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Newly identified Xwo malware could be laying the groundwork for far more damaging cyberattacks around the globe, warn researchers. By Danny Palmer | April 3, 2019 A new form of malware is scanning the internet for exposed web services and default passwords in what’s thought to be a reconnaissance operation – one which might signal…
Almost 30 percent of the equity in WEG Bank AG, a previously obscure German bank focused on the real estate industry, is now owned by companies in the cryptocurrency industry, CoinDesk has learned. By purchasing 9.9 percent of the bank, blockchain startup Nimiq now joins TokenPay and the Litecoin Foundation as part owners of the…
Haptic technologies are big business these days, and joining the burgeoning scene is a team of researchers from Bristol University, who’ve found a way to create invisible “three-dimensional haptic shapes in mid-air using focused ultrasound”. “What we aim to do is give you the feeling of touch without you touching anything,” explained computer…
Martin Zinkevich This document is intended to help those with a basic knowledge of machine learning get the benefit of Google’s best practices in machine learning. It presents a style for machine learning, similar to the Google C++ Style Guide and other popular guides to practical programming. If you have taken a class in machine…
By Joel Hruska on March 22, 2019 Neural networks have been a hot topic of late, but evaluating the most efficient way to build one for processing a given stack of data is still an arduous affair. Designing systems that can use algorithms to build themselves in the most optimal fashion is still a nascent…
by Mitchell Tweedie, Oct 23rd, 2017 Artificial intelligence (abbreviated: AI or A.I.) is mainstream. It’s how Google ranks pages, Amazon knows what we like, bots like Siri chat, and computers play Chess and Go. The AI landscape is crowded, so, how do we make sense of everything. How do we categorize the types of AI?…
by Alyssa Hertig – Mar 25, 2019 Sending bitcoin lightning payments over the web might soon get easier. That’s because a new bitcoin standard for simplifying lightning payments, the open-source WebLN standard, is gaining traction, now being used by Lightning Joule and Bluewallet, two of the more popular lightning wallets, as well as apps like…
By Adi Robertson – @thedextriarchy – Mar 27, 2019 Four “robocalling” companies, including an operation that allegedly scammed businesses by pretending to be Google, have shut down and settled lawsuits with the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC announced the news yesterday, claiming that the groups made “billions” of illegal prerecorded calls to phones across the…
Department of Defense undersecretary of research and engineering Michael Griffin has carved out nine assistant director spots to focus on key technology areas, such as directed energy, hypersonics and AI. (David Vergun/Defense Media Activity) WASHINGTON — A vacant Pentagon position on artificial intelligence will be filled “quite soon,” with a focus on cross-cutting artificial…
Cpl. Nicholas L. Dye (left), satellite transportable terminal operator, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and Spc. Emmanuel L. Tate, signal systems support specialist, HHC, 1st Bn., 66th Armor Regiment, 3rd ABCT, 4th Inf. Div., work together to position their Satellite Transportable Terminal to…
Special nanoparticles (shown in white) clinging to rods (left) and cones (right) in the photoreceptors of mice By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally visible to rodents (or people). It’s an extraordinary achievement, one made even more extraordinary with the realization that…
Jetson Nano Developer Kit (80x100mm), available now for $99 By Dustin Franklin | March 18, 2019 NVIDIA announced the Jetson Nano Developer Kit at the 2019 NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), a $99 computer available now for embedded designers, researchers, and DIY makers, delivering the power of modern AI in a compact, easy-to-use platform with full software programmability.…
06 MAR 2019 Google announced TensorFlow Privacy, a library for its TensorFlow machine learning framework intended to make it easier for developers to train AI models with strong privacy guarantees. It’s available in open source, and requires “no expertise in privacy” or underlying mathematics, Google says. Moreover, developers using standard TensorFlow mechanisms shouldn’t have to…
During Injong Rhee’s keynote at last year’s Google Next conference in San Francisco, Google announced two new upcoming hardware products: a development board and a USB accelerator stick. Both products were built around Google’s Edge TPU, their purpose-built ASIC designed to run machine learning inference at the edge. Almost a year on, the hardware silently…
Amazon’s AWS today announced new EC2 instances with Tesla T4 GPUs, which it says will be available via G4 instances to customers in the coming weeks. T4 will also be available through the Amazon Elastic Container service for Kubernetes. “It will be featuring Nvidia T4 processors and really designed for machine learning and to help our…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Language is power, and engineering a system that can comprehend it as well as any human is a grand challenge in AI research. Recent contributions like Google’s BERT, a framework that can train state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models in a few hours on a single graphics card, and Facebook’s…
OneWeb, a space startup that recently launched its first “constellation” of micro-satellites to deliver broadband access across the globe, has raised $1.25 billion to begin mass-producing its satellites and capitalize on what it calls “first mover advantage.” The gargantuan cash injection was led by SoftBank, Qualcomm, Grupo Salinas, and the Rwandan government and takes the…
Cryptocurrency mining is reportedly one of the most observed objectives of hackers attacking businesses’ cloud infrastructures, according to a report by AT&T Cybersecurity on March 14. The cybersecurity wing of United States telecoms firm AT&T stated that organizations of all sizes continue to face major crypto mining attacks despite the ongoing bear market. In the…
March 14, 201914 MAR 2019 — by Massimo Portincaso, Arnaud de la Tour, and Philippe Soussan Deep technologies — novel technologies that offer significant advances over those currently in use — are attracting an unprecedented amount of interest and activity. The aggregate global private investment in seven deep tech categories researched by BCG and Hello…
70 Mikrometer kleine Roboter könnten im menschlichen Blutkreis zu geschädigten Zellen wandern und “Reparaturen” ausführen. Laufen können sie bereits. Von Hans-Arthur Marsiske Winzige Roboter, die im menschlichen Körper gezielt einzelne Zellen behandeln, sind eine faszinierende Vision, die viele Forscher beflügelt. Ein großes Problem ist dabei jedoch die Fortbewegung: Wie gelangen die kleinen Pflegekräfte zu genau…
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