Why AI progress hitting the brakes is more likely than world domination

Oct20
by on October 20, 2023 at 10:49 am
Posted In: artificial intelligence


There’s a looming global computing capacity crunch that cannot be sustainably addressed the way we’re doing things right now.  Simply put, between artificial intelligence (AI) models growing exponentially and an ongoing global digital transformation, data centres are running out of space. Their vacancy rates are hitting record-lows and prices are rising in response to demand, which is cause for much unease among tech leaders.   If this trend continues, at some point, we will reach a juncture where we can no longer accomplish all the things that technology theoretically allows us to do, because our capacity to process data will be…

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Exercise bike inspired by Ukraine war provides backup power during emergencies

Oct20
by on October 20, 2023 at 9:25 am
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Lithuanian startup Tukas EV has developed an exercise bike that harnesses the energy you produce while peddling and stores it as a backup source of power for household devices and appliances. The exercise bike, dubbed HR Bank, was designed to provide urban dwellers with a reliable source of clean energy, but, perhaps more importantly, also for those in need of power during emergencies like natural disasters or wars. “Our idea was that a person who bought an HR bank could not only use it as an external battery, charged from the sun or the grid, but in the absence of…

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Boomers have better cybersecurity habits than millennials and GenZ, study finds

Oct19
by on October 19, 2023 at 3:26 pm
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Boomers are often reviled for hoarding the world’s resources, but they’re also dominating their descendants in their cyber defences. That’s according to a new survey by Yubico, a Swedish vendor of authentication devices. The company asked 2,000 consumers in the US and UK about their attitudes towards protecting online accounts. The responses revealed a counterintuitive divide: digital natives appear less cyber-secure than their elders. Yubico found that boomers are the least likely generation to reuse passwords for multiple accounts (20% of respondents). More than twice as many millennials do it (47%), while Gen Z (39%) and Gen X (38%) are also frequent…

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Amazon shows off latest delivery drone, plans liftoff in UK and Italy next year

Oct19
by on October 19, 2023 at 11:05 am
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From around this time next year, Amazon customers in the UK and Italy will have the option to get their packages delivered by drone, the retail giant announced Wednesday. While Amazon has been delivering small packages via drone in Texas and California for over a year now, this is the first time the company will roll out the service beyond US borders. Where exactly in the UK and Italy the service will begin has yet to be revealed. The announcement came the same day as Amazon showcased its next-generation delivery drone design —  the MK30. While it doesn’t improve on…

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New AI tool could make future vaccines ‘variant-proof,’ researchers say

Oct18
by on October 18, 2023 at 3:36 pm
Posted In: Insider


A new AI tool that predicts viral mutations could guide treatments for COVID-19 — and the next pandemic. The system, named EVEscape, was developed at Harvard Medical School and Oxford University. In tests, the tool accurately predicted the most concerning and frequent variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged during the pandemic. A study published last week in Nature revealed an array of promising results. EVEscape’s forecasts proved more accurate than experimental approaches, while faster and more efficient than lab-based tests. The tool also successfully pinpointed therapies that would struggle to subdue new variants. The predictions are already informing pandemic monitoring efforts. For…

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