Category: 3. Tech
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Research team develops an AI model for effectively removing biases in a dataset
Model structure devised by DGIST Professor Park Sang-hyun’s research team. Credit: DGIST Professor Park Sang-hyun’s research team The research team of Professor Sang-hyun Park, at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology’s (DGIST) Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, has developed a new image translation model that could effectively reduce biases in data. … Continue…
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Training underwater robots to find charging stations on the seabed
The robot is lowered into the fjord. Credit: Ole Martin Wold NTNU’s largest laboratory—the Trondheim fjord—is something of an El Dorado for researchers developing underwater robots. A charging station has been installed on the seabed, and to ensure the robots can find the shortest route to the charging station, they train in the fjord. Seven…
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November 2023 Celestial Events | Space
Labroots believes in the sharing of knowledge, and we wish to highlight key celestial events for November 2023 that all skywatchers are sure to enjoy. The night sky is full of wonders, from our Moon to planets to objects both within and well beyond the reaches of our solar system, and the events listed below…
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Ex-Amazonian critical of return-to-office mandate says she was forced out
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Standing outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in May, Pamela Hayter told her colleagues she wasn’t nervous. “We’re here today because it’s the right thing to do,” the eight-year Amazon veteran said to a group of employees who had participated in a walkout in hopes of getting the company to reconsider a recently…
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Gallaudet has a history of technological innovation with wide applications. The latest is a helmet
A football helmet developed by Gallaudet University with AT&T for Deaf and hard-of-hearing players is seen during Gallaudet football practice at Hotchkiss Field in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. The innovation is the latest example of the private university for the Deaf and hard of hearing in Washington being an incubator for technology that makes…
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Biden approves largest offshore wind project in US history
Steel monopile foundations for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind commercial project are offloaded at Portsmouth Marine Terminal in Portsmouth, Virginia. President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday approved a plan to build the United States’ largest ever offshore wind farm, which would power hundreds of thousands of homes with clean energy. Dominion Energy’s… Continue Reading News…
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AI could be used to develop bioweapons if not regulated urgently, says new report
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is calling on governments to take urgent steps to manage the threat of artificial intelligence developed “global biological catastrophe.” The report, “The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences: Safeguarding Technology, Rethinking Governance, and Preventing… Continue Reading News Source: techxplore.com
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Replacing front-line workers with AI can be a bad idea. Here’s why
Credit: Sanket Mishra from Pexels AI chatbots are already widely used by businesses to greet customers and answer their questions—either over the phone or on websites. Some companies have found that they can, to some extent, replace humans with machines in call center roles. However, the available evidence suggests there are sectors—such as health care…
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The US just issued the world’s strongest action yet on regulating AI. Here’s what to expect
Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels On Monday US President Joe Biden released a wide ranging and ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence (AI)—catapulting the US to the front of conversations about regulating AI. In doing so, the US is leap frogging over other states in the race to rule over AI. Europe previously led the…
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Developing batteries with 10 times the energy storage
Postulating a mixed discharge product of ASSLSBs. a Voltage profile showing the theoretical discharge curve of ASSLSBs. b Initial discharge capacities of ASSLSBs recently reported in literature. c Voltage profile of an ASSLSB tested using different lower limit potentials. d Computational Gibbs-free formation energies of Li2S2 and Li2S per atom in vacuum (red line) and…