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After a few weeks of rumor, as well as a few years of hearing, AMD went first to the complete acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx. The deal includes an all-stock exchange, exploiting AMD's sizeable share price to allow an equivalent $143 per Xilinx share – current AMD shareholders will still own 74 percent of the merged business. In comparison, Xilinx shareholders will own 26 percent. The combined $135 billion entity would total 13,000 engineers and increase AMD's total addressable market to $110 billion. The acquisition's main reasons are assumed to be Xilinx's adaptive computing solutions for the data center label.

Fluorescently labeled cell micrographs are undeniably stunning, but they require intrusive and often destructive or deadly protocols to get their glow. In order to prevent such disruptions, researchers have created a computer program that can differentiate between cell types and recognize subcellular structures, among other features — all without the fluorescent probes on which our human eyes depend.

Artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies are becoming popular in work interviews. The technology, created by the U.S. company HireVue, analyzes the language and sound of the candidate's voice and records their facial expressions as videos answering the same questions.

A new Facebook experiment reveals how sound could play a key role in augmented reality. Chief scientist Michael Abrash and his team at FRL Research (formerly Facebook Reality Labs) published information today about what the group calls “ perceptual superpowers ” — AR devices that find out what you're trying to hear, then enhance it and dampen background noise. In conjunction with spatial audio features, the interface produces an aural equivalent of a hologram overlay in a pair of glasses.

US chipmaker Intel (INTC) is selling part of its memory chip business to SK Hynix for $9 billion in a transaction that would make the South Korean firm the world's second-largest flash memory chipmaker.

Artificial Intelligence ( AI) is already reconfiguring the world inconspicuous ways. Data powers our global digital economy, and data trends are exposed to AI technologies. Smartphones, smart homes, and intelligent cities affect how we work and communicate, and AI systems are increasingly involved in recruitment decisions, medical diagnosis, and court rulings. It depends on your viewpoint on whether this scenario is utopian or dystopian.

If augmented reality is the future, then this is a preview into what is coming.

Deep learning is catching the interest of all of us as it produces results that have not been possible before. Deep learning is a machine learning technique that teaches computers to learn by example, just as we have known as a child. This technology is used in autonomous vehicles.

In addition to being aware of the business advantages of augmented reality (AR) and designing software to make the most of it, companies should also consider the possible risks of AR in the early stages of preparation to ensure effective implementation.

Augmented reality is the name of a suite of technologies that superimpose a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, offering a composite picture – part reality, part digital image. The root of the word 'increased' is 'increase,' meaning to add something. In augmented reality ( AR), graphics, text, sounds, and occasionally touch-feedback are applied to the real world. AR varies from virtual reality ( VR), which allows the user to live in an entirely computer-generated environment through a headset.