Sunday - November 19 2023, 22:13 UTC - 1 year ago

China is making massive investments into humanoid robots, with the ambition to overtake the US as the most powerful AI nation by 2030. Their goal is to create an environment where humanoid robots can revolutionize the economy, while bringing back outdated industries. The Chinese government and policy makers must ensure the right atmosphere for the technologies to succeed, and that the information and resources are available for individuals and companies to make use of it.

Sunday - November 19 2023, 17:20 UTC - 1 year ago

A team of musicians used data from NASA's three space telescopes to create a soundscape titled ‘Where Parallel Lines Converge’, transforming scientific information into a unique auditory experience. The data is divided into three parts, each focusing on a specific astronomical feature, and the creation process follows the same principles as NASA’s original data sonification, turning visual data into sound. It is creative, educational and provides a different perspective in the interpretation of complex information.

Sunday - November 19 2023, 12:20 UTC - 1 year ago

Quantum computers are computers that take advantage of the laws of physics at the quantum scale to solve problems beyond the power of classical computers. Quantum advantage is achieved when a quantum computer can solve a problem beyond the capabilities of classical computers. Quantum computers use qubits to manipulate superposition, interference, and entanglement, all of which enable the computational speed-ups required for quantum advantage. Applications of quantum computers include forms of cryptography, communication, and data transmission that are impossible to intercept.

Sunday - November 19 2023, 07:21 UTC - 1 year ago

Just as birth certificates mark time of entrance, death certificates mark time of exit. However, evidence of this practice not really grounded in biology reflects an outdated social construct. Scientists and doctors have already embraced the more nuanced understanding of death as a process that could be reversible if medical intervention is done in time. Society needs to rethink how it considers life and death and treat death as a process to save many lives.

Sunday - November 19 2023, 02:39 UTC - 1 year ago

The rural South in the U.S. suffers greatly from economic inequality, with the lowest average income in the country and the highest rate of death by despair. It is especially difficult for counties that rely on manufacturing as their main economic activity, with residents there dying up to two and a half years younger than the average American. Various economic, health, and educational issues threaten the region, with financial institutions and hospitals at risk of closure due to increased poverty and decreased funding.

Saturday - November 18 2023, 21:29 UTC - 1 year ago

Deepfakes are videos that use AI technology to hijack footage of trusted news personalities with the aim of promoting misleading and potentially dangerous products or investment schemes. A recent study shows Americans are increasingly worried about the use of AI on social media, with 57 percent saying they were slightly or not at all confident that media and technology companies could protect them. News personalities, such as Wolf Blitzer, Gayle King, Jesse Watters, Ian Hanomansing, and Sally Bundock, have pushed back against deepfakes of themselves on social media, with CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta warning that people could be harmed by taking the products promoted in the doctored videos.

Saturday - November 18 2023, 17:00 UTC - 1 year ago

Tesla is creating multiple sources of revenue generation such as the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Virtual Cloud Compute (VCC) from their computer and energy products. Tesla car owners receive $2.00 for every additional kWh their Powerwall delivers during an ELRP event and can make up to $1000 a year using HW4. Elon Musk estimates that if Tesla achieves their goal of 100 million cars on roads by 2030 they could generate up to $100 billion of revenue from VCC.

Saturday - November 18 2023, 12:18 UTC - 1 year ago

A new tool developed at Purdue University makes it easier to trace errors in neural network image recognition. The tool is available on GitHub and is able to catch neural networks mistaking the identity of images, such as mistaking cars for cassette players. The tool helps researchers understand the origin of errors that are obvious to humans.

Saturday - November 18 2023, 07:30 UTC - 1 year ago

This article discusses the design and applications of thermoacoustic generators, which are increasingly efficient and versatile. It also covers the Chinese design, which offers impressive efficiency and is made of porous metal and coated with a refractory material that allows it to concentrate heat more efficiently.

