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Jan 27, 2024

People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right.

Jan 27, 2024

How wastewater could offer an early warning system for measles

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Sewage surveillance has helped us track polio, covid, mpox, and more. Why not measles?

Jan 27, 2024

Shazam now lets you identify music in apps while wearing headphones

Posted by in category: media & arts

Shazam now lets you identify music while wearing headphones, the Apple-owned company announced this week. All you need to do is open the app, check for the headphone icon to confirm your headphones are connected and then start identifying music playing around you or within apps like TikTok and YouTube. The new update works with both wired and Bluetooth headphones.

Say you’re watching TikTok with headphones and come across a song you like in a video. You can open up the Shazam app, click to Shazam and then head back to TikTok. After a few seconds, the music will stop for a split second and then you can go back to the Shazam app to see the title and artist of the song.

Or, say you’re wearing headphones in a coffeeshop and want to know what song is playing in the café. You can now Shazam the song without having to remove your headphones.

Jan 27, 2024

Opera to launch new AI-powered browser for iOS in Europe following Apple’s DMA changes

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Opera revealed today that it will launch a new AI-powered browser built on its own engine for iOS in Europe. The Norway-based company announced the change following the news that Apple is going to allow alternative browser engines to run on iOS as a result of the requirements of the European Digital Markets Act (DMA). The changes will allow developers to offer browsers that are not based on the WebKit browser engine.

Apple currently requires third-party browsers to use WebKit, which is the same browser engine that underpins its own Safari browser. In order to comply with the DMA, Apple will begin allowing developers to submit non-WebKit-based browsers, for both web browser apps and for developers offering in-app browsers for displaying web pages within their iOS apps.

Opera says the changes will allow it to provide iPhone users with an AI-powered alternative to Safari.

Jan 27, 2024

The Creator Economy Is Facing A Perfect Storm Of AI-Generated Content And Piracy

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI

Brandon Clement is not afraid of a little headwind.


From Taylor Swift deepfakes to systematic theft of copyrighted content, social platforms are being overwhelmed by AI-driven bad actors.

Jan 27, 2024

Viva la AI: IBM’s Generative AI to help pick players for Spanish soccer club

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The AI program will let the club curate a list of potential recruits using simple language prompts and dig into more than 200,000 scout reports.


Scouting for football clubs is a multi-million dollar industry involving long-term contracts and high uncertainty. AI could help deliver better returns on investments.

Jan 27, 2024

Tesla confirms new Model 3 Performance configuration is coming

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Tesla has confirmed a new Model 3 Performance configuration is coming, but the big questions of when it is and what changes it will have remain up in the air.

Early in 2024, Tesla removed the Performance configuration from the Model 3’s list of available trims. It was the most expensive of the three Model 3 offerings, but it still qualified for the EV Tax Credit.

With the rollout of the new Model 3 ‘Highland’ globally, Tesla has not yet finalized a Performance version of the vehicle. Currently, it only offers two variants: the Rear-Wheel-Drive and Long Range.

Jan 27, 2024

Paper page — FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-Centric Algorithm-System Co-Design

Posted by in category: information science

Microsoft presents FP6-LLM

Efficiently serving large language models through fp6-centric algorithm-system co-design.


Join the discussion on this paper page.

Jan 27, 2024

Dipole-dipole interactions: Observing a new clock systematic shift

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

In a new study published in Science today, JILA and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Fellow Jun Ye and his research team have taken a significant step in understanding the intricate and collective light-atom interactions within atomic clocks, the most precise clocks in the universe.

Using a cubic lattice, the researchers measured specific energy shifts within the array of strontium-87 atoms due to dipole-dipole interactions. With a high density of atoms, these mHz-level frequency shifts—known as cooperative Lamb shifts—were spectroscopically studied. These shifts were studied spatially and compared with calculated values using imaging spectroscopy techniques developed in this experiment.

These cooperative Lamb shifts, named because the presence of many identical atoms in a tightly confining space modifies the electromagnetic mode structure around them, are an important factor as the numbers of atoms in clocks continue to grow.

Jan 27, 2024

Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk As Nature’s Strongest Material

Posted by in category: materials

The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed.