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May 19, 2023

New algorithm-backed tool offers accurate tracking for deforestation crisis

Posted by in categories: information science, innovation

Approximately 27 football fields’ worth of forests are lost every minute around the globe. That’s a massive annual loss of 15 billion trees.

Scientists have unveiled an innovative and comprehensive strategy to effectively detect and track large-scale forest disturbances, according to a new study published in the Journal of Remo.

Approximately 27 football fields’ worth of forests are lost every minute around the globe, resulting in a massive annual loss of 15 billion trees, according to the WWF. Given this concerning context, the new forest monitoring approach could be a valuable tool for effectively monitoring and managing forests as they undergo changes over time.

May 19, 2023

Artificial Intelligence In E-Commerce Can Also Benefit Small Businesses

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

• Explore the specific opportunities that AI offers your industry. This will help you weigh up the potential benefits and how you can leverage them to your advantage. Many AI solutions to specific needs are already available, simplifying and speeding up their implementation.

• Start with small projects that allow you to try out technologies and evaluate their effectiveness. For instance, supervised AI only serves as an assistant and does not independently carry out a specific function. ChatGPT can be used to describe a work-related problem, allowing you to see what AI advises. Describe a decision that you’re about to make and ask what you could improve or add, or ask them to generate an answer to a question from a question, which will give your great perspective. ChatGPT and similar solutions can help small businesses in their everyday operations without major investments.

AI integration in e-commerce holds immense potential for small businesses to streamline operations, personalize customer experiences and gain a competitive edge. By starting with small projects and gradually incorporating AI, SMEs can unlock new opportunities and drive their businesses toward greater success.

May 19, 2023

A surprise new “theory of everything” involves the symmetry between order and disorder

Posted by in category: futurism

A new ‘theory of everything’ utilizes the concept of symmetry to suggest a fundamental interdependence between order and chaos.

May 19, 2023

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is getting ready to release an open-source AI model, report says

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI is preparing to release an open-source AI model, The Information reported, citing a source with knowledge of the plan.

The company led by Sam Altman has been the subject of intense scrutiny since the release of its popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT in November.

The large language models behind the bot, GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, are both closed source. Although the first two versions of GPT were open source, little is known about the newest iteration.

May 19, 2023

Meta pulls the curtain back on its A.I. chips for the first time

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Meta revealed that it built a video-processing computer chip and another chip to help with A.I. tasks such as recommendations.

May 19, 2023

5 reasons to get excited about the Apple VR/AR headset

Posted by in category: futurism

For those who remain unexcited, here are five reasons to look forward to the big reveal of the Apple VR/AR headset next month.

May 19, 2023

Nature’s Quantum Secret: Link Discovered Between Photosynthesis and “Fifth State of Matter”

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, engineering, law, policy, quantum physics

University of ChicagoFounded in 1,890, the University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Located on a 217-acre campus in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, near Lake Michigan, the school holds top-ten positions in various national and international rankings. UChicago is also well known for its professional schools: Pritzker School of Medicine, Booth School of Business, Law School, School of Social Service Administration, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Divinity School and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

May 19, 2023

Researchers discover new self-assembled crystal structures

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics

Using a targeted computational approach, researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University have found more than 20 new self-assembled crystal structures, none of which had been observed previously.

The research, published in the journal ACS Nano under the title “Targeted Discovery of Low-Coordinated Crystal Structures via Tunable Particle Interactions,” is authored by Ph.D. student Hillary Pan and her advisor Julia Dshemuchadse, assistant professor of materials science and engineering.

“Essentially we were trying to figure out what kinds of new configurations we can self-assemble in simulation,” Pan said. “The most exciting thing was that we found new structures that weren’t previously listed in any crystal structure database; these particles are actually assembling into something that nobody had ever seen before.”

May 19, 2023

Radio Signals From a Dying Star Raise Questions About Supernova Explosions

Posted by in category: cosmology

When stars like our Sun die, they tend to go out with a whimper and not a bang – unless they happen to be part of a binary (two) star system that could give rise to a supernova explosion.

Now, for the first time, astronomers have spotted the radio signature of just such an event in a galaxy more than 400 million light-years away. The finding, published today in Nature, holds tantalizing clues as to what the companion star must have been like.

May 19, 2023

Researchers use structured light on a chip in another photonics breakthrough

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics

In everyday life we experience light in one of its simplest forms—optical rays or beams. However, light can exist in much more exotic forms. Thus, even beams can be shaped to take the form of spirals; so-called vortex beams, endowed with unusual properties. Such beams can make dust particles to spin, just like they indeed move along some intangible spirals.

Light modes with such added structure are called “structured,” and even more exotic forms of structured light can be attained in artificial optical materials—metamaterials, where multiple come together and combine to create the most complex forms of light.

In their two recent works, published back-to-back in Science Advances, and Nature Nanotechnology, City College of New York researchers from Alexander Khanikaev’s group have created structured light on a silicon chip, and used this added structure to attain new functionalities and control not available before.