This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. (In partnership with Paperspace) In recent years, the transformer model has…
Month: May 2022
Sonos vows to fix stuttering surround sound caused by 14.6 software update
Some Sonos owners have been having a torrid time recently. Following the 14.6 software update that dropped at the end of April, people using the speakers as part of a surround sound…
Watch this giant Japanese robot fix railways (and pray it doesn’t turn on us)
The West Japan Rail Company (JR West) has unveiled a new futuristic worker that’s tasked with infrastructure jobs considered too risky for humans. And people? It’s a giant robot humanoid that looks…
Video calls make us less creative — but that’s no reason for your boss to force you back to the office
Video conferencing is making us dumber and less creative — and that’s according to science. A laboratory study by Columbia Business School’s Melanie S. Brucks and Stanford’s Jonathan Levav found that “video…
Amazon introduces Kindle EPUB support in the most ‘Amazon’ way possible
If you’ve downloaded an ebook in the past decade, it’s likely it was an EPUB file. Well, unless you bought it from Amazon of course. For years now, the company has used…
Here’s what we know about Meta’s ‘laptop for the face’ VR headset
Meta’s next VR headset is expected to be one of the company’s biggest launches — perhaps its most important hardware launch to date. We’ve known about the headset, dubbed Project Cambria, since…
Is it ethical to use AI-generated content without crediting the machine?
A team of researchers recently developed an algorithm that generates original reviews for wines and beers. Considering that computers can’t taste booze, this makes for a curious use-case for machine learning. The…
The United States claims that ‘conflict in space is not inevitable’
In 1996, Joseph W. Ashy, former U.S. commander-in-chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, famously said: “We’re going to fight in space. We’re going to fight from space and we’re going…
Transport apps can help reduce car use — but they’re not female-friendly
The UK’s roads are some of the main culprits of its greenhouse gas emissions. And in 2020, 92% of passenger kilometers travelled in the UK was made by cars, vans, and taxis. That means getting around…
How the BAYC metaverse mint raised Ethereum gas fees to thousands of dollars
If you ever wanted to buy an NFT based on Ethereum, you would have to pay a transaction fee to register it on the blockchain. Last week, that fee skyrocketed to unprecedented…