Shelly Fan

1 week ago | singularityhub.com | Shelly Fan

Our eyes take in the dazzling greens of dense forests, blues of alpine lakes, and reds and purples of sunset. Yet there’s an entire world hidden from sight. Our eyes only perceive a narrow sliver of the spectrum—wavelengths between 400 and 700 nanometers make up what we call “visible” light. Infrared light, just beyond the 700-nanometer mark, is invisible to us. Over half of the spectrum is mysterious to people, wrote Tian Xue and team at the University of Science and Technology in China.

1 week ago | singularityhub.com | Shelly Fan

We have a data storage problem. This year, the world’s storage needs will reach 175 zettabytes—the equivalent of over a trillion 4K movies. While hardware advances like solid-state drives are more efficient alternatives, traditional hard drives are struggling to keep up. An alternative approach could tap into biology. Scientists have long sought to use DNA as a storage medium that, once encoded, would be both relatively easy to maintain and environmentally sustainable.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Shelly Fan

NowNvidia launches AI-first DGX Personal Computing SystemsNvidia announced that Taiwan’s leading system manufacturers are set to build Nvidia DGX Spark and DGX Station systems. Growing partnerships with Acer, Gigabyte and MSI will extend the availability of DGX Spark and DGX Station personal AI supercomputers — empowering a global ecosystem of developers, …3 hours agoFour free Coursera courses to jump-start your AI journeySee what all the AI fuss is about without spending a dime.

2 weeks ago | singularityhub.com | Shelly Fan

We all live by unspoken societal rules. Greeting your barista with a “good morning,” saying “thank you” after good service, or expressing affection with a hug is normal and expected. Social conventions are instilled in us from an early age, but they can massively differ between cultures—Westerners prefer handshakes to bowing and forks and knives to chopsticks.

2 weeks ago | singularityhub.com | Shelly Fan

Our bodies are constantly breaking down. Over time, their built-in repair mechanisms also fail. Knee cartilage grinds away. Hip joints no longer support weight. Treatments for breast cancer and other health issues require removal by surgery. Because the body can’t regenerate those tissues, reconstruction using biomaterials is often the only way. Traditionally, this kind of restoration involves one-size-fits-all breast implants or hip joints.