A project for intelligent road signs and traffic lights has begun. Siemens AG and Cohda Wireless announced today that they will collaborate on Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I), an initiative for wireless exchange of critical safety and operational data between vehicles and roadway infrastructure—including traffic lights. It presents drivers with immediate dangers, ultimately helping them avoid … continue reading
Do you want your photo tagging sites like Flickr to better recognize cats and dogs? MIT’s research lab, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), is working on it. In December, CSAIL researchers will present a new way of using machine learning at the annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Built on a … continue reading
The series of Facebook outages, caused by planned software updates, at the end of last month caused an uproar for millions of its mobile users. The social networking site is trying to prevent the issue in the future by working on two other ways to improve connectivity. There are still users stuck on mobile 2G … continue reading
Rogue Wave Software announced today that it has acquired Zend Technologies, an end-to-end PHP Web and mobile application development and deployment solution company. With 50% of the Web’s workload running on PHP (including services like Drupal, Magento and WordPress), Zend products drive PHP in the enterprise, from code creation through production deployment. (Related: An ‘API-first’ … continue reading
Microsoft has acquired Havok, a provider of 3D physics technology for the games industry, from Intel. Microsoft will continue to license Havok’s development tools to partners. Havok will be added into Microsoft’s existing tools and platform components for developers, including DirectX 12, Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure. Microsoft sees the acquisition of Havok as an … continue reading
