Keyme

This is a cool new company over at new york that lats you scan your key with an iphone so that when you lose your key they can make a copy and deliver it to you or you can go to one of their kiosk to have it made there, by a robot which is amazing.

Robots test touch screens

Who would you want to test your touchscreen device? Maybe an older adult, to ensure it’s intuitive even to someone who isn’t a digital native? Maybe a kid, who’s got high expectations for modern tech? Well, Intel doesn’t use a person at all, MIT Technology Review reports. Instead, it uses robots to evaluate how much people will like new devices.

Unlike people, robots are tireless and provide exact numerical feedback on flaws, the magazine reports. For example, Intel’s robots do stuff like type and play cell phone games on a testing device while training a camera on the screen and recording data on how the screen responds to the robot’s finger. All major technology companies use testing robots, but don’t talk about it for fear of giving away an advantage to a competitor, Jason Huggins, co-founder of an app-testing company called Sauce Labs, told MIT Technology Review.

Check out the full article for other ways robots beat human testers. There’s also a great video of one of the Intel robots pinching to zoom, drawing with a stylus and otherwise using a cellphone much like you do, except with really perfect lines. Does a robot playing a cellphone game win every time? It depends, Intel engineer Eddie Raleigh tells the magazine. Engineers can program the robots to win all the time, or just sometimes.

Google going into AI

In an apparent move to feed its smart-hardware ambitions, Google has bought an artificial intelligence startup, DeepMind, for somewhere in the ballpark of $500 million. Considering all of the data Google sifts through, and the fact that it might be getting into robotics, it's not completely absurd that they'd want some software to give a robotic helping hand. (Facebook apparently wanted the company, too, and they've already made moves to wrangle their own sprawling web of information.) But the other part of this story is a little stranger: the deal reportedly came under the condition that Google create an "ethics board" for the project.

What, exactly, does that mean? No idea. It's unclear how the board would be structured, who'd be on it, or when it would be consulted. The London-based DeepMind doesn't seem particularly sinister, either: the company has mostly used its software in fields like e-commerce and gaming. The point is software like this could eventually be used for work in ethical gray areas, and DeepMind might've wanted to get ahead of the issues. 

Which, good. The more decisions we cede to machines, the more we need human oversight of those decisions. A simple "Don't be evil" mantra might not cut it.

I7 intel processor

The fastest available processor it tops out at 2.40GH it can also be overclocked to 8.39562 GH. making it one of the fastest available processor out there. my home computer runs on I3 but i would love to be running a I7 on my computer and my laptop.