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Mar 9, 2024

New light-to-microwave converting tech could revolutionize GPS, radars

Posted by in category: computing

“The goal is to make all these parts work together effectively on a single platform, which would greatly reduce the loss of signals and remove the need for extra technology,” said Quinlan. “Phase one of this project was to show that all these individual pieces work together. Phase two is putting them together on the chip,” he added.

A team of researchers from several prestigious institutions helped NIST with this amazing achievement. These included the University of Colorado Boulder, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology, the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Virginia, and Yale University.

“I like to compare our research to a construction project. There are a lot of moving parts, and you need to make sure everyone is coordinated so the plumber and electrician show up at the right time in the project,” said Quinlan. We all work together really well to keep things moving forward,” he added.

Mar 9, 2024

Swiss nanotech taps into hidden energy from tap, seawater evaporation

Posted by in categories: energy, nanotechnology

“But in the process, we also made a major finding: that hydrovoltaic devices can operate over a wide range of salinities, contradicting prior understanding that highly purified water was required for best performance.”

The process can generate power around the clock since evaporation occurs at various temperatures and even at night. The process also occurs across humidities, making it suitable for use across the planet, irrespective of location.

Mar 9, 2024

Only 3 out of 10 STEM jobs are held by women, study finds

Posted by in category: employment

India has the lowest number of women in R&D jobs in the world, with less than 16.6% being women in 2018.

Mar 9, 2024

Ex-Tesla scientist teams up with Hugging Face to grace robots for Paris

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Learn about the exciting career shift of Remi Cadene, from Tesla to Hugging Face, and their new open robotics project.

Mar 9, 2024

A plan to bring down drug prices could threaten America’s technology boom

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, policy

As it stands, the draft policy would undermine the long-standing Bayh-Dole Act, with unintended consequences for innovation.

Mar 9, 2024

OpenAI announces new board members, reinstates CEO Sam Altman

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI has announced new additions to its board of directors, including CEO Sam Altman, who lost his seat in a power struggle months ago.

Mar 9, 2024

The AI Takeover In Cinema: How Movie Studios Use Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in categories: entertainment, finance, information science, media & arts, robotics/AI

The film industry, always at the forefront of technological innovation, is increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize movie production, distribution, and marketing. From script analysis to post-production, Already AI is reshaping how movies are made and consumed. Let’s explore the current applications of AI in movie studios and speculates on future uses, highlighting real examples and the transformative impact of these technologies.

AI’s infiltration into the movie industry begins at the scriptwriting stage. Tools like ScriptBook use natural language processing to analyze scripts, predict box office success, and offer insights into plot and character development. For instance, 20th Century Fox employed AI to analyze the script of Logan, which helped in making informed decisions about the movie’s plot and themes. Consider, in pre-production, AI has also aided in casting and location scouting. Warner Bros. partnered with Cinelytic to use AI for casting decisions, evaluating an actor’s market value to predict a film’s financial success. For example, let’s look at location scouting. AI algorithms can sift through thousands of hours of footage to identify suitable filming locations, streamlining what was once a time-consuming process.

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Mar 9, 2024

Balancing data and human knowledge could fuel scientist-like AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Just like how you teach a kid to walk, scientists are teaching AI rules and regulations to make it more efficient.

Mar 9, 2024

SELFI: Autonomous Self-improvement with Reinforcement Learning for Social Navigation

Posted by in categories: policy, robotics/AI

On socially compliant navigation: Researchers show how real-world RL-based finetuning can enable mobile robots to adapt on the fly to the behavior of humans, to obstacles, and other challenges associated with real-world navigation:


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Mar 9, 2024

An ‘RNA World’ Could Have Kickstarted Life on Earth

Posted by in category: futurism

New experiments suggest it was once RNA’s world, and now we’re just living in it.