The coronavirus pandemic has reach its most grisly milestone to date: 1 million people are dead.…
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A Student Just Proved Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Possible
Now we can all go back to 2019. Read more…
It looks like Elon Musk isn’t happy about Microsoft exclusively licensing OpenAI’s text-generating software
“This does seem like the opposite of open. OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft,” Elon Musk…
Netflix faces criticism over ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners’ ‘Three-Body Problem’ series
Netflix has responded to criticism over comments by the author of the books on which the…
There’s No Speed Limit in a Superfluid Universe. Now We Know Why
Superfluids are much like superconductors. In the cold, dense medium of a helium-3 superfluid, scientists recently…
NumPy’s contribution to Python is remarkable, but where it goes next could be even more so | ZDNet
NumPy, the Python package for scientific computing, is an adolescent with prospects for a prolific maturity.…
New Machine Learning Technology Turns You Into An Animated Character And Here Are 24 Of The Best Examples
New deep learning technology allows you to see how you’d look as a cartoon character, and…
Amazon’s new ‘Luna’ cloud gaming service will be available for iOS users as web apps – 9to5Mac
Amazon today revealed new Echo products and also a new cloud gaming service called “Luna” that…
D614G mutation now the dominant variant in the global COVID-19 pandemic
Now, a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in September 2020 shows that a…
The GPT-3 economy
Will OpenAI’s pricing plan for GPT-3 be able to turn the massive AI language model into…
Rising Temperatures Are Pushing Antarctica Past Point of No Return, Scientists Warn
Raising Earth’s average surface temperature another degree Celsius will lock in 2.5 metres of sea level…
Personal Gmail accounts can now try G Suite’s File Stream to sync Drive content to their computers
If you’re familiar with Google Drive, you probably know the most convenient way to sync your…
Google Approaches Bert-Level Performance Using 300x fewer Parameters with Extension of Its New NLP model PRADO
The trimmed-down pQRNN extension to Google AI’s projection attention neural network PRADO compares to BERT on…
Trojan horse nanoparticle takes a drug-free approach to killing cancer
With cancer so often presenting as a cunning enemy, scientists are working hard to develop therapies…
Simple blood test predicts patients most likely to die from COVID-19
One of the big challenges healthcare workers are facing in this global pandemic is identifying those…
AI devs created a lean, mean, GPT-3-beating machine that uses 99.9% fewer parameters
AI researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich have developed a bite-sized text generator…
Astronomers discover “pi Earth” planet that orbits every 3.14 days
Probably it should be called the Pi Planet. Read more at Futurism…
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
The 61st international mathematical olympiad, or imo, begins today. Due to the covid-19 pandemic it’s the…
Two new medicines to treat advanced prostate cancer hailed as a ‘breakthrough’ – what it means
The drugs, olaparib and ipatasertib, could potentially become the first ever precision medicines for prostate cancer…