A new study has highlighted an industry failure to adopting mitigations for Speculative Execution Attacks released by AMD and Intel.
Researchers have raised the alarm about a “sudden” spike in cyberattacks attempting to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in WordPress Plugin.
Pegasus spy software was used to hack into the devices of dozens of Thai pro-democracy activists as part of an extensive espionage operation.
Pegasus spy software was used to hack into the devices of dozens of Thai pro-democracy activists as part of an extensive espionage operation.
Google has removed the list of app permissions from the Play Store and introduced a new ‘Data safety’ section.
Japanese scientists say cultured human muscle cells can stay swole with their bear serum injection. Bears hibernate without losing muscle, unlike humans.
A newborn giraffe or foal must learn to walk on its legs as fast as possible to avoid predators. Animals are born with muscle coordination networks located in their spinal cord. However, learning the precise coordination of leg muscles and tendons takes some time. Initially, baby animals rely heavily on hard-wired spinal cord reflexes. While somewhat more basic, motor control reflexes help the animal to avoid falling and hurting themselves during their first walking attempts. The following, more advanced and precise muscle control must be practiced, until eventually the nervous system is well adapted to the young animal’s leg muscles and tendons. No more uncontrolled stumbling—the young animal can now keep up with the adults.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart conducted a research study to find out how animals learn to walk and learn from stumbling. They built a four-legged, dog-sized robot, that helped them figure out the details.
“As engineers and roboticists, we sought the answer by building a robot that features reflexes just like an animal and learns from mistakes,” says Felix Ruppert, a former doctoral student in the Dynamic Locomotion research group at MPI-IS. “If an animal stumbles, is that a mistake? Not if it happens once. But if it stumbles frequently, it gives us a measure of how well the robot walks.”
Summary: A new artificial neural network aced a wine tasting test and promises a less energy-hungry version of artificial intelligence, researchers report.
Source: NIST
Human brains process loads of information. When wine aficionados taste a new wine, neural networks in their brains process an array of data from each sip. Synapses in their neurons fire, weighing the importance of each bit of data — acidity, fruitiness, bitterness — before passing it along to the next layer of neurons in the network. As information flows, the brain parses out the type of wine.
Although earlier people weren’t much aware of Julia programming language, it has now gained quite the hype. In this year’s Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
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Summary: Study reveals how motor memories are formed and how they remain persistent. The findings may help illuminate the root cause of motor disorders like Parkinson’s disease.
Source: Stanford.
Why is it that someone who hasn’t ridden a bicycle in decades can likely jump on and ride away without a wobble, but could probably not recall more than a name or two from their 3rd grade class?