Sprint lets go 2,500 employees in cost-cutting measure
Sprint indicated a couple of months ago that layoffs were coming to its organization. Today, that finally happened, as at least 2,500 people were laid off from the company. According to Reuters, most of those job cuts came from customer care centers, and about 574 of those positions were from Sprint’s Overland Park, Kansas headquarters. A Sprint spokesperson told Reuters that this was in response to the trend of customers going...
Marvin Minsky, A.I. pioneer, dies of brain hemorrhage at 88
This is a man who, in 1951, built the premiere “randomly wired neural network learning machine” which you can hear him talk about in the video below. He also built the first confocal scanning microscope (read: extremely powerful) at Harvard in 1956. Two years later, along with John McCarthy (the man credited with naming “artificial intelligence”), he cofounded and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of...
Marvin Minsky, A.I. pioneer, dies of brain hemorrhage at 88
This is a man who, in 1951, built the premiere “randomly wired neural network learning machine” which you can hear him talk about in the video below. He also built the first confocal scanning microscope (read: extremely powerful) at Harvard in 1956. Two years later, along with John McCarthy (the man credited with naming “artificial intelligence”), he cofounded and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of...
Apple Brings Innovation Back to Television with All-New Apple TV
Watch the keynote Watch the film Watch the TV ad TV is a major part of our lives. We gather together around our big screens to watch big shows and big events. Yet somehow, the overall experience of TV has continued to stagnate. Until now. It all starts by recognizing that apps are the future of television. HBO NOW, WatchESPN, Netflix, Hulu, iTunes — apps are quickly becoming how we watch today. So we built a new foundation around this...
‘Sound wave tweezers’ can move cells around for 3D bioprinting
Since the group wanted to prove that the technique could be used to print out biological tissue, they experimented with 3D structures: The researchers’ most recent version of acoustic tweezers involves a microfluidic device that uses acoustic wave generators to produce sound waves along the edges of the device. The device’s design allowed researchers to manipulate where the waves would meet along each of the three axes. At...
