May 17, 2024

Video Friday: Robots With Knives

8 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Erico Guizzo is IEEE Spectrum’s Digital Innovation Director. Japanese researchers trained a pair of robotic arms to use a kitchen knife to slice a cucumber. OMRON SINIC X via YouTube Greetings from the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama, Japan! We hope you’ve been enjoying our short videos on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. They are just a preview of our in-depth

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Erico Guizzo May 17, 2024
AR/VR

Oasys Strengthens Footprint in Japan with SBINFT Market

Oasys, a blockchain platform focused on gaming, has announced an expanded integration with SBINFT Market, a prominent NFT marketplace operated by SBI Group’s subsidiary, SBINFT Corporation. This collaboration marks a key development for both companies as they strive to strengthen their presence in the Japanese market. With this partnership, SBINFT Market now supports Oasys’s HOME Verse, its Hub-Layer (L1), and MCH Verse (L2). Expanding beyond its initial integration will allow businesses and developers to utilize

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Isaac Chang May 17, 2024
Hardware

TT Show Episode 35 – New Lord of the Rings Movie and Apple’s iPad Pro Apology

This week on the TT Show, Lord of the Rings superfan (and also superfan) Jak and Kosta discuss Peter Jackson returning to The Lord of the Rings franchise with the new movie ‘The Hunt for Gollum.’ They discuss the potential story, timeline, and their hopes for a return to the magic of the original trilogy. And not, you know, The Hobbit. Another big story this week is Apple’s apologizing for its seemingly tone-deaf iPad Pro

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Kosta Andreadis May 17, 2024
Hardware

Investigation launched into Facebook and Instagram over hurting children

The European Commission has officially launched an investigation into Meta and it’s products, specifically Facebook and Instagram, to see if its breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to the protection of minors. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The European Commission writes in its press release that its concerned that Facebook and Instagram aren’t doing enough to protect the mental and physical health of children using the apps. The EU states its

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Jak Connor May 17, 2024
AI

Backpropagation Through Time — How RNNs Learn

An explanation of the backpropagation through time algorithm Egor Howell · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 19 hours ago — ”https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/neural-network” title=”neural network icons”>Neural network icons created by pojok d — Flaticon. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are regular feedforward neural network variants that handle sequence-based data like time series and natural language. They achieve this by adding a “recurrent” neuron that allows information to be fed through from past

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Egor Howell May 17, 2024
AI

How to Evaluate Your Predictions

Be mindful of the measure you choose Jeffrey Näf · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 15 min read · 20 hours ago — Photo by Isaac Smith on Unsplash Testing and benchmarking machine learning models by comparing their predictions on a test set, even after deployment, is of fundamental importance. To do this, one needs to think of a measure or score that takes a prediction and a test point and assigns a

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Jeffrey Näf May 17, 2024
Hardware

Intel’s next-gen Falcon Shores GPU has up to 1500W TDP, no air-cooling variant to be made

Intel teased some more details about its next-generation Falcon Shores CPU at the ISC 24 event, with some rather huge power consumption numbers revealed. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The next-gen Intel Falcon Shores GPU will use up to 1500W of power, with no air-cooling variant planned. Falcon Shores is the true next-generation GPU architecture to Xe, with Falcon Shores originally planned years ago as an XPU th at featured both an x86-based CPU

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Anthony Garreffa May 17, 2024
AR/VR

What You Need to Know About Crypto Unicorns Migration to XAI Blockchain

Laguna Games‘ flagship web3 game, Crypto Unicorns, has announced its migration to the Arbitrum-based L3 XAI blockchain. This move brings about exciting changes for users, including gasless transactions and smoother on-ramping. The process began with the successful conversion of the $RBW token to $CU, paving the way for new opportunities in staking, liquidity provision, and gameplay features. Crypto Unicorns’ XAI Reboot Crypto Unicorns has come a long way since its early days as a basic

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Mia Patel May 17, 2024
Hardware

Sabrent’s USB-C universal docking station has near-limitless potential, is now 40% off

Sabrent has a hefty 40% discount ($189.99 down to $114) on its USB-C Universal Docking Station (DC-UICA) which has near-limitless potential with a slew of ports and features that will amplify your computing experience. 7 VIEW GALLERY – 7 IMAGES If you’ve got a laptop, ultrabook, Chromebook, Android smartphone or tablet, Apple MacBook, iPhone, or iPad, then the Sabrent USB-C Universal Docking Station would be your new BFF. We’ve got the entire thing connected through

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Anthony Garreffa May 17, 2024
Hardware

Intel Core Ultra 5 238V ‘Lunar Lake’ CPU spotted with 32GB LPDDR5X on-package memory

Intel’s next-generation Lunar Lake CPUs are still in the ovens inside of their labs, but now we’re hearing about the new Core Ultra 5 238V processor with 32GB of LPDDR5X on-package memory. If you don’t know about on-package memory, Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPUs will have 16GB or 32GB of on-package memory, right next to the CPU, GPU, and NPU on the chip. Lunar Lake is for low-power devices with 8W to 30W TDP designs,

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Anthony Garreffa May 17, 2024

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