Consumer technology is often a story of revolutionary leaps followed by a descent into familiarity. The first computers advanced so quickly that new models went obsolete while they were still on store shelves. Today, any US $500 laptop will be relevant for a decade. A similar story can be told of smartphones, TVs, even cars. […]
Alzheimer’s disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Typically, doctors use a combination of cognitive tests, brain imaging, and observation of behavior that can be expensive and time-consuming. But what if a quick voice sample, easily taken at a person’s home, could help identify a patient with Alzheimer’s? A company called Canary Speech is creating technology […]
John von Neumann’s original computer architecture, where logic and memory are separate domains, has had a good run. But some companies are betting that it’s time for a change. In recent years, the shift toward more parallel processing and a massive increase in the size of neural networks mean processors need to access more data […]
The days and sometimes weeks it took to train AIs only a few years ago was a big reason behind the launch of billions of dollars-worth of new computing startups over the last few years—including Cerebras Systems, Graphcore, Habana Labs, and SambaNova Systems. In addition, Google, Intel, Nvidia and other established companies made their own […]
AI, particularly the huge neural networks that meant to understand and interact with us humans, is not a natural fit for computer architectures that have dominated for decades. A host of startups recognized this in time to develop chips and sometimes the computers they’d power. Among them, Palo Alto-based SambaNova Systems is a standout. This […]
Is that a warplane or a commercial airliner? Mistaking one for the other has had truly tragic consequences. So if you’ve got an automated system doing it, you better know for sure that it hasn’t been compromised with a malicious hardware trojan somewhere along the supply chain. It’s such scenarios that the Defense Advanced Research […]
Careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are on the rise around the world. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM careers were expected to grow by nearly 9 percent between 2017 and 2029. The Economic Times reported that India experienced a 44 percent increase in STEM jobs from 2016 to 2019. The […]
For stick-on displays, smart bandages, and cheap flexible plastic sensors to really take off, they’ll need some way of storing data for the long-term that can be built on plastic. “In the ecosystem of flexible electronics, having memory options is very important,” says Stanford electrical engineering professor Eric Pop. But versions of today’s non-volatile memories, […]
The power that computer vision has gained over the last decade or so has been astonishing. Thanks to machine learning techniques applied to large datasets of images and video, it’s now much easier for robots to recognize (if not exactly understand) the world around them, and take intelligent (or at least significantly less unintelligent) actions […]
Intel has spent the last few years dealing with criticism that it had lost its lead against rivals in the race to put ever more and better performing transistors on each square millimeter of silicon. This week, Intel unveiled a roadmap that company executives say will put them at the head of the pack by […]