International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by the ICPC Foundation, held by the Angolan Collegiate Program Contest (AoCPC) last week at one of Angola's top institutes for superior education ISPTEC, from Thursday to Friday.The Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Championship (ACPC) serves as a qualifying round for the International...
$399.99 is an aggressive price for a promising Android handheld that has a 6.8-inch OLED screen with 144Hz refresh rate.Credit: RazerRazer has finally shown off the Edge, its portable Android gaming handheld. Looking much better since the last it was seen in December 2021. There's a load to talk about with this one. The Edge...
Utah Bionic Leg. Credit: University of UtahScientists from the University of Utah have created the most sophisticated AI-powered prosthetics "ever created," prompting Ottobock, the world's largest prosthetic manufacturer, to team up, launching the project internationally.https://twitter.com/UUtah/status/1578482268091211776?s=20&t=To8VYjrAITT-HDAaByZdxwThe university's Tommaso Lenzi, associate professor at the university's Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Bionic Engineering Lab,...
A few weeks back, while reading the news about SIGGRAPH, I saw NVIDIA teasing the launch of the Omniverse connector for Unity. Also, as a Unity creator, I found it intriguing. I asked for the chance to have more info about it, and I had the pleasure of having a talk with Dane Johnston,...
The main factor is how hardware chips are now set up. Based on the common Von Neumann architecture, the chip isolates memory storage from its central processors. Each computation is one nightmarish Monday morning commute, with the chip constantly shuttling information to and fro from each compartment, forming a notorious "memory wall."If you have...
A guest takes a selfie with her smartphone during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Madrid on April 8, 2021. Credit: Gabriel BOUYS / AFPThe smartphone SOS feature is among the most useful functionalities you need to use. That knows when you will require it?Based on its name, this emergency feature allows you to...
TikTok is revising the regulations for how we develop, share and find visual content. The TikTok algorism, specifically the "For You Page" (FYP) feed, has altered the game for social media networks propelling entertainment and discovery to the forefront.In this article, I am diving into the rise and fall of social media, what led...
Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: MetaMeta's new prototype chatbot (BlenderBot 3) has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg is exploiting users for money.Meta claims the chatbot makes use of artificial intelligence and can converse about "nearly any topic".While asking about the chatbot's thoughts on the firm's CEO and founder, it responded to the BBC reporter: "our...
Even though conventional processors have bested Google’s Sycamore chip, they won’t hold their lead for longSuperfast algorithm place crimp in 2019 claim that Google's machine had achieved "quantum supremacy."If the quantum computing era dawned three years earlier, its rising sun might have ducked behind a cloud. In 2019, Google scientists claimed they had passed...
The latest prototype of Mojo Vision's AR contact lens. Credit: Mojo VisionA human has recently worn an AR contact lens for the first time, which has a pixel thickness approximately 30 times greater than that of a smartphone.A group of people interacted with a combination of real and virtual items three decades ago, using...
