Thursday - June 8 2023, 18:59 UTC - 1 year ago

Chinese scientists are allegedly building the world's most powerful naval radar system, with a peak power of 30 megawatts and the ability to detect missiles up to 2,800 miles away. The team of engineers behind the project is led by Associate Professor Sun Donyang, and a prototype is already in construction. However, it is unclear how far along the project is.

Thursday - June 8 2023, 13:50 UTC - 1 year ago

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited Tel Aviv to discuss possible containment of risks posed by the artificial intelligence technology his company and other companies are developing with world leaders. The European Union is blazing the trail with its AI Act expected to be approved later this year, while Israel is emerging as a tech leader with the production of noteworthy technology used across the globe. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had held phone conversations with both Altman and Twitter owner Elon Musk in the past day.

Thursday - June 8 2023, 08:58 UTC - 1 year ago

On June 8, 2023, Apple confirmed its acquisition of Mira, a Los Angeles-based maker of light hardware for augmented reality, with a main focus on industrial applications. The acquisition, which was not publicized by Apple but revealed through an Instagram post, speaks volumes about the future of Apple's entrance into the mixed reality space, as well as the technology that Mira brings to the table. Mira also has existing military contracts on its order book, which will need to be dealt with before full consumer utilization can commence.

Thursday - June 8 2023, 04:07 UTC - 1 year ago

Social Security is in trouble, running a cash-flow deficit since 2010. Its trust fund, which holds US$2.7 trillion, is rapidly diminishing and is projected to be completely depleted by 2033. Under current law, when that trust fund is empty, Social Security can pay benefits only from dedicated tax revenues covering only 77% of promised benefits. The trust fund was created from IOUs from the Treasury Department for the extra money collected since 1984 and the current wave of baby boomer retirements is causing additional financial strain.

Wednesday - June 7 2023, 23:52 UTC - 1 year ago

Increasing traffic congestion in Seattle is an analogy for a growing congestion in high-performance computer systems due to complex workloads such as AI models. Traditional HPC network topologies are optimized for physics simulations, whereas modern AI workloads require more unpredictable communications. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory specialize in graph theory to find solutions to the HPC bottlenecks.

Wednesday - June 7 2023, 19:24 UTC - 1 year ago

A Scripps Research team have identified new antibodies and vaccine targets as part of their study of the dangerous Lassa virus, a virus that exists in a variety of lineages that has caused severe illness, long-term side effects or death in West Africa. The team discovered how to use nanoparticles to bring the virus' proteins together and form a trimer-structure which they used to identify new antibodies amongst the blood of those who had previously been infected with the virus.

Wednesday - June 7 2023, 14:43 UTC - 1 year ago

NASA's Psyche mission is back on track for a launch on October 3rd, 2023, potentially uncovering an abundance of wealth ready to be mined among heavy metals in the asteroid 16 Psyche. An independent review board report concluded that the response to the Psyche project and JPL institution is excellent and overall probability of mission success for the mission is high. The delay of the mission had a negative impact on the VERITAs mission as well, postponing its launch from 2027 to no earlier than 2031.

Wednesday - June 7 2023, 10:27 UTC - 1 year ago

Molecular machines are synthetic compounds that could be used as alternative antifungal drugs and have been tested on several species of fungi with successful results. Doctors can use light to activate these machines, causing the rotational motion to puncture the cells and membranes of the fungi and result in cell death.

Wednesday - June 7 2023, 05:16 UTC - 1 year ago

Apple's Vision Pro has received a mixed welcome due to the $3,499 price tag and a lack of native apps. Third party developers need to bring their A-game to take advantage of the mixed-reality opportunities provided by the Vision Pro and require retooling of existing apps to make the most of the features it provides.

Wednesday - June 7 2023, 01:08 UTC - 1 year ago

High-throughput Combinatorial Printing (HTCP) is a groundbreaking new 3D printing method that significantly accelerates the discovery and production of new materials. The process involves mixing multiple aerosolized nanomaterial inks in a single printing nozzle, which produces materials with gradient compositions and properties and can be applied to a wide range of substances. The process enables the discovery and development of materials for a broad range of applications, from electronics to biomedical devices.

