Researchers at Stanford have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, EG3D, that can generate random images of faces and other objects with high resolution together with underlying geometric s...
AI has had a bad rap in recent years. It’s said to overpromise and underdeliver. Expectations were initially high, but the rollout of artificial intelligence left CIOs feeling frustrated and disenchan...
AI and ML are making a significant contribution to climate change. Developers can help reverse the trend with best practices and tools to measure carbon efficiency. The growth of computationally inten...
Inspired by research into how infants learn, computer scientists have created a program that can learn simple physical rules about the behaviour of objects — and express surprise when they seem to vio...
Comments pouring into the Fed and other authorities over the CBDC issue expose deep fault lines between traditional banks and payments institutions and fintech players eager to exploit a completely ne...
European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 billion. This represents a 50% increase on last y...
Plusieurs pages du site (pas toutes) renvoient encore ce matin vers un message d’alerte : « Les services administratifs et de gestion de La Poste Mobile ont été victimes, ce lundi 4 juillet, d’un viru...
Dans son rapport d’activité 2021, la Commission nationale de contrôle des techniques de renseignement détaille, pour la première fois, les données statistiques relatives à chacune des techniques...
The metaverse space is moving rapidly in terms of hype and the volume of new projects being launched — so much so that the industry market size is projected to grow from $100.27 billion in 2022 to $1,...
The ‘intelligence’ of AI is growing all the time. And AI has many forms, from Spotify’s recommendation system to self-drive cars. AI utilises natural language processing (NLP) to deliver natural and h...
Are startups really in danger of suffering a protracted, painful slowdown? With half the year now behind us, the gathering clouds for startups around the world don’t appear to have broken into storms,...
Venture capitalist Matthew Ball first wrote about the metaverse in 2018 and his essays have become essential reading for entrepreneurs and tech watchers who are attempting to understand or profit from...
The last time I wrote about a stablecoin, it failed spectacularly. So when a colleague of mine suggested I write about MakerDAO’s proposal to invest in U.S. Treasurys to back its collateralized stable...
Layoffs up in H1 2022 In 2021, fintech startups were the top recipients of venture capital globally, accounting for about 21% of dollars raised with $131.5 billion across 4,969 deals. So far in 2022, ...
The future is here, and it is every bit as cool and creepy as you might have hoped. X-ray vision has always been pretty far down on my list of superpowers I’d like to possess, far behind time tr...