AI recreates Nobel-winning physics experiment

AI recreates Nobel-winning physics experiment

by Devin Coldewey
  • Virtual Reality
    VR gaming startup Lucid Sight nabs $3.5M in Series A funding

    VR gaming startup Lucid Sight nabs $3.5M in Series A funding

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    Lucid Sight, Inc., an LA-based VR game studio, announced today that they have closed a $3.5 million Series A round of funding led by Rana Capital Partners, B.V. and Salem Partners. This raise brings the company’s total funding to $4 million. Previous investors included AdColony founder Jonathan Zweig. Coinciding with the funding announcement is Lucid Sight’s release of a VR Ad SDK. Read More

  • Space
    Snapchat goes to space with NASA Live Story

    Snapchat goes to space with NASA Live Story

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    Today, the International Space Station completed its 100,000th orbit around the Earth since its first module was launched on November 20th, 1998. To celebrate that milestone, NASA teamed up with Snapchat for a space-themed Live Story called Day in Space. Up on Snapchat now, the feed features NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, Commander of Expedition 47, living and working on the International… Read More

  • Gadgets
    The Garmin vivofit 3 makes me want to move again Crunch Network

    The Garmin vivofit 3 makes me want to move again

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    I’ve long been an activity tracker kind of guy. I strapped them all onto my fleshy wrist: the Fitbits, the Nikes, the Polars. I’ve watched circles fill up on my Apple Watch and I’ve watched ghost competitors race me on early GPS watches. But for the past few months I abandoned any wrist-based tracker because the battery in the one I was using kept dying. And so I went… Read More

  • Food
    Starting the food crisis conversation Crunch Network

    Starting the food crisis conversation

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    What does the future of food look like? Former Vice President Al Gore and 40 entrepreneurs and CEOs in the food industry recently convened in London to try to answer just that. Read More

  • Disrupt NY 2016
    5 days after Disrupt NY, the beard is still gone and the Red Hook Initiative is $4,500 richer

    5 days after Disrupt NY, the beard is still gone and the Red Hook Initiative is $4,500 richer

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    So I know some of y’all were worried about me after I agreed to have my face shaved at Disrupt NY to raise money for the Red Hook Initiative. I just wanted to check in and let you know what life post-beard is like. Read More

  • Entertainment
    Apple’s GarageBand picks up traditional Chinese sounds and instruments in new update

    Apple’s GarageBand picks up traditional Chinese sounds and instruments in new update

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    Apple’s interests in China, its second-largest regional market, expand far beyond their recent $1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing. As the company eyes a larger presence in China, they’re also looking to capture the country’s creativity and imagination with their content creation tools. Today, Apple’s GarageBand music creation software is gaining an update on iOS and… Read More

  • Gadgets
    This machine 3D prints metal structures in midair by lasering nanoparticles

    This machine 3D prints metal structures in midair by lasering nanoparticles

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    One limitation of run-of-the-mill 3D printers is that the structure must essentially be built as a series of layers, each one supporting the next. A new device from Harvard’s Wyss Institute allows metal filaments to essentially be drawn in midair with no support whatsoever. And it uses lasers! Read More

  • eCommerce
    MCX postpones rollout of Apple Pay rival CurrentC, lays off 30, will focus on bank deals

    MCX postpones rollout of Apple Pay rival CurrentC, lays off 30, will focus on bank deals

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    As merchants like Walmart move ahead on their own mobile payment strategies, a consortium that once counted Walmart — along with a number of other big retailers and brands — behind it, has taken a step back. Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) today announced it would postpone a nationwide rollout of CurrentC, a smartphone payment initiative originally conceived as a mobile… Read More

  • Media
    Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO of BET, joins Twitter’s board

    Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO of BET, joins Twitter’s board

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    Debra Lee, who has been CEO of Viacom’s Black Entertainment Television (BET) since 2005 and its chairman since 2006, has joined the board of Twitter. She tweeted out the news earlier today. Thrilled to be joining the @twitter board. It’s transformed the media and the world like few other things in history (and continues to)!! — Debra Lee (@IamDebraLee) May 16… Read More

  • Artificial Intelligence
    How can we control intelligent systems no one fully understands? Crunch Network

    How can we control intelligent systems no one fully understands?

