AI has already shown off the capability to create photorealistic images of cats, dogs, and people’s faces that never existed before. More recently, researchers have been investigating how to train AI models to create more complex images that could include many different objects arranged in different poses and configurations. The challenge involves figuring out how […]
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. A chilling future that some had said might not arrive for many years to come is, in fact, already here. According to a recent UN report, a drone airstrike in Libya […]
An Australian transportation agency has begun laying the tracks for improved commuting with quantum computing. Its partnership with the startup Q-CTRL is exploring how quantum computing could someday allow commuters and tourists to enjoy the fastest possible travel through multiple transfers across transportation networks—a challenging computing task that could require near-instantaneous recalculations based on changing ground conditions and […]
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Photo: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Farmers harvest carp from a farm in Belarus During the past 50 years, the world’s population has grown about 2.1 times, and consumption has grown more; for some goods, much more. Between 1968 and 2018 (the most recent year for which we have global data), production of both primary energy and […]
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It’s been a challenge to find sources of renewable energy that are as reliable as the grid would like them to be. And unfortunately, the renewables that are the most flexible and affordable at small scales (like solar and wind) tend to also be the least predictable in terms of output. Hydro and geothermal offer […]
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Noah Hutton was stuck. As a budding filmmaker with a passion for neuroscience, Hutton couldn’t quite identify the right subject for a documentary on brain research. Then he saw Henry Markram’s 2009 TED Talk. In the video, Markram, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland and founder of the Blue […]
Most of the smartphones in our pockets contain computer chips based on Arm architecture, whereas Intel’s x86 architecture reigns supreme among laptops, desktops, and server hardware. But a fast-growing number of companies in the U.S., Europe, and especially Asia have been turning to the open-source chip architecture called RISC-V. It allows even startups to design […]