23 Mar

ISRO Makes A Quantum Communication Breakthrough: India Joins An Elite List Of Nations

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On Monday, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it has successfully demonstrated free-space Quantum Communication over a distance of 300 m. According to ISRO, this is a major milestone for unconditionally secured satellite data communication using quantum technologies. With this breakthrough, India joins a handful of other nations such as the US, the UK,…

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23 Mar

Meet Locus Robotics, The Latest Unicorn In Robotics Sector

Wilmington-based Locus Robotics became a unicorn recently. The robotic startup raised $150 million in Series E funding led by Tiger Global and Bond. Locus Robotics is now worth $1 billion, a 177% jump over its $361 million-valuation last year.  Jay Simons, General Partner at Bond said: “The Locus operation unlocks substantial productivity gains, while significantly…

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23 Mar

Tredence Announces Employee Stock Buyback Worth $3.5 Million

Tredence Inc., an AI engineering and analytics services company, has announced its first employee stock buyback programme, at the back of a Series A funding of $30 million from Chicago Pacific Founders. Tredence offers to buy back employee stock worth $3.5 million.  This is a global programme, open to their 750 employees worldwide. Eligible employees…

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23 Mar

FDA Authorises First ML-Based COVID Screening Device

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorisation (EUA) for a Tiger Tech-released ML-based COVID-19 non-diagnostic screening device — COVID Plus Monitor. Termed to be first-of-its-kind, COVID Plus Monitor leverages machine learning that identifies certain biomarkers indicative of the virus that causes COVID-19. The Tiger Tech COVID Plus Monitor has…

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23 Mar

How Synthetic Data Levels The Playing Field

“Data is the new oil” is a maxim we have heard far too often. Data indeed has massive potential in the information economy and can bring tremendous value if made available in an accurate and timely manner. However, many barriers arise while using data for real-world applications: Sometimes, access is restricted; other times, there is…

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23 Mar

How Synthetic Data Levels The Playing Field

“Data is the new oil” is a maxim we have heard far too often. Data indeed has massive potential in the information economy and can bring tremendous value if made available in an accurate and timely manner. However, many barriers arise while using data for real-world applications: Sometimes, access is restricted; other times, there is…

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22 Mar

ImageNet gets a Privacy Overhaul, what about other datasets?

Last week, ImageNet, one of the world’s most influential AI datasets, decided to blur the faces of people in its database in an effort to increase user privacy. In another part of the world, researchers at the University Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany discovered that the X-ray datasets used by AI classification systems were not as anonymous…

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22 Mar

The Worth Of Prompts In Pre-trained Models

Recently, researchers from Hugging Face showed task-specific prompting provides several benefits while fine-tuning pre-trained language models. In a paper called “How Many Data Points is a Prompt Worth?”, researchers stated prompting impacts the pre-trained models’ efficiency and is often worth hundreds of data points on average across classification tasks. Fine-tuning via an explicit classifier head…

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