Apple officially launches Swift, a modern replacement for Objective-C. The language would later become a first-class target for on-device…

Google releases Kubernetes as open source. The project, forked from Google internal Borg, would become the de-facto operating system of…

Tesla announces the D line (dual-motor AWD) and the first version of Autopilot — a consumer semi-autonomous driving system using…

The ESA Philae lander touches down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first soft landing on a comet. Autonomous descent navigation was…

Christopher Nolan releases Interstellar, putting autonomous robotics, general relativity, and orbital mechanics in front of mass audiences…

Microsoft unveils HoloLens, the first self-contained holographic computer. The product establishes the enterprise mixed-reality category.

DeepMind publishes the Atari DQN paper in Nature. A single neural network learns to play 49 classic Atari games at or above human level…

Apple launches the Apple Watch, bringing continuous heart-rate monitoring + machine learning for health inference to tens of millions of…

Google Brain develops its internal DistBelief successor, which would be released later in the year as TensorFlow. The open-source release…

Google Photos launches with free unlimited storage and AI-powered search by face and content — proving computer vision models at massive…

Apple announces iOS 9 with a "Proactive" AI assistant layer integrated into Siri. On-device machine learning becomes a first-class product…

Google open-sources DeepDream, a convnet visualization technique that turns photos into psychedelic art. It is the first AI-generated…