March 21, 2025

Robotics

Robot Talk Episode 114 – Reducing waste with robotics, with Josie Gotz – Robohub

Claire chatted to Josie Gotz from the Manufacturing Technology Centre about robotics for material recovery, reuse and recycling. Josie Gotz is a Senior Research Engineer in the Intelligent Robotics Team at the Manufacturing Technology Centre. She works as the technical lead on a variety of robotics and automation projects from research and development through to integration across a wide variety of manufacturing sectors. She specialises in creating innovative solutions for these industries, combining vision systems

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AI

Deciphering language processing in the human brain through LLM representations

During speech production, it is evident that language embeddings (blue) in the IFG peaked before speech embeddings (red) peaked in the sensorimotor area, followed by the peak of speech encoding in the STG. In contrast, during speech comprehension, the peak encoding shifted to after the word onset, with speech embeddings (red) in the STG peaking significantly before language encoding (blue) in the IFG. All in all, our findings suggest that the speech-to-text model embeddings provide

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How Did AlexNet Transform AI? Explore the Groundbreaking Source Code

6 min read Hansen Hsu is a historian and sociologist of technology, and curator of the Computer History Museum’s Software History Center. Geoffrey Hinton [above] and his grad students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever released the groundbreaking AlexNet, a neural network for image recognition, in 2012. Johnny Guatto/University of Toronto In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kickstarted today’s prevailing approach

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Elda Entertainment will publish Overseer Games’ Kaiserpunk on March 21

Elda Entertainment and Overseer Games announced that Kaiserpunk, a grand city building and world conquest game, is marching toward a launch on March 21. Elda Entertainment is a brand-new publisher with a vision to deliver the best management games, and it’s teamed up with Zagreb, Croatia-based Overseer Games on the project. Blending productio…Read More

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Hardware

Apple Hit With Lawsuit Accusing It Of Falsely Advertising Apple Intelligence

Apple is in the sights of a lawsuit that accuses it of falsely promoting its Apple Intelligence features to drive more sales of its products. The aggrieved individuals claim that Apple has failed to realize its promises about its intelligence features, and that those who have bought Apple’s devices based on the promises should be compensated. The suit comes on the back of last year’s announcement and advertisement by Apple, where it promised to integrate

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Hardware

Bugatti’s Stunning New Supercar Is An 1800 HP Hybrid Beast With 8-Pipe Exhaust

As if Bugatti’s Tourbillon isn’t bonkers enough as it is with its V16 plug-in hybrid powerplant, or that the motor makes nearly 1,800 horses and tops out at 276 miles per hour, or that it costs more than $4 million dollars (assuming you can still order one of the 250 planned for production). The Rimac-owned automaker just announced the car’s first options package that probably adds quite a few more zeros to the final price.

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Hardware

This Big Screen Samsung OLED TV For Under $1,000 Is Nearly 50% Off

Remember when buying an OLED TV came with the kind of sticker shock that would have you contemplating a second mortgage? Thankfully, OLED displays are far more affordable these days. They’re still generally pricier than traditional LCD or even mini LED TVs, but we’ve reached a point where you score a big screen OLED for under a grand if you catch it on sale. Case in point, Samsung’s 65-inch S85D OLED TV is discounted to

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AI

R.E.D.: Scaling Text Classification with Expert Delegation | Towards Data Science

With the new age of problem-solving augmented by Large Language Models (LLMs), only a handful of problems remain that have subpar solutions. Most classification problems (at a PoC level) can be solved by leveraging LLMs at 70–90% Precision/F1 with just good prompt engineering techniques, as well as adaptive in-context-learning (ICL) examples. What happens when you want to consistently achieve performance higher than that — when prompt engineering no longer suffices? The classification conundrum Text classification is

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