One of the central technologies of artificial intelligence is neural networks. In this interview, Tam Nguyen, a professor of computer science…
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The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. One word…
The big idea For the first time, my colleagues and I have built a single electronic device that is capable of copying the…
If you use a computer (and, let’s face it, you’re reading this on one) then odds are you’ve come across a monitor at some point. They’re nigh-indispensable office tools but having the wrong monitor for the job at hand can make a good job feel absolutely awful.
Modern society has given significant attention to the promises of the digital economy over the past decade. But it has given little attention to its negative environmental footprint.
So far, though, attempts to build supercomputer brains have not even come close. A multi-billion-dollar European project that began in 2013 is now largely understood to have failed. That effort has shifted to look more like a similar but less ambitious project in the U.S., developing new software tools for researchers to study brain data, rather than simulating a brain.
Personal electronic devices emit more blue light than any other color. Blue light has a short wavelength, which means that it is high-energy and can damage the delicate tissues of the eye. It can also pass through the eye to the retina, the collection of neurons that converts light into the signals that are the foundation of sight.
Your smartphone is far more powerful than the NASA computers that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969,…
Summer is coming -- time to back the Spyra One in Kickstarter How much is too expensive for a water pistol? If you're one of the folks backing the Spyra One on Kickstarter, about R2,000 is an acceptable price to pay for a harmless (unless your phone isn't waterproof) water-dispensing weapon. Why? Because it's got
Less than a week into 2018 and we may have already seen the year’s biggest technology story. Researchers have identified a security flaw in…