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San Francisco streets are so dirty, the city is spending nearly $300,000 on...
San Francisco is installing sensors on 1,000 trash bins in an effort to curb littering and illegal dumping.The city's downtown neighborhoods are filled with needles and garbage, creating conditions...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't afraid of the rise of robots, but she agrees...
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has an unusual take on the risk of robots taking over US jobs.The conventional wisdom is that business owners who replace human workers with robots will...
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Facebook is using AI to crack down on 'revenge porn' (FB)
Facebook is using AI to try and crack down on "revenge porn."The social network plans to use machine learning tools to find and automatically flag nonconsensually shared intimate photos, it announced...
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AI experts are studying the way that kids' brains develop, and it could be a...
Computer scientists developing artificial intelligence want their technology to be more like a child's brain.Children's brains are great at collecting information and learning from cues in the world...
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Here's the pitch deck AI startup Skymind just used to scoop up $11.5 million...
Skymind just closed an $11.5 million Series A funding round.The San Francisco-based company offers a set of software that helps companies build artificial intelligence systems.It plans to use the new...
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THE AI IN TRANSPORTATION REPORT: How automakers can use artificial...
This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence. To learn more about Business Insider Intelligence, click here. Current subscribers can log in and read the report here.New...
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We tried the $300 smart security camera that was cool enough to get on...
The Lighthouse security camera was a $300 internet-connected device that could identify you and your family members.But Lighthouse shut down its operations last December and sold its patents to Apple....
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Over a thousand Google employees have signed a petition calling for the...
Over a thousand Google employees have signed a petition calling for the removal of Kay Coles James, the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, from Google's recently announced...
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After an employee backlash, Google has cancelled its AI ethics board a little...
Google has shut down its new AI ethics board.It was only announced last week.It ran into immediate controversy over its choice of members, with thousands of employees signing a petition against a...
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This robot can find Waldo in any 'Where's Waldo' puzzle as little as 5...
One company built a robot that can find Waldo in any "Where's Waldo" puzzle faster than most humans probably could."There's Waldo" is a robot that uses computer vision and machine learning to spot...
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Google Cloud is taking on Amazon by moving into retail, and it's a first step...
On Wednesday at its annual Google Cloud Next conference, Google announced Google Cloud for Retail, a cloud platform designed to help retailers with hosting, inventory management, search, and product...
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Robots could wipe out 1.3 million Wall Street jobs in the next 10 years
Jobs in banking and the financial services industries continue to be the most popular in 2019.Despite their popularity, a new report predicts that 1.3 million bank workers will lose their jobs or be...
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This startup raised $28 million to give dangerous industrial robots eyes, and...
Veo Robotics has raised a total of $28 million for its technology that gives dangerous industrial robots eyes and allows them to operate alongside humans.A prototype of the product will be rolled out...
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Elon Musk says an update on his brain-computing interface is 'coming soon'
Elon Musk hinted at what could be the announcement of a brain-machine interface that would hook human brains up to computers.In response to a question asking for an update on Neuralink, a...
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Scientists created a never-ending livestream of AI-generated death metal —...
Relentless Doppelganger is a non-stop, 24/7 livestream churning out heavy death metal generated completely by algorithms.It's the work of music technologists CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, who have been...
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BlackRock is quietly building a team of 30 data scientists to create a...
BlackRock founded AI Labs last year to research artificial intelligence. Since then, it's expanded to a staff of 30.The team continues to grow — the firm is looking for a senior data scientist, among...
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Google just showed off 4 major updates to its futuristic Lens technology that...
Google announced several updated to Lens at its I/O event on Tuesday. The updates include automatic tip calculation, bill splitting, and translation services. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more...
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Watch this self-piloting drone effortlessly dodge a soccer ball being thrown...
A new video from the University of Zurich shows an autonomous drone ducking and dodging a soccer ball being thrown at it in real time.The video is part of an experiment researching the effects of...
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I've owned an Amazon Echo for over 3 years now — here are my 19 favorite...
I activated my Amazon Echo for the first time in December 2015, and it's since become one of my favorite tech gadgets ever.I've outlined my favorite features to get the most out of Amazon's Echo...
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Facebook has finally revealed what its secretive robotics division is working...
Facebook for the first time has revealed the projects that its robotics division is working on.The company hopes the projects will eventually lead to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence that can...
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