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Carbon dating accuracy called into question after major flaw …
Jun 6, 2018 · by Colm Gorey. Though one of the most essential tools for determining an ancient object’s age, carbon dating might not be as accurate as we once thought. When news is announced on the discovery ...
Which coding languages are used by the world’s top companies?
Sep 3, 2020 · Variations in the tools different companies adopt are mainly due to speed, reliability and scalability. Amazon, for example, draws mostly on Java, Javascript, C++, Ruby and Swift, according to ...
DeepMind’s new AI, Gato, can play video games and control robots
May 16, 2022 · Gato is DeepMind’s latest AI that can perform more than 600 different tasks, such as playing video games, captioning images and moving real-world robotic arms. The idea behind Gato is to create ...
Interview with Scorpion: Walter O’Brien goes to Hollywood
Sep 3, 2015 · by John Kennedy. As a 13-year-old in Kilkenny Walter O’Brien – aka Scorpion – received a visit from the NSA for hacking NASA. Today he is the inspiration behind a US TV show of the same name ...
Ireland is home to these 18 US tech titans – and they’re hiring
Jul 4, 2022 · The online accommodation rental platform has its European headquarters in Dublin. Founded in the US in 2008, it began hiring in Ireland in 2013. In 2016, Airbnb unveiled a new office at Hanover ...
AI and gene editing promise ‘bespoke proteins’ for biotech
Oct 4, 2024 · Prof Marc Zimmer from Connecticut College says rapid advances in AI and genetic engineering could soon lead to ‘bespoke proteins’ to help tackle the climate crisis. During her chemistry Nobel ...
AlphaCode: The DeepMind AI engine that writes code competitively
Feb 3, 2022 · DeepMind, Alphabet’s artificial intelligence subsidiary based in the UK, has created a new AI-powered system called AlphaCode that it says can write computer programs “at a competitive level ...
Russia’s Yandex gives public access to GPT-like large language …
Jun 24, 2022 · Russian tech company Yandex said it has made a large language model trained on 100bn parameters available for free to the public, in order to boost the growth of this AI technology. Large language ...
Graphene at 20: How this wonder material is quietly changing the …
Oct 11, 2024 · Graphene was hailed as a revolutionary material, promising ultra-fast electronics, supercomputers and super-strong materials. More fantastical claims have included space elevators, solar sails ...