Author: Hunter
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Gemini AI is coming to Google Calendar – here’s what it can do and how to try it
Gemini can now add events to your calendar, give you event details, and help you find an event you’ve forgotten about. Read more
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Nokia Put a 4G Cellular Network on the Moon but Couldn’t Make a Phone Call
Nokia’s Lunar Surface Communications System was supposed to be the first 4G network deployed on the moon and a test for future crewed missions. Things didn’t go to plan. Read more
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Volkswagen is bringing back physical buttons
The interior of the recently revealed Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 seems spartan but still has buttons. | Image: VW Volkswagen is planning a return to physical buttons in its future vehicles over haptic sliders and touchscreen toggles for vital functions such as climate controls. The automaker’s design head Andreas Mindt told Autocar that the company “will… Read more
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Apple dodges a second Apple Watch ban
This means the watch’s EKG features won’t face the same issues as its blood oxygen sensor. AliveCor has suffered another setback in its long-running patent case against Apple. Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a decision that the medical device maker’s EKG patents are not actually patentable. As a… Read more
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Mickey 17 is a big middle finger to space-obsessed strongmen
The well-deserved hat trick that director Bong Joon Ho pulled off at the Oscars in 2020 with Parasite all but ensured that studios would fight tooth and nail to back his next cinematic project. It was always going to be difficult for Bong to top what he accomplished with Parasite â a shapeshifting masterpiece of… Read more
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Files to Trademark ‘Telepathy’
The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk is moving to trademark several product names, including Telepathy and Telekinesis. Read more
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Getting a Signal on the Moon
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent positions of IEEE Spectrum, The Institute, or IEEE. Although it might seem as though there is intense interest right now in exploring Mars, many people don’t realize how important the moon is in getting to the Red… Read more
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Anthropic quietly scrubs Biden-era responsible AI commitment from its website
AI companies continue to reduce evidence of Biden-era AI safety policy from their communications as attitudes shift under Trump. Read more
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Tech Leaders Speak Out for International Women’s Day
Saturday is International Women’s Day, a day devoted to recognizing the critical role that women play across all aspects of society. It’s also an important day in technology, where women make up about 25% of the workforce. To recognize the contributions that women have made in tech and the continued need to push for equality,… Read more
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Microsoft AI Introduces Belief State Transformer (BST): Enhancing Goal-Conditioned Sequence Modeling with Bidirectional Context
Transformer models have transformed language modeling by enabling large-scale text generation with emergent properties. However, they struggle with tasks that require extensive planning. Researchers have explored modifications in architecture, objectives, and algorithms to improve their ability to achieve goals. Some approaches move beyond traditional left-to-right sequence modeling by incorporating bidirectional context, as seen in models… Read more