The Digital Speaker (Page 234)

A robot’s journey underneath the Doomsday glacier.

Icefin, a robot designed to swim under 2,000 feet of ice, has found trouble beneath the Doomsday Glacier. The robot found that 10% of the glacier's ice shelf contributes to 25% of the melting observed. The glacier has been rapidly deteriorating, and if it collapses, global sea...

AI matchmaking technology cures aggressive blood cancer.

Researchers used new matchmaking technology to find the right drug for a man with blood cancer that chemotherapy failed to eliminate. The technology considers biological differences and tested dozens of treatments using automation and computer vision. The man's cancer disappea...

Privacy in the Age of AI: Risks, Challenges and Solutions

As technology continues to advance at an unprecedented rate, AI has become increasingly prevalent in many areas of our lives. From generative AI that can create any type of content using a simple prompt to smart home devices that learn our habits and preferences, AI has the po...

Zoom fatigue: when video calls go from hype to reality.

Zoom, the video conferencing platform, recently laid off 15% of its staff, or about 1,300 people. This came after the company had tripled its headcount in the past two years. The CEO, Eric Yuan, took responsibility for the layoffs and vowed to reduce his salary by 98% to $10,000.

The battle of the bots is heating up!

Google's new chatbot, Bard, is set to take on the mighty ChatGPT. Bard will be available to a select group of "trusted testers" before being unleashed on the world later this year. It promises to explain complex subjects in simple terms. Google also recently invested in AI sta...

As expected, our brain moves between order and chaos.

New research using brain imaging on people undergoing brain surgery for epilepsy has shown that our minds flit between stability and chaos as we go about our daily activities. The scientists behind the study hope that by understanding the patterns of brain activity, they may o...

Unleashing the Generative AI Genie: A Brave New Metaverse or a Nightmare Scenario?

Exciting times are ahead as the convergence of generative AI and the metaverse takes shape! If 2021 was the year for the metaverse, 2022 was the year for generative AI. In the past months, Generative AI took the world by storm and in 2023, these disruptive forces will converge...