reader comments 52 with 45 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Mike Davies, director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab, explains the company’s efforts in this area. And with the launch of a new neuromorphic chip this week, he talked Ars through the updates. Despite their name, neural networks are only distantly related to the… Read More »
Enlarge / Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm, the internet may not. Jean Claude Moschetti | REA | REDUX reader comments 98 with 61 posters participating Share this story Scientists have known for decades that an extreme solar storm, or coronal mass ejection, could damage electrical grids and potentially… Read More »
Andriy Onufriyenko | Getty Images reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating Share this story Companies of all kinds use machine learning to analyze people’s desires, dislikes, or faces. Some researchers are now asking a different question: How can we make machines forget? A nascent area of computer science dubbed machine unlearning seeks ways to… Read More »
reader comments 39 with 28 posters participating Share this story Multiple unsecured entry points allowed researchers to access data belonging to Fermilab, a national particle physics and accelerator lab supported by the Department of Energy. This week, security researchers Robert Willis, John Jackson, and Jackson Henry of the Sakura Samurai ethical hacking group have shared details… Read More »
[embedded content] We’ve Finally Landed New Machines On Mars Can I just say how cool it is that we’re doing stuff in space again—and on Mars, no less? There’s nothing like new scientific breakthroughs for the morale of the world. And, as accomplishments go, Ingenuity and Perseverance are living up to their namesakes. For those… Read More »
Antarctica – barren frozen wasteland or remnants of an ancient civilization? Well, before we dive down that rabbit hole, let’s take a tour of the stations and science that’s currently happening on Earth’s 7th continent. First: A tour of the United States’ South Pole Station [embedded content] [embedded content] [embedded content] Second: Let’s take a… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 49 with 34 posters participating Share this story Last month, the makers of one of the most promising coronavirus vaccines reported that hackers stole confidential documents they had submitted to a European Union regulatory body. On Friday, word emerged that the hackers have falsified some of the submissions’ contents and published… Read More »
[embedded content] Alien Worlds Is Not Really What You Think It Is I did a little looking, and the consensus is Alien Worlds has a lot of scientific inaccuracies with its touted alien planets. That, to me, is fine enough. The alien worlds are not the appeal of this show, as strange as that sounds.… Read More »
Enlarge / The Enigma cipher machine found in the Baltic Sea is lying on a table in front of the archaeological office of Schleswig-Holstein. After its discovery, the machine was handed over to the office by research diver Huber. Photo: Axel Heimken/dpa (Photo by Axel Heimken/picture alliance via Getty Images) Getty Images reader comments 64… Read More »
Enlarge / Former Google AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Kimberly White | Getty Images reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story Apple v. Samsung View more stories Google struggled on Thursday… Read More »