Computers can now complete tasks that wouldn’t have been possible without machine learning: things like identifying faces or analyzing hospital tests. But when pitted against tasks involving real-world happenings, machine learning models tend to peter out in terms of effectiveness or precision. But a team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab think they can make machine […]
While we don’t generally delve too deep into politics, I had to do a double-take today after noticing a random tweet from the President of the United States. It was regarding a recent court ruling on net neutrality. Here’s the tweet: We just WON the big court case on Net Neutrality Rules! A great win […]
3D printing is often associated with the medical industry (prosthetics) or engineering (creating models). But 3D printing applications currently apply to many more industries. As the technology advances, it will apply to many more. Here are five 3D printing applications examples given in a recent article by TechAcute: Faster 3D printing Modern 3D printing can […]
There are many ways to use and invest it crypocurrency — but usually, such forms of currency are used for general purchases and exchanges. Apparently, though, they also have use for ultra-specific, fan-based products. Just ask Philippine boxing champ Manny Pacquiao, who recently debuted “Pac tokens.” According to this recent report from Reuters, Pacquiao launched […]
A New South Wales, Australia Minister says New South Wales is the first jurisdiction in the world to use Mobile Phone Detection Cameras to catch and prosecute distracted drivers. A recent Time article reports road safety experts are increasingly concerned with the prevalence of accidents involving such distracted drivers. That’s why the rollout of 45 Mobile Phone Detection […]
I’m a fragrance fan – not the noxious mall stuff, though. I stick to the niche world because it smells much more interesting and natural. So I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want AI to be used in drafting a new perfume. But Philyra, a virtual think tank which analyzes hundreds of fragrance industry formulas and […]
It’s not every day you hear leading technology companies — or any industry’s top players — asking to be regulated. And yet that’s precisely Microsoft President Brad Smith did when he recently said that government should put up guardrails around engineers in order to regulate big tech. What happens if that doesn’t happen? Democracy might suffer, […]
Earlier this year, Facebook put out a call for research proposals centered around natural language processing, or the study of linguistics and AI regarding computer language. Now, it announces which proposals won, and it seems as though the scope of the project is wider than previously thought: the social media platform has found the AI […]
The city of New Bedford, Mass. — not too far away from us here at TechDecisions — recently avoided paying the $5.3 million hackers demanded of it after successfully launching a ransomware attack. The town’s response? Bargain-and-stall. And it worked. Not the usual method An NPR article reports that after IT personnel discovered the attack the day […]
Chinese data center power usage accounted for 99 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018, which is the equivalent of 21 million cars, according to a new report. These centers store digital files of all kinds and consume between 3% and 5% of the total global electricity — rivaling airlines’ carbon emissions, says a […]
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