IBM today announced a new strategy for the implementation of several “error mitigation” techniques designed to bring about the era of fault-tolerant quantum computers. Up front: Anyone still clinging to the notion that quantum circuits are too noisy for useful computing is about to be disillusioned. A decade ago, the idea of a working quantum computing system seemed far-fetched to most of us. Today, researchers around the world connect to IBM’s cloud-based quantum systems with such frequency that, according to IBM’s director of quantum infrastructure, some three billion quantum circuits are completed every day. Greetings, humanoids
It sure looks like a lot of fun when we see videos of astronauts floating around in zero-gravity environments. But did you ever stop to think what prolonged weightlessness does to the human body? We’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say it isn’t pretty. And that means any crewed missions to the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else beyond the Earth’s gravitational field have an undeniable time limit on them. Until we solve the whole gravity problem, permanent off-world colonies are pretty much a non-starter. Greetings, humanoids Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.
A study published earlier this week by Surge AI appears to lay bare one of the biggest problems plaguing the AI industry: bullshit, exploitative data-labeling practices. Last year, Google built a dataset called “GoEmotions.” It was billed as a “fine-grained emotion dataset” — basically a ready-to-train-on dataset for building AI that can recognize emotional sentiment in text. Per a Google blog post: In “GoEmotions: A Dataset of Fine-Grained Emotions”, we describe GoEmotions, a human-annotated dataset of 58k Reddit comments extracted from popular English-language subreddits and labeled with 27 emotion categories. As the largest fully annotated English language fine-grained emotion dataset to date, we designed the GoEmotions taxonomy with both psychology and data applicability in mind.
➤ Link to the Source [ExampleSource]Elon Musk’s itchy Twitter fingers have got him in trouble again. The latest backlash to the billionaire’s tweets has come from Twitter itself. After Musk revealed plans to terminate his $44 billion bid for the company, the social media platform sued the tycoon. Greetings, tech nerd! Are you into gadgets? And apps? And other cool tech stuff? Then this weekly newsletter is for you. The lawsuit accuses Musk of breaching the terms of the deal — and uses his tweets as evidence. The filing features no fewer than 13 tweets from the world’s richest person.
Maxime Ingrao, security researcher at cybersecurity company Evina, has discovered a new malware family that can infect Android apps on Google Play. It’s named Autolycos — from the homonymous Greek mythological figure, known for his mastery in thievery and deceit. And that’s exactly what the malware does. Since June 2021, Ingrao has identified eight infected apps on Play Store — downloaded over three million times. Found new family of malware that subscribe to premium services ? 8 applications since June 2021, 2 apps always in Play Store, +3M installs ?? No webview like #Joker but only http requests
A team of physicists at MIT recently published a mind-blowing research paper detailing their successful efforts to use entanglement and ‘quantum time-reversal’ to create sensors capable of incredibly deep measurements. That sounds like a lot of science jargon, but the gist is that this could potentially lead to a legitimate ‘dark matter detector,’ and that’s something that could revolutionize humanity’s understanding of literally everything. Up front:Physics is a moving target. Because we are like fish inside an aquarium, we do not know where the water we swim in came from or what lies beyond the blurry images at the edge of our glass-paneled horizon.
(AI) and computer science that enables automated systems to see, i.e. to process images and video in a human-like manner to detect and identify objects or regions of importance, predict an outcome or even alter the image to a desired format [1]. Most popular use cases in the CV domain include automated perception for autonomous drive, augmented and virtual realities (AR, VR) for simulations, games, glasses, reality, and fashion or beauty-oriented e-commerce. Medical image (MI) processing on the other hand involves much more detailed analysis of medical images that are typically grayscale such as MRI, CT, or X-ray images for automated pathology detection, a task that requires a trained specialist’s eye for detection.
TLDR: Pick up these 10 tech accessories that you’ll end up using every day, each at savings of up to 35 percent off. Is there anything worse than dropping some change on a new tech gadget or accessory, then realizing a few months later that you’re not using it nearly as often as you expected? It’s never a good day when you feel like you spent hard-earned money for nothing. So you end up scrutinizing each purchase before you make your move, asking exactly how much use you’ll actually get out of it.
Learning to play the piano can sometimes feel impossible, taking hours of practice and consistent dedication — especially without a teacher to guide you. Roli, the company whose original claim to fame was an expressive digital ‘Seaboard‘ that allows for multiple degrees of expression, thinks its Lumi Keys can help. A small modular digital piano with light-up keys, the $299 Lumi promises to be one of the most intuitive ways of getting started playing the keyboard. It all starts with those pretty colors. The Lumi is far from the first digital piano to use lights to guide players to their next notes, but I’ve never seen a treatment quite so colorful.
