Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building the world’s fastest supercomputer
Facebook founder’s planned metaverse, blending reality with digital experiences, will require enormous computing power
James Cameron warns of the dangers of deepfakes
Legendary director James Cameron has warned of the dangers that deepfakes pose to society.
The runaway robot: how one smart vacuum cleaner made a break for freedom
A hotel discovered its smart floor cleaner had escaped – and offered a reward for its return. But where had it gone?
Meta says it will soon have the world's fastest AI supercomputer
Ultimately, the company formerly known as Facebook wants the AI Research SuperCluster system to help it develop AI to power the metaverse.
Artificial intelligence resolves riddle of animal swirling
A group of Skoltech scientists—Ph.D. student Egor Nuzhin, Assistant Professor Maxim Panov, and Professor Nikolay Brilliantov—applied artificial intelligence methods to explain an enigmatic natural phenomenon: animal swirling. While AI has already proved its outstanding performance in a wide range of applied problems and engineering environments, the new study published in Scientific Reports demonstrates another facet of AI: its ability to solve fundamental problems, in this case, understand the collective behavior of living beings.
Microsoft and customer FedEx partner on 'logistics as a service'
Microsoft and FedEx reveal more about their partnership around analytics, supply-chain and logistics management and specifically how Dynamics 365 will play a role.
Databricks' TPC-DS benchmark results and the analytics platform wars
Databricks, the champion of data lakehouse technology and its open storage format underpinnings, announced it set a world record for a data warehouse performance benchmark. Was the announcement hyperbole or legitimate vindication for the data lake an
Equations built giants like Google. Who’ll find the next billion-dollar bit of maths? | David Sumpter
Obscure, generations-old theorems have been transformative in tech, and there are still plenty out there to be used, says maths professor David Sumpter
Why Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?
The tech industry has grown ever more rich off big ideas that were developed more than a decade ago. New things like quantum computing and self-driving cars could take a while.
Computing for Ocean Environments: Bio-Inspired Underwater Devices & Swarming Algorithms for Robotic Vehicles
MIT ocean and mechanical engineers are using advances in scientific computing to address the ocean’s many challenges, and seize its opportunities. There are few environments as unforgiving as the ocean. Its unpredictable weather patterns and limitati
The never-ending effort to bake common business sense into artificial intelligence
'There needs to be a feedback loop to ensure customers are enjoying the experience as much as you're enjoying creating the experience.'
Harnessing noise in optical computing for AI
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are currently affecting our lives in many small but impactful ways. For example, AI and machine learning applications recommend entertainment we might enjoy through streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify.
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman departs Google
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has departed Google after an eight-year stint at the company.
IBM sells Watson Health assets to investment firm Francisco Partners
After struggling to grow the business unit and turning its focus to higher-margin businesses, IBM is finally selling off parts of Watson Health
IBM is selling off Watson Health to a private equity firm.
The sale is part of IBM’s effort to tighten the focus of its business and shed operations.
AI light-field camera reads 3D facial expressions
A joint research team led by Professors Ki-Hun Jeong and Doheon Lee from the KAIST Department of Bio and Brain Engineering reported the development of a technique for facial expression detection by merging near-infrared light-field camera techniques with artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
How robots learn to hike
ETH Zurich researchers led by Marco Hutter developed a new control approach that enables a legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult terrain. Thanks to machine learning, the robot can combine its visual perception of the environment with its sense of touch for the first time.
Moorfields Eye Hospital gives woman, 88, UK's first 'bionic eye implant'
A microchip has been implanted into her eye to tackle dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).