2021: The Year of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
I’m writing this just before New Year’s Day, and like many of you I’m hoping to reach my one remaining goal for 2020, which is to be alive in 2021. I’m looking forward to putting 2020 behind, and while the pandemic has been painful, it has caused things to accelerate in several areas impressively rapidly. […]
Scientists Press AI Researchers for Transparency
An international group of scientists is demanding scientific journals demand more transparency from researchers in computer-related areas when accepting their reports for publication. They also want computational researchers to include information about their code, models and computational environments in published reports. Their call, published in Nature Magazine in October, was in response to the results […]
This is going to enable Android phones to charge from 0% to 50% in five minutes
Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 technology debuts 100W charging Your next Android phone may charge incredibly fast, going from 0% to 50% in some cases in just five minutes – if it uses Qualcomm’s newest charging standard. Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 platform is the latest 100W technology for increasingly power-hungry mobile devices, further evolving the charging standards that […]