The future won’t be made by either humans or machines alone – but by both, working together. Technologies modeled on how human brains work are already augmenting people’s abilities, and will only get more influential as society gets used to these increasingly capable machines. Technology optimists have envisioned a world with rising human productivity and […]
Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the team calls “syncells” (short for synthetic cells), might eventually be used to monitor conditions inside an oil or gas pipeline, or to search out disease while floating through the bloodstream. The […]
Alibaba Group’s cloud computing arm has launched its first data centres in the UK, as the Chinese company forges ahead with an ambitious international expansion plan in Europe. Alibaba Cloud, which was founded in 2009, will host two operational sites in London, adding to the Chinese conglomerate’s existing data centres in Frankfurt and Dubai across […]
The Mower County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a ‘trojan horse’ computer scam. According to the sheriff’s office, a rural Austin resident reported receiving an e-mail from a person claiming to have infected his computer with a virus. The victim told authorities the suspect had his current computer virus and threatened to share personal […]
If you’re short on space, an All-in-One computer setup makes a lot of sense – which squeezes a desktop computer and monitor into one package. The latest such workstation from Asus features a 4K screen and a base where you can place your smartphone down for a quick wireless top-up. Asus says that the Zen […]
There’s plenty of speculation about what artificial intelligence, or AI, will look like in the future, but researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) are already harnessing its power. The group from the ANU Department of Quantum Science has been experimenting with trapping atoms at very cold temperatures, in their efforts to build a quantum […]
The internet is a technology of low-cost communication and connection. Everything from email to e-commerce to social networks has hinged on the internet’s transformative role in changing the economics of communication. All those connections suddenly became both possible and cheap. Artificial intelligence is a technology of low-cost prediction and discovery. It exploits the new resource […]
Sputnik got a chance to check out some of the hottest innovations in the Russian high tech industry at the ChipEXPO-2018 exhibition in Moscow this week. Russia’s drive toward technology-related import substitution is gaining steam, with dozens of companies from Zelenograd to Novosibirsk represented at this year’s ChipEXPO, offering innovations in areas from smart self-driving […]
If a recent project using Google’s DeepMind were a recipe, you would take a pair of AI systems, images of animals, and a whole lot of computing power. Mix it all together, and you’d get a series of imagined animals dreamed up by one of the AIs. A look through the research paper about the […]
Not long after Huawei was caught cheating on graphics benchmark tests with its flagship handsets, Oppo has been found guilty of exactly the same transgression. According to a post by UL Benchmarks (the company behind 3DMark), Oppo was artificially boosting the performance of two of its handsets – the Find X and F7 – when […]
In a new letter to senators this week, motherboard manufacturer Supermicro denied a report that its computer hardware had been compromised by Chinese spies who allegedly installed microchips onto equipment that was then sold to tech giants and telecommunications companies including Apple and Amazon. The letter, sent to Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Richard Blumenthal […]
Pairing artificial intelligence and the blockchain might be what you would expect from a scammer looking to make a quick buck in 2018. The two concepts, after all, are two of the most buzzed about and least understood ideas in the tech universe. And the blockchain, the database design introduced by Bitcoin, has lately been […]
