Meet RSC, Meta’s New Supercomputer
Supercomputers are impressive machines capable of performing amazing feats of computing power. They are not a particularly new technology, with the first supercomputers coming online in the mid-1960s. Supercomputers run or support many of today’s largest companies and industries across the globe. IBM’s Watson is a famous example of a supercomputer that combines artificial intelligence […]
Mobile Location Data: An Indispensable Tool in Our Fight Against COVID-19?
It’s rare for Apple and Google to team up on a project, but the two companies recently announced a new plan to use signals from their combined 3 billion smartphones to track the COVID-19 pandemic. The technology would make a record in the system when two people come in close contact (without including their identity […]
Google Is Using Machine Learning to Improve Your Job Search
During last month’s Google I/O developer conference, the company laid out its ambitious plan to incorporate AI technology into all of its products in the coming years. It has some potentially revolutionary plans up its sleeves, most notably Google Lens, a combination of AI, computer vision, and AR that turns your smartphone camera into an […]