Rolls-Royce quantum computing chief tells Tech Monitor the aerospace giant plans to use quantum and classical machines in tandem.
Engineering and entrepreneurship — a match made in heaven!
Entrepreneurship is often glamorized, but in reality, it takes a lot of time and effort to make it. After all, there’s a reason why most startups fail. Additionally, managing a business requires specific skills, such as attention to detail and the ability to lead others. Having an analytical mindset is just as important.
Given these aspects, it’s not surprising that engineers make great entrepreneurs. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Henry Ford all started their careers as engineers. However, not all engineers work in tech.
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It is the first in a series of private launches that will culminate in the first crewed Starship spaceflight.
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will include the first-ever commercial spacewalk. The mission, funded and commanded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, is part of the Polaris Program, a series of launches that will include the first-ever crewed Starship spaceflight.
The first of these, Polaris Dawn, was originally slated for late 2022. As is often the case with rocket launches, several factors have come into play, pushing the mission back to no earlier than March 2023, as per an update to the Polaris Program’s website first reported by Space.com.
Source: Polaris Program.
The new innovative features allow for advanced image editing using artificial intelligence.
Adobe announced new advancements in its Photoshop at its annual Adobe Max conference for technology. These new innovations make the image editing application even smarter in its abilities, and more collaborative. Along with these announcements came a whole new wave of AI advancements and capabilities incorporated into the software.
The flagship desktop app powered by Adobe Sensei AI features numerous improvements, including the one click Delete option and the Fill tool to remove and replace objects with a single click. Along with the AI feature, these improvements were made in time to be introduced at the fall conference. It allows users to remove unwanted elements in their pictures quickly with a shortcut, using Shift + Delete. Another updated feature is the photo restoration neural filter that uses machine learning to detect and get rid of scratches and other small flaws on old photographs.
‘You’re in a world made of marshmallows!’
A Google app that allows people to communicate with artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been made available in the United Kingdom (U.K.) for a limited trial period.
You’re in a world made of marshmallows! As you take a step, a gentle ‘squish’ comes out under your feet. The marshmallow horizon stretches out in all directions. The sky is a gooey, sticky pink.
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A team of scientists from Korea and Egypt have discovered a better way to grow insect-hunting fungi in a lab, according to research published Wednesday in Frontiers in Microbiology.
The fungi can be grown using grains like brown rice but they do not produce much cordycepin, prompting the researchers to suggest insects—which are a richer protein source and the fungi target in nature—as a better alternative. fungi, which infect and zombify insects, are difficult to cultivate but contain chemicals that could help fight cancer and viruses and possibly help treat Covid-19.
Scientists suggest the geopolitical fallout of discovering extraterrestrials could be more dangerous than the aliens themselves.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project collects data from radio telescopes.
The trouble is that the receiver might not be quite as intelligent.
The consequences of a successful search for extraterrestrial intelligence should be seriously considered to avoid conflict, suggests a new study.
Advances in calibration routines and device fabrication lead to high-fidelity operations.
Reservoir computing (RC) is an approach for building computer systems inspired by current knowledge of the human brain. Neuromorphic computing architectures based on this approach are comprised of dynamic physical nodes, which combined can process spatiotemporal signals.
Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have recently created a new RC system based on memristors, electrical components that regulate the flow of electrical current in a circuit, while also recording the amount of charge that previously flowed through it. This RC system, introduced in a paper published in Nature Electronics, has been found to achieve remarkable results, both in terms of performance and efficiency.
“The basic architecture of our memristor RC system comes from our earlier work published in Nature Communications, where we validated the feasibility of building analog reservoir layer with dynamic memristors,” Jianshi Tang, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. “In this new work, we further build the analog readout layer with non-volatile memristors and integrate it with the dynamic memristor array-based parallel reservoir layer to implement a fully analog RC system.”
Summary: A new theory suggests glial cells, specifically astrocytes, play a key role in cognitive processing.
Source: University Health Network.
A team of scientists from the Krembil Brain Institute, part of the University Health Network in Toronto, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has developed the first computer model predicting the role of cortical glial cells in cognition.