The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) remains committed to supporting the development of human knowledge and skills for agricultural development. Under the IICA Director General’s Single Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Caribbean, a longstanding internship arrangement with UWI Faculty of Food and Agriculture (FFA) was formalised and expanded to students across...
Reports of Earth-orbiting astronauts glimpsing the Great Wall of China and many other artificial structures are wildly exaggerated, but humanity’s planetary influence isn’t entirely invisible from afar…
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google DeepMind trained a robot to beat humans at table tennis What’s new: Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play table tennis at the equivalent of amateur-level competitive performance…
Do you fancy your chances of beating a robot at a game of table tennis? Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play the game at the equivalent of amateur-level competitive performance, the company has announced. It claims it’s the first time a robot has been taught to play a sport with humans at a……