Many museums across the world are usingAI to identify fake paintingsor to measurethe quality of the art on exhibition. Speaking at the TNW Conference,Robert G. Erdmann — Senior Scientist and Full Professor at the Rijksmuseum and University of Amsterdam — gaveexamples of how the museum is using AI to unlock new artistic mysteries. To create a five-minute video of Lidded ewer, an art piece made by Adam van Vianen, the museum photographer took 1,000 images of the object....

How an army of sewer robots can help us fix our clogged pipes The pipe bots The underground pipe networks are complex, varied, and difficult to work in. There are many pipe sizes, made of different materials, placed at many different depths. They are connected in lots of different configurations and filled to different extents with different contents. Pipebotsis a large UK government-funded project working on robots that will help maintain the pipe system....

On August 31st, 1939, Hitler ordered the invasion of Poland with the first moves scheduled to take place at 4.45am the following morning. During the night, German units posing as Polish troops attack a radio transmitter near the German town of Gleiwitz as a propaganda mechanism for justifying the subsequent invasion. And thus the war that became known as World War 2 was set in motion. Since that day, the events of the 6-year war have been regaled across film, radio, theater, books, magazines…and now Twitter....

If you’ve got a new Android phone, its processor is probably more advanced than the one that will control the first-ever flight on Mars. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, which is slated to make its maiden voyage on the red planeton April 14, is poweredby Snapdragon’s 801 processor — the same chip used by a slew of phones released in 2014 and 2015. The system runs an integrated board called the Qualcomm Flight Platform, which will operate the autonomous flight....

After 5 years,AddThisis now the largest content sharing platform on the web with over 10 million websites using it. AddThis compiles sharing analytics over the course of its use in order to offer insights to publishers on how and what people share online. Now with five full years of analytics on social sharing data, AddThis shot over an info graphic illustrating just when users decide to share, what services they are more likely to share to, and where in the world people are sharing from....