Intel launch event ushers in 9th generation processors
Intel has announced its 9th generation of Core processors, namely the "9th Generation Core-X family," at its October 8 launch event.
Hardware
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Consumer & Gadgets
Lenovo shows off smart shoe prototype, counts, steps to games
You can blame computer hardware for making you fall into a chair for hours and turning into a user potato surrounded by all your desktop and entertainment products, but many people will allow themselves to be hopelessly ...
Robotics
Flying squirrel-inspired drone with foldable wings demonstrates high maneuverability
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have already proved to be valuable tools for a wide range of applications, ranging from film and entertainment production to defense and security, agriculture, logistics, ...
Security
DarkMind: A new backdoor attack that leverages the reasoning capabilities of LLMs
Large language models (LLMs), such as the models supporting the functioning of ChatGPT, are now used by a growing number of people worldwide to source information or edit, analyze and generate texts. As these models become ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
A CMOS-based chip that integrates silicon quantum dots and multiplexed readout electronics
Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory have recently designed an integrated circuit (IC) that integrates silicon quantum dots with conventional readout electronics. ...
Computer Sciences
Using ablation to examine the structure of artificial neural networks
A team of researchers at RWTH Aachen University's Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering have recently explored the use of neuroscience techniques to determine how information is structured inside artificial ...
Computer Sciences
Google StyleDrop generates images from text
It took Da Vinci 16 years to paint the Mona Lisa. Some say he needed 12 years just to paint her lips.
Engineering
Dropping off microdrones, at low cost and easily stacked
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has been working on stackable little drones. Payloads could be interconnected to form an ad-hoc, self-configuring network. The Lab has a name for this concept, CICADA which stands for Close-In ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers compile a new database of executable Python code snippets on GitHub
A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has recently carried out an empirical analysis of the executable status of Python code snippets shared on GitHub. Their study, pre-published on arXiv, also presents ...
Hardware
Report: Apple to unveil its own 12-core ARM processor on 2021 Mac
Apple will begin manufacturing its own processors for the next generation of computers, Bloomberg news reported Thursday. Apple's long-rumored transition from Intel to ARM-based processors is expected to start with a lower-priced ...
