29 Great Gifts for Mom: Ideas for the Mother in Your Life (2024)
There are many kinds of mothers, but these are our favorite picks for the WIRED mom in your life.
Artificial compound eye to revolutionize robotic vision at lower cost but higher sensitivity
A research team has recently developed a novel artificial compound eye system that is not only more cost-effective, but demonstrates a sensitivity at least twice that of existing market products in small areas. The system promises to revolutionize robotic vision, enhance robots’ abilities in navigation, perception and decision-making, while promoting commercial application and further development …
LLM progress is slowing — what will it mean for AI?
It’s easy to forget how much has happened since the launch of ChatGPT. Now, for the first time, there are signs that pace might be slowing.Read More
Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All
Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.
Researcher designs robot to help children cross streets safely
It looks a bit like a small lawnmower, but instead of dual handles, a single black pole with a tablet-sized screen attached rises from the machine.
5 Tips for Getting Started with Time Series Analysis
As a machine learning engineer or a data scientist, you’ll likely need to work with time series data. Time series analysis focuses on data indexed by time, such as stock prices, temperature, and the like. If you’re already comfortable with machine learning fundamentals but new to time series, this guide will provide you with five …
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ACL Conference 2024
Apple is sponsoring the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), which takes place in person from August 11 to 16, in Bangkok, Thailand. ACL is a conference in the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language. Below is …
How Deltek uses Amazon Bedrock for question and answering on government solicitation documents
This post is co-written by Kevin Plexico and Shakun Vohra from Deltek. Question and answering (Q&A) using documents is a commonly used application in various use cases like customer support chatbots, legal research assistants, and healthcare advisors. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a leading method for using the power of large language models …
Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
The vulnerabilities, which have been patched, may have novel appeal to attackers as an avenue to compromising phones.
DeepMind develops a robot that can play amateur level ping-pong
A team of engineers at Google’s DeepMind Project has demonstrated a robot capable of playing amateur-level table tennis (ping-pong). The team has published a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing how they developed the robot, how well it performed at different ability levels and how human players responded to playing with the robot.