Saturday - November 18 2023, 02:33 UTC - 1 year ago

Marc Gauthier, a mid-30s man diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, struggled to walk without freezing despite using the standard treatments. In 2021, he was part of an experimental trial that implanted a small device in his spinal cord to directly activate the nerves connecting his spinal cord and leg muscles, allowing him to walk confidently. This suggests a new way of tackling movement disorders originating in the brain and has potentially been a great success.

Friday - November 17 2023, 21:58 UTC - 1 year ago

A group from MIT's CSAIL designed Feature Fields for Robotic Manipulation (F3RM), a system that blends 2D images with foundation model features into 3D scenes to help robots identify and grasp nearby items. F3RM can interpret open-ended language prompts from humans, making the method helpful in real-world environments that contain thousands of objects, like warehouses and households. It can assist robots with picking items in large fulfillment centers with inevitable clutter and unpredictability, helping factory workers more efficiently ship customers' orders.

Friday - November 17 2023, 17:19 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Google DeepMind co-developed RoboTool, an AI system that can enable robots to use tools more creatively. With this tool, robots can tackle complex real-world scenarios more effectively, explore creative solutions, use natural language, and reason about their environment.

Friday - November 17 2023, 12:17 UTC - 1 year ago

Shopify has recently introduced CoPilot to massively boost their coding productivity, and Rep, a revolutionary sales chatbot powered by ChatGPT technology, designed to convert more traffic into buyers and provide customer support. Setting up Rep is quick and easy with customisable features, and Rep integrates seamlessly with Shopify apps.

Friday - November 17 2023, 07:34 UTC - 1 year ago

PFAS, or "forever chemicals", are human-made pollutants used in a variety of products that are now found in aquatic ecosystems. They have been linked to immunological disorders, endocrine, developmental, reproductive and neurological disruption and increased risk of cancers. At Florida International University’s Institute of the Environment, we are tracking the origins of PFAS contamination in Miami’s Biscayne Bay to help pinpoint ways to reduce the harm, finding the major sources of contamination are sewage from failed septic systems and wastewater leaks in urban areas and aerosolized particles from highways and airports.

Friday - November 17 2023, 02:15 UTC - 1 year ago

In a recent study, researchers engineered cells to release insulin in response to certain sound waves, potentially replacing direct injection as the method for delivering insulin to diabetic patients. Diabetes is a chronic disease that arises when the body fails to make enough insulin, and due to the need for frequent injections, research has been done on ways to deliver insulin more easily. Cellular engineering is a process that involves modifying cells to produce insulin, and with the help of molecular biologists and molecular machineries, can produce insulin in response to external stimuli.

Thursday - November 16 2023, 21:33 UTC - 1 year ago

A new biopic on the life of Edith Piaf will use artificial intelligence to allow the French star to narrate her own story. AI will be fed hundreds of voice and image clips to recreate her unique style and help narrate the 90-minute film. The two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, finished "Now And Then" for its UK number one single last week using the late John Lennon's and George Harrison's recordings.

Thursday - November 16 2023, 16:53 UTC - 1 year ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had two surprise appearances at OpenAI's and GitHub's developer conferences last week to give developers access to new AI-based tools. Nadella believes that developers are the key to a new platform shift to natural-language AI tools and that this will lead to a new era of creativity.

Thursday - November 16 2023, 12:02 UTC - 1 year ago

The AI industry faces a potential risk of running out of high-quality training data in the near future, which could slow down the development of powerful AI models and even alter the trajectory of the AI revolution. Although this is cause for concern, there are several ways to address this issue including increasing the efficiency of algorithms and using AI to create synthetic data.

Thursday - November 16 2023, 07:07 UTC - 1 year ago

In 1976, Julia Child aired her cooking show outfitted with gas stoves paid for by the American Gas Association. It was part of a campaign to increase use of gas stoves and grow their residential market, but it appears they wanted more. New research from Climate Investigations Center and an NPR investigation show that the gas industry launched a campaign to counter findings about gas stoves published in the scientific literature using the same public relations tactics the tobacco industry used in the 1950s.