Much to the surprise of the global community, South Africa’s patent office granted a patent to an AI, recognising DABUS as an inventor. At first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a […]
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Venture Funds Pour into China’s Hardware Startups
China’s hardware startups are getting more venture capital funding this year, helped by Beijing’s effort to drive investments in strategically important technology as well as its crackdown on the internet sector. Venture firms pumped $5.4 […]
China’s EdTech Giants Adapt to New Realities
China’s largest private education firms are moving swiftly to overhaul their businesses to adjust to a harsh new reality after Beijing launched a sweeping crackdown on the $100 billion sector. Two of the sector’s biggest […]
Tesla to Offer Neural Network Training as a Service
Elon Musk reveals that Tesla plans to use their Dojo supercomputer to provide neural network training as a service. During Tesla’s discussions about Dojo, the company noted that the supercomputer is built with multiple aspects […]
Tesla’s AI Day
On Thursday’s Tesla AI Day, Musk described Tesla as a company with “deep AI activity in hardware on the inference level and on the training level” that can be used for applications beyond self-driving cars. […]
How AI is Enabling Space Exploration at NASA
“There is a growing need for future spacecraft to be autonomous, self-aware and be able to make critical decisions on their own” Shreyansh Daftry, an AI Research Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, outlined several […]
How Tech is Changing Healthcare
From rapid development and rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines to the science of isolation, machine-learning-enabled gene editing and digitised medicine. We’re in an exponential revolution in genomics, George Church told the audience at WIRED Health […]
Flying with a Jet Suit
Mat Smith tests out Gravity Industries’ electric jet suit prototype. Stood on stage, with the two arm jets resting on a frame in front of me, the team finishes teaching me the fundamentals of movement: […]
The Questions Concerning Technology
LM Sacasas argues that we need better ways to prompt our thinking about technology’s moral dimensions. A few days ago, a handful of similar stories or anecdotes about technology came to my attention. While they […]