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October 15, 2007, the company Intel announced the mobile processors Atom. It was planned that chips will be used in devices like the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) — inexpensive laptops designed for education in third world countries. In the end, Intel has contributed to the emergence of such a segment as netbooks. In particular,…

Funny artificial intelligence. He can identify objects within seconds or fractions of a second, to imitate the human voice and to recommend music, but most of machine “intelligence” lack the basic understanding of everyday objects and actions — in other words, common sense. DARPA teams up with Elenovski Institute for artificial intelligence in Seattle to…

Many PS4 users on Reddit and other social media warning about the message containing a line of characters that cause the console give Sony crash and fail. In some cases, the console is starting to fail so much that users have to reset at the hardware level to return it to normal operation. Such error…

Striking crash is usually reliable Soyuz rocket during a manned mission to the International space station earlier this week that almost ended with the deaths of astronauts, scared space community, however, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said it expects to launch a new crew in December on the “Union” anyway. Answering questions from reporters at the…

An artist’s concept of Opportunity on MarsIllustration: NASA It’s been months since NASA engineers have heard from the sleeping Opportunity rover, which powered down after getting caught in a massive dust storm on Mars that obscured its surface from the Sun. But all hope isn’t yet lost, as the space agency said in an update…

Microsoft’s French headquarters.Photo: Raphael Satter (AP) Last week, Google dropped its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), a massive military cloud computing contract potentially worth up to $10 billion, amid employee backlash and concern the project could violate their “AI principles.” Now an open letter claiming to be from an unspecified number of…

Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) The fraud case against the ex-management of crooked blood-testing startup Theranos, former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, is just one component of a larger investigation into the company, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Theranos claimed to have developed a miraculous line of…

Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) It’s no secret that law enforcement often resorts to workarounds for Apple’s security features, but the Face ID technology of the iPhone X makes things tricky. According to a report from Motherboard, forensics company Elcomsoft is advising law enforcement to not even look at phones with Face ID. This is…

Photo: Charles Dharapak (AP) It’s been a hell of a week for the Pentagon, which can’t seem to keep itself out of headlines recently. Now, it says it’s been hit by a cyber breach of Defense Department travel records that may have compromised the credit card data and other personal information of its workers. A…

Very often in science fiction works, you can see some high-tech materials, which after the damage to heal, if they themselves try to “cure”. Sounds and looks extremely unrealistic, because if the damage destroyed the bonds between the molecules and can’t be recovered. Or is it possible? The answer to this question gives a new…