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Australia’s New Supercomputer Has Been Unveiled and Its Name Is Adorable
Australian researchers have caught a glimpse of a new mega-powerful computing system described as the fastest public supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere and named after one of the country’s cutest little guys: the quokka. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has unveiled Setonix, a high-performance computer boasting the scientific name for WA’s quokka. The…
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Google Reportedly Told AI Scientists To ‘Strike A Positive Tone’ In Research
Nearly three weeks after the abrupt exit of Black artificial intelligence ethicist Timnit Gebru, more details are emerging about the shady new set of policies Google has rolled out for its research team.
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Post-It Note Pioneers Invent a Safer Polar Bear Tag
Attaching a tracking collar to a polar bear is hard enough. But it’s all the more challenging because eventually researchers have to remove it, too. So Polar Bears International reached out to 3M to see if the company, known for its expertise in making things stick, could come up with a less permanent way to…
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Nerfies Might Be the Future of Selfies, Letting Your Friends Judge You on Social Media in Full 3D
Ever since cameras first existed people have been pointing the lens at themselves to snap so-called selfies — a term first coined back in 2002. At this point they’re long overdue for an upgrade, so a team of researchers have created what could be the next-generation of selfies: easy to capture 3D models of yourself…