21 Best Deals: WFH Gear, Weighted Blankets, and Phones
Now that the holiday craze is over, here are some discounts on a variety of gadgets to help ease you into the new year.
The FAA NOTAM Outage Lays Bare an Essential System Everyone Hates
A glitch in the so-called NOTAM system caused the agency to ground flights across the US. But its problems go back years.
A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.
The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing
Lab animals have long borne the brunt of drug safety trials. A new law allows drugmakers to use miniature tissue models, or organs-on-chips, instead.
A deep belief neural network based on silicon memristive synapses
While artificial intelligence (AI) models are becoming increasingly advanced, training and running these models on conventional computer hardware is very energy consuming. Engineers worldwide have thus been trying to create alternative, brain-inspired hardware that could better support the high computational load of AI systems.
Microsoft’s VALL-E can faithfully reproduce a voice after listening to a three second recording
A team of researchers at Microsoft has demonstrated a new AI system that is capable of mimicking a person’s voice after training with a recording just three seconds long. The team explains developing the new app in a paper published on the arXiv preprint server. They have also posted a webpage demonstrating the app’s capabilities.
How AI-powered conversational commerce will transform shopping in 2023
AI-powered conversational commerce will take ecommerce to the next level in 2023, benefiting customer and retailer alike.Read More
Intel plots a path to ‘universal AI’ with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable CPU
Today, Intel has released its 4th Gen Xeon Scalable CPUs to bridge the divide between which AI and ML workloads could run on CPUs vs. GPUs.Read More
How a utility giant is using data analytics, machine learning to benefit customers
By moving away from legacy systems and towards the cloud, utility firm EDF UK is delivering an array of innovative machine learning products.Read More
AI may be red-hot, but Scale AI layoffs send shivers
News that Scale AI laid off 20% of its 700-person staff sent shivers down the spines of those who thought AI was generally layoff-immune.Read More