Friday - June 16 2023, 03:41 UTC - 1 year ago

Bremmer's analysis has increasingly highlighted the US and China's control of world security and economy, as well as the power of tech giants such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Alibaba. These have accumulated more power than any large corporations of the past, having a major factor in shaping global geopolitics while the G-Zero world has had a big influence on international organisations and the multilateral order. Regulations like the 2021 EU's Digital Sovereignty Law have also highlighted the need to be aware of acting governing forces.

Thursday - June 15 2023, 22:55 UTC - 1 year ago

SCNNs are machine learning tools that can focus on relevant parts of data while screening out the rest. These networks have been used to speed up data analysis and have been further developed for use in particle experiments across three continents, marking a historic change in the physics community as machine learning is now leading the way for them in relation to data analysis.

Thursday - June 15 2023, 18:06 UTC - 1 year ago

Fossil remains found in Wellington Caves in New South Wales, Australia, revealed the existence of a newly discovered gigantic skink species, Tiliqua frangens, which is twice the mass of any living skink and 1,000 times bigger than the typical Australian garden skink. Researchers at Flinders University studied the fossil remains and found that it had an exceptionally broad and deep skull, armored plates and a prey-capturing mouth. It's extinction occurred during the widespread losses of large-bodied vertebrates at the end of the Pleistocene.

Thursday - June 15 2023, 13:41 UTC - 1 year ago

In 2020, my blind husband and I enhanced our home in Brooklyn. This spurred my interest in ensuring that blind New Yorkers, including me, can create and explore images. This article talks about the importance of visuals for the blind and visually impaired, with a particular focus on how our predominantly sighted culture centers and disseminates spatial representations. Unfortunately, blind people usually find themselves relegated to a text-only experience when it comes to visuals. Thus, I dream of a day when checking out maps, tattoo designs, and seating charts will become more available for blind people.

Thursday - June 15 2023, 09:31 UTC - 1 year ago

A new study by Charles Darwin University (CDU) has revealed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to predict cybersickness for potential users of virtual reality (VR) technology with a 93% accuracy. The AI algorithm, Ai-Labz, was created by CDU Faculty of Science and Technology Associate Professor Niusha Shafiabady and the study is published in journal Virtual Reality.

Thursday - June 15 2023, 05:22 UTC - 1 year ago

Large Language Model AI (LLM) have revolutionised the way Artificial Intelligence recognises language and makes decisions based on text. This involves applying statistical inference to help improve prediction models, and incorporating deterministic and probabilistic systems together. AI is now beginning to recognise more subtle nuances in the context of language, indicating the great potential AI holds for understanding human behaviour.

Thursday - June 15 2023, 00:52 UTC - 1 year ago

An international team of researchers have achieved a new speed record after transferring 1.7 petabits of data over 41 miles of standard optical fiber cable, equivalent to 17 million broadband internet connections. The 19-core fiber used was developed by a team of researchers from Australia, Japan, The Netherlands, and Italy, with 3D printing used to etch a waveguide pattern into a glass chip crucial for it's production. This new technology makes undersea cablings simpler and cost-effective while also allowing them to transfer data further and faster than ever before.

Wednesday - June 14 2023, 20:42 UTC - 1 year ago

House Republicans pushed the U.S. to the edge of a fiscal crisis in an effort to get deep cuts in government spending. The new deal signed into law by President Joe Biden suspends the debt limit until 2025, freezes nondefense discretionary funding at current levels until 2024, expands work requirements for SNAP recipients, and institutes a temporary cap on nondefense discretionary spending. The provisions in the bill do not fully address the US's long-term debt problem.

Wednesday - June 14 2023, 15:45 UTC - 1 year ago

On May 31, 2023, the Atlanta Police Department deployed a SWAT team to arrest three board members of the Network for Strong Communities Inc., who were charged with charity fraud and money laundering. The Network for Strong Communities was founded in 2020 with the mission to provide legal assistance to activists opposing plans for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, and has provided help to dozens of people arrested since 2022. Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, an environmental activist, was shot and killed by a Georgia State Patrol trooper in January 2023, and Governor Brian Kemp issued a state-of-emergency declaration, which allowed activists to be denied bail. The three Network for Strong Communities board members were released on the same day of their arrest on June 7, 2023.

