With all the hustle and bustle going on in the world of chatbots at the moment, one crucial event that is very relevant to the future of A.I. has gone relatively unnoticed. If you are interested in chatbots and A.I., you may have heard about the Loebner Prize, which was created by Hugh Loebner and is a form of the Turing Test that Alan Turing first...
Project Natick is Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter. The initial experimental prototype vessel, christened the Leona Philpot after a popular Xbox game character, was operated on the seafloor approximately one kilometer off the Pacific coast of the United States from August to November of 2015. Project Natick reflects Microsoft’s ongoing quest for cloud datacenter solutions that offer rapid...
Can India modernize its manufacturing economy and supply electricity to its growing population without relying heavily on coal—and quite possibly destroying the global climate? It’s a huge task. At least 300 million of India’s 1.25 billion people live without electricity. Another quarter-billion or so get only spotty power from India’s decrepit grid, finding it available for as little as three or...
Animals play a very crucial part in our life. Although we have entered in this atomic age and developed much but we cannot do without animals. They still remain essential for us. But, unfortunately, the animals are not well treated all over the world. The application of animals to test a large number of products from household compounds and cosmetics to Pharmaceutical has...
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Decades ago, climate change was viewed as a concern by the scientific community. But now it has become a part of economic, political and social decision-making. We are witnessing a change in weather patterns. People...
What is Project Loon ? Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons travelling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back on-line after disasters. The Technology Project Loon balloons float in...
The plight of healthcare in India is quite relevant from the fact that 15% of India's population has no access to healthcare services. Let's talk more statistics! More than 75% of doctors practice in urban areas, 23% in towns and only 2% in rural areas. As on 31st March, 2015, there were 153655 Sub Centres, 25308 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and 5396 Community...