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2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology

2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology

This year will be a big one for quantum computing, at least according to the United Nations: 2025 is officially the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology,” a worldwide initiative to raise awareness of technological progress and encourage new advances....

Ensuring AI benefits everyone, tech must have a diverse pipeline

Ensuring AI benefits everyone, tech must have a diverse pipeline

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is an integral part of our daily lives, work, and existence. AI-driven medical diagnostics alert doctors to early warning signs of diseases and conditions, allowing them to provide better treatment for patients and save lives....

Deep learning is about to get easier — and more widespread

Deep learning is about to get easier — and more widespread

Deep learning algorithms often require millions of training examples to perform their tasks accurately. But many companies and organizations don’t have access to such large caches of annotated data to train their models (getting millions of pictures of cats is hard...

Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset

Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset

"In 2017, Facebook announced that it was working on a brain-computer interface that designed to let users type by simply thinking words. And today, the company revealed for the first time how far it’s come in its quest to make such a device a reality. Facebook’s...

Using Social Physics to build the Social Contract 2020

Using Social Physics to build the Social Contract 2020

Social Physics is a new way of understanding human behavior based on analysis of Big Data. In contemporary society we have access to an incredible array of data on social interaction. This abundance of data provides a social science nirvana which allows us to begin to...