Machine learning to predict the performance of organic solar cells
Imagine looking for the optimal configuration to build an organic solar cell made from different polymers. How would you start? Does the active layer need to be very thick, or very thin? Does it need a large or a small amount of each polymer?
What You Need For Your Quantum Computing Pilots In 2021
Quantum computing (QC) proof of concept (POC) projects abound in 2021 with commercialization already happening in pilots and building to broader adoption before 2025. This is in sharp contrast to 2015 where the forecasts were 20 years out or more to have practical applications in use and providing real benefits beyond digital computing.
Amazon’s Unique Approach To AutoML Makes AI Accessible To Enterprises
AutoML is a technique where customers bring their data and walk away with a model without worrying about the complex workflow involved in training machine learning models. It dramatically simplifies the approach of data preparation, feature engineering, model selection, and hyperparameter