Boosting particle accelerator efficiency with AI, machine learning and automation

Boosting particle accelerator efficiency with AI, machine learning and automation

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), one of the many accelerators in CERN’s complex that will benefit from the EPA project. Credit: CERN As particle accelerator technology moves into the high-luminosity era, the need for extreme precision and unprecedented collision energy keeps growing. Given also the Laboratory’s desire to reduce energy consumption and costs, the design … Read more

Asian chip-related stocks rally on renewed AI optimism

Asian chip-related stocks rally on renewed AI optimism

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during an event in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday, June 2, 2024.  Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asian chipmaking heavyweights extended Wall Street’s rally as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made bullish comments about the AI darling’s outlook. The founder of the artificial intelligence … Read more

Smartphone-based microscope rapidly reconstructs 3D holograms

Smartphone-based microscope rapidly reconstructs 3D holograms

The new inexpensive smartphone-based digital holographic microscope provides a portable way to perform 3D measurements. Credit: Yuki Nagahama, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Researchers have developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement capabilities to a broader range of … Read more

Dutch neobank Bunq on hiring spree, with focus on digital nomads

Dutch neobank Bunq on hiring spree, with focus on digital nomads

Dutch digital bank Bunq is plotting re-entry into the U.K. to tap into a “large and underserved” market of some 2.8 million British “digital nomads.” Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Dutch challenger bank Bunq told CNBC that it plans to grow its global headcount by 70% this year to over … Read more

Key insights into high-quality oil production

Key insights into high-quality oil production

Model of MYC2 in the modulation of fatty acid and flavonoid biosynthesis under MeJA treatment. In the early stage of olive fruit development, accumulation of MeJA could decrease the expression of MYC2, which could repress fatty acid biosynthesis by downregulating the expression of BCCP2 though binding to the G-box within the promoter. Conversely, MYC2 was … Read more

Inside Media: Nine in turmoil as CEO Mike Sneesby leaves company after Paris Olympics scandal

Inside Media: Nine in turmoil as CEO Mike Sneesby leaves company after Paris Olympics scandal

Welcome back to INSIDE MEDIA where we bring you the scoop on media news, with plenty of views, every Monday and Thursday. NINE CEO STEPS DOWN Some big news over at Nine with CEO Mike Sneesby announcing he will step down within weeks. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Rumours had been … Read more

Decoding Independent Senator Fatima Payman’s ‘skibidi’ speech amid social media ban debate

Decoding Independent Senator Fatima Payman’s ‘skibidi’ speech amid social media ban debate

Chat, is this real? Independent Senator Fatima Payman has called the Albanese government “capaholics” in a speech using modern internet slang commonly used by Gen Z. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Senator addresses the ‘sigmas of Australia’ in bizarre speech. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Addressing “the sigmas of Australia”, the 29-year-old … Read more

The size of the potential dating pool makes all the difference

The size of the potential dating pool makes all the difference

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Online dating sites have become one of the more popular means for people to meet each other and explore the potential for a romantic relationship. But did you know that it’s the size of the online dating pool that could make or break your own quest for love? A new study … Read more

NASA finds summer 2024 hottest to date

NASA finds summer 2024 hottest to date

This bar graph shows GISTEMP summer global temperature anomalies for 2023 (shown in yellow) and 2024 (shown in red). June through August is considered meteorological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The white lines indicate the range of estimated temperatures. The warmer-than-usual summers continue a long-term trend of warming, driven primarily by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. … Read more

China tech companies AI models vs OpenAI, Google, Meta

China tech companies AI models vs OpenAI, Google, Meta

China is looking to challenge the U.S. in artificial intelligence. China’s tech giants have launched their own AI models.  Niphon | Istock | Getty Images Global attention around generative artificial intelligence has been focused on big U.S. companies like OpenAI, Alphabet‘s Google and Meta. But some of China’s giants, from Alibaba to Tencent, have launched … Read more