Thursday - September 14 2023, 21:46 UTC - 1 year ago

Scalene is a Python profiler developed by a team of computer scientists from University of Massachusetts Amherist that analyzes exactly where Python is lagging and uses AI to suggest how to optimize the code. Scalene has been downloaded more than 750,000 times and is already in wide use, and won the Best Paper award at the USENIX Conference on Operating System Design and Implementation.

Thursday - September 14 2023, 16:48 UTC - 1 year ago

AI tools and applications are increasingly contributing to creative production from Hollywood to the Grammy Awards, leading to both promise and peril. A study into the originality of AI reveals that it is capable of combining existing knowledge and resources in a novel, useful, and surprising way, and passing the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.

Thursday - September 14 2023, 12:05 UTC - 1 year ago

Lam Research's engineers are creating proposals for 3D DRAM architecture that seek to shrink the nanosheets' footprints. They plan to make use of gate-all-around transistors and 24-layer tall stack of bitline layers. To make the capacitors more efficient, Lam Research is using Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) technology and plan to reduce the nanosheet's size with a "via array".

Thursday - September 14 2023, 07:07 UTC - 1 year ago

To successfully empower employees, companies must provide the needed resources, set clear goals and strategies, signal clear and unwavering support, and offer rewards to encourage risk-taking and experimentation.

Thursday - September 14 2023, 02:25 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers have discovered the oldest species of Cyanobacteria known to have colonized land, Langiella scourfieldii in the Rhynie chert fossil site in Scotland’s Aberdeenshire. This species of Cyanobacteria displayed characteristic ‘true branching’, which helped confirmed its presence in the ecosystem. In addition, these Cyanobacteria are responsible for the Great Oxidation/Oxygenation Event which changed the Earth's atmosphere from carbon dioxide-rich to oxygen-rich.

Wednesday - September 13 2023, 22:22 UTC - 1 year ago

AI's infiltration into children's lives is causing tremendous anxiety and sparking fear about its inhuman modes of intelligence. AI has been used to create cultural artifacts such as stories, books, films, and dolls. Culturally, there is a long history of anxiety surrounding dangerous interactions between children and technology, dating back to the world's fascination with Poltergeist (1982). These themes have been echoed in later works of fiction, such as M3GAN (2022) and The Artifice Girl (2022).

Wednesday - September 13 2023, 17:34 UTC - 1 year ago

Morgan Stanley raised their target on Tesla to $400, upgrading their rating to "overweight" after releasing a 66-page report. Tesla has created Dojo, a purpose-built supercomputer, to enhance and train its Full Self-Driving system. While it is difficult to validate the many claioms Tesla's makes, the full suite of acquisitions and investments made over the past few years makes a powerful case for an ambitious effort in hardware/software integration in autonomy.

Wednesday - September 13 2023, 12:52 UTC - 1 year ago

Google is launching a new anti-censorship technology through their Jigsaw project in response to the actions of Iran's government during the 2022 protests. The technology is called Outline and helps to provide free, open and encrypted access to the internet - even during internet access blocking and censorship episodes. Outline is also providing a 'software developer kit' which helps other websites and applications build stronger censorship resistance for their users.

Wednesday - September 13 2023, 08:06 UTC - 1 year ago

Hyun Tak Kim and other members of the original korean LK99 room temperature superconducting team should have an American Institute of Physics Materials paper published in a few weeks. They are trying to prove the superconductance of the thin film LK99 material. The description and proof requires far more detail with currently the resistivity of LK-99 being 1/10,000 to 1/100,000 of copper. Their results show superconductive properties with the superconductor consisting of lead apatite of phases with three different critical temperatures. There is also lead compounds (40%) and Copper compounds (10%) as well as some Silicon added in the process. The dopants and defects needed for the material to be a superconductor are detailed with Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of all the important phases in both methods.

Wednesday - September 13 2023, 03:22 UTC - 1 year ago

The problem of space junk is growing as more and more people travel to the Moon and use satellites to do things like deliver the internet. Humans have left a lot of debris on the Moon, and Earth's orbit is cluttered with defunct spacecraft, spent rocket boosters, items discarded by astronauts, and paint flecks. No one owns the Moon, so no one is responsible for keeping it clean, and the Kessler syndrome suggests that the amount of debris could reach a tipping point and render near-Earth orbit unusable.

