Enlarge / Plasma inside the tokamak at the EPFL. reader comments 42 with 38 posters participating Share this story As the world waits for construction of the largest fusion reactor yet, called ITER, smaller reactors with similar designs are still running. These reactors, called tokamaks, help us test both hardware and software. The hardware testing ..
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reader comments 18 with 15 posters participating Share this story Training AIs remains very processor-intensive, in part because traditional processing architectures are poor matches for the sorts of neural networks that are widely used. This has led to the development of what has been termed neuromorphic computing hardware, which attempts to model the behavior of ..
reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story “What makes machines, animals, and people smart?” asks the subtitle of Paul Thagard’s new book. Not “Are computers smarter than humans? or “will computers ever be smarter than humans?” or even “are computers and animals conscious, sentient, or self-aware (whatever any of that might mean)?” ..
Westend61 | Getty Images reader comments 28 with 21 posters participating Share this story Have you ever had an otherwise perfect photo ruined by someone who moved too quickly and caused a blur? Scientists have the same issue while recording images of proteins that change their structure in response to light. This process is common ..
MirageC | Getty Images reader comments 158 with 79 posters participating Share this story Algorithms play a growing role in our lives, even as their flaws are becoming more apparent: a Michigan man wrongly accused of fraud had to file for bankruptcy; automated screening tools disproportionately harm people of color who want to buy a ..
Enlarge / With extra-wide tracks and a bunch of other clever features, the Benthic Rover II can roam the seafloor for years at a time. Madison Pobis | MBARI reader comments 29 with 25 posters participating Share this story The Benthic Rover II is the size of a compact car, although it rocks fat treads, ..
Humphreys et. al. reader comments 15 with 14 posters participating Share this story It is now relatively trivial to determine the order of amino acids in a protein. Figuring out how that order translates to a complicated three-dimensional structure that performs a specific function, however, is extremely challenging. But after decades of slow progress, Google’s ..
Piaggio Fast Forward reader comments 46 with 36 posters participating Share this story When Amazon introduced its home robot Astro earlier this year, it first showcased the robot following behind a person. It’s a simple idea that has captured people’s imaginations with depictions in science fiction, like R2-D2 and BB-8 from Star Wars, and in ..
Il Garante Privacy europeo Wojciech Wiewiórowski (European Data Protection Supervisor) ritiene che l’Europa non sia ancora pronta per il riconoscimento facciale per il controllo pubblico delle persone. “La società europea non è ancora pronta”, ha detto Wojciech Wiewiórowski told in un’intervista a Politico. La tecnologia e le sue applicazioni hanno diviso l’Europa. La proposta Ue ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 118 with 83 posters participating Share this story Facebook is battling its gravest crisis since the Cambridge Analytica scandal after a whistleblower accusing the company of placing “profit over safety” shed light on its inner workings through thousands of pages of leaked memos. The documents were disclosed to ..
