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Some observers on social media quickly dismissed it as an «AI-generated fake» — created using artificial intelligence tools that can produce photorealistic images with a few clicks.

By David Shepardson and Joseph White

European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have made a groundbreaking discovery. They have observed a sizable dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, accompanied by an unexpected smaller bright spot nearby.

Brain activity of people listening to Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall' was used to reconstruct the classic rock number, scientists report in a new study. The reconstruction reveals that brain waves can be recorded and processed to bring out musical elements of the speech heard, such as rhythm, stress, accent and intonation, along with the syllables, the study from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, US, said. These musical elements are known to convey meaning in ways that spoken words alone do not. The phrase «All in all it was just a brick in the wall» could be recognised in the reproduced song, with its rhythms intact and the words muddy yet decipherable, the researchers report in the study published in the journal PLoS Biology. The listeners were 29 patients undergoing epilepsy surgery at Albany Medical Center, New York, US, over a decade ago. Neuroscientists at the centre recorded electrical activity through electrodes placed on the patients' brains as they heard an approximately 3-minute segment of the classic Pink Floyd song from the 1979 album The Wall. «As this whole field of brain machine interfaces progresses, this gives you a way to add musicality to future brain implants for people who need it, someone who's got some disabling neurological or developmental disorder compromising speech output.

Jeff Rosenberger is about as close to a “lifer” as one can get in the relatively new financial technology industry.

Nearly two dozen researchers from Tsinghua University, Ohio State University and the University of California at Berkeley collaborated to create a method for measuring the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) as real-world agents.

Since becoming widely available to the public last year, artificial-intelligence chatbots have dazzled people who experimented with them, kicked off a global development race and even contributed to the strike in Hollywood over their impact on writers and actors. AI tools have also generated fear that they will inexorably improve and threaten humanity. OpenAI’s ChatGPT debuted to the public in November, sparking the current frenzy, followed by Chat GPT-4 in March, meant to be more powerful than its predecessor.

J Robert Oppenheimer’s life story is one for the movies. Oppenheimer was a brilliant, ambitious, driven, exacting, anxious and guilt-ridden chemist turned theoretical physicist. Dissatisfied with laboratory work in chemistry at Harvard University, Oppenheimer received his PhD in theoretical physics at Germany’s University of Gottingen.

Oppenheimer is brought to life by Irish actor Cillian Murphy. The film, directed by Christopher Nolan, follows his signature style with impressive visuals, sound design, and an estimated production budget of $100 million, including «gold standard» IMAX filming. Oppenheimer is well-known as a top physicist and leader of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He is often called the «father» of the atomic bomb due to his significant role in its creation and deployment by the United States. Whether you decide to watch Nolan's latest film or not, let's take a look at the elusive subject it portrays: J. Robert Oppenheimer. Discover why he's important, often misunderstood, and why his story matters.

Oppenheimer," featuring Cillian Murphy as the renowned physicist who led the Manhattan Project, resulting in the creation of the world's first nuclear weapon. Universal Pictures describes «Oppenheimer» as an IMAX-shot epic thriller that immerses audiences in the intriguing paradox of the enigmatic man, who must take a risk to save the world, even if it means potentially destroying it. Curious about where Oppenheimer was filmed? Let's explore its main shooting locations and delve into the historical settings of the film.

Narendra Modi, India's Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu has met leaders from the area of critical and emerging technologies in Silicon Valley as part of iCET initiative. The Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies or iCET has emerged as a key pillar of the India-US relationship following the maiden state visit of Prime Minister Modi to the US from June 21 to 23. The initiative was launched early this year by the two national security advisors — Jake Sullivan from the US and Ajit Doval from India — but it has been propelled to a new height by Prime Minister Modi and President Joe Biden.

Boston University, and University of California, Berkeley, have claimed that humility goes a long way when it comes to physical and mental well-being. While the popular sentiment is that humble people have a good psychological adjustment, a section of people still believe that lack of this virtue doesn't make a difference.CRED founder Kunal Shah took to Twitter on Thursday to share his understanding of the quality, especially in successful people. In his post, the avid Twitter user said that Eastern cultures emphasise on the importance of humility in comparison to Western societies.

Indian Consulate in San Francisco, terming the violence a «criminal offense». A video by Khalistan supporters, dated July 2, 2023 posted on Twitter, showed the act of arson at the Indian Consulate in San Francisco. The video, with the words «violence begets violence» emblazoned over it, also showed news articles related to the death of Canada-based Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Academic institutions house some of the world’s most important data generated from years of research. Yet centralized data storage models are becoming a concern for many universities looking to keep critical information safe and accessible. 

Dozens of artificial intelligence (AI) experts, including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic, recently signed an open statement published by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS). 

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has piqued the interest of the crypto community with a recent publication in its Policy Hub series on the implications of Web3 for financial services. The 17-page paper by Christine Parlour, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business, is intended as a basic text, and is noteworthy for its completeness.

Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering for collapsed crypto exchange FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried's right-hand man, is preparing to reach a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors

Miami-Dade County will soon start to remove FTX's advertising brand from the NBA’s Miami Heat arena, after granting the right from a United States bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Jan. 11, the Associated Press reports.  

Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of many books, including In Defense of Public Debt

The effects of crypto exchange FTX's meltdown are being felt across the digital currency industry, and have extended to the world of sports too.

Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of many books, including In Defence of Public Debt