DeepMind proposes new benchmark to improve robots’ object-stacking abilities

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Stacking an object on top of another object is a straightforward task for most people. But even the most complex robots struggle to handle more than one such task at a time. That’s because stacking requires a range of different […]

AI Weekly: NIST proposes ways to identify and address AI bias

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IBM proposes AI chip with benchmark-beating power efficiency

IBM claims to have developed one of the world’s first energy-efficient chips for AI inferencing and training built with 7-nanometer technology. In a paper presented at the 2021 International Solid-State Circuits Virtual Conference in early February, a team of researchers at the company detailed a hardware accelerator that supports a range of model types while […]

Radiall proposes ‘massive modular’ 6G mesh networks with tiny antennas

Though the earliest 5G devices aren’t yet two years old, researchers started laying the groundwork for the next generation of cellular technology — 6G — well before 5G networks launched across the world. Nothing’s set in stone, but a team at telecom company Radiall is advocating a radical shift in the very concept of “cellular” […]

China proposes global data security standards

(Reuters) — China announced an initiative on Tuesday to establish global standards on data security, saying it wanted to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when “individual countries” were “bullying” others and “hunting” companies. The announcement, by State Councillor Wang Yi, comes a month after the United States said it was purging “untrusted” […]