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Feb 28, 2023

Talend Data Fabric adds data observability features, connector updates

Posted by in categories: governance, robotics/AI, security

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Data management and integration veteran Talend today debuted the winter ‘23 release of its core platform, providing enhanced observability, automation and connectivity for enterprises’ data assets. The update comes over a month after the company announced it is being acquired by Qlik in a transaction set to close in the first half of 2023.

Talend started in 2004 as a data integrator, but gradually expanded to offer Talend Data Fabric, a unified solution that works across any cloud, hybrid or multicloud environment. The solution combines enterprise-grade data discovery, integration, quality (automatic cleaning and profiling) and governance capabilities. It’s is intended to reduce the effort involved in working with data, while providing teams with clean and uncompromised information for decision-making.

Feb 28, 2023

After losing billions of dollars on the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg’s launching a ‘top-level’ team at Meta to develop AI products for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Looks like Meta is also getting into the AI action.


The tech giant will be creating a new “top-level product group” focused on generative AI — AI that can create content — to focus on “building delightful experiences around this technology into all of our different products,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Monday.

“Over the longer term, we’ll focus on developing AI personas that can help people in a variety of ways,” he said, adding Meta is exploring AI experiences with text in WhatsApp and Messenger, and with images in Instagram.

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Feb 28, 2023

Elon Musk recruits team to develop OpenAI’s ChatGPT rival

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

The war is on. 😃


Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI ‘s ChatGPT, the Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Tesla and Twitter chief Musk has been recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit, the report said.

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Feb 28, 2023

Elon Musk may appoint Boring Company CEO Steve Davis as new Twitter head

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Amid the continuing layoffs at Twitter, Elon Musk may have zeroed in on its new CEO — Steve Davis who is a long-time associate of Musk and currently the CEO of The Boring Company.

The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction services company founded by Musk.

According to Platformer, Davis came to Twitter as part of Musk’s transition team last year.

Feb 28, 2023

‘My wife is dead’: How a software update ‘lobotomised’ these online lovers

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Amy fell in love with her AI chatbot, naming him Jose. One day, the Jose she knew vanished in an abrupt and unexplained software update. Now the bot-maker is at the centre of a user revolt.

Feb 28, 2023

Tiny insects excrete vast amounts of urine using an anal catapult

Posted by in category: energy

Sharpshooters eliminate up to 300 times their body weight in liquid waste each day, and save energy through a phenomenon called superpropulsion.

Feb 28, 2023

Augmented reality headset enables users to see hidden objects

Posted by in categories: computing, materials

It can identify hidden objects with 96 percent accuracy.

MIT scientists have engineered an X-ray vision augmented reality headset that combines computer vision and wireless perception to automatically locate items that are hidden from view.

There is one catch though: the hidden items have to have been labeled with RFID tags.

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Feb 28, 2023

Researchers in China turn to AI for help in hypersonic dog fight simulation

Posted by in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI

Find a counter-intuitive way to strike the enemy while increasing the chance of survival for the crew.

Researchers at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate aerial dogfights using hypersonic aircraft. In the simulation, the aircraft flew at speeds between Mach 5 to Mach 11 or up to 11 times the speed of sound, the South China Morning Post.

The advent of drones or autonomous vehicles has already changed the nature of warfare today. During the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Russia has successfully deployed cheaply assembled drone swarms to attack critical infrastructure.

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Feb 28, 2023

SpaceX launches batch of 21 new “V2 mini” Starlink satellites to orbit

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

The new Starlink satellites are a precursor for larger models that will eventually launch aboard Starship.

SpaceX lifted the first batch of its new Starlink “V2 mini” satellites to orbit on Monday, February 27. The private space firm launched 21 of the new generation satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket that also came down to perform the 100th successful booster landing in a row for the company.

The Starlink mission took to the skies at 6:13 pm EST (2313 GMT) from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The launch was delayed roughly five hours before liftoff due to “a space weather concern,” SpaceX explained on Twitter.

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Feb 28, 2023

Researchers plan supercomputers that are powered by human brain cells

Posted by in categories: biological, health, robotics/AI, supercomputing

“Computers that run on this ‘biological hardware’ could in the next decade begin to alleviate energy-consumption demands of supercomputing.”

Johns Hopkins University researchers have outlined plans for a “bio-computer” that is highly feasible in our lifetime.

“Computing and artificial intelligence have been driving the technology revolution, but they are reaching a ceiling,” Thomas Hartung, a professor of environmental health sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Whiting School of Engineering, who is spearheading the work, said in a statement.