Car giant Ford has announced that it is investing $1bn (£800m) over the next five years in artificial intelligence (AI) company Argo. The firms will collaborate on developing a virtual driver system for driverless cars. Ford intends to have an autonomous vehicle ready to launch in 2021. Argo was founded by CEO Brian Salesky and … Read more
Ford will invest $1 billion over five years in an artificial intelligence startup with the aim of developing an autonomous vehicle by 2021, the auto giant said Friday. Ford will take a majority stake in Argo AI, an artificial intelligence company based in Pittsburgh, started in late 2016 by former Google and Uber employees who … Read more
Sometimes l wonder why we want to reinvent the wheel in Ghana. There is no problem that is new in the world and borrowing from others to solve ours, should not be a difficult thing to do. That is why l find the growing number of children living on the streets, a problem that we … Read more
Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp (7203. T) and Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T) appeared poised to unveil a wide-ranging partnership on Monday that could include the development of new technologies and procurement. Both automakers, which said in October they were exploring a tie-up, said their boards would make a decision on the matter later in the day. … Read more
A US court has ordered Facebook and other defendants to pay $500m (£395m) after finding they unlawfully used a firm’s virtual reality technology. The jury found Oculus, which Facebook bought in 2014, used computer code belonging to video game developer Zenimax to launch its own VR headset. Oculus said it was “disappointed” and would appeal … Read more
2017 is here and the next journey for Human Resource (HR) leaders will be to apply a consumer and a digital lens to the HR function creating an employee experience that mirrors their best customer experience. Today, almost every company is undergoing a digital transformation. Cloud and mobile computing, artificial intelligence and increasing automation have … Read more
Classrooms are noticeably more hi-tech these days – interactive boards, laptops and online learning plans proliferate, but has the curriculum actually changed or are children simply learning the same thing on different devices? Some argue that the education this generation of children is receiving is little different from that their parents or even their grandparents … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Tuesday posted a 54 percent rise in third-quarter revenue, beating analyst estimates, helped by higher sales during its Single’s Day shopping event and increased earnings in its cloud and digital media ventures. The company said it would be raising its 2017 full-year guidance for revenue growth from 48 percent to … Read more
A year with glimpses of far-reaching technological milestones that will influence the way we live. Over the past decade we have been awed at how dynamically and quickly technology is transforming our lives and the world around us. Ten years ago the first generation of IPhones was rolled out, Facebook began its journey of leading … Read more
As expected, HTC has joined the league of players that believe headphone jacks are relics of the past and don’t deserve their 3.5mm space on modern smartphones. The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer today unveiled two new smartphones in its new “U” lineup: “its first phablet in a while” HTC U Ultra and “aggressively priced” HTC U … Read more
MEPs are to vote on the first comprehensive set of rules for how humans will interact with artificial intelligence and robots. The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a “new industrial” robot revolution. MEPs will decide whether to give robots legal status as “electronic persons”. Designers should … Read more
As the year has ended, which would also mean the shutting down of the calendar year for the 2016 music releases for the Vodafone Ghana Music awards 2017; music lovers, experts and aficionados of the industry have been opining on which artiste has/had the most reflective year. Most Ghanaian artistes have really worked industriously this … Read more
Ten years ago I was running from San Francisco’s Moscone Centre to a nearby hotel to edit a piece for the Ten O’Clock News when my phone rang. Those were the days, by the way, when phones were for making calls but all that was about to change. “Have you got your hands on this … Read more
play videoIt was designed by a robotics team in Pennsylvania, USA A team at the Robotics Institute in the US-based Carnegie Mellon University has designed a robot that can perform basic tasks. The robot moves like a spider but only has six legs, its creators said. Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking … Read more
A man is said to be hero, not when he loses many war, but rather the many war he wins. So says the adage. Since 1992, Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) came under scrutiny by level headed politicians and discerning Ghanaians who in one way or the other had opposed its position on electoral matters. The … Read more
Ride-sharing service Uber has acquired a New York-based artificial intelligence start-up which it hopes can speed up its progress in creating self-driving cars. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will see Uber gain 15 specialist researchers who will form a new division at the company known as Uber AI Labs. Geometric Intelligence’s co-founder Gary Marcus … Read more
Amina Ibrahim (AI) wife of late Hi-Life singer Daasebre Gyamenah, has revealed that she buried her husband one month ago. According to her, ever since my husband kicked the bucket I knew him as a Muslim until his maternal and paternal had issues at the court over his corpse. She revealed this in an interview … Read more
An experiment to see whether computers can identify criminals based on their faces has been conducted in China. Researchers trained an algorithm using more than 1,500 photos of Chinese citizens, hundreds of them convicts. They said the program was then able to correctly identify criminals in further photos 89% of the time. But the research, … Read more
The Ghana Police Service is ready to ensure peace during the 2016 elections, but cannot overrule pockets of violence, the Public Relations Director of the service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur has stated. According to him, the police were ready, the moment the Electoral Commission announced its readiness to conduct the elections slated for December 7, 2016. … Read more
When a lecturer at Ashesi asked Kojo to describe himself in a word, he didn’t have to think long about it?—?“robotics” was the natural and apt response. Several years earlier in high school, after stumbling upon the robotics club in his first year, Kojo’s interest was immediately piqued. Since then, Kojo has fully immersed himself … Read more