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NASA’s Orion spacecraft getting closer to finally flying again

It has been a long three-and-a-half years since the Orion spacecraft first launched into space in December 2014, making a successful shake-out flight. But now, NASA’s program aimed at building a large, deep-space capsule capable of sending astronauts to and from lunar orbit is finally ramping back up toward a series of test flights. In less than a year, a boilerplate model of the Orion spacecraft will be jettisoned from its rocket at 55 seconds after liftoff, to test the vehicle’s launch abort system.

Introducing CloudEvents 0.1 – An open effort by Google, Microsoft, IBM and more

Delivery Robots Will Rely on Human Kindness and Labor

In April, Starship Technologies announced that it is going to launch “robot delivery services for campuses.” Its goal is to deploy at least 1,000 delivery robots to “corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the U.S.” within the next year. It’s the latest in a long list of automated delivery schemes from a tech companies big and small.

Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

Google: Deep Learning for Electronic Health Records

When patients get admitted to a hospital, they have many questions about what will happen next. When will I be able to go home? Will I get better?

Facebook’s Field Guide to Machine Learning video series

The Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning is a six-part video series developed by the Facebook ads machine learning team. The series shares best real-world practices and provides practical tips about how to apply machine-learning capabilities to real-world problems. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are in the headlines everywhere today, and there are many resources to teach you about how the algorithms work and demonstrations of the latest cutting-edge research.

Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash

51 Examples of Growth Hacking Strategies and Techniques

These days its not enough for a new company to turn a tidy profit and reinvest it in long term growth. For todays startup businesses growth is the only metric of success and companies are looking for ever more ingenious ways of bringing new users onboard with their products or services… growth hacking strategies.

The material science of building a light sail to take us to Alpha Centauri

Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2

Welcome to the new 2018 edition of fast.ai’s second 7 week course, Cutting Edge Deep Learning For Coders, Part 2, where you’ll learn the latest developments in deep learning, how to read and implement new academic papers, and how to solve challenging end-to-end problems such as natural language translation. You’ll develop a deep understanding of neural network foundations, the most important recent advances in the fields, and how to implement them in the world’s fastest deep learning libraries, fastai and pytorch. This course contains all new material, so if you’ve already completed the 2017 version, you’ll find plenty here to keep you busy too!