Intel buys computer vision startup Itseez to improve navigation in self-driving cars and other top stories.

• Intel buys computer vision startup Itseez to improve navigation in self-driving cars

  

  Intel has acquired computer vision and machine learning startup Itseez to develop better navigation for self-driving cars. The value of the deal was undisclosed. Founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, Itseez makes computer vision algorithms and software. The company’s products include a suite of algorithms for automobiles it calls “advanced driver assistance systems,” which allows car hardware to recognize pedestrians and traffic signs and warn about potential collisions. The acquisition ..

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• NASA Hits Snag While Inflating Space Station's New BEAM Habitat

  

  NASA called off attempts to inflate the first privately built expandable room on the International Space Station (ISS) today (May 26) after early efforts to pump up the module didn't go exactly as planned.  The inflatable room, called the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), is an experimental habitat built by the company Bigelow Aerospace. NASA wants to study the technology for future deep-space habitats, while Bigelow Aerospace has its sights set on private space stations and mo..

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• Mars is emerging from an ice age that ended about 400000 years ago

  

  Mars is emerging from an ice age, according to a new study. Studying the Martian climate and how it changes over time can help scientists better plan future missions to Mars and even understand climate change here on Earth, the study authors say. Models had already predicted that Mars underwent several rounds of ice ages in the past, but little physical measurements ever confirmed those predictions. Today’s study, published in the journal Science, is the first to map the ice deposits on the nor..

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• Schrödinger's Cat Alive And Dead In Two Boxes At Once

  

  Yale University researchers have taken one of the most famous thought experiments one step further in analysis, finding Schrödinger's cat would be both alive and dead in two boxes at once. How could this help change the future of computing?  ( Richard Chowden | Getty Images ) Schrödinger's cat may be both alive and dead in the famous thought experiment concerning physics, but now Yale University researchers have come to an even more bizarre conclusion. The theoretical animal coul..

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• Facebook and Microsoft Are Laying a Giant Cable Across the Atlantic

  

  Getty Images Facebook and Microsoft are laying a massive cable across the middle of the Atlantic. Dubbed MAREA—Spanish for “tide”—this giant underwater cable will stretch from Virginia to Bilbao, Spain, shuttling digital data across 6,600 kilometers of ocean. Providing up to 160 terabits per second of bandwidth—about 16 million times the bandwidth of your home Internet connection—it will allow the two tech titans to more efficiently move enormous amounts of information between the many comput..

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