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Mar 8, 2020

How designers could help free AI systems from gender and ethnicity biases

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full ‘Sprint’ program here.

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent times around the need to get more women into AI and the primary focus of this discussion has been on developing AI systems that represent both men and women in order to reduce bias. The necessity of including women in the development of AI is universally accepted as being a positive step, and of course, it extends beyond gender to ethnicity and nationality as well if we are to truly create anything without bias.

However, there’s a narrow focus within this discussion on including women with technical skills and we need to look beyond this. There’s a whole host of skills required to develop AI systems, from designing the user interface, user experience, user testing, product development, and the system testing and training required to successfully launch an AI solution.

Mar 8, 2020

Lithium-Sulfur Battery Promises to Power a Phone for 5 Days

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, sustainability, transportation

Monash University is claiming its lithium-sulfur battery is the world’s most efficient and capable of allowing an electric car to travel over 600 miles between charges.

Mar 8, 2020

Intel AI gives women career advice for Int’l Women’s Day

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Intel Israel announced that the project is the first of its kind which uses AI to create “female intelligence.” The experts who worked on the project, led by data scientist and researcher Shira Guskin, analyzed thousands of insights from “veteran career women.” Once the initial advice was submitted by many women across the Israeli work force, the researchers passed the data through three algorithm models: Topic Extraction, Grouping and Summarization. This led to an algorithm which “processed the tips pool and extracted the key tips and guidelines.”


The AI said that women should fully invest in their careers, be confident, network, love, and trust their guts.

Mar 8, 2020

Cloud Cover (Satellite)

Posted by in category: futurism

Weather maps provide past, current, and future radar and images for local cities and regions in the United Kingdom.

Mar 8, 2020

Quantum Correlations Reverse Thermodynamic Arrow of Time

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Circa 2019


A recent experiment shows how quantum mechanics can make heat flow from a cold body to a hot one, an apparent (though not real) violation of the second law of thermodynamics.

Mar 8, 2020

Chiral Higgs Mode in Nematic Superconductors

Posted by in categories: energy, evolution

Nematic superconductivity with spontaneously broken rotation symmetry has recently been reported in doped topological insulators, M x Bi 2 Se 3 (M = Cu, Sr, Nb). Here we show that the electromagnetic (EM) response of these compounds provides a spectroscopy for bosonic excitations that reflect the pairing channel and the broken symmetries of the ground state. Using quasiclassical Keldysh theory, we find two characteristic bosonic modes in nematic superconductors: the nematicity mode and the chiral Higgs mode. The former corresponds to the vibrations of the nematic order parameter associated with broken crystal symmetry, while the latter represents the excitation of chiral Cooper pairs. The chiral Higgs mode softens at a critical doping, signaling a dynamical instability of the nematic state towards a new chiral ground state with broken time reversal and mirror symmetry. Evolution of the bosonic spectrum is directly captured by EM power absorption spectra. We also discuss contributions to the bosonic spectrum from subdominant pairing channels to the EM response.

Mar 8, 2020

An Unfixable Flaw Threatens 5 Years of Intel Chips

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Plus: A J. Crew breach, CIA hacking, and more of the week’s top security news.

Mar 8, 2020

Could cancer immunotherapy success depend on gut bacteria?

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Could the response to cancer immunotherapy depend on bacteria that originate in the gut and travel to the tumor?

Mar 8, 2020

Cosmic cats and nuclear blasts: the strange history of interstellar messages

Posted by in category: alien life

Cosmic cats are real I have seen several and they move like lightning.


From Sagan to Tesla, scientists have long puzzled over how to talk to extraterrestrial intelligence.

Mar 8, 2020

First Universal Flu Vaccine to Enter Phase 3 Trial

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Circa 2018


Numerous experimental vaccines that aim to provide multi-season protection are in human studies.