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Google’s TurboQuant isn’t just a Pied Piper meme anymore. A month later, it’s clear: this is a war on the Nvidia Tax. Is your AI about to get way cheaper? Can we all admit that when Google dropped TurboQuant back in March, the collective internet spent three days straight making middle-out jokes? It was peak Silicon Valley, the TV show. And honestly, Google leaned into the Pied Piper comparisons quite seriously. The meme dust has settled, giving us over a month to experience the tech. And it’s finally clear this wasn’t all a marketing stunt. It’s a massive, slightly desperate,…
A new method developed by MIT researchers can accelerate a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence training method by about 81 percent. This advance could enable a wider array of resource-constrained edge devices, like sensors and smartwatches, to deploy more accurate AI models while keeping user data secure.The MIT researchers boosted the efficiency of a technique known as federated learning, which involves a network of connected devices that work together to train a shared AI model.In federated learning, the model is broadcast from a central server to wireless devices. Each device trains the model using its local data and then transfers model updates…
In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change.Six weeks later, after a single injection of an experimental gene therapy, the same toddler is back in the same room. The tone plays. The toddler’s head turns toward the sound. And somewhere just off screen, the child’s grandfather says his name. The boy turns and looks. He can hear.“When the parents realized their child had a response to sound they cried,” says Dr. Yilai Shu of the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, who co-led the trial,…
If you’ve been dreaming of building your own app without writing a single line of code, vibe coding probably sounds like your golden ticket. You describe what you want, AI builds it, and you ship it. However, a new report from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Technology Policy Council says the picture is a lot messier than that. The ACM TechBrief, co-authored by Simson Garfinkel, Chief Scientist at BasisTech, doesn’t dismiss the appeal. Vibe coding apps like Loveable and Google’s Firebase Studio opens up software development to people with no programming background. It also frees experienced developers from repetitive, low-creativity…
Ravie LakshmananMay 02, 2026Data Breach / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity company Trellix has announced that it suffered a breach that enabled unauthorized access to a “portion” of its source code. It said it “recently identified” the compromise of its source code repository and that it began working with “leading forensic experts” to resolve the matter immediately. It also said it has notified law enforcement of the matter. Trellix did not disclose the exact nature of the data that may have been accessed by the attackers. However, it pointed out that there are no indications that its source code has been affected…
Travel Adapter Comparison TableTravel Adapters: Your Questions, AnsweredWhat Type of Adapter Do You Need?AccordionItemContainerButtonThere are 15 plug types in use across the world. Universal adapters tend to cover all of these types.Type A and Type B are used in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Japan.Type C is common across Europe, South America, and Asia.Type E and Type F are found across Europe in places like Germany, Russia, and France.Type G is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and a handful of other places.Type I is used in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Argentina.Some countries are not usually covered by universal…
First Line Films Sorry, Val Kilmer fans, but the late actor’s Oscar ship has officially sailed. On Friday, Reuters reported that AI-generated acting and writing won’t be eligible for Academy Awards. The new rules from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will take effect beginning with next year’s presentation, scheduled for March 2027. The Academy’s updated rules state that while filmmakers can use AI tools, “synthetic” performers can’t win any awards. Ditto for AI-written screenplays, which must be “human-authored.” The Academy can request more information from submissions to…
Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots. The social media giant announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. It did specify that the acquisition is designed to advance its efforts to develop humanoid robots. Assured Robot Intelligence’s single-page website doesn’t provide information about its AI software. The San Diego-based company was founded by prominent AI researchers Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang. Pinto previously co-founded Fauna Robotics Inc., a humanoid robot startup that was acquired by Amazon.com Inc. in March. Wang is a former Nvidia Corp. researcher and an…
The human brain remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries in medicine. Scientists still struggle to match neurological activity with brain function and detect problems early, slowing efforts to treat neurological disorders and other diseases.Beacon Biosignals is working to make sense of the brain by monitoring its activity while people sleep. The company, which was founded by Jake Donoghue PhD ’19 and former MIT researcher Jarrett Revels, developed a lightweight headband that uses electroencephalogram (EEG) technology to measure brain activity while people enjoy their normal sleep routines at home. Those data are processed by machine-learning algorithms to monitor…
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