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Google’s new ‘data echoing’ technique speeds up AI training
Posted in Software on 15th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
Google Brain, Google’s AI research division, propose in a paper a technique called “data echoing,” which they say reduces the computation used by earlier pipeline stages by reusing intermediate outputs from these stages.
MIT supercharges cancer immunotherapy with a booster vaccine
Posted in Medicine, Science on 14th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
The vaccine contains a fatty molecule called a lipid tail that lets the drug travel straight to the lymph nodes, and once there, the active ingredient is an antigen that sends the T cells after the cancer.
Intel: New chip materials will enable massive AI research gains
Posted in Business, Hardware, Software on 12th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
This burgeoning interest in “edge AI” has to an extent outpaced hardware, much of which is practically incapable of accomplishing tasks better suited to a datacenter.
Pilot plant demonstrates low-cost conversion of CO2 into fuel
Posted in Business, Science on 12th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
After running a pilot plant for three years, Canadian company Carbon Engineering (CE) has broken down the costs of an air capture system and shown it can be done much more cost-effectively than previously thought.
Injected after accidents, nanoparticles could prevent paralysis
Posted in Medicine on 12th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
It is hoped that once developed further, the technology could be incorporated into an EpiPen-like device that would be used to rapidly inject the particles as soon as possible after an injury occurs.