The first industrial robot, Unimate, was installed in a General Motors factory in 1961 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine. elaborate
High-frequency trading firms often use microwave links to transmit data, because microwaves travel faster than fiber optic cables over short distances. elaborate
Reinforcement learning algorithms are often used to train AI agents to play games *without* explicitly programming them with the rules – the agent learns the rules through trial and error and reward signals. elaborate
Andy Serkis, famous for his motion capture performances as Gollum and Caesar, initially trained as a stage actor. elaborate
Amazon's original name was Cadabra, but Jeff Bezos changed it because it sounded too much like "cadaver". elaborate
The first online transaction was the sale of a CD in 1994. elaborate
AMD's first product wasn't a CPU; it was a logic chip for arcade game machines. elaborate