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On our portal we already wrote about the fact that the Pentagon initiated work on the creation of the control center of the military AI. However, not long ago, new information came to light. In collaboration with DARPA, the defense Ministry plans to equip artificial intelligence of some military equipment. On the implementation of the…

A large number of studies aimed at studying the processes of memory and remembering. And, in General, they have been studied quite well. But how is the process of “physiological” forgetting (that is, not associated with a neurodegenerative process), was known to very few. And not so long ago a group of scientists discovered in…

A team of scientists under the leadership Myung J. Lee from Intelligent Devices and Systems Research Group at DGIST has developed an artificial synaptic device that simulates the function of nerve cells (neurons) and synapses responsible for memory in the human brain. Synapses are the point of meeting of axons and dendrites which allow the…

Company with a funny name for some Xuelin long ago established itself as a very “contrasting” manufacturer. Despite the fact that they know how to make the sound, the ease of the players is often undermined by some trifle. Recently they decided to be in trend and released a micro-model iHiFi790. If they managed to…

Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies” we summarize the results of the last week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. Today — on the Russian engine on alcohol, the accident at the “Union” and much more. Below the news you can find in…

Image: Qualcomm Google recently rolled out a big update to Wear OS with improvements including a new streamlined UI, better health and fitness tracking, and an all-around smarter and more useful Google Assistant. But as nice as that all sounds, software is just one piece of what you need to make a good smartwatch, because…

Two Facebook listings found by TrafficScreenshot: Traffic (Facebook) A wildlife trade watchdog found 1,521 listings for animals on Facebook in Thailand. The posts included live animals, dead animals, and body parts. The report from Traffic, an anti-trafficking organization based in the UK, details the activities of 12 animal trade Facebook groups. From 2016 to 2018,…

Photo: Getty He may be the most beleaguered and mistrusted CEO of any major tech company, but if an enormous new profile of Mark Zuckerberg makes one thing clear, he’s not as dumb as Twitter’s CEO. If you need catching up on the trials and tribulations of Zuck, the New Yorker has a 14,000-word profile…

Fluoxetine pills. Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) A common antidepressant, sold under the brand name Prozac, could be helping some bacteria build resistance to antibiotics, suggests a new study from Australia. The study, published in Environment International, found that fluoxetine was capable of inducing antibiotic resistance in laboratory strains of Escherichia coli. Fluoxetine is a…

PhD student Lucas Manuelli poses with a Kuka robot arm, which uses a neural net to learn about new objects.Image: Tom Buehler/CSAIL Robots in factories are really good at picking up objects they’ve been pre-programmed to handle, but it’s a different story when new objects are thrown into the mix. To overcome this frustrating inflexibility,…