Month: March 2019

Apple TV+ is the all-new streaming service

Apple announced its own TV and movie streaming service , enlisting such superstars as Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston and Steven Spielberg.

Apple didn’t disclose the price or the launch date except to say that Apple TV Plus will be available this fall. It will feature Apple’s original shows and movies.

Among the upcoming programs on the new Apple service will be Winfrey-created documentaries; a show about TV morning talk shows, starring Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell; and a sci-fi show called “Amazing Stories” from Spielberg.

Here is the official one – https://www.apple.com/in/tv/

An external advisory council to help advance the responsible development of AI

Alphabet’s Google said it was launching a global advisory council to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies and to ‘ to guide the responsible development and use of AI in our research and products. ‘

To complement the internal governance structure and processes that will help to implement the principles, an Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) is established.

The eight-member Advanced Technology External Advisory Council includes Joanna Bryson, an associate professor in computing at the University of Bath; William J. Burns, a former US deputy secretary of state, and Dyan Gibbens, chief executive of Houston-based drone startup Trumbull, according to a Google blog post.

Fathers of AI honoured with Nobel Prize of computing

  • Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have been honoured with Turing award, which carries a $1 million prize.
  • Their decades of hardwork and their persistence paid off when the Association for Computing Machinery awarded them the ACM AM Turing Award, an honour that over the years has become famous as the “Nobel Prize of computing”, for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs in the field of deep neural networks.
  •  Geoffrey Hinton works at Google as a vice-president and senior fellow.
  • Mr. LeCun is chief AI scientist at Facebook.
  • Mr. Bengio remains immersed in academia as a University of Montreal professor in addition to serving as scientific director at the Artificial Intelligence Institute in Quebec .

“For a long time, people thought what the three of us were doing was nonsense,” Mr. Hinton said in an interview with. “They thought we were very misguided and what we were doing was a very surprising thing for apparently intelligent people to waste their time on. My message to young researchers is, don’t be put off if everyone tells you what are doing is silly.”

Turing Awardees

For more info. please visit-

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/artificial-intelligence-pioneers-win-tech-nobel/article26653986.ece

Tesla unveils its Model Y electric SUV

The company’s fifth car will be available in four configurations, and will seat seven passengers with an optional third row. The base variant comes in at $39,000, with a range of 370 kilometers (230 miles) on a single charge; the top-end Performance model will be able to cover 450 kilometers (280 miles), hit a top speed of 240 kmph (150mph), and set you back by $60,000.


“It has the functionality of an SUV, but it will ride like a sports car,” Musk said. “So this thing will be really tight on corners.”

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/tesla-model-y-unveil-suv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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Astronomers discover 83 supermassive black holes as big as the Sun in the early universe

“It is remarkable that such massive dense objects were able to form so soon after the Big Bang,”

said Michael Strauss, a professor at Princeton University in the US.

Astronomers have discovered 83 quasars (a massive and extremely remote celestial object) powered by supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away from the Earth, from a time when the universe was less than 10 per cent of its present age.

Supermassive black holes, found at the centres of galaxies, can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the Sun.

While they are prevalent today, it is unclear when they first formed, and how many existed in the distant early universe.

A supermassive black hole becomes visible when gas accretes onto it, causing it to shine as a “quasar”.

Please visit these links to get more info –

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/83-supermassive-black-holes-discovered-astronomers-early-universe-1477973-2019-03-14

https://www.telegraphindia.com/science/83-supermassive-black-holes-found-in-early-universe/cid/1686812