Last month Microsoft pledged $4 billion (in cash and AI/cloud technology) to "advance" AI education in K-12 schools, community and technical colleges, and nonprofits (according to a blog post by Microsoft President Brad Smith). But in the launch event video, …
Parents, teachers, and experts have big opinions about the impacts of AI on young people and education. But what do the students themselves say?
theodp writes: The New York Times reports from the CS grad job-seeking trenches: Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives on social media urging students to study computer programming. "The rhetoric was, if you just learn…
In 1985, the films 'Real Genius,' 'Weird Science,' and 'My Science Project' were somehow all released within seven days of each other.
Wide wingspans, more powerful engines, and high-efficiency materials are making super long flights more possible than ever.
A blog where I write about my computer science projects, usually with some animations, code, and/or simulations.
"We may need to do a health check because smart people can get involved with these AI."
Kevin Wu, cofounder of Leaping AI, said consulting made him confident in business, but didn't fully prepare him to be a founder.
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility achieved nuclear fusion ignition with the help of an AI program that essentially told them they were on the right track.
A team of Cornell computer science researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated, another potential tool in the fight against misinformation.
I completed a Computer Science degree at uni, and bundled a lot of maths subjects in as electives: partial differential equations, vector calculus, discrete maths, linear algebra. For some reason however I always avoided statistics subjects.
Remember, it's all synthesized "anthropomorphizing". But with that caveat, Science News reports: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in "The Sims" but much, much simpler), having "guilt" can be a stable strategy that benefits them and in…
A computer that'll last years and software that'll last for life. The post Back to School deal: Get a MacBook Pro for $420 and Microsoft Office for life for free appeared first on Popular Science.
Microsoft researchers have identified 40 occupations [PDF] with the highest exposure to AI, ranking jobs by how closely their tasks align with AI's current capabilities. The study analyzed 200,000 real-world conversations from Copilot users and compared AI pe…
Muslims must take charge of artificial intelligence or “be damned” as a marginalised community, the head of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has said in a...
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The accuracy of forecasting has improved enormously - and AI promises further advances. But there are certain challenges in finding ways to share that mass of data with viewers
“Wireless tapping” is an emerging form of surveillance where full conversations can be remotely deciphered from the vibrations produced by a mobile phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting people’s privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer sc…
Screen time has become synonymous with bad news - but the science may not be as straightforward as it seems
Mark Tyson writes via Tom's Hardware: On this day 34 years ago, an unknown computer science student from Finland announced that a new free operating system project was "starting to get ready." Linus Benedict Torvalds elaborated by explaining that the OS was "…
Although not the first video game ever produced, Pong was the first to achieve commercial success and has had a tremendous influence on our culture as a whole. In Pong’s time, its popularity …
Recent college grads should be thankful for AI, according to Altman.
Chris talks about his work with Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers with a little BBC Micro.
Precision Neuroscience says it may have a better way to restore independence to those with paralysis — by targeting the brain's surface.
We asked IBM Quantum’s director about the reality of the current state of quantum computing.
We've picked out the best horror, sci-fi, and genre titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and beyond.
It’s a particularly bad time to be an unemployed 20-something.
America's major high-tech manufacturing industries have not escaped the general decline in manufacturing employment.
Unplugged, a company cofounded and backed by Erik Prince, who is also the founder of infamous private military contractor Blackwater, has just released a new version of its "privacy-first" UP Phone that will be made in the US - at some point. The original UP …
Лиссабонская летняя школа по машинному обучению (LxMLS) ежегодно проходит в Лиссабоне. Многие по ошибке думают, что её организуют в Луховицах, ведь только в Луховицах loss-функция включает в себя реальные потери — например, урожая кабачков из-за переобучения …
Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.
You might have heard of the line, "one ring to rule them all" from the book the Lord of the Rings. Though, this ring is an evil object created by the evil Sauron, the idea of just one thing existing to manage or control a lot of things at the same ti...
College educated Gen Zers are speeding toward a career cliff. But men, who dominate the struggling tech and business sectors, have it worse.
Check out Scientific American’s fiction and nonfiction book recommendations for July
Sierra Remote Observatories (SRO) is a remote astronomical observatory in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Clients remotely operate their telescopes for imaging, data acquisition, satellite tracking and communications. The website is www.sierra-remote.com.
I was reading the latest issue of the journal Science , and a paper mentioned the compound Cr 2 Gr 2 Te 6 . For a moment, I thought my knowl...
Machine-learning models are automating away some entry-level roles Researchers with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab say that workers between the ages of 22 and 25 in occupations most exposed to AI, like software developers, have seen a 13 percent relative de…
Science Saru's bias toward Momo and Okarun's budding romance is showing.
Meta has reportedly paid out more than $1 billion in recent months to build an all-star roster of AI talent.
Anantha Chandrakasan became the Institute’s new provost on July 1, succeeding Cynthia Barnhart, SM ’86, PhD ’88, who announced her decision to step down in February. Chandrakasan, who earned his BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science f…
The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software …
Leaping AI cofounder Kevin Wu said the startup struggled to get funding in Germany but that it was easy after Y Combinator and moving to the US.
Leah Belsky, the vice president of education at OpenAI, said ChatGPT is a tool that needs to be used correctly in schools.
Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost says honest feedback transformed his life path. He now tries to tell people what they need to hear.
Convinced that AI is the future, Mostofa Adib Shakib began pivoting his career in software engineering to focus more intentionally on AI skills.
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Cosmic rays traveling through space may provide enough energy to sustain life even in incredibly cold and dark environments, a new study suggests.
