Scientists were surprised by a lack of craters, suggesting the mountains (likely composed largely of water ice, not rock) in the shot were formed no more than 100 million years ago — otherwise they’d show evidence of more impacts.
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]]>“What we’re trying to do is use the human brain as an inspiration,” Google DeepMind researcher Demis Hassabis told reporters in a telephone conference call about the research, published in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. “This is the first rung of the ladder to showing that a general learning system that goes from end to end, from pixels to actions, even on tasks that humans find difficult.”
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]]>An artist in the gaming industry, Priscilla Firstenberg, had the idea that the Oculus Rift VR headset might provide a welcome escape for her terminally ill grandmother, Roberta. Priscilla emailed the company, which responded with sympathy and lent her a headset to try out. Before long, Roberta was walking through a virtual Tuscan villa, trying to catch butterflies and admiring the sunshine.
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]]>Luxottica Group, the Italian parent company of both brands, announced the partnership in a press release Monday, saying the companies will “design, develop, and distribute a new breed of eyeware for Glass.”
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]]>The Pew Research report asked thousands of experts and members of the public for opinions on “the most significant overall impacts of our uses of the Internet on humanity” — and some had a rosier outlook than others.
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