AI Helps Explain Your Microbiome
Can the tiny microbes on your leg reveal your age, or that you smoke? Or that you are menopausal? Billions of microbes live on our skin, they help maintain skin condition, they are our first line of defense from external pathogens and can impact how we respond to treatment. These microbes, which are one tenth …
Cash App Uses Google Cloud To Power Mobile Payments Innovation And research
Mobile payments are creating opportunities to reach and benefit more people worldwide by providing services to underbanked communities, and empowering streamlined services in e-commerce and brick-and-mortar stores. Square, a U.S.-based financial services company that specializes in payment software and hardware products, currently stands at the cutting-edge of this industry. The company regularly pursues more powerful, …
Lab Launches Interdisciplinary Space Science Institute
What are the next world-class, game-changing concepts and technologies that will address the most important questions in astrophysics or planetary science? Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers will soon be better equipped to answer this question with the launch this month of a new Space Science Institute (SSI), intended to boost cross-discipline collaboration and discovery. …
Machine Learning Aids In Simulating Dynamics Of Interacting Atoms
Automated data set generation provides a highly diverse sampling of atomic positions for training an accurate and general machine learning model. A revolutionary machine-learning (ML) approach to simulate the motions of atoms in materials such as aluminum is described in this week’s Nature Communications journal. This automated approach to “interatomic potential development” could transform the …
Introducing The AI Chip Leading The World In Precision Scaling
Self-driving cars, text to speech, artificial intelligence (AI) services and delivery drones — just a few obvious applications of AI. To keep fueling the AI gold rush, we’ve been improving the very heart of AI hardware technology: digital AI cores that power deep learning, the key enabler of artificial intelligence. At IBM Research, we’ve been …
Lack Of Symmetry In Qubits Can’t Fix Errors In Quantum Computing, But Might Explain Matter/Antimatter Imbalance
A team of quantum theorists seeking to cure a basic problem with quantum annealing computers—they have to run at a relatively slow pace to operate properly—found something intriguing instead. While probing how quantum annealers perform when operated faster than desired, the team unexpectedly discovered a new effect that may account for the imbalanced distribution of …
Cable, Components And Critical Space Exploration
ABB provides Ty-Rap™ cable ties for NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission. As NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover begins exploring its new planetary home after landing on February 18, 2021, it’s operating with the world’s most advanced technology while being equipped with Ty-Rap™ cable ties from ABB, the same ties that are widely used on earth. …
2021 Habitat Challenge Launches To Advance Embodied AI Research
Facebook AI is excited to launch the third Habitat Challenge, an open research initiative that invites AI experts around the world to teach machines to navigate real-world environments. The Habitat Challenge 2021, implemented in collaboration with Georgia Tech, asks participants to train embodied agents to perform PointGoal navigation (“Go 5 meters north, 3 meters west”) …
Machine Learning Blazes Path To Reliable Near-term Quantum Computers
Using machine learning to develop algorithms that compensate for the crippling noise endemic on today’s quantum computers offers a way to maximize their power for reliably performing actual tasks, according to a new paper. “The method, called noise-aware circuit learning, or NACL, will play an important role in the quest for quantum advantage, when a …
With Perseverance, MIT Teams Prepare For Mars Rover Landing
On Thursday, NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, is scheduled to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet following a nail-biting entry and descent sequence vividly known as the “seven minutes of terror.” If all goes according to plan, the car-sized explorer will blast safely down into Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide impact basin that …