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LONDON AP 鈥?A wheelchair used by physicist Stephen Hawking has sold at stanley cup auction for almost 300,000 pounds $393,000 , while a copy of his doctoral thesis fetched almost 585,000 pounds $767,000 , auctioneer Christies said Thursday.The motorized chair, used by Hawking after he was paralyzed with motor neuron disease, raised 296,750 pounds in a Christies online auctio stanley cup n. It had been expected to fetch up to 15,000 pounds.Proceeds from the chairs sale will go to two charities, the Stephen Hawking Foundation and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.Hawkings 1965 Cambridge University stanley cup thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes, sold for 584,750 pounds, more than three times its pre-sale estimate, in the online auction.Diagnosed with motor neuron disease at 22 and given just a few years to live, Hawking instead died in March at 76. He expanded scientific thinking about black holes and the origins of the universe and attained celebrity status, writing best-selling books and guest starring on The Simpsons. A script from one of his appearances on the animated TV show sold for 6,250 pounds in the sale of 22 Hawking items, while a collection of his medals and awards raised 296,750 pounds.Hawkings daughter Lucy said the sale gave admirers of his work the chance to acquire a memento of our fathers extraordinary life in the shape of a small selection of evocative and fascinating items. Hawkings children hope to preserve his scientific archive for the nation. Christies is handling the neg Pmqt Trudeau cancels Japan trip for state funeral
Yomiuri Shimbun file photoNTT Corp.s head office in Chiyoda Ward, TokyoBy Yasuhiro Kobayashi / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent13:04 JST,ensp;April 13, 2024SAN FRANCISCO 鈥?NTT Corp. has created an advanced image reading technology to improve the functionality of its tsuzumi generative AI, the company has said. Tsuzumi is set to be fully commercially available by the end of fiscal 2024.Generative AIs have had trouble understanding visual information such as charts and stanley thermos diagrams. NTTs new technology will be able to read articles, websites and contracts that contain charts or illustrations, and produce answers about such images or summarize them.NTT expects the technology to be used to summarize foreign maps and restaurant menus captured by smartphone, and said that stanley kubek accuracy is comparable to Google LLCs latest generative AI platform, Gemini. NTT also plans to develop voice and other recognition technologies.In March, NTT started offering tsuzumi, which has a high level of Japanese language ability, to companies and local governments in Japan. NTT said it has so far received more than 500 inquiries about the AI.Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed.Companies Latest ArticlesSeven i Founding Family Gives Up on Management Buyout Plan; Fam...Niigata Nuclear Plants Anti-Terrorism Facility Delayed stanley cup ; Kashiwaz...Buffett Eyeing More Stakes in 5 Major Japanese TradersFirst Phase of Toyotas Next-Gen City Unveiled; Robots to Make De...Latest ArticlesThis Year s Fitness Buzzword Is Recovery
LONDON AP 鈥?A wheelchair used by physicist Stephen Hawking has sold at stanley cup auction for almost 300,000 pounds $393,000 , while a copy of his doctoral thesis fetched almost 585,000 pounds $767,000 , auctioneer Christies said Thursday.The motorized chair, used by Hawking after he was paralyzed with motor neuron disease, raised 296,750 pounds in a Christies online auctio stanley cup n. It had been expected to fetch up to 15,000 pounds.Proceeds from the chairs sale will go to two charities, the Stephen Hawking Foundation and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.Hawkings 1965 Cambridge University stanley cup thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes, sold for 584,750 pounds, more than three times its pre-sale estimate, in the online auction.Diagnosed with motor neuron disease at 22 and given just a few years to live, Hawking instead died in March at 76. He expanded scientific thinking about black holes and the origins of the universe and attained celebrity status, writing best-selling books and guest starring on The Simpsons. A script from one of his appearances on the animated TV show sold for 6,250 pounds in the sale of 22 Hawking items, while a collection of his medals and awards raised 296,750 pounds.Hawkings daughter Lucy said the sale gave admirers of his work the chance to acquire a memento of our fathers extraordinary life in the shape of a small selection of evocative and fascinating items. Hawkings children hope to preserve his scientific archive for the nation. Christies is handling the neg Pmqt Trudeau cancels Japan trip for state funeral
Yomiuri Shimbun file photoNTT Corp.s head office in Chiyoda Ward, TokyoBy Yasuhiro Kobayashi / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent13:04 JST,ensp;April 13, 2024SAN FRANCISCO 鈥?NTT Corp. has created an advanced image reading technology to improve the functionality of its tsuzumi generative AI, the company has said. Tsuzumi is set to be fully commercially available by the end of fiscal 2024.Generative AIs have had trouble understanding visual information such as charts and stanley thermos diagrams. NTTs new technology will be able to read articles, websites and contracts that contain charts or illustrations, and produce answers about such images or summarize them.NTT expects the technology to be used to summarize foreign maps and restaurant menus captured by smartphone, and said that stanley kubek accuracy is comparable to Google LLCs latest generative AI platform, Gemini. NTT also plans to develop voice and other recognition technologies.In March, NTT started offering tsuzumi, which has a high level of Japanese language ability, to companies and local governments in Japan. NTT said it has so far received more than 500 inquiries about the AI.Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed.Companies Latest ArticlesSeven i Founding Family Gives Up on Management Buyout Plan; Fam...Niigata Nuclear Plants Anti-Terrorism Facility Delayed stanley cup ; Kashiwaz...Buffett Eyeing More Stakes in 5 Major Japanese TradersFirst Phase of Toyotas Next-Gen City Unveiled; Robots to Make De...Latest ArticlesThis Year s Fitness Buzzword Is Recovery