In the early days of Silicon Valley’s 3D graphics boom, Nvidia stood out as the only company to survive out of about 200 competitors.
The key to its success was a relentless focus on semiconductor technology and a commitment to improving processors every year, even when customers didn’t ask for it.
The company believed that true innovation meant anticipating future needs, not just responding to what people wanted at the time. This vision ultimately helped Nvidia become a leader in the industry.
Critical flaws in Progress Kemp LoadMaster and VMware vCenter Server are under active exploitation, warns CISA.
The first experimental demonstration of two schemes to enhance the longitudinal coherence of SASE-XFEL pulses shows that the SASE pulse bandwidth can be reduced by up to a factor of three.
A series of psychoacoustic and neuroimaging studies reveal the effect that the sound of Aztec skull whistles has on modern listeners; the sound, which is perceived as a mixture of voice-like, scream-like, and technological, triggers affective processing.
And should we — abolish death? Neuroscientist and author Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston will be speaking at Bush House, King’s College London, on Tues 3rd December, in an event that London Futurists is happy to draw to the attention of all members and friends.
In this event organised by King’s College London, neuroscientist and author Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston will be speaking about his new book The Future Loves You, which explores how brain preservation techniques might preserve us forever.
Ariel will be in discussion with historians, literary scholars, ethicists, and futurists, including Richard Ashcroft, Steve Connor, Caitjan Gainty, Catriona Byers, and Fay Bound Alberti.
This DFI Centre for Technology and the Body event will be held on 3 December at 6pm-8.30pm at Bush House, Lecture Room 2.
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How can the United States foster a robust commercialization ecosystem for fusion energy?
Researchers are developing atomically precise memristors for advanced neuromorphic computing systems.
The University of Kansas and University of Houston, backed by $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation’s Future of Semiconductor program (FuSe2), are collaborating to develop atomically tunable memory resistors, known as “memristors.” These advanced components are designed for brain-inspired computing applications and will support workforce development in the semiconductor industry.
Launched in 2023, the FuSe2 program addresses key challenges in semiconductor research and development, with industry partners including Micron, Intel, and Samsung.
A release today of the Department of Defense annual report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) comes one day after a witness-based Congressional hearing on the topic.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena is required by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022, as amended by the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2023.
“Analyzing and understanding the potential threats posed by UAP is an ongoing collaborative effort involving many departments and agencies,” said a DoD statement.
In a podcast on Monday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that a future with human-level AIs is not far away. In fact, it might happen as soon as 2026.
The podcast was hosted by AI influencer Lex Fridman where Amodei was invited for an interview that went on for 5 hours. A lot of interesting topics were discussed, starting from Anthropic’s upcoming project to the timeline for superintelligent models and so on.
Note: Human-level AIs basically refer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which many companies like OpenAI are already working on. AGI is a new state in which an AI model will be as competent as a human in every field.
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Africa’s Pulse is a biannual publication containing an analysis of the near-term macroeconomic outlook for the region. Each issue also includes a section focusing upon a topic that represents a particular development challenge for the continent.
