A high-school student won $250,000 for explaining relativity using a pick-up truck and Usain Bolt

Hillary Diane Andales/YouTube 18-year-old Hillary Diane Andales won the 2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge for her video explaining the theory of relativity. Andales took home $ 250,000 in scholarship money for her win. The German physicist Albert Einstein needed complex equations to describe his theory of relativity, but 18-year-old Hillary Diane Andales of the Philippines does […]

AI Weekly: $102 million and machine learning’s theory of general relativity

What’s $ 102 million among friends? That was the question last week as Element.ai raised this hefty sum in a Series A funding. Investors included Microsoft, Nvidia, and Intel Capital, all of whom have their own AI ambitions. Element aims to make AI easy for businesses to use by connecting them with machine learning experts. […]