Tuesday - September 12 2023, 22:45 UTC - 1 year ago

Meta will be releasing an artificial intelligence model in 2024 that is on par with the most powerful model created by OpenAI - GPT-4. It will also have AI tools to produce sophisticated text, analysis, and other output, just like the LLaMa 2 model it launched in July. Competing companies like Google and Apple are also racing to create AI models with powerful chips and introducing AI prompts for Siri.

Tuesday - September 12 2023, 18:26 UTC - 1 year ago

AI pioneer DeepMind achieved a major breakthrough in late 2020 by predicting the shape of proteins with its deep learning algorithm, AlphaFold. Baker Lab then continued to develop the technology further by building on RoseTTAFold to design proteins, one of which is the algorithm RFdiffusion. RFdiffusion was found to be both speedy and accurate, having the ability to generate a 100-amino-acid protein in 11 seconds on an Nvidia chip, compared to 8.5 minutes with an older algorithm.RFdiffusion is also roughly 100 times more effective at generating new proteins that bind strongly to sites of interest on known proteins.

Tuesday - September 12 2023, 14:06 UTC - 1 year ago

Acres Technology is set to begin field-testing its new TIBO system at the Gold Country Inn & Casino in Elko, Nevada. TIBO will replace the existing TITO system and enable random bonus tickets to be rewarded to players, even before they have cashed out. Bonus points and QR codes are examples of possible rewards being offered by TIBO.

Tuesday - September 12 2023, 09:33 UTC - 1 year ago

Hafnia is an ultrathin layer of hafnium dioxide with unique properties used as a non-volatile computer memory, and is ideal for building memristors for 'brain-like' computer architectures. Its properties break down if the number of units is too small, and the movement of oxygen vacancies appears to be crucial for its properties. The surface energy of nanoparticles creates the equivalent of an extremely high pressure in hafnium dioxide, which appears to play a role in the pristineness of the material.

Tuesday - September 12 2023, 04:40 UTC - 1 year ago

Through a recent examination of the the nonprofit group Trout Unlimited, it was found that this organization has effectively reframed the sport of fishing as a means of environmental conservation, using catch and release practices to drive social change. By shifting emphasis to recreational fishing rather than harvesting activities, Trout Unlimited has created an emotional appeal to outdoor recreation that also promotes stewardship of the environment.

Tuesday - September 12 2023, 00:35 UTC - 1 year ago

On September 12th, Elon Musk livestreamed a demonstration of Tesla's FSD Version 12, which can recognize road work, quickly react to changes in traffic, and even handle stop signs and traffic lights. The update will cost $10,000 USD and is available for Tesla models built in 2015 or later. Tesla plans to offer full self-driving capabilities as early as the end of 2021.

Monday - September 11 2023, 20:19 UTC - 1 year ago

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) revealed a high-tech 'secret' weapon at its 75th anniversary parade, equipping its 'Worker-Peasant Red Guards' with concealed rocket launcher-equipped civilian trucks. This implies DPRK's utilization of old-style methods of deceiving enemy forces to remain undetected. They also appear to be aiming to exploit the inability to differentiate between civilian and military vehicles, thereby increasing the number of potential targets. Whether the tactic will prove successful or not is yet to be seen.

Monday - September 11 2023, 16:10 UTC - 1 year ago

This summer, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta unveiled its Llama 2 chatbot. It is open source, allowing users to research and modify this AI. The strategy has sparked a great deal of discussion and reshaped the current landscape for generative AI. Through open-sourcing, Meta hopes for safer AI while OpenAI remains more guarded. Users are limited commercially, but if they gain more than 700 million active users, they must request a license from Meta.

Monday - September 11 2023, 11:11 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers at Yunnan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently introduced a new object-detection system based on edge computing. Their proposed system could provide UAVs with the ability to spot relevant objects and targets in their surroundings without significantly increasing their power-consumption. This system, dubbed E3-UAV, has been tested on a DJI Mavic Air 2 drone and has been showed to substantially reduce energy consumption in real-world scenarios.