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The 50 Greatest Robots in Pop Culture History 25-1
WEBJan 23, 2015 · 20. T-1000. As seen in: Terminator 2: Judgment Day Among the wide variety of robots, cyborgs and machines that appear on this list, the T-1000 remains a true original. So perfectly formed was ...
Which coding languages are used by the world’s top companies?
WEBSep 3, 2020 · Variations in the tools different companies adopt are mainly due to speed, reliability and scalability. Amazon, for example, draws mostly on Java, Javascript, C++, Ruby and Swift, according to ...
Interview with Scorpion: Walter O’Brien goes to Hollywood
WEBSep 3, 2015 · by John Kennedy. As a 13-year-old in Kilkenny Walter O’Brien – aka Scorpion – received a visit from the NSA for hacking NASA. Today he is the inspiration behind a US TV show of the same name ...
Russia’s Yandex gives public access to GPT-like large language …
WEBJun 24, 2022 · Russian tech company Yandex said it has made a large language model trained on 100bn parameters available for free to the public, in order to boost the growth of this AI technology. Large language ...
Carbon dating accuracy called into question after major flaw …
WEBJun 6, 2018 · by Colm Gorey. Though one of the most essential tools for determining an ancient object’s age, carbon dating might not be as accurate as we once thought. When news is announced on the discovery ...
Ireland is a home for 24 of the world’s top biotech and pharma …
WEBMay 29, 2017 · Sanofi. Sanofi Waterford was born out of Sanofi-Aventis SA’s $20.1bn purchase of Genzyme back in 2011, creating a global pharma force. Employing around 600 people in Ireland, its products are ...
Popular pirate e-book site Z-Library gets taken down - Silicon …
WEBNov 7, 2022 · Z-Library, a popular repository for digital books, has been shut down. The ‘shadow library’ reportedly offered more than 10m e-books and 86m articles, including academic texts and journal ...
Dublin company unveils ‘mechanical tree’ for capturing CO2
WEBApr 19, 2022 · Dublin-based company Carbon Collect has unveiled its first commercial-scale ‘mechanical tree’ designed to capture CO2 from the atmosphere. Carbon Collect said its MechanicalTree device is up ...
Explainer: What is an AI black box? - Silicon Republic
WEBMay 26, 2023 · AI black boxes refer to AI systems with internal workings that are invisible to the user. You can feed them input and get output, but you cannot examine the system’s code or the logic that ...