Tuesday - June 6 2023, 20:36 UTC - 1 year ago

The European Union is pushing internet platforms like Google and Meta to label AI generated content as it can produce complex visuals and text in seconds that could potentially mislead people. The EU has taken a lead role in the global movement to regulate AI with its AI Act but it is still needing final approval. There is a voluntary code of conduct for AI being drawn up by European and U.S. soldiers which should be ready within weeks.

Tuesday - June 6 2023, 16:23 UTC - 1 year ago

ChatGPT is a search engine that has been met with strong reactions due to how it interacts with users and the data it collects. Brit Ross Winthereik suggest that to assess responsible technologies, we need to understand it in context, analyze its effects, experiment with its capabilities, and check that it's values align with the same values of the organization, school, sector, or country.

Tuesday - June 6 2023, 11:27 UTC - 1 year ago

The origin of life is a central question in biology. Scientists believe that life emerged from non-living molecules through a natural process called abiogenesis. Multiple lively beginnings have been suggested, and some experiments such as the Miller-Urey experiment, have shown how molecules can be naturally formed under conditions similar to early Earth. Abiogenesis could have happened more than once, leading to multiple distinct lineages of living organisms.

Tuesday - June 6 2023, 07:09 UTC - 1 year ago

In March 2023, a team of computer scientists discovered a new single shape, 'Spectre', which can completely cover a flat surface without repeating. It is a big step forward in studying tiling in mathematics and could potentially be applied in various products such as soccer balls and shower curtains. The discovery was made in the journal Arxiv.

Tuesday - June 6 2023, 02:45 UTC - 1 year ago

We studied wild gorillas in Volcanoes National Park with the help of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. We observed a variety of early life experiences and adult health outcomes and found that mountain gorillas don't appear to suffer any long-term negative effects of losing their mothers at an early age, provided they reach the age at which they are old enough to have finished nursing. We wanted to investigate whether this pattern of resilience was more generalized and if there was insight into how early life experiences can have long-lasting effects.

Monday - June 5 2023, 22:06 UTC - 1 year ago

Thousands of people in the US suffer from dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) caused by a single gene mutation. This month, the FDA approved Vyjuvek, the first rub-on gene therapy, which directly delivers healthy copies of the gene onto damaged skin by simply massaging it onto the blisters and wounds. Results from clinical trials show an increase in wound healing and improvement in vision. This breakthrough treatment could potentially be used to treat other genetic skin conditions and open doors for further developments in gene therapy.

Monday - June 5 2023, 17:31 UTC - 1 year ago

On Monday, 05 June 2023, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled platforms companies can use to ride a historic wave of generative #AI that’s transforming industries from advertising to manufacturing to telecom. With NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ and NVIDIA BlueField®-3 DPU, AI performance and power efficiency is greatly improved. Additionally, enterprise software companies can access the 20X speed improvement and 5% cost for their applications enabled by 4000 GPU enterprise software. NVIDIA's Omniverse™ platform enables individual and teams to develop 3D workflows and applications enabling ray-traced realistic simulations. Overall, NVIDIA is enabling the continuous transformation of industries with generative AI.

Monday - June 5 2023, 13:26 UTC - 1 year ago

A new research team from Stanford University has quantified the amount of bias in language models, which are trained on written words from libraries, scrapes, and news reports. The research team created a tool, OpinionQA, to compare the opinion of the language models to that of the US populace. Annotation bias is among of the bigger contributors to the bias found, as language models fine-tuned from annotators often reflect their opinions. The authors suggest that language models should do a better job reflecting the nuances of public opinion to improve credibility.

Monday - June 5 2023, 08:42 UTC - 1 year ago

This article is offering tips on how to talk about AI with confidence based upon the experience of some of the best AI journalists in the business. These tips include understanding that AI can be a collection of different models doing different things, focusing on the actual rather than the what-ifs, being sceptical and cynical, and understanding that language models are creative tools and not search engines.