Future and Emerging Technologies

Figure | AI rats walk and feeding in the maze (Source: DeepMind & Harvard University) In the study of artificial intelligence (AI), neural networks have become one of the core topics. Although the neural networks studied by AI are very different from the way neurons in the brain work, more and more scientists believe that the technology created by the brain structure is closely related to neuroscience. Studying the similarities and differences between the two can not only deepen our understanding of neuroscience but also make AI smarter. When studying neuroscience, rats are one of the common experimental objects, such as analyzing how the rat brain controls its movement. So can we study AI just like rats? Researchers at DeepMind and Harvard University believe that this idea is feasible. They have created a virtual rat driven by AI that can perform multiple complex tasks in a simulated 3D environment. In studying how the so-called "AI brain" controls the movemen...

Figure | Comparison of the effect of the CMU method (c) and the traditional most advanced method (d) (Source: CMU) How to get a high-precision 3D facial model of a person?  Usually, accurate three-dimensional reconstruction of a person's face requires expensive equipment and professional knowledge skills, such as the use of studios, cameras, 3D scanners, etc. All kinds of work are concentrated on the use of photometric stereo Or multi-view stereo technology to reconstruct the facial structure. Simon Lucey, an associate researcher at the CMU Robotics Institute, one of the members of this research project, said that the three-dimensional reconstruction of the face has always been an open problem in the field of computer vision and graphics because people are very sensitive to the appearance of facial features. Even a slight anomaly in the reconstruction process may make the final result look very different from reality. A high level of detail is a difficult point and a ke...

Yesterday, the U.S. Pentagon officially released three video clips. This is the image taken by the pilot during the multiple encounters between the U.S. carrier aircraft and the UFO between November 2004 and January. The speed has exceeded human understanding. These videos were first discovered by a non-governmental organization in the decryption materials in 2017. The US Navy confirmed these videos twice last year and this year, but they have been listed as "confidential" or "top secret" and cannot be commented on further It is called "unidentified air phenomenon" instead of what we usually call "unidentified flying object" (UFO). I have detailed the incident in several articles, and I will talk about it briefly again. At that time, the Princeton Missile Cruiser found the UFO on the radar, notified the aircraft carrier and sent two hornets to intercept. After the hornet arrived, it was discovered that an egg-shaped bright white UFO hov...

Other World Computing (also known as OWC) is an Apple-centric peripheral and accessories company whose products are usually designed for Mac computers, such as iMac, Mac Pro and MacBook. But its products are not limited to Mac. Many storage, memory, and docking products are also compatible with Windows and Linux computers. OWC's latest storage product is definitely cross-platform, because it is just a solid-state hard drive, to be precise a M.2 PCIe 3.0 x 4 NVMe interface product, but this is not its highlight. In fact, its capacity is the most exciting that is 4TB ! Yes, as you expected, the price of 4TB Aura P12 M.2 NVMe SSD (S3DN3P2T40) , is quite expensive because of the huge capacity. 16TB Accelsior 4M2 device  The Aura P12 solid-state hard drive uses 3D NAND flash memory, with security features such as TCG Opal and TCG Pyrite. The read speed is up to 3400MB/s and the write speed is up to 3000MB /s . It is mainly designed for professionals in the field...

Bloomberg reported on Thursday that Apple plans to start selling Mac computers with its own main processor from next year, and currently Mac computers are also designed based on the chips used on iPhones and iPad. According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is developing three Mac processors based on the A14 processor for the next iPhone, which means that Apple will transfer more Mac product lines from the current supplier Intel. Apple started using Intel processors in 2006, and all Mac computers started using Intel chips in 2007. Since then, Intel has started to produce chips for other Apple products, such as the modem chip for the iPhone. Apple ’s modem chips have always relied on external suppliers, which is a key component in connecting devices such as the iPhone to wireless data networks. In order to manufacture its own chips, Apple bought most of Intel ’s modem in last July for $1 billion and resolved long-standing legal disputes with supplier Qualcomm ove...

According to foreign media reports, the use of artificial intelligence technology to find drugs seems to be achieving some returns. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have revealed that the latest artificial intelligence technology has discovered an antibiotic compound- halicin , which can not only kill many forms of resistance Medicinal bacteria, but also kill them in a novel way. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology revealed that the latest artificial intelligence technology has discovered an antibiotic compound, halicin, which not only kills many forms of drug-resistant bacteria, but also kills them in a novel way. Many antibiotics are a slight improvement on existing drugs, and halicin destroys bacteria by destroying the ability of bacteria to maintain an electrochemical gradient, which is necessary to produce energy storage molecules, which is difficult for bacteria to resist. E. coli within 30 days Halicin does not develop any res...

