We’re on the brink of our first deep dive into climate tech at TC Sessions: Climate & The Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 Global Finals on June 14 in Berkeley, California. Join some of the leading scientists, founders, VCs, developers and other visionary climate innovators as we explore the new wave of climate tech and its role in turning back the rising tide of our existential climate crisis. Don’t miss out: Buy your pass today and save — prices go up at the door. As you peruse the agenda and plan your schedule, keep this in mind: You’ll find some of the most insightful and downright interesting programming happening in the roundtable discussions. And that, given the heavy-hitters in our speaker lineup (ahem, Bill Gates), is saying something. The roundtables are smaller,… Source link

Bon appétit. Here is a truth that you literally cannot run away from: plastic is, simply, everywhere. From toothbrushes to disposable coffee lids, plastic has made its way into every part of our lives. It’s incredibly useful because it’s durable; however, the flip side is that it’s also really hard to get rid of, which is why it’ll continue to be a part of our lives for hundreds of years to come. That’s because the chemical bonds in plastic materials are unfamiliar to bacteria in nature, which means there are no naturally occurring organisms capable of breaking them down effectively or at all. Thankfully, scientists are working on that, and a novel synthetic enzyme developed with artificial intelligence may break down waste plastics in hours rather than the centuries it would take to… Source link

To the average person, it must seem as if the field of artificial intelligence is making immense progress. According to the press releases, and some of the more gushing media accounts, OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 can seemingly create spectacular images from any text; another OpenAI system called GPT-3 can talk about just about anything; and a system called Gato that was released in May by DeepMind, a division of Alphabet, seemingly worked well on every task the company could throw at it. One of DeepMind’s high-level executives even went so far as to brag that in the quest for artificial general intelligence (AGI), AI that has the flexibility and resourcefulness of human intelligence, “The Game is Over!” And Elon Musk said recently that he would be surprised if we didn’t have… Source link

To the average person, it must seem as if the field of artificial intelligence is making immense progress. According to the press releases, and some of the more gushing media accounts, OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 can seemingly create spectacular images from any text; another OpenAI system called GPT-3 can talk about just about anything; and a system called Gato that was released in May by DeepMind, a division of Alphabet, seemingly worked well on every task the company could throw at it. One of DeepMind’s high-level executives even went so far as to brag that in the quest for artificial general intelligence (AGI), AI that has the flexibility and resourcefulness of human intelligence, “The Game is Over!” And Elon Musk said recently that he would be surprised if we didn’t have… Source link

The weekly Exotic item merchant, Xur, hangs out in random locations around the world of Destiny. In Destiny 2, he can appear all over the map, as well as inside the Tower. This week, you can find Xur on Nessus, hanging out on the big Tree in the Watcher’s Grave. Image: Bungie via Polygon Xur’s inventory this week consists of the following: Coldheart, Arc trace rifle: 29 Legendary Shards Oathkeeper, Hunter gauntlets: 23 Legendary Shards Ashen Wake, Titan gauntlets: 23 Legendary Shards Astrocyte Verse, Warlock helmet: 23 Legendary Shards Exotic Engram: 97 Legendary Shards (you can now purchase a second with an Exotic Cipher) Exotic Cipher quest: free As of Season of the Risen and The Witch Queen, Xur sells a random roll of both Hawkmoon and Dead Man’s Tale each… Source link

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A team of researchers in Europe have successfully created a two-state system using time crystals. The correct response to reading that is: eureka! We would have also accepted “wow,” “OMG,” and “hooray,” given the potential implications of this incredible breakthrough. Up front: Time crystals are a recently discovered phase of matter. In their ground state, they oscillate between different configurations without losing or using energy. Greetings humanoids Subscribe now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories (Read more about how time crystals work here: Google’s ‘time crystals’ could be the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetimes) A team of physicists led by Lancaster University’s Samuli Autti managed to couple two time… Source link

Have you ever noticed how much Michelangelo’s David looks like ancient Greek and Roman statues? Have you ever wondered why that is? Perhaps you thought it was because of normal things like “people are sometimes inspired by the past” or “the fact that ancient statues looked nothing like we imagine,” but no! The truth, if you believe a Russian mathematician named Anatoly Fomenko, is much darker. You see, the truth, Fomenko says, is that the ancient world never really happened. “What??” we hear you cry – or possibly, if you’re one of our regular readers, “oh right, another one of those phantom time conspiracies.” But Fomenko’s proposed timeline of the world is… possibly even weirder than… Source link

An Internet of Things (IoT) botnet dubbed “EnemyBot” is expanding its front lines to target security vulnerabilities in enterprise services — potentially leading to it being a much more virulent threat than it has been, researchers say. EnemyBot, which is controlled by a threat actor known as Keksec, is a Linux botnet that emerged on the malware scene in late March. It shares source code with two other well-known botnets, Gafgyt (aka Bashlite) and the mighty Mirai, according to a prior analysis from Fortinet. Like those threats, EnemyBot is used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Other aspects of the code include smaller elements from Qbot and other malware, and some custom development. While it began life focusing on adding IoT devices and routers to its… Source link

Cybersecurity researchers have released new warnings about the EnemyBot malware, which reportedly borrows code from botnets such as Mirai, Qbot, and Zbot. The rapidly evolving tool functions as IoT malware and targets content management systems (CMS) web servers and Android devices. Security researchers believe that the bot might be the work of a threat actor group known as Keksec. AT&T Alien Labs released a post regarding the bot, stating that is has targeted popular services such as VMware Workspace, Adobe ColdFusion, WordPress, PHP Scriptcase, and more. AT&T stated that the Keksec group distributes the malware by specifically targeting IoT devices and Linux machines. The EnemyBot is not the only botnet in Keksec’s arsenal, as the group dates back to 2016 and has deployed many… Source link