Recent research realizes ferroelectric hafnium oxide memristors with ultra-low conductance and inherent current-voltage nonlinearity to mitigate limitations that have obstructed commercialization of brain-inspired neuromorphic hardware.
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Southern Company
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Southern Company has a historic commitment to energy innovation. Since the 1960s, the company has invested well over $2 billion in research and development (R&D), and currently, their employees are on the forefront of delivering new ideas to build the future of energy.
Enter Spot—an agile robot. Chethan Acharya, a principal research engineer within Southern Company R&D, first discovered Spot on social media.
At the time, Acharya’s job was to find and test new sensors, analytics tools, and other solutions to help Southern Company improve operations and maintenance (O&M) activities while also lowering costs.
The commercial space industry recently received a boost after NASA awarded 10 small businesses up to $150,000 each as part of NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite program, granting each company six months to demonstrate the viability and additional standards of their mission proposals. This funding comes as part of the second round of Phase I awards and holds the potential to continue the development of the commercial space industry for the short-and long-term.
“The investments we’re able to offer through SBIR Ignite give us the ability to de-risk technologies that have a strong commercial pull, helping make them more attractive to outside investors, customers, and partners,” said Jason L. Kessler, who is the Program Executive for the NASA SBIR & Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program. “We also hope it advances the sometimes-overlooked goal of all SBIR programs to increase private-sector commercialization of the innovations derived from federal research and development funding.”
The 10 companies selected for this latest round of funding include (in alphabetical order): Astral Forge LLC, Astrobotic Technology Inc., Benchmark Space Systems, Brayton Energy LLC, Channel-Logistics LLC dba Space-Eyes, GeoVisual Analytics, Lunar Resources Inc., Space Lab Technologies LLC, Space Tango, and VerdeGo Aero.
Advances in AI and satellite imagery allowed researchers to create the clearest picture yet of human activity at sea, revealing clandestine fishing activity and a boom in offshore energy development.
New maps show how much more crowded the sea is than previously known.
What’s next for AI in 2024
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Our writers look at the four hot trends to watch out for this year.
This time last year we did something reckless.
Qualcomm extends its presence in AI inference processing, began with its Cloud AI 100 series accelerators, with the launch of its new Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra.
While Qualcomm’s Cloud AI 100 accelerator family has long been available from several tier-one technology providers such as Lenovo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Inventec, Foxconn, Gigabyte, and Asus, it’s starting to see deployment in the public cloud.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced its first Qualcomm-based accelerated instance type, the DL2q, featuring the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100. While the new instance type can be used for general inference applications, the companies highlight the accelerator’s specific applicability in developing automotive ADAS and related applications – an area in which Qualcomm is rapidly expanding its presence.
Research unveils the surprising connection between adversarial images impacting both AI and human perception, emphasizing the need for enhanced AI safety.
Discover the subtle influence of adversarial images on human vision and AI systems, underscoring the crucial intersection of technology and perception.
It’s the first significant alteration to the Windows keyboard in almost thirty years.
Microsoft is adding a dedicated Copilot key to PC keyboards, adjusting the standard Windows keyboard layout for the first time since 1994.
Over one billion smartphones with built-in AI are to be shipped by 2027, according to Counterpoint Research.
Samsung is all set to kick off the new year of AI phones with new launch this month. The first of many, Galaxy S24 will be released on January 17 in San Jose, California through a livestream.
Self-driving labs can perform experiments thousands of times faster than a human and they don’t need to sleep. That means more science in less time, but many questions remain, says Alex Wilkins
By Alex Wilkins