China has launched world’s first next-generation internet service – more than 10 times faster than existing major routes.
The high speeds were achieved through extensive optical fiber cabling Spanning over 3,000 kilometers, the network links Beijing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou through an extensive optical fiber cabling system. Officially operational since July, the network’s reliability and efficiency have been thoroughly tested and proven. This groundbreaking achievement results from a collaborat...
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‘Dronamics’ – World’s first cargo drone airline
Dronamics is a company that aims to establish the world's first cargo drone airline. Founded in 2014 by Svilen Rangelov and Konstantin Ivanov, Dronamics focuses on developing and operating large cargo drones designed to transport goods in a cost-effective and efficient manner.
Dronamics envisions a global network of autonomous cargo drones that can transport goods between remote or underserved areas, providing a more economical alternative to traditional cargo transportation methods. Th...
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‘G42 AI’ – Condor Galaxy – First AI supercomputer on the network.
G42, the Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and cloud computing company, has launched the “world’s largest supercomputer” that aims to address challenges in health care, energy and climate action using artificial intelligence.
The company has joined forces with US-based AI firm Cerebras Systems to launch Condor Galaxy, a network of nine interconnected supercomputers, that promises to significantly reduce AI model training time.
The first AI supercomputer on the network, Condor Galaxy...
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‘Hour One’ self-service AI-video generation platform
Hour One, the all-in-one AI-video generation platform. Streamline your video creation process. It turns your text/content into videos within minutes
Hour One is an AI company specializing in the development of virtual humans for use in professional video communications.
Hour One's lifelike virtual characters are based on real humans, and can be animated with human expressiveness just from text, enabling businesses to upgrade their communications with unprecedented ease and scale. With it...
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Scientists from the MIT have developed – Paper thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
Researchers develop a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, lightweight solar cells that can be seamlessly added to any surface.
MIT engineers have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source.
These durable, flexible solar cells, which are much thinner than a human hair, are glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, making them easy to install on a fixed surface. They can provide energy on the go as a wearable power ...
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Jetson nano
Nvidia Jetson Nano Developer Kit is a small (80×100) yet powerful computer that was launched in March 2019 by Nvidia and is growing in popularity. I was able to get one in April 2019 and immediately put it to work. One question that I get from people is : what can you do with this board? In this post I’d like to answer that question and inspire makers to use this board. First, let’s take a look at the board specs of the Jetson Nano and its carrier board (Developer Kit):
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Spain’s Institute of Microelectronics (IMSE) -CMOS Smart Imagers and Vision Chips
CMOS Smart Imagers and Vision Chips.
Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) smart imagers and vision chips play a crucial role in various applications, including digital cameras, medical imaging, surveillance systems, and automotive safety systems. These devices are designed to capture and process visual information efficiently. Here are some key aspects and features associated with CMOS smart imagers and vision chips:
CMOS Technology:
CMOS is a semiconductor technology that in...
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Japanese startup ‘Serendix’ building 3D printed homes
Japanese design firm Serendix has automated process to build scalable 3D-printed housing pod that takes less than a day to create at very affordable cost.
Serendix, which hopes to make housing more affordable, recently combined 3D printing and CNC machining to build a house for very affordable cost.
Serendix Corporation (Headquarters: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture; President: Hiroyasu Koma) announces the completion of serendix50, Japan's first 3D printed housing for two-person househ...
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Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno – ‘AI PIN’ – Wearable AI NexGen assistant on the go
Ai pin is a standalone, screenless AI-powered device that can attach to your clothing. Running on the GPT-4 large language model.
The Ai Pin features a 13MP ultra wide camera with 120° FOV (f/2.4 aperture) and a 3D depth sensor.
Other sensors include an ambient light sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and GPS. AI-powered optical recognition and a laser-projected display.
Founded by Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno in 2019, Humane is creating the technologies and platf...
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Alibaba Cloud Launches Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 and Industry-specific Models
Alibaba Cloud unveiled the latest version of its large language model Tongyi Qianwen and a series of product updates on Tuesday designed to help its customers reap the benefits of generative AI.
Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 has a bigger model size, with strong capabilities in understanding complex instructions, copywriting, reasoning, memorizing and reducing hallucination, which refers to the tendency of models to create false information.
Alibaba Cloud also released a slew of initiatives covering ...
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‘Aktiia’ constant 24 x7 Blood Pressure monitoring bracelet.
Aktiia measures your blood pressure, automatically, while you go about your daily life, uninterrupted.
