Last week, I wrote an analysis of “Reward Is Enough,” a paper by scientists at DeepMind. As the title suggests, the researchers hypothesize that the right reward is all you need to create the abilities associated with intelligence, such as perception, motor functions, and language. This is in contrast with AI systems that try to replicate specific functions of natural intelligence such as classifying images, navigating physical environments, or completing... Read more ›
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Normal human beings think of running, going to the gym, and putting a cap on those beer bottles when it comes to losing weight. But scientists are thinking about this whole thing differently. They want you to shut your trap, so you can stop hogging on those fries — literally. A bunch of researchers from the University of Otago and the UK have teamed up to come up with a... Read more ›
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A report from the US task force dedicated to investigating UFOs — or, in the official jargon, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) — has neither confirmed nor rejected the idea such sightings could indicate alien visits to Earth. On Friday June 25, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its eagerly awaited unclassified intelligence report, titled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”. The document is a brief nine-page version... Read more ›
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Friends, lovers, and enemies, today is a special day: Elon Musk is turning 50. Yes, everyone’s favorite insanely rich manchild is now half a century old. Clap. I SAID CLAP. To put this into some context, Musk is now double the average life expectancy of a man in 18th century Prussia. And, lord, he’s used that time well, hasn’t he? I mean, have you checked out his Twitter? Inspirational stuff... Read more ›
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The iPhone 12 series had its share of camera improvements, including ProRAW and a LiDAR sensor for Pro models. However, the overall imaging quality didn’t see as much of an improvement as in the iPhone 11 over the iPhone Xs. This year, Apple is planning to switch things up with its camera set up and introduce autofocus in the ultra-wide-angle sensor. According to renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the company... Read more ›
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Electric bikes are my favorite way of getting around New York City, and they’re even more convenient when they can fold. Bikes can cut through traffic, the motor makes it easier to keep up with cars without sweating, and the ability to fold allows you to take the bike indoors, on a cab, or on public transportation. Unfortunately, the folding design often means you get a wimpy battery, a heavy... Read more ›
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If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more areas than you’d think. For one, Unix is written in C. Originally written in assembly, the Unix kernel was rewritten in C back in 1973. This made Unix a lot more portable across different machines, and... Read more ›
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TLDR: The 2021 Raspberry Pi and Arduino Bootcamp Bundle melds the worlds of coding, electronics, and robotics for the first time creators with this five-course training package. There are probably loads of you out there who really wish they understood the finer points of programming, electronics, robotics, the Internet of Things, and all that…but just don’t know where to start. We don’t blame you. There aren’t a lot of simple... Read more ›
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TLDR: The 2021 CompTIA Master Certification Training Bundle can help students secure more than a half dozen core CompTIA certifications to prove their IT mastery. You might have the knowledge to succeed in the IT job you want. You might even have the experience to rock that position. But if you can’t objectively prove your mastery to a hiring manager, then how do they know you’re the right candidate for... Read more ›
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This article was originally published by Maya Scheyer, Vice President of Global Business Development, viisights on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Local governments worldwide are tackling varied and pressing challenges, from reducing pollution and making roads... Read more ›
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The big idea Much of the brittle, upper crust of Venus is broken into fragments that jostle and move – and the slow churning of Venus’ mantle beneath the surface might be responsible. My colleagues and I arrived at this finding using decades-old radar data to explore how the surface of Venus interacts with the interior of the planet. We describe it in a new study published in the Proceedings... Read more ›
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TLDR: You can organize your life on the phone with a second private number from Hushed that’s a whole lot cheaper than getting a second costly phone service plan. In 2004, more than 90 percent of American adults lived in a household with a landline. By last year, that number had tumbled to just under 37 percent. Increasingly, users are deciding that the smartphone is the one and only device... Read more ›
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TLDR: With live online classes that fit around your schedule, Lingoda Live Language Courses are a commitment to learning Spanish or French the right way. If you’re busy and on the go, some of the app-based language learning systems can be an amazing way to start speaking a new language. From the bite-sized lessons to the extra training resources to AI-driven speech recognition to hear if your pronunciation is on... Read more ›
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Even a casual follower of the news over the last few years is likely to have encountered stories about research showing that digital technologies like social media and smartphones are harming young people’s mental health. Rates of depression and suicide among young people have risen steadily since the mid-2000s, around the time that the first smartphones and social media platforms were being released. These technologies have become ubiquitous, and young... Read more ›
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This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates, follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Start-up Refraction AI has launched a pilot program with ten of its REV-1 delivery robots in Austin, Texas. The service launched with... Read more ›
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Fraud has reached “epidemic” levels in the UK over the past 12 months, costing up to £190 billion a year and constituting what the Royal United Services Institute has called a “national security threat” in need of an urgent institutional response. But it’s clear that the police are struggling to keep pace with fraudsters. A 2018 Which? report found that an estimated 96% of fraud cases reported to Action Fraud... Read more ›
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Being queer in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields can be exhausting. There’s a never-ending torrent of peer-reviewed research, exposure articles from journalists, and testimony from current and former employees that demonstrates a clear and consistent bias against the LGBTQ+ community in STEM. And that’s just the private sector. Don’t even get me started on academia and the government sector. It’s clear that workplace discrimination, confrontation, and isolation have... Read more ›
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Welcome to Neural’s beginner’s guide to AI. This long-running series should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. In addition to the article you’re currently reading, the guide contains articles on (in order published) neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, the difference between video game AI and real AI, the difference between human... Read more ›
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Your Google searches for breaking news stories may now produce a surprising outcome: a warning that your results could be unreliable. The company has started showing notifications for searches on emerging topics, which suggest that users return later when more information is available. The notice is Google’s latest efforts to mitigate misinformation in search results for breaking news. In a blog post, Danny Sullivan, public liaison for search at Google,... Read more ›
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Google’s algorithmic failures can dreadful consequences, from directing racist search terms to the White House in Google Maps to labeling Black people as gorillas in Google Photos. This week, the Silicon Valley giant added another algorithmic screw-up to the list: misidentifying a software engineer as a serial killer. The victim of this latest botch was Hristo Georgiev, an engineer based in Switzerland. Georgiev discovered that a Google search of his... Read more ›
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