X-Ray Security Scans Go Interactive
Airport security staff can spend their entire day staring at two-dimensional, static X-ray scans. Soon, however, they may be able to interact with these images, rotating a scanned object on the screen and even analysing its chemical composition. It can be difficult to identify objects from the 2D images generated by X-ray scanners, says Paul…
Privacy & Security
Duncan Graham-Rowe - NewScientist
Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2020
Reverse-engineering the human brain so we can simulate it using computers may be only a decade away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The Singularity is Near. It would be the first step toward creating machines that are more powerful than the human brain. These supercomputers could be networked…
Artificial Intelligence
Priya Ganapati - Wired
