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Jun 12, 2021

NYC Unveils Floating Swimming Pool To Clean 600,000 Gallons of Polluted Water Every Day

Posted by in category: futurism

It may finally be safe to swim in NYC’s East River thanks to this ingenious floating swimming pool.


A new floating swimming pool called + POOL is coming to NYC’s East River and may soon clean 600, 0000 gallons of polluted water every day.

Jun 12, 2021

Shine: Automate Toilet Cleaning

Posted by in categories: chemistry, futurism

The Future Bathroom is Here. Clean. Effortless. Chemical-Free.

Jun 12, 2021

Genetically engineered microbes convert waste plastic into vanillin

Posted by in categories: biological, genetics

Plastic bottle becomes industrially useful product thanks to biosynthetic transformation.

Jun 12, 2021

Photos show Chinas rover on the surface of Mars, ramping up its competition with NASA to explore the planet

Posted by in category: space

The photos include a 360 degree panorama of the terrain, a selfie of the rover, and a picture of the rover’s landing platform sporting a Chinese flag.

Jun 12, 2021

Google wants to train you to become a UX designer in 6 months — without a college degree. Heres how to make the most of the certificate program and potentially make $84,000 a year

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

Google wants to train you to become a UX designer in 6 months — without a college degree. Here’s how to make the most of the certificate program and potentially make $84000 a year.

The US unemployment rate sits at 6.7%. Thanks to COVID-19, millions of Americans are still out there looking for not just a new job but also an entire new career path.

Tech fields like UX design, data analysis, and project management are looking for promising candidates, and Google announced a new career-certificate program to help make them more accessible last summer.

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Jun 11, 2021

Electrified water lets cleaners ditch the bleach

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, food, law enforcement

Circa 2011


It sounds like a late-night infomercial: Kill germs and clean surfaces with nothing more than water and a few volts of electricity! Pay pennies a gallon! Strong enough to kill germs but gentle on your skin!

The use of electricity and water to clean and disinfect has been embraced by some food and hospitality businesses looking to save money and go green by swapping out conventional products.

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Jun 11, 2021

How to Deal with Infinity in Python

Posted by in category: futurism

Introducing ways of defining and working with Infinite values in Python.


∀ x ∈ ℝ, -∞ < x < ∞

Every number is smaller than positive infinity and bigger than negative infinity.

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Jun 11, 2021

ZeRO-Infinity and DeepSpeed: Unlocking unprecedented model scale for deep learning training

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing, transportation

Since the DeepSpeed optimization library was introduced last year, it has rolled out numerous novel optimizations for training large AI models—improving scale, speed, cost, and usability. As large models have quickly evolved over the last year, so too has DeepSpeed. Whether enabling researchers to create the 17-billion-parameter Microsoft Turing Natural Language Generation (Turing-NLG) with state-of-the-art accuracy, achieving the fastest BERT training record, or supporting 10x larger model training using a single GPU, DeepSpeed continues to tackle challenges in AI at Scale with the latest advancements for large-scale model training. Now, the novel memory optimization technology ZeRO (Zero Redundancy Optimizer), included in DeepSpeed, is undergoing a further transformation of its own. The improved ZeRO-Infinity offers the system capability to go beyond the GPU memory wall and train models with tens of trillions of parameters, an order of magnitude bigger than state-of-the-art systems can support. It also offers a promising path toward training 100-trillion-parameter models.

ZeRO-Infinity at a glance: ZeRO-Infinity is a novel deep learning (DL) training technology for scaling model training, from a single GPU to massive supercomputers with thousands of GPUs. It powers unprecedented model sizes by leveraging the full memory capacity of a system, concurrently exploiting all heterogeneous memory (GPU, CPU, and Non-Volatile Memory express or NVMe for short). Learn more in our paper, “ZeRO-Infinity: Breaking the GPU Memory Wall for Extreme Scale Deep Learning.” The highlights of ZeRO-Infinity include:

Jun 11, 2021

D-Wave announces 5,000-qubit fifth generation quantum annealer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

D-Wave’s newest offering, available in mid-2020, offers two and a half times more connectivity between qubits than the 2000Q quantum computer.

Jun 11, 2021

Googles DeepMind Says It Has All the Tech It Needs for General AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Reward-seeking behavior drove evolution on Earth. Can it do the same in AI?