Dec 13, 2020
Solar-based Electronic Skin Generates Its Own Power
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: energy, innovation
Scientists demonstrate a innovative e-skin with touch and proximity-sensing capabilities without using dedicated touch sensors.
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Dec 11, 2020
Future batteries, coming soon: Charge in seconds, last months and power over the air
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: energy, innovation
Energy capture, storage and generation remains a vibrant area of research. Here we examine show of the research breakthrough in future battery tech.
Dec 3, 2020
How Salt Water Could Fuel a Mars Mission
Posted by Dirk Schulze-Makuch in categories: innovation, space travel
A new invention that may speed up a human mission to Mars.
A new invention might speed up human exploration of the Red Planet.
Nov 28, 2020
How designers are fighting the rise of facial recognition technology
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
From LED-equipped visors to transparent masks, these inventions aim to thwart facial recognition cameras.
2020 episode of the CIUT program “Innovation Nation on Career Buzz” where I discussed the state of the Canadian aerospace industry is now online at the link below.
The last few minutes discusses the impact of Covid-19 on the aerospace industry. It’s not good although the interview is.
Nov 19, 2020
Scientists make insta-bling at room temperature
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: innovation
An international team of scientists has defied nature to make diamonds in minutes in a laboratory at room temperature—a process that normally requires billions of years, huge amounts of pressure and super-hot temperatures.
The team, led by The Australian National University (ANU) and RMIT University, made two types of diamonds: the kind found on an engagement ring and another type of diamond called Lonsdaleite, which is found in nature at the site of meteorite impacts such as Canyon Diablo in the US.
One of the lead researchers, ANU Professor Jodie Bradby, said their breakthrough shows that Superman may have had a similar trick up his sleeve when he crushed coal into diamond, without using his heat ray.
Nov 16, 2020
AI hailed ‘conscious’ by top scientist in bombshell tech breakthrough
Posted by TJ Wass in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
Machine-learning system GPT-3 has drawn plaudits from around the world for its remarkable ability to generate text with minimal human input. One scientist even believes it is showing signs of consciousness dailystar.
Nov 14, 2020
Ransomware Gang Devises Innovative Extortion Tactic
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cybercrime/malcode, innovation
The gang behind the Ragnar Locker ransomware posted an ad on Facebook in an attempt to publicly shame a victim so it would pay a ransom. Security experts say the innovative tactic is indicative of things to come.
See Also: Palo Alto Networks Ignite 20: Discover the Future of Cybersecurity, Today
Earlier this week, the cyber gang hacked into a random company’s Facebook advertising account and then used it to buy an ad containing a press release stating Ragnar Locker had breached the Italian liquor company Campari and demanded it pay the ransom or see its data released. The security firm Emsisoft provided an image of the ad to Information Security Media Group.
Nov 12, 2020
Malaysian boy, 9, wins NASA competition with lunar toilet invention
Posted by Muhammad Furqan in category: innovation
His “Spacesuit Lunar Toilet” can fit snugly into a spacesuit and beat almost 900 other entries worldwide.
Zyson Kang, 9, beat some 900 other children with his ‘Spacesuit Lunar Toilet’ invention to win NASA’s Lunar Loo Challenge.
Nov 8, 2020
This could lead to the next big breakthrough in common sense AI
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
You’ve probably heard us say this countless times: GPT-3, the gargantuan AI that spews uncannily human-like language, is a marvel. It’s also largely a mirage. You can tell with a simple trick: Ask it the color of sheep, and it will suggest “black” as often as “white”—reflecting the phrase “black sheep” in our vernacular.
That’s the problem with language models: because they’re only trained on text, they lack common sense. Now researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have designed a new technique to change that. They call it “vokenization,” and it gives language models like GPT-3 the ability to “see.”
It’s not the first time people have sought to combine language models with computer vision. This is actually a rapidly growing area of AI research. The idea is that both types of AI have different strengths. Language models like GPT-3 are trained through unsupervised learning, which requires no manual data labeling, making them easy to scale. Image models like object recognition systems, by contrast, learn more directly from reality. In other words, their understanding doesn’t rely on the kind of abstraction of the world that text provides. They can “see” from pictures of sheep that they are in fact white.
