Artificial neurons go quantum with photonic circuits
In recent years, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous, with applications such as speech interpretation, image recognition, medical diagnosis, and many more. At the same time, quantum technology has been proven capable of computational power well beyond the reach of even the world's largest supercomputer.
Immune to hacks: Inoculating deep neural networks to thwart attacks
If a sticker on a banana can make it show up as a toaster, how might strategic vandalism warp how an autonomous vehicle perceives a stop sign? Now, an immune-inspired defense system for neural networks can ward off such attacks, designed by engineers, biologists and mathematicians.
How Nvidia Inception accelerates digital twin startups
Nvidia's Inception program provides technical expertise within Nvidia, preferred pricing and access to cloud credits, introductions to venture capital firms, and marketing support.
Targeted demand response reduces price volatility of electric grid
Demand response, a measure taken to reduce the energy load in response to supply constraints within the Texas electric grid, has been a topic of recent conversation after the wake of Winter Storm Uri just one year ago. Demand response can enhance the reliability of the grid through renewable energy penetration and also significantly reduce price volatility, or fluctuation, in the wholesale electricity market.
Two years into the pandemic, why is Australia still short of medicines?
It’s easy to blame COVID. But Australia has suffered medicine shortages for years. The pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Here’s what we could do to better avoid shortages in the first place.
Ontology of the everyday: PeopleReign's automation of IT and HR
Automating language is not magic; it can take years of careful work to piece together what people mean in the context of corporate help desks, HR programs and the like. Such is the work of startup PeopleReign.
Singapore pilots drone food delivery across islands
Pilot programme enables food and beverage outlets located on Sentosa to deliver orders via drones to customers on St. John's Island, who do have access to such amenities.
NVIDIA unveils Hopper, its new hardware architecture to transform Data Centers into AI factories
NVIDIA just announced Hopper, a new GPU architecture that promises significant performance improvements for AI workloads. We look under the hood to decipher whether the emphasis on Transformer AI models translates to a radical redesign, and look at the updates in the software stack.
Sandbox AQ’s convergence of quantum and AI will transform the enterprise
Sandbox AQ, the Palo Alto, California-based enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides solutions at the intersection of quantum technology and artificial intelligence (AI), has emerged from Alphabet, Google's parent company, as an independent company.
ServiceNow adds new RPA capabilities with San Diego release
ServiceNow today launched Now Platform San Diego release, bringing an all-new Next Experience and RPA capabilities for enterprises.
The great puzzle of the body and disease is beginning to yield to AI, says Recursion CEO
The tools of deep learning and really big data are going to lead breakthroughs in areas such as oncology in the next few years, says CEO Chris Gibson.
Smarter Sorting, which leverages AI to make physical product sustainability suggestions to organizations, raises $25M
Smarter Sorting, which helps make product and supply chain suggestions for companies looking to remain sustainable, has raised $25 million.
Kargo, which powers supply chain visibility with smart loading docks and data, raises $25M
Kargo has developed a hardware-software platform that captures and aggregates data from physical loading docks and enterprise systems.
MixMode lands $45M for self-learning security platform that combats zero days
MixMode, which offers self-learning security AI for detection of novel cyberattacks such as zero days, announced $45M in series B funding.
AI drug research algorithm flipped to invent 40,000 biochemical weapons
We often hear about the benefits artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to medicine and healthcare through drug research, but could it also pose a threat?
AI drug research algorithm flipped to invent 40,000 biochemical weapons
We often hear about the benefits artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to medicine and healthcare through drug research, but could it also pose a threat?
Dark arts: Inside the 25 March Guardian Weekly
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SAP unveils Singapore lab, plans to double local team
Its 21st such facility worldwide, the software vendor's digital innovation hub in Singapore looks to focus on technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning and will double the local engineering team to 500 by 2025.