this collaboration is that there is a more complete athletic experience when humans wear living, adaptable products.
In their presentation in April, Puma and MIT Design Lab, and powered by Biorealize, showed off their "biodesign" products. Notably, they presented "Deep Learning Insoles" and...
Apple has added a new API to its ResearchKit framework that will allow apps to monitor Watch users for signs of Parkinson's disease, 9to5Macreports. The API will be able to track two symptoms associated with the movement disorder -- tremors and dyskinesia -- continuously throughout the day. Apps monitoring these two activities would then be able to display the recorded...
The Asahi Power Service Company has invented a drone- and AI-powered umbrella designed to hover over people and follow them as they walk.
It's called the "Free Parasol."
The company hopes to sell it for R3,500 each when they launch next year.
But because Japan has banned drones in densely populated areas, the areas they can be deployed are...