Led by Joon Sung Park, a Stanford PhD student in computer science, the team recruited 1,000 people who varied by age, gender, race, region, education, and political ideology. They were paid...
Tech companies have been funneling billions of dollars into quantum computers for years. The hope is that they’ll be a game changer for fields as diverse as finance, drug discovery, and...
“What if you could say ‘Hey, add a flying unicorn here’? Literally, talk to the model. Or ‘Turn everything here into medieval ages,’ and then, boom, it’s all medieval ages. Or ‘Turn...
This infrastructure gap – the difference between funding and construction – is vast. And while governments and companies everywhere are feeling the strain of constructing an energy efficient and sustainable built...
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When blazes are confirmed, Pano alerts fire monitoring agencies, providing images and location data that help them respond quickly. As firefighters battle the blaze, the company continues to provide up-to-date,...
What’s new: It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments they’ve never seen before. Typically, researchers need to train them on new data for every new place they encounter,...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Google says it’s made a quantum computing breakthrough that...
