In 1950, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi asked a question that torments astronomers to this day: âWhere is everybody?â His query has been immortalized in the Fermi paradox. The theory contends that thereâs a conflict between the apparent absence of aliens and the probability that they exist. Proponents note that the universe is about three times older than our solar system, and contains more than a billion trillion stars. If... Read more âș
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The human brain is said to be the most complex biological structure ever to have existed. And while science doesnât fully understand the brain yet, researchers in the expanding field of neuroscience have been making progress. Neuroscientists have made substantial inroads toward mapping the complex functions of the brainâs 85 billion or so neurons and the 100 trillion connections between them. (To put this astronomical number into perspective, there are... Read more âș
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Norway is surging ahead in the electrification game again. And yes, you guessed it, the country now has the worldâs fastest EV charger. Well, so far. On Tuesday, ABB announced the installation of its Terra 360 charger in the countyâs second largest city, Bergen, as well as Geilo, a ski resort. How fast is the Terra 360 really? ABB introduced the charger in September, promising a 360kW maximum output â... Read more âș
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TikTokâs unmatched algorithm and incomparable reach make the platform a no-brainer for founders and entrepreneurs. The only question is: how best to approach it, from a content strategy and creation perspective? Consider what Professor Scott Galloway said in a recent episode of Pivot: âWeâve gotta stop thinking of TikTok as a social media platform. Itâs basically streaming, without a content budget. What would Netflix be worth if it didnât have... Read more âș
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When you think of autonomous trucking, most of the airspace is given to the long-haul variety, especially with the driver shortage still underway. But automation has a vital role to play for services with shorter routes. I recently met with Gatik, a company successfully deploying middle mile autonomous trucks throughout Northern America and parts of Canada. Gatik delivers goods between micro fulfillment centers, drugstores, smaller warehouses, and other local pickup... Read more âș
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With more than 2 billion users, WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat platforms in the world. But itâs not keen to rest on its laurels. The Facebook-owned product is expanding into new territories, like shopping and payments. The company is also thinking about even showing ads on the app â but not everyone is happy with these developments. In fact, these have led one ex-WhatsApp executive to believe... Read more âș
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GitHub is increasing the security of repositories by requiring all developers to enable two-factor authentication by the end of 2023. The companyâs directive is simple: if you contribute to code, you must enable 2FA. GitHub is probably pushing this initiative because the number of people using adequate security measures is so low. The company said only 16.5% of active GitHub users and only 6.44% of NPM registry users use 2FA.... Read more âș
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One of the biggest issues facing mainstream adoption of VR headsets is their form factor. Anyone familiar with the tech will have the image in their mind: a bulky, binocular-looking blob attached to you like the facehugger from Alien. But Nvidia wants to fix this â and has just released a research paper in collaboration with Stanford University that shows a concept for an ultra-thin pair of holographic glasses for... Read more âș
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Weâve all heard about amazing employee perks at certain tech companies. From beer taps to Botox, and pawternity leave to free acupuncture, over the last 20 years or so, companies have spent a lot of time (and money) creating impressive benefits packages to attract top talent â plus a few headlines too. But since Covid-19, weâve started to see a shift. Staff members are no longer looking for onsite laundry... Read more âș
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The notoriously secretive Meta has set a milestone for transparency. The company this week offered the entire research community access to a fully-trained large language model (LLM). Named the Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT), the system mirrors the performance and size of OpenAIâs vaunted GPT-3 model. This mimicry is deliberate. While GPT-3 has a stunning ability to produce human-like text, it also has a powerful capacity for biases, bigotry, and disinformation.... Read more âș
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Thereâs plenty of column inches given to the environmental advantages of electric vehicles, like reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas emission. But thereâs a salty little secret often obscured by those who wax lyrical about EVs â the environmental impact of the lithium mined to make EV batteries. So I decided to take a deep dive into what it is, where it comes from, how itâs mined, its environmental impact,... Read more âș
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When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts. Pulsars are the extremely rapidly rotating objects left over after massive stars have exhausted their fuel supply. They are extremely dense, with a mass similar to the Sun crammed into a region the size of Sydney. Pulsars emit beams of radio waves from their poles. As those beams sweep across Earth, we can... Read more âș
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Samsung just announced a new kind of storage solution for mobile devices called UFS 4.0. Itâs the latest version of the Universal Flash Storage standard. The new version comes two years after UFS 3.1âs release, and will likely improve the overall speed and performance of upcoming phones and tablets. Before we look at its advantages over the previous versions, letâs run through some basics. Whatâs UFS? Universal Flash Storage (UFS)... Read more âș
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When you think of an electric vehicle, chances are youâll picture a car. But thereâs a quiet revolution going on in transport. It turns out electrification can work wonders for almost all of our transport options, from electric bikes to motorbikes to buses to freight trains and even to tractors and heavy trucks. There will soon be no need to burn petrol and diesel in an internal combustion engine. This... Read more âș
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In a popular video, Youtuber GCP Grey makes the claim that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will solve traffic jams. Whilst the basic logic underlying his claim is accurate, it couldnât be further removed from the truth because it utterly ignores externalities. As does this laughably inaccurate article from 2016 that claims weâll only need 15-25% of our current number of cars after AV technology becomes widely adopted. GCP Greyâs claim is... Read more âș
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Twitter debuted a new feature called Circle last night that might help you shitpost better. This function, available to select users on Android, iOS, and the web, will let you tweet stuff to a restricted audience of 150 people. This is very similar to Instagramâs Close Friends feature that allows you to share a Story to a select number of people. Prior to this featureâs announcement, you had to lock... Read more âș
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This article was originally published on .cult by Luis Minvielle. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. In the programming world, few aspects seem as inescapable as the infamous coding bootcamps. One way or another, youâll hear about them: From scanning through your best friendâs resume to checking... Read more âș
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Sonyâs WH-1000XM4 is one of the best noise-canceling headphones money can buy. So were its predecessors going back to the companyâs OG premium noise-canceling headphone, the MDR-1000X. In other words, Sony has a pretty great streak going on, so I was excited to see leaks of the new WH-1000XM5 begin to pop up. Leaked images of the new headphones posted by The Walkman Blog show a design that departs significantly... Read more âș
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The world of AI research is in shambles. From the academics prioritizing easy-to-monetize schemes over breaking novel ground, to the Silicon Valley elite using the threat of job loss to encourage corporate-friendly hypotheses, the system is a broken mess. And Google deserves a lionâs share of the blame. How it started There were approximately 85,000 research papers published globally on the subject of AI/ML in the year 2000. Fast-forward to... Read more âș
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This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. (In partnership with Paperspace) In recent years, the transformer model has become one of the main highlights of advances in deep learning and deep neural networks. It is mainly used for advanced applications in natural language processing. Google is using it to enhance its search engine results. OpenAI has... Read more âș
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