Corsight AI has developed technology for face recognition when wearing masks and goggles. The company received a $5 million investment from Awz Ventures, a Canadian fund focused on intelligence and security technology. In March of this year, Hanwang Technology of China also announced the development of face recognition technology with masks. Corsight said the financing will be used for product marketing and subsequent development. The face recognition system provided by Corsight can process camera images and solve the face recognition problems caused by many people wearing masks during the epidemic. For example, this technology can be used to warn people who violate the isolation regulations and wear masks without permission. In addition, if someone in an organization is found to be infected with the new coronavirus, the system can quickly generate a close contact report. The company said it has deployed permanent systems in airports and hospitals in Europe, Asia, police s...

It is expected that Google will officially release Pixel 4a , the strongest single camera for Android in the next few weeks. This is a sequel to Pixel 3a and the latest mid-range benchmarking machine for native Android. Just like other new Google phones, the Pixel 4a started breaking news as early as February. Its content includes CAD drawings , renderings , real machine drawings, hands-on videos, and even the selling price. Basically, it has no secrets. First is that the Pixel 4a of the highlights, it is a 5.8 inches screen with one hand small machine, only 69.5 mm, with the latest fuselage width of the iPhone SE or less (67.3 mm), and equipped with a full-screen Digging. Many people often say that iPhone SE is perfect if it has a full-screen design. If you do n’t look at the processor, then Pixel 4a is the “full-screen iPhone SE”. Furthermore, Pixel 4a will be powered by a single rectangular rear camera, 12 million pixels, taking into Google especially accomplished ...

Imagine the moment when your fingertips touch the grass, the sole of your feet touches the comfort of the beach, and even the burning sensation of being too close to the fire. Most of these people think that the habitual feeling is an unimaginable experience for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) , and these people are by no means a minority. T here are about 288,000 people.  The good news is that the latest developments in the " brain-computer interface " field today may bring new hope to these people, and they have the opportunity to regain interaction with the world around them. This year, "CELL" published a heavy study from the Battle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. The researchers implanted a computer chip into the brain of a patient with spinal cord injury and transmitted neural signals to the computer. They found a way to amplify the patient's subtle touch. This kind of computer chip not only has the opportunity to restore normal mov...

Boston Dynamics said that after the New Coronavirus pandemic, they were often asked by hospitals whether robots could help medical staff and reduce the risk of exposure to the New Coronavirus. Therefore, they decided to send the robot dog to protect our medical staff. Not only did the robot dog be specially modified for this, but Boston Dynamics also announced that the hardware and software used by the medical robots they deploy will be open source and can be deployed on other mobile robot platforms. Boston Dynamic Dog Assisted Telemedicine Boston Power Dog Spot entered the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard University this time. Its job is to help doctors diagnose and treat patients with suspected new coronary pneumonia remotely. Boston Dynamics fitted the dog with a bracket and shell to fix the screen. The robot dog just puts an iPad on its head, carries a walkie-talkie, and shuttles in a tent outside the hospital for suspected patients with the new coro...

This is definitely the most beautiful law of the universe. Scientists have discovered a unique stellar system only 8 8 light-years away from the earth. This galaxy has 6 planets, and its orbital period is as accurate as a music rhythm: from the inside out, the next orbital period is always about 1.5 times the previous one, forming a 3: 2 resonance period. If it is placed in our solar system then If Mercury orbits the sun in 100 days, then Venus is 150 days, Earth's year is 225 days, Mars is 338 days, Jupiter 506 days, Saturn 759 days ... However, this star system is extremely crazy! Its number is HD 158259. The main star is slightly larger than our Sun, but all planets are larger than our Earth. The smallest one is equivalent to Super Earth, and the other five are Mini Neptune. Scientists have monitored this stellar system for seven years and discovered this shockingly extraordinary phenomenon. But this is not the craziest, the craziest thing is, these planets are very clo...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on April 22 that it has issued an emergency authorization for the first in-home test kit for the new coronavirus . This test kit is called "Pixel" and is a nasal swab kit that will be American independent laboratory giant LabCorp sells it with testing fee US $ 119 . The FDA specifically noted that no other home testing or sample collection kits have been authorized yet, and many similar products from startups have not been authorized. "With this action, there is now a convenient and reliable option that allows patients to collect samples in a comfortable and safe home." FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn said in a statement. The test is a door-to-door collection kit. The user can use a nasal swab to collect the sample, and then use the included shipping package to send the sample back to the laboratory for testing. The FDA stated that the data submitted by LabCorp indicates that this home test kit is as safe and ac...

Figure | Failure of the attack will result in suspicious contentless emails (Source: ZecOps) American cybersecurity startup ZecOps recently announced that it has discovered two new zero-day vulnerabilities on the iOS system, one of which is more serious, allowing attackers to trigger remotely through the email application that comes with iPhone and iPad, causing the application or device to crash and restart, And then the attacker can run remote code and obtain private mail. In the whole process, the user does not even need to perform any operation, even click on the email, which is very difficult to detect and prevent.  Researchers said that these vulnerabilities not only exist in the latest iOS 13, but its occurrence date can be traced back to the era of iOS 6 at the earliest when the iPhone 5 was released in 2012. However, there is no similar problem with the computer system MacOS.      Figure | The affected system version can be traced back to iOS 6...