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    The widespread conversations about AI took a new turn in March 2016 when Microsoft launched, then quickly unplugged, Tay, its artificial intelligence chat robot. Within 24 hours, interactions on Twitter had turned the bot, modeled after a teenage girl, into a “Hitler-loving sex robot.” How should we design intelligent learning machines that minimize undesirable behavior? Read More

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  • Hardware
    Starbreeze teams with Acer in its quest to build a better VR headset

    Starbreeze teams with Acer in its quest to build a better VR headset

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    StarVR was undoubtedly overshadowed by larger names during its debut at E3 last year, but those who did manage to demo the high-end headset seemed to walk away impressed. Among other things, Starbreeze’s hardware device offers a wider field of view than either Oculus or HTC, at 210 degrees to those devices’ 110. That’s courtesy of two Quad HD panels, bringing an extremely… Read More

  • Artificial Intelligence
    AI learns and recreates Nobel-winning physics experiment

    AI learns and recreates Nobel-winning physics experiment

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    Australian physicists, perhaps searching for a way to shorten the work week, have created an AI that can run and even improve a complex physics experiment with little oversight. The research could eventually allow human scientists to focus on high-level problems and research design, leaving the nuts and bolts to a robotic lab assistant. Read More

  • Apps
    Roadie is like Uber for shipping

    Roadie is like Uber for shipping

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    “Someone is always leaving everywhere”: that’s the idea behind Roadie, a peer-to-peer package delivery service launched last year by Marc Gorlin. There are something like 250 million vehicles on the road every day, Gorlin said, so he decided to take advantage of this resource by allowing people to help their neighbors out by driving things to places they’re already… Read More

  • Apps
    Ex-Twitter and Medium exec Jason Stirman launches Lucid, a mental training app for athletes

    Ex-Twitter and Medium exec Jason Stirman launches Lucid, a mental training app for athletes

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    Jason Stirman is part of a select group of early Web 2.0 builders in Silicon Valley. He was there at the beginning of Twitter, jumped with Ev Williams to Obvious Corp and then Medium and is now working on a passion of his – mindfulness for athletes. His new app, Lucid, launches in the App Store today and lends advice and mindfulness meditations from expert sports coaches who train… Read More

  • Startups
    GoButler launches Angel.ai to offer natural language tech to commerce companies

    GoButler launches Angel.ai to offer natural language tech to commerce companies

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    GoButler, the startup that originally offered a virtual assistant that let you request anything on-demand, appears to be pivoting for a second (and maybe final) time. The New York-headquartered company is shuttering the GoButler consumer-facing service altogether in favour of offering natural language processing technology to third-parties. Read More

  • Virtual Reality
    Oculus announces VR for Good initiative to help students and non-profits capture community life

    Oculus announces VR for Good initiative to help students and non-profits capture community life

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    For all of the talk there is in how virtual reality is going to usher in some dark, utopian age where people are huddled in corners with VR headsets strapped to their faces… That’s just not where things are headed right now. VR has a lot of impact for social change. We’ve talked about VR as an engine for empathy. Now, Oculus is specifically looking to turn VR into a medium… Read More

  • Momofuku’s David Chang launches Ando, a delivery-only restaurant

    Momofuku’s David Chang launches Ando, a delivery-only restaurant

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    And now, the moment all foodies in New York have been waiting for… David Chang, owner of the wildly popular line of Momofuku restaurants, is today launching Ando, the latest to join the franchise. But Ando isn’t quite like the Ssäm Bar or the Noodle Bar or even the Milk Bar. To the contrary, Ando is an entirely on-demand delivery restaurant, with no front of the house or… Read More

  • Apps
    Waze brings its carpooling service to the Bay Area

    Waze brings its carpooling service to the Bay Area

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    Google-owned navigation app Waze is expanding its ride-sharing ambitions with the launch of a pilot program in the San Francisco Bay area which will allow employees of select companies to carpool to and from work via Waze’s carpooling service. This program is similar to the service Waze began testing last year in Tel Aviv, Israel, via an app called “RideWith.” The app… Read More

  • Apps
    Meet the 17th class of 500 Startups companies

    Meet the 17th class of 500 Startups companies

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    500 Startups’ 16th demo day just wrapped up, and the firm is already turning its eyes to its next batch of companies. More than 40 startups are participating in this batch of companies. From softer baby products to tools for creating and distributing vertical videos (a big focus given the shift on many mobile platforms), there’s something that might pique pretty much… Read More

  • Hardware
    Garmin’s Vivosmart HR activity tracker gets a GPS upgrade

    Garmin’s Vivosmart HR activity tracker gets a GPS upgrade

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    It seems like every week brings a new activity tracker from Garmin. And hey, like clockwork, the navigation-turned-fitness-wearable manufacturer kicked off the week with a new one – or, rather, an upgrade to an old classic. The Vivosmart HR+ is, as the name not so subtly implies, an augmentation to the company’s Vivosmart HR device, this time bringing that old Garmin standby… Read More

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