Explore stories on what a person’s dishwasher-loading system says about them, why private schools have gotten out of control, and more.
Advanced computer modeling suggests that by 2080, waves driven by sea level rise could flood Ahu Tongariki and up to 51 cultural treasures on Rapa Nui. The findings emphasize the urgent need for protective measures to preserve the island’s identity, tradition…
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How complex can a simple game be? Tetris pushes even supercomputers to their limits and amazes mathematicians
Alien: Earth explores the idea of human minds being placed into brand-new, synthetic bodies, but is that pure science-fiction? Let's investigate.
Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology
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The first antimatter qubit will help search for differences between matter and antimatter
'Weapons' opens August 8, and io9 spoke to its writer and director about following up his previous film, 'Barbarian.'
Feedback is alerted by a reader to the latest effort to create a quantum computer that can factorise extremely large numbers, and discovers an abrupt shift to K9 tech
On this day 34 years ago, an unknown computer science student from Finland humbly announced that a new free operating system project was 'starting to get ready.'
5 Best Retro-Style LEGO Creations That Bring The Past To LifeRecreating the past with your own hands has an allure of its own. While modern technology races forward at breakneck speed, these five retro-style LEGO...
Companies are using AI to do basic coding tasks instead of hiring junior staff.
As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.
As Gen Z questions the value of higher education, Figma CEO Dylan Field is the latest tech billionaire to make it big without a college degree.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman didn’t build his fortune off his modest CEO salary. The tech titan worth $1.9 billion instead made critical early investments in Uber...
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sun-like star to Earth.
In a simulation, a bas-relief pressed into digital fabric produced an imprint that resembled the Shroud of Turin more closely than the imprint of a fully 3D human body.
President Donald Trump posted on social media that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan should resign 'immediately.'
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Scientists studying the famous 'Wow! signal' think they've finally pinpointed a possible origin for the baffling radio transmission detected in 1977.
About Type and the Role Type (https://type.ai) is an AI-native document editor. Our mission is to help people communicate confidently. We believe that writing is and will always be the backbone of clear thinking and effective communication, especially in the …
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Researchers have successfully demonstrated a spectrometer that is orders of magnitude smaller than current technologies and can accurately measure wavelengths of light from ultraviolet to the near-infrared. The technology makes it possible to create hand-held…
How dogs exploit the indecision of sheep
A groundbreaking quantum device small enough to fit in your hand could one day answer one of the biggest questions in science — whether the multiverse is real. This tiny chip can generate extreme electromagnetic fields once only possible in massive, miles-lon…
Some techies who came to the US and found work on a H-1B visa say it's allowed them to pursue dream careers. For others, doubt has settled in.
Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings It's been 50 years since NASA sent Viking 1 on a mission to Mars.…
Using doorbell cameras to measure rainfall could help conserve thousands of gallons of irrigation water—and save you money.
Recently, “the bitter lesson” is having a moment. Coined in an essay by Rich Sutton, the bitter lesson is that, “general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.” Why is the lesson bitter? Sutton writes:
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do [only] whatever we know how to order it to perform,” Ada Lovelace inveighed upon composing the world’s first algorithm for the world’s first computer. Meanwhile, she was recko…
This is the story of how a circle of popular science communicators, who built their brands on championing free inquiry, worked to suppress scientific critique. Of how Eric Weinstein, the man who co…
It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers.…
New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that the Earth’s continents have experienced unprecedented freshwater loss since 2002, driven by climate change, unsustainable groundwater use and extreme droughts.
Why fundamental digital principles are as invisible (and essential) as the laws of physics.
Reddit, now worth more than $40 billion, would have never happened without Alexis Ohanian ditching law school in favor of entrepreneurship.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point…
The long-time Wall Street analyst updates the amount data centers will spend on AI.
Today's awfulness comes from Tim H, and while it's technically more than one line, it's so representative of the code, and so short that I'm going to call this a representative line. Before we get to the code, we need to talk a little history. Tim's project i…
Krishna Kaliannan quit his job in finance and later started Catalina Crunch, a cereal company inspired by his own experience with diabetes.
Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Алексей, и я занимаюсь беспроводными технологиями. Последние пять лет наша команда занимается одной из самых интригующих областей IT — WiFi sensing. Сегодня хочу рассказать, как обычный домашний роутер может превратиться в супер-сенсо…
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The Big Bang Theory was not only essential to this crime series' popularity, but the two shows also complemented each other in somewhat surprising ways.
A large language model interviewed me about my life and gave the information to an AI agent built to portray my personality. Could it convince me it was me?
In the 21st century, the dream of alchemy is not just alive but atomic.
Embed from Getty Images The post title sounds like science fiction meets Captain Obvious, but this is real. Brain implants, or brain-computer interfaces, can help disabled people move prosthetic limbs with their intentions, and paralyzed people without speec…
KI-Agenten erledigen selbstständig Aufgaben, unser CPU-hilft bei der Prozessorwahl, es geht um Tücken und Kosten von Glasfaseranschlüssen und den Windows-Umzug.
Even years after an arm is amputated, the brain maintains a detailed map of the limb and tries to interact with this phantom appendage.
A relaxing day of sun, sand, and sea can leave vacationers feeling fatigued—what’s to blame? The post Why does the beach make you so tired? appeared first on Popular Science.
A photographer and software developer fed up with paying endless subscription fees has decided to help himself -- and his fellow photographers -- by building not one, but four free apps. [Read More]
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A new tool developed by MIT researchers enables users to create detailed computer representations of mathematically impossible objects.