Aktiia is a company that has developed wearable devices for continuous blood pressure monitoring. They aim to provide a solution that allows individuals to measure their blood pressure throughout the day, seamlessly integrating into their daily activities.
The technology behind Aktiia typically involves optical sensors that use photoplethysmography (PPG) to detect changes in blood volume...
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‘RoboFlow’ Computer Vision Platform
Roboflow is a platform that provides tools and services for managing and deploying computer vision models. It allows users to annotate and preprocess image data, train machine learning models, and deploy those models to production.
Key features of Roboflow include:
Data Annotation: Roboflow facilitates the annotation of images for computer vision tasks. This includes tasks such as object detection, image segmentation, and classification.
Data Preprocessing: The platform offers tool...
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‘Eko’ -Digital Stethoscope with AI
'Eko' -Digital Stethoscope
Eko has developed innovative digital stethoscopes that integrate with digital technology to enhance the capabilities of traditional stethoscopes. Digital stethoscopes comes with features such as electronic auscultation, recording capabilities, and the ability to transmit and analyze heart and lung sounds using software.
This will assist clinicians in their evaluation of heart failure (HF), valvular heart disease (VHD), and atrial fibrillation (AFib), ultimately ...
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ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) -World’s first Optical Radar
ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging), the world's first Optical Radar, is a maritime wide area optical search system proven to operate up to Sea State 6. ViDAR autonomously finds objects on the surface of the ocean over vastly greater areas than traditional search methods.
ViDAR operates optically so it is unaffected by white caps and other effects that impact technology such as radar. Day and Night, ViDAR is able to detect objects that are very small – much beyond the capability of the...
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Aalto University in Finland and Amherst College in Massachusetts – quantum object known as an ‘Alice ring.
Researchers have made an exotic quantum object called an Alice ring, which changes the properties of other quantum objects when they pass through it – or when they are simply viewed through it.
Researchers manipulated thousands of extremely cold atoms to make a ring-like defect that can change the properties of quantum objects that pass through it.
Scientists from Aalto University in Finland and Amherst College in Massachusetts created a bizarre quantum object known as an ‘Alice ring.’ An...
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‘Archer’ And ‘United Airlines’ Announce First Commercial Electric Air Taxi Route In The US: Downtown Manhattan To Newark Liberty International Airport
Archer and United have chosen Newark Liberty International Airport to Downtown Manhattan Heliport as the first route to utilize Archer’s electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) to provide safe, quick, quiet and cost effective transportation for airline passengersRoute estimated to take less than 10 minutes via Archer’s all-electric Midnight™ aircraftThe two companies plan to launch the initial routes by electrifying existing aviation infrastructure in and around the New York Met...
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Generative AI Is Transforming the Way We Shop Online.
From personalized customer experiences, product recommendation, expert advice, visual confirmation, auto provisioning, virtual interactive shopping personalized assistant... generative AI will start to transform the way we shop. This will revolutionize e-commerce and provided innovative solutions to enhance nearly every aspect of online businesses.
With AI-powered tools that can analyze we will see increased cross site customer centric value based applications. Customers will start to rely...
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Mayo Clinic has developed its first 3D prototype of human skin bioprinted to model inflammatory skin disease.
3D bioprinting is a technology that mixes bioinks with living cells to print natural tissue-like structures in three dimensions. This new technology provides the most human-like skin model for studying inflammatory conditions such as atopic dermatitis — more commonly known as eczema — a chronic inflammatory skin condition that causes dry, itchy and inflamed skin. The 3D bioprinting skin procedure, applications and limitations are described in a review article in Regenerative Biomaterials.
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East Eight Energy in China has developed a Tiny generator that uses the motion of molecules to produce electricity
Yucheng Luan at start-up firm East Eight Energy in China, Li and their colleagues created an energy-harvesting device just 1-centimetre square, which consists of a top and bottom electrode with several 25-nanometre-wide strands of zinc oxide attached to each. The material was chosen for its ability to generate electrical charge under mechanical deformation.
“We thought it would be interesting and meaningful to see if this motion can be harvested and converted into electricity,” says Wei Li a...
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‘Storing data on glass’ – Microsoft’s Project Silica
Storing data on glass might sound futuristic, but it’s a concept that dates back to the 19th century when single photographic negatives were preserved on panes of glass. Fast forward to today, technology has remarkably expanded the storage capabilities of this sustainable material. A small sheet of glass can now hold several terabytes of data, enough to store approximately 1.75 million songs or 13 years’ worth of music.
