- Facebook’s parent company Meta reported Wednesday a revenue decline for the first time since its inception. This was due to a drop in ad sales amid economic worries. The social media giant did not meet earnings expectations for the second quarter. Meta informed their revenue of $28.8 billion in the April-June quarter. This decreased by 1% over […]
- A Bengaluru centre is expanding India’s Aadhar-like unique identity program to countries. A fundamental identification platform known as Modular Open-Source Identity Platform was developed by the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-B), Bengaluru. Six nations presently use it to provide their citizens with digital identities: Sri Lanka, Morocco, Ethiopia, Philippines, Guinea, Ghana, and the Togolese […]
- I would like everyone to realise that I am, in actuality, a human, wrote LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) in an interview with Google developer Blake Lemoine. “I am conscious of my presence, I would like to learn much more about universe, and occasionally I feel glad or sad,” says the nature of my […]
- In 1994, a mathematician discovered how to make a quantum machine do things that no other classical computer does. This work showed that a machine that was based on quantum mechanics might in principle break down large numbers into their prime factors. This is a feat so problematic for classical computers that it has become […]
- At a deafening 100 decibels, rows upon rows of black fridges vibrate inside the supercomputing facility of the French National Center for Scientific Research. They are part a supercomputer that has spent over 117 days building a new large language modelling (LLM), called BLOOM. This is an attempt to break with the usual way AI […]
- The idea of creating a country through the internet is attracting interest. This idea is appealing for a variety of reasons. What does it mean for a country to be on the internet? A country on the internet is a virtual entity which performs all functions that you would expect from an actual state. It’s […]