This tiny AI-powered robot is learning to explore the ocean on its own

This tiny AI-powered robot is learning to explore the ocean on its own

Post Views: 347 “We’re imagining an approach for global ocean exploration where you take swarms of smaller robots of various types and populate the ocean with them for tracking, for climate change, for understanding the physics of the ocean,” says John O. Dabiri, a professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineering at the California Institute of…

How banks are using technology to fight climate change

How banks are using technology to fight climate change

Post Views: 337 The financial sector is powerful—top banks are worth hundreds of billions of dollars alone— servicing everyday people in need of bank accounts and large companies as well. But the financial sector was built to build profits even if that means getting involved in risky investments like fossil fuel projects. But to mitigate…

What to know about the latest cybersecurity bug in log4j

What to know about the latest cybersecurity bug in log4j

Post Views: 260 “We have added this vulnerability to our catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, which compels federal civilian agencies — and signals to non-federal partners — to urgently patch or remediate this vulnerability,” CISA director Jen Easterly wrote in the statement. The bug pertains to something called log4j, and one way that software engineers…

This camera is as small as a grain of sand—but it still takes great pictures

This camera is as small as a grain of sand—but it still takes great pictures

Post Views: 265 Designed by a team of researchers from Princeton University and the University of Washington, the new system is detailed in a paper published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications. It replaces the complex and bulky compound lens found in most cameras. With a metasurface that’s just 0.5mm wide, the camera…