On the afternoon of the 22nd, local time, a "four-handed" Falcon 9 rocket was successfully launched, putting its own 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, and about 9 minutes after the rocket took off, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landed steadily at Offshore platform, successfully achieved recovery. So far, SpaceX has completed four Starlink satellite launch missions in the past four months, and the total number of officially operating satellites has reached 420. In addition to continuing to sit firmly on the throne of the company with the largest number of satellites in the world, Starlink's satellite network is gradually approaching the number that can be put into commercial operation. As Musk once said, Starlink needs at least 400 satellites to achieve the minimum range of satellite Internet coverage. When the number of satellites reaches about 800, the satellite network can only start to provide network coverage within a certain range. After the success...

As 5G gradually enters thousands of households and becomes a global standard technology, researchers must concentrate on the development of next-generation communication technology, the sixth generation communication technology 6G. According to historical experience, wireless communication technology is upgraded almost every ten years. So researchers believe that 6G technology will be available around 2030. Recently, the University of Oulu, Finland released the world's first 6G white paper "KEY DRIVERS AND RESEARCH CHALLENGES FOR 6G UBIQUITOUS WIRELESS INTELLIGENCE" (6G wireless intelligent ubiquitous key drivers and research challenges), comprehensive analysis of 6G drivers from seven aspects Factors, research needs, challenges and problems. The development of 5G technology meets the needs of consumers and industry for network speed and makes the Internet of Things (IoT) increasingly important. The success of 5G technology depends on new developments in many areas ...

Reuters reported that a startup in Colombia is experimenting with robots to deliver food. During the New Coronary Pneumonia, many people are forced to stay at home, this food delivery method is safer. The pilot for the delivery of robots was launched last week in Medellín, Colombia's second largest city. This boxy robot is driven by four wheels and its antenna is decorated with orange flags. They can transport up to 35 square centimeters (5 square inches) of goods and can also be used to deliver takeaway orders. The robot will complete the last mile of transportation and sterilize it before and after each use. These delivery robots are jointly operated by Rappi and KiwiBot in the United States. Matias Laks, Rappi ’s Colombia regional manager, said in a statement: “We believe that by working with technology, we will be able to continue to achieve our goals and make people ’s lives safer in the current situation.” It said that Rappi has completed nearly 120 deliveries per day thr...

A Swiss research team announced on the 21st that they have developed a biosensor capable of sensitively and reliably detecting new coronavirus in the air, which can not only be used as an alternative method for clinical diagnosis of new coronavirus infection but can also be used to monitor the flow of people in train stations and hospitals in real-time. Whether there is new coronavirus in the air of dense places. The Swiss Federal Institute of Materials Science and Technology issued a communiqué on the 21st that the new biosensor was developed in cooperation with the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the University Hospital of Zurich. The "island" gold nanostructure, the researchers "grafted" the artificially synthesized DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) receptor that matches the RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequence of the new coronavirus onto the above-mentioned gold nanostructure so that it can recognize the new coronavirus. According to reports, this new s...

With the help of Samsung's ISOCELL HM1 / ​​HMX sensor, some mobile phones have already been equipped with a 108-megapixel camera, which brings new possibilities for taking pictures/photography. Earlier news said that Samsung is developing a 150MP Nonacell image sensor, but Samsung LSI Executive Vice President Yongin Park introduced in the latest article published on the official website that they are preparing to develop 600 million pixels (600MP) sensor products, directly breaking the human eye limit (about 500 million Pixels) ! Similar to the current nine-in-one technology of the 108-megapixel sensor, at the scale of 600 million pixels, Samsung must also use multi-pixel synthesis technology to simulate the outsole and improve the quality of the film. In addition, in the article, Yongin Park also mentioned Samsung LSI's sensors that can capture light waves outside the human eye (450nm to 750nm), such as ultraviolet sensors can be used to detect skin cancer, and infrared s...

In the fight against the new coronavirus, maintaining social distance is a very effective measure to slow the spread of the disease. Although millions of people are staying at home honestly to help reduce transmission, many employees in the manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries still have to work every day to ensure that basic living needs are met. To help ensure that these people maintain social distance in the workplace, Wu Enda ’s team at Landing AI has just released an artificial intelligence social distance detection tool that can detect whether people are keeping a safe distance by analyzing real-time video streams from cameras. What can this tool achieve? For example, in a factory that produces protective equipment, technicians can integrate this software into their security camera system and monitor the working environment with simple calibration steps.  The detector can highlight people in red below the minimum acceptable distance and draw a line between the...