A new research paper published on Monday in Nature Communications has found that Google’s own computers can now “run” programs in a legal bioinstrument that the company itself had built.The study looked at Google’s software for managing information on databases, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) database, and…
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Which software packages are currently on sale in the US?
On November 1st, 2017, the U.S. government released its latest forecast for the number of computers and other devices the country will be able to buy by 2026.The numbers are already pretty alarming.According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the world’s largest research institute, in 2019, there will be only 7.2 billion computers in…
Scientists create the first synthetic neural network with 100 billion neurons
A team of researchers from the University of Alberta has created the first real-world artificial neural network that can process the world’s most complex data, and then learn how to translate that knowledge into new ways of doing things.The team, led by PhD student Dr. Michael Tkacik, has created a neural network based on a…