Wednesday - June 14 2023, 11:02 UTC - 1 year ago

A team of researchers has developed a new optical fiber that is about the thickness of a human hair and can carry the equivalent of more than 10 million fast home internet connections running at full capacity. The fiber contains 19 cores that can each carry a signal and uses less digital processing, greatly reducing the power required per bit transmitted. Macquarie University researchers have developed a 3D laser-printed glass chip that enables low loss access to the 19 streams of light carried by the fiber and ensures compatibility with existing transmission equipment.

Wednesday - June 14 2023, 06:09 UTC - 1 year ago

2035 is predicted to be the start of global economic recessions and depressions. China has 10-15 years where its economy will not be truly horrible, and this is the time when Europe and the US could also experience severe economic depression. China's fertility rate and population size is dropping, with Japan already having lost 6 million population from its peak. The US will end its surge of economic growth from the Echo Boomer generation. All developed countries will suffer a median age increase of 10 years. The lower demand in China, Europe and Japan will cause a property bust, which will put their banks at risk.

Wednesday - June 14 2023, 01:23 UTC - 1 year ago

New research suggests that brain stimulation with transcranial alternating current is a potential way of enhancing mental function. A new meta-analysis of over 100 published studies with a combined total of more than 2,800 human participants observed consistent and immediate improvements in mental functions such as executive function and memory with tACS.

Tuesday - June 13 2023, 20:38 UTC - 1 year ago

Newly discovered exoplanets have helped shape a novel model for the origin of Earth's signature features such as its abundance of water, demonstrating that interactions between the magma ocean and a molecular hydrogen proto-atmosphere could have contributed to the planet's composition and overall oxidized state.

Tuesday - June 13 2023, 14:57 UTC - 1 year ago

North Korean hackers have been responsible for stealing billions of dollars in cryptocurrency over the years, impersonating employees and tech workers to exploit security vulnerabilities and walk away with money. The DPRK has also conducted six nuclear tests already, and experts predict that they may conduct the seventh one this year as a part of their nuclear weapons program. Most cryptocurrency stolen in 2022 came from decentralized finance protocols (DeFi) and the Lazarus Group, affiliated with North Korea, was responsible for a $100 million crypto heist earlier this year.

Tuesday - June 13 2023, 10:53 UTC - 1 year ago

An algorithm funded by the World Bank to determine which families should get financial assistance in Jordan likely excludes people who should qualify, according to an investigation published by Human Rights Watch. The algorithmic system is called Takaful and it rank families from least poor to poorest using a top-secret calculus. Takaful has cost over $1 billion, and is being used in 8 other countries in the Middle East and Africa. Human Rights Watch identified several fundamental problems with the algorithm that resulted in bias and inaccuracies, as well as reinforces existing gender-based discrimination. The onus is on the government of Jordan to provide transparency into the algorithm’s decisions, according to the report's authors.

Tuesday - June 13 2023, 06:19 UTC - 1 year ago

A new experimental treatment using nasal drops made from a peptide called C3a could be revolutionary for stroke victims. Mice recover motor functions faster and better after stroke when given C3A nasal drops, compared to those given placebo nasal treatment. The medication is currently being developed collaboratively by scientists from the Swedish University of Gothenburg, the German University of Cologne, and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Tuesday - June 13 2023, 01:21 UTC - 1 year ago

Tree-of-Thought (ToT) is an approach by OpenAI to improve Language Models' non-trivial task solving abilities and decision making by considering multiple simultaneous reasoning paths. This approach achieved a success rate of 74% on the Game of 24 compared to only 4% with standard prompting, and allows for more versatile and challenging tasks to be considered in the real-world applications.

Monday - June 12 2023, 20:57 UTC - 1 year ago

ChatGPT is both an exciting new frontier in human-AI interaction and a reflection of our ambivalent relationship with machines. While it holds the potential to change the way humans communicate, it also reveals tendencies, patterns, and beliefs present in human language. The language-generating capacity of ChatGPT is still far below that of humans and its mimicking of our language is more of an echo than anything else.

Monday - June 12 2023, 16:22 UTC - 1 year ago

Deep Sampler is an online platform that harnesses the power of AI technology to create completely novel soundscapes. With its ability to generate professional-quality audio clips with accuracy and speed, Deep Sampler has pushed the boundaries of the synthetic audio industry far beyond what was previously possible.