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Apr 26, 2024
Best Evil Robot You Can Buy: Robosen’s Megatron Auto-Transforms via Voice Commands
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The iconic Transformers villain comes to life in a self-converting robot that turns into a tank. It’s a killer toy.
Apr 26, 2024
Layer Skip: Enabling Early Exit Inference and Self-Speculative Decoding
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
Meta presents Layer Skip.
Enabling early exit inference and self-speculative decoding.
We present LayerSkip, an end-to-end solution to speed-up inference of large language models (LLMs).
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Apr 26, 2024
Orbiter Spots “Spiders” on Surface of Mars
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: materials, space
Imagine a real spider 3,300 feet across.
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has spotted “spiders” on the Red Planet’s southern polar region.
But they’re not the arachnids we fear or adore back on Earth — they’re the result of a complex geological process that causes carbon dioxide to sublimate, digging up darker material from below the surface during the planet’s spring.
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Apr 25, 2024
TSMC unveils new A16 tech for 1.6nm chips as AI race heats up
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
This unveil marks a significant step towards the production of its new ultra-advanced 1.6-nanometer (nm) chips by 2026.
With its focus on nanosheet transistors and innovative backside power delivery, A16 paves the way for the production of 1.6nm chips by 2026.
Apr 25, 2024
MoDE: CLIP Data Experts via Clustering
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
Meta presents MoDE
CLIP Data Experts via Clustering.
The success of contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) relies on the supervision from the pairing between images and captions, which tends to be noisy in web-crawled data.
Apr 25, 2024
Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: alien life, chemistry
An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe. It hints that conditions were not the same everywhere when the first stars forged the elements for life.
Apr 25, 2024
Scientists tune the entanglement structure in an array of qubits
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
Entanglement is a form of correlation between quantum objects, such as particles at the atomic scale. The laws of classical physics cannot explain this uniquely quantum phenomenon, yet it is one of the properties that explain the macroscopic behavior of quantum systems.
Because entanglement is central to the way quantum systems work, understanding it better could give scientists a deeper sense of how information is stored and processed efficiently in such systems.
Qubits, or quantum bits, are the building blocks of a quantum computer. However, it is extremely difficult to make specific entangled states in many-qubit systems, let alone investigate them. There are also a variety of entangled states, and telling them apart can be challenging.
Apr 25, 2024
First experimental proof for brain-like computer with water and salt
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, neuroscience, physics
Theoretical physicists at Utrecht University, together with experimental physicists at Sogang University in South Korea, have succeeded in building an artificial synapse. This synapse works with water and salt and provides the first evidence that a system using the same medium as our brains can process complex information.
The results appear in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In the pursuit of enhancing the energy efficiency of conventional computers, scientists have long turned to the human brain for inspiration. They aim to emulate its extraordinary capacity in various ways.
Apr 25, 2024
Groundbreaking ceremony held for high-speed train from Las Vegas to Los Angeles
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Federal, transportation and union leaders gathered in Las Vegas Monday to drive spikes into a symbolic rail, marking the beginning of construction for a $12 billion high-speed rail line that will link Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area.
“People have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday ahead of the groundbreaking ceremony. “It’s really happening this time.”