AI clocks first-known ‘binary sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system’. Another AI will be along shortly to tell us how to pronounce that properly
The cosmic ballet goes on Astronomers have discovered the first-known “sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system,” after a neural network flagged it…
Apple Shuffles Hardware Execs To Make Room For a Mysterious ‘New Project’
Dan Riccio has served as senior VP of engineering overseeing all of Apple’s hardware since 2012, but now he’s stepping…
Simulating 800,000 Years of California Earthquake History To Pinpoint Risks
aarondubrow shares a report from the Texas Advanced Computing Center: A new study in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society…
Bad News For Land-Speed Record Fans As Bloodhound Goes Up For Sale
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Bad news, land-speed record fans: the project to set a new…
Moderna Vaccine Appears To Work Against Variants
Moderna’s Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and…
Vancouver Seaplane Company To Resume Test Flights With Electric Plane
A Vancouver seaplane company says its retro-fitted all electric airplane is set to take to the skies for more test…
Google Says It May Have Found a Privacy-Friendly Substitute To Cookies
Google says its new machine learning algorithms could replace cookie-based ad targeting without invading your privacy. Axios reports: Google has…
Duf – Disk Usage/Free Utility (Linux, BSD, macOS & Windows)
Disk Usage/Free Utility (Linux, BSD, macOS & Windows) Features User-friendly, colorful output Adjusts to your terminal’s width Sort the results…
Short Secret Sharing Using Repeatable Random Sequence Generators. (arXiv:2101.09317v1 [cs.CR])
We present a new secret sharing algorithm that provides the storage efficiency of an Information Dispersal Algorithm (IDA) while providing…
Generating Black-Box Adversarial Examples in Sparse Domain. (arXiv:2101.09324v1 [cs.LG])
Applications of machine learning (ML) models and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been rapidly increased. Although ML models provide high…