A Morning Drive There was no escaping the weather that morning. The sun was hidden behind a cloudy sky despite it being past eight in the morning, and as he drove through, he noticed how thick the snow had become. He was nearing the end of the neighbourhood, but he slowed his car when he…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Meta has developed an artificially intelligent translation system that can convert an oral language — Hokkien — to spoken English. It’s another step closer to finally making Star Trek‘s Universal Translator a reality. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a video demonstrating the tech alongside software engineer Peng-Jen Chen in a Facebook post on Wednesday. In it,…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin are working together to make Turkey a natural-gas hub. Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images Ankara will work with Moscow to create a natural-gas hub in Turkey, Turkish President Erdoğan said. This is a week after Russia’s Putin offered to redirect natural-gas supplies to Europe via…
This year’s Adobe Max 2022 went big on 3D design and mixed-reality headsets, but the AI-generated elephant in the room was the rise of text-to-image generators like Dall-E. How is Adobe planning to respond to these revolutionary tools? Slowly and cautiously, according to the keynote – but a significant feature buried in the new version of…
KakaoTalk logo on the App Store and KakaoTalk logo displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Sulkowice, Poland on August 27, 2021. (Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images The co-CEO of South Korea’s most popular messaging and…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin are working together to make Turkey a natural-gas hub. Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images Ankara will work with Moscow to create a natural-gas hub in Turkey, Turkish President Erdoğan said. This is a week after Russia’s Putin offered to redirect natural-gas supplies to Europe via…
You can create custom a custom iPhone lock screen with widgets that surface information directly from Google’s most popular apps – Google Chrome, Google Drive, Gmail, Google News, Google Maps, and the Google app. As of October 2022, these Google apps now all offer lock screen widgets for those running iOS 16 or newer. Read:…
A compound derived from the Cordyceps fungus may have antiviral or antitumor properties. Deposit Photos The Cordyceps mushroom, an exotic fungus, grows by infecting insects with its spores. The spores use the animals’ bodies as all-you-can-eat buffets, feasting on their flesh. This parasitic relationship ends only when the spores fully grow and mature, sprouting out…
Lennart Schneider / Unsplash Yesterday, Google Research unveiled two new projects it’s been working on with a table tennis-playing robot. The Robotics team at Google taught a robot arm to play 300+ shot rallies with other people and return serves with the precision of “amateur humans.” While this might not sound that impressive given how…
Freshwater waterfowl was the lone bright spot in the new conservation study. DepositPhotos This article was originally featured on Field and Stream. Wetland conservation is paying off big time according to a new study. The 2022 U.S. State of the Birds Report is a joint research project that was undertaken by 33 science and conservation organizations and…