Category Archives: Technology

10Jun/23

Digital Apprenticeships Launch to Bridge U.K. Tech Skills Gap

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edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU), today announced an initiative with EdAid, the U.K.-based educational organization recently-appointed as a Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, and Northwest Education and Training LTD (NWEAT), EdAid’s newly-acquired apprenticeship training provider, to offer digital apprenticeships in high-demand tech fields. The program, which draws from the Department of Education’s (DfE) apprenticeship levy, combines NWEAT’s training expertise with edX’s online learning platform to help adults across the U.K. gain the skills and experience needed to pursue a career in tech. Continue reading

10Jun/23

Astronauts launch Earth Movie Theater with special tribute to Bach

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The Association of Space Explorers (ASE) and TERC join forces today with Bachfest to release an extraordinary Earth movie titled “Earth Chaconne.” The movie is available free on EarthMovieTheater.org – the premier showcase of stunning Earth movies by astronauts, along with wonderful music by world-class musicians. Each movie is custom-built as a work of art – Earth visuals plus music. The site is operated by ASE and TERC as a public service for education and public engagement. Continue reading

10Jun/23

Are AI-Generated Images Biased?

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David Ngure  Cybersecurity Researcher
Updated on 16th March 2023 – Artificial intelligence image generators use machine learning and mathematical algorithms to create images from a description written in natural language. With OpenAI making DALL-E available to the public, and Microsoft adding AI-image generators to products like Bing and Microsoft Edge, the technology is becoming more accessible to the general public.

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08Jun/23

Prince Harry is an advocate for security and privacy

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June 8, 2023 /Technology/ — Prince Harry may be out of touch with the average person’s experience, but he is not wrong to be concerned about privacy. AI is becoming increasingly powerful, and it is possible that it could be used to invade people’s privacy in ways that we cannot even imagine.

Here are some ways that we can secure privacy with AI: Continue reading →

07Jun/23

Spatial computing is the current phrase du jour, but what does developing web experiences for this environment look like?

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June 7, 2023 /Technology/ — Spatial computing is a rapidly evolving field that is still in its early stages. As a result, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question of what developing web experiences for this environment looks like. However, there are some general principles that can be applied.

One of the key principles of spatial computing is that it is all about immersion. Users should feel like they are actually inside the experience, rather than simply looking at it from the outside. This can be achieved through a variety of techniques, such as using 3D models, spatial audio, and haptic feedback. Continue reading →

07Jun/23

ChatGPT and Generative AI Are Not Synonymous, Understand the Difference

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June 7, 2023 /Technology/ — ChatGPT is a specific type of generative AI, but not all generative AI is ChatGPT. Generative AI is a broad term that refers to any type of AI that can create new content, such as text, images, or music. ChatGPT is a specific type of generative AI that is designed to generate text that is similar to human-written text.

ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) that was created by OpenAI. LLMs are trained on massive datasets of text and code. This training allows them to learn the patterns of human language and to generate text that is similar to human-written text. ChatGPT is particularly good at generating creative text formats, like poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc. Continue reading →

07Jun/23

What is Chain-of-Thought Prompting?

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June 7, 2023 /Technology/ — Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is a method for improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) on reasoning tasks. CoT prompts encourage LLMs to explain their reasoning process by providing them with a few examples of how to do so.

CoT prompting was first introduced in the paper “Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models” by Wei et al. (2022). In this paper, the authors showed that CoT prompting can significantly improve the performance of LLMs on a range of reasoning tasks, including arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning. Continue reading →

07Jun/23

Apple Vision Pro headset: what does it do and will it deliver?

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Panagiotis Ritsos, Bangor University and Peter Butcher, Bangor University

Apple recently unveiled its Vision Pro headset at the Worldwide Developers Conference in California. With it, Apple is venturing into a market of head-mounted devices (HMDs) – which are usually just displays, but in this case is more of a complete computer attached to your head – as well as the worlds of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR).

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07Jun/23

How secure are ring doorbells?

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June 7, 2023 /Technology/ — Ring devices have several cybersecurity vulnerabilities, such as a lack of encryption and absence of extra security protocols. Cybercriminals can use those issues to hack a Ring doorbell or camera. In fact, there were dozens of incidents when someone gained unauthorized access to Ring gadgets. Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included project found that Ring doorbells have a number of privacy and security concerns, including: Continue reading →