The birth of Ethereum introduced the concept of smart contracts to the cryptocurrency world for the first time and with it, decentralized applications (dApps), the applications that operate automatica...
In a recent Mind Matters podcast, “Artificial General Intelligence: the Modern Homunculus,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks, a and computer engineering prof, spoke with Justin Bui from ...
A recent six-hour outage for Facebook’s services was irritating for UK users. In other parts of the globe, it disrupted entire economies Read more...
Deep neural networks are known to learn opaque, uninterpretable representations that lie beyond the grasp of human understanding. As such, from both scientific and practical viewpoints, it is intrigui...
How Central Banks Think About Digital Currency In the late 1600s, the introduction of bank notes changed the financial system forever. Fast forward to today, and another monumental change is expected ...
IN 1945, FIRE claimed three of Gustav Klimt’s most controversial paintings. Commissioned in 1894 for the University of Vienna, « the Faculty Paintings »—as they became known—were unlike any of t...
It’s not often the world of semiconductors is turned on its head. It’s clear that a similar transformation is occurring as a superabundance of start-ups takes on the challenge of low-power neural nets...
Robots have histories that extend far back into the past. Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots all find expression from the human imagination in works...
Jérôme Marchandiau, le directeur des opérations IT du groupe, raconte comment la destruction soudaine des deux tiers de l’informatique a été vécue de l’intérieur. Et comment le géant de l’équipement p...
What is the metaverse? How far off is it? And will this represent a tectonic technological platform shift — along the lines of the internet and mobile revolutions — or is it simply a lot of hot air? W...
Artificial neural networks are famously inspired by their biological counterparts. Yet compared to human brains, these algorithms are highly simplified, even “cartoonish.” Can they teach us anything a...
These days, a large amount of money is moving towards fast-growing startups. IPOs are happening, new unicorns are emerging, and valuations are rising rapidly. Such achievements should be celebrated be...
Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technology and motor vehicles. It powers tools for agriculture and healthca...
Cancer is one of the most complex diseases that affects humankind, making it an incredibly difficult condition to study and even more difficult to treat. In fact, cancer is so complicated that the wor...
It’s Facebook’s Meta versus open DAOs. And the battle will come down to hardware, specifically, microchips. What kind of metaverse would you like to live in? With the announcement of Facebook’s rebran...