Leonard Kleinrock poses beside the first Interface Message Processor (IMP) in the lab where the first internet message was sent, at the University of California Los Angeles On October 29, 1969, professor Leonard Kleinrock and a team at the University of California at Los Angeles got a computer to “talk” to a machine in what… read more »
Vidhya Ramalingam, co-founder of start-up Moonshot CVE (Countering Violent Extremism), previously worked as a researcher into extremism Vidhya Ramalingam believes it’s always possible to change, even for people deeply involved in the murky online world of jihadist and far-right extremism. Her company Moonshot CVE has the ambitious aim of trying to get anyone tempted by… read more »
Social networks such as Facebook are seeking efficient automatic translation for all of the world’s languages and artificial intelligence may hold the answer Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers. Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and… read more »
Google Stadia is a game streaming platform with a launch date in November. So it’s only human that Google is talking about how special Stadia is for gaming as the countdown begins. What about Stadia and negative latency? Now, that sounded special. More responsive than your PC? Shane McGlaun in HotHardware and other tech watchers… read more »
Workers walk the picket line outside General Motors Orion Assembly on October 11 in Orion Township, Michigan Betty Johnson, who has worked on General Motors assembly lines in Michigan and Tennessee for more than 34 years, said she knew a strike by the United Auto Workers would mean personal sacrifice. Nearly 50,000 GM hourly employees… read more »
Messaging app Telegram has 300 million monthly users worldwide and raised more than $1.7 billion in funds in the US and overseas through a cryptocurrency issue US securities regulators won an emergency court order Friday to block the messaging application Telegram Group from raising funds by selling unregistered cryptocurrency to investors. The US Securities and… read more »
Ann-Perry Witmer meets with village elders in Adu Achi, Nigeria. Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois Humanitarian engineering projects often focus on bringing western technologies to non-industrialized societies. But environmental and cultural factors in these locations may be very different from conditions in the West, and the projects may not meet client needs if… read more »
Facebook has lost several powerful financial partners which have dropped out of the alliance on the Libra digital currency planned by the huge social network Facebook’s digital currency alliance lost more companies on Friday amid heavy criticism from regulators around the world on the planned Libra global cryptocurrency. Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard, online… read more »
Dennis Muilenburg will remain chief executive of Boeing and a director, but will no longer be chairman of the board Boeing unveiled a shift to its leadership structure on Friday as it manages the 737 MAX crisis, announcing that Dennis Muilenburg will remain chief executive but step down as chairman. The company said splitting the… read more »
Zewei Miao in front of a mountain of sugarcane bagasse in Brazil. Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois Research on energy production from biomass usually focuses on the amount of energy generated. But it is also important to consider how much energy goes into the process, a component that is often neglected, says Tony… read more »