Technology

We have all seen living standards and life expectancy rise steadily over the last century. And for those of us lucky enough to have lived in the Western world, we have enjoyed peace and security for as long as most of us can remember. But if the current pandemic has …

COVID-19 waits for no one, and the speed of its spread has forced the world to act quickly.  From world governments to individual households, all of sudden everyone has had to scrap plans, make new ones, and try to hang on to some kind of new normal as the pandemic …

Last week, I ended The RetroBeat by saying that I wasn’t sure the Final Fantasy VII Remake could have the same impact as the original. Now that I’ve spent a good amount of time with this inventive reimagining of the classic, I’m beginning to doubt myself. Final Fantasy VII Remake, …

With billions of people around the world forced into lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis, cities have virtually ground to a halt. Demand for public transport has plummeted, leading transit agencies and operators to reduce their services and put the majority of their fleets out of commission. However, many essential workers …

On Monday the EU data protection watchdog called for the development of a single COVID-19 contact-tracing app that would be coordinated at European level. As it stands the spread of coronavirus over the past weeks has seen governments forced to develop and roll-out new technologies at a speed that previously …

CD Projekt Red is pushing ahead with its launch plans for Cyberpunk 2077. The open-world sci-fi role-playing adventure is due out September 17, and the studio expects to stick to that date. During a conference call today with financial analysts, the company revealed it has plans in place to deal …

A team of Google researchers recently detailed a framework called SimCLR, which improves previous approaches to self-supervised learning, a family of techniques for converting an unsupervised learning problem (i.e., a problem in which AI models train on unlabeled data) into a supervised one by creating labels from unlabeled data sets. …

MIT and makers of the app Private Kit: Safe Paths say they’ve overcome an iOS and Android interoperability issue that will make the coronavirus contact tracking app able to track close proximity with other people using Bluetooth. MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory accomplished the feat last week. Currently, Private Kit logs location …

When we came out of the financial crisis of 2008, cloud computing kicked into high gear and started to become a pervasive, transformational technology. The current COVID-19 crisis could provide a similar inflection point for AI applications. While the implications of AI continue to be debated on the world stage, …