Alibaba crowns its cloud service with powerful AI chip
Alibaba's first AI chip is in the news. It's a self developed chip, said Reuters, for cloud computing services.
Hardware
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Business
Huawei eyes computer market as US squeezes telecom business
Huawei will step up its presence in the global market for computer hardware, a top company official said on Wednesday, as the Chinese telecom giant weathers a US assault on its 5G network and smartphone business.
Sep 18, 2019
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Robotics
First-ever successful mind-controlled robotic arm without brain implants
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, has made a breakthrough in the field of noninvasive robotic device control. Using a noninvasive brain-computer interface ...
Jun 19, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Explainer: What is quantum machine learning and how can it help us?
Artificial intelligence refers, among other things, to machines' capacity to demonstrate some degree of what humans consider "intelligence". This process is being driven by the rapid advancement of machine learning: getting ...
Apr 18, 2019
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Engineering
Boosting the 'brains' of computers with less wasted energy
Many internal components used in today's computers reach temperatures that are hot enough to cook a Thanksgiving meal. The heat produced by the computations can easily burn human skin and tissue – and much of the heat is ...
Mar 29, 2019
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Security
Most laptops vulnerable to attack via peripheral devices, say researchers
Many modern laptops and an increasing number of desktop computers are much more vulnerable to hacking through common plug-in devices than previously thought, according to new research.
Feb 25, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Survey of trends in artificial intelligence finds advances in working with human languages, global reach
For the past two years, a Stanford-led group has surveyed developments in artificial intelligence research to keep track of trends in the fast-paced field. In their second AI Index Report, published December 12, the group ...
Dec 13, 2018
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Engineering
New AI camera could revolutionize autonomous vehicles
The image recognition technology that underlies today's autonomous cars and aerial drones depends on artificial intelligence: the computers essentially teach themselves to recognize objects like a dog, a pedestrian crossing ...
Aug 17, 2018
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Hardware
IBM talks about world's smallest computer smaller than grain of salt
World's best. World's fastest. World's smartest. Superlatives are the stuff of which news headlines are made. IBM, taking center stage at its Think 2018 conference in Las Vegas, scores big in superlatives this week in unveiling ...
Computer Sciences
A game changer: Metagenomic clustering powered by supercomputers
Did you know that the tools used for analyzing relationships between social network users or ranking web pages can also be extremely valuable for making sense of big science data? On a social network like Facebook, each user ...
Mar 12, 2018
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