Author: Nigel Pereira

With a background in Linux system administration, Nigel Pereira began his career with Symantec Antivirus Tech Support. He has now been a technology journalist for over 6 years and his interests lie in Cloud Computing, DevOps, AI, and enterprise technologies.

Helping people overcome disabilities is probably one of the most noble causes you could use AI to tackle. In this post, we look at AI-powered glasses for the blind, as well as AI-powered gloves, and throat patches for the hearing and speech impaired. While the internet is flooded with stories about AI doing everything from writing code to making music, helping people overcome disabilities is probably one of the most noble causes you could use AI to tackle. Not every blind person has access to a seeing-eye dog, and a person who is deaf or hearing impaired doesn’t always have…

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While this could be either good or bad depending on which side of the fence you live on, it’s safe to say that most of us alive today will end up interacting with humanoid robots at some point during our lifetime. In a post that you may have missed last month, we covered Nvidia’s new L4 GPUs, a cost-effective solution for generative AI tasks and other entry-level AI operations. A lot has happened since then including Jensen Huang walking on stage at the GTC conference in California accompanied by two Disney humanoid robots. The robots nicknamed Green and Orange, mark…

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While there’s really nothing like the quantum world to make you feel unintelligent, it’s good to know that there are scientists around the world to whom this stuff makes sense. Quantum physics is hard to understand, harder to explain, and much easier to define as “just magic.” That being said, the world of quantum computers is on the brink of making a lot of that magic a reality, at room temperature. While binary bits are the base units of traditional computation and they can be 1s and 0s, qubits can be 1s, 0s, or a combination of both which opens…

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This new generation of AI assistants seems to be able to do everything except say “No,” a problem that we will cover soon in an upcoming post. Generative AI refers to AI applications that can generate original content like text, speech, images, audio, and video. An example is this AI camera that takes pictures without a lens which we covered in a previous post. Now while every enterprise seems to be integrating a ChatGPT-style AI assistant into their toolkit, Salesforce’s new conversational AI aims to improve customer relationships by integrating with your CRM and training itself on your company’s unique…

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Out of a total of 16.7 billion malicious requests that target APIs, roughly 30 percent target shadow APIs.. APIs are little bits of code that allow software programs to communicate with other programs, for more information on this you can check out our previous post titled A beginner’s guide to APIs. Shadow (or Rogue) APIs, on the other hand, are APIs that are running within organizations, but without the approval of the IT or security teams. While the intentions behind these APIs could well be harmless as they are often used for their testing abilities or even as a workaround,…

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Featuring a 120X boost in capability as opposed to CPUs for AI-powered video as well as a 99% boost in efficiency, this chip is a major game changer for AI applications. It was in 2012 that a team comprising researchers from Nvidia and Stanford figured out it takes just 12 GPUs to do the job of 2,000 CPUs for AI-related tasks like running LLMs or Deep Learning Algorithms. For more information on that particular story, you might want to read our post on how video games changed the way we process data and paved the way for the biggest AI…

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Remove the need for expensive solar panels and a long trip around a 100-acre farm swapping out batteries and you make this a lot more accessible. There are approximately 15.14 billion IoT devices in the world today, give or take a few billion. If you consider the fact that a decent amount of these are probably sensors running on batteries, that’s an ecological disaster in the making. With the amount of toxic substances that are going to leak out into the soil, the ocean, or the air when those batteries finally run out, we need to start looking at eco-friendly…

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Unlike previous mechanically driven displays, this one is precise enough to generate scrolling text and apparently versatile enough to hold and shake a chemistry beaker. Interactive shape displays are often referred to as 2.5D actuated shaped displays, mainly due to their ability to create tangible physical structures on a flat surface. These shape-changing interfaces make it possible to instantly create physical models that can be touched, felt, and interacted with, without the need for a 3D printer or long hours of designing, prototyping, and testing. MIT researchers develop InForm, a shape-shifting display surface. (Image Credit: Wired) As opposed to traditional…

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Quantum computers make random number generation a possibility and we’re talking about genuinely random numbers with no pattern whatsoever. While Quantum computing most definitely has a long list of priorities that are mostly “scientific,” and don’t involve any form of entertainment, the second question you usually ask a person when you see a computer is “Does it have any games?” That’s probably what IBM researcher James Wootton was thinking back in 2017 when he created the first quantum game called Cat-Box-Scissors. This is the first time a computer game was run on a quantum computer. I won! (Image Credit: Medium)…

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While Kubernetes is still the de-facto standard in container orchestration, a lot of people who work on it would agree that it is in fact quite hard and in need of a lot of polishing. Kubernetes is the best way to orchestrate containers, period. For a quick recap on containers and microservices, you might want to read our previous post on how most enterprise organizations are switching from monoliths to microservices, or this post on why containers are the best way to deploy software. Image Credit: Kubernetes According to the CNCF, Kubernetes has a massive 92% market share of container…

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