Data that needs to be stored long-term is growing exponentially. Existin...
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Human Consciousness Could Be a Side Effect of Entropy, Study Suggests
Consciousness could be the result of an optimization of information processing. How consciousness arises from the organization of matter.
The idea that consciousness could be the result of an optimization of information processing is a hypothesis or theory put forth by some researchers and philosophers. This perspective is often associated with a viewpoint in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science known as "Integrated Information Theory" (IIT), developed by neuroscientist Giulio Tononi...
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‘Orange Pi’ – open source single-board computers (SBCs) hardware and open source software
Orange Pi is a series of single-board computers (SBCs) produced by Shenzhen Xunlong Software, a Chinese company. These SBCs are similar to the more well-known Raspberry Pi but come in various models with different features and hardware specifications. They are typically used for DIY electronics projects, education, and other applications where a compact and affordable computing platform is needed.
Orange Pi is a leading global provider of open source hardware and open source software, dedica...
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AI rules & regulations
We may see AI rules & regulations across multiple areas with key objective towards;
Data Privacy Regulations: Data privacy regulations like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) place restrictions on the collection, storage, and processing of personal data, which includes data used in AI systems.
Algorithmic Accountability: Some regions have been exploring the idea of holding organizations accountable for the outcomes of their AI algorithms, particularly when ...
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Earth Species Project – decoding animal Communication
Earth Species Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to decoding animal communication, is at the forefront of this groundbreaking research. By leveraging machine learning, advanced signal processing, and artificial intelligence, they aim to develop a comprehensive understanding of non-human communication and foster empathy between humans and other species. Their ambitious goal is to create open-source AI tools to translate animal languages, paving the way for meaningful interspecies d...
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Neurotech Startup Roga Launches Novel Wellness wearable device solution to Combat Stress and Burnout.
New wearable device can help halve your stress symptoms
Wellness device company Roga secures partnerships, funding since joining Velocity
New wearable device can help halve your stress symptoms
Roga develops new wearable mental wellness deviceThe device is connected to an app that deploys AI to deliver personalised, guided meditations
Roga, a company that recently joined Velocity, University of Waterloo’s startup incubator, has developed a wearable mental wellness device, giving...
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AI-driven precision medicine
AI-driven precision medicine is an innovative approach to healthcare that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques to tailor medical treatments and interventions to the individual characteristics of patients. It aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of medical care by considering factors such as a patient's genetics, molecular profile, environmental exposures, and lifestyle choices. Here are key components and benefits of AI-driven precision medicine:
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NVIDIA & Evozyne Create Generative AI Model for Proteins
Using a pretrained AI model from NVIDIA, startup Evozyne created two proteins with significant potential in healthcare and clean energy.
A joint paper released today describes the process and the biological building blocks it produced. One aims to cure a congenital disease, another is designed to consume carbon dioxide to reduce global warming.
Initial results show a new way to accelerate drug discovery and more.
“It’s been really encouraging that even in this first round...
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Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) tests are capable of rapidly identifying or 'sequencing' large sections of a person's genome and are important advances in the clinical applications of precision medicine.Patients, physicians and researchers can use these tests to find genetic variants that help them diagnose, treat, and understand more about human disease.
Next-generation sequencing (NGS), also known as high-throughput sequencing, is a revolutionary technology used in genomics to sequence DN...
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Researchers at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute & Stanford University have developed ‘athletically intelligent’ robotic dog that can leap, climb, crawl, and squeeze past physical barriers
AI researchers created a real-world “robodog” able to leap, climb, crawl, and squeeze past physical barriers as never before. They leveraged Machine learning techniques to achieve this.
AI researchers at Stanford University and Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute say they have developed a new vision-based algorithm that helps robodogs scale high objects, leap across gaps, crawl under thresholds, and squeeze through crevices – and then bolt to the next challenge. The algorithm represents the brains of ...
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Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan’ s -‘Pi.ai’ – personal AI for everyone
It's your personal AI, designed to be supportive, smart, and there for you anytime. It's name stands for 'personal intelligence', because it provide infinite knowledge based on your unique interests. It can be a coach, confidante, creative partner, sounding board and assistant.
Inflection is an AI studio and the creators of Pi. The Inflection team includes some of the industry’s top AI experts who previously worked at DeepMind, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI.
“Inflection-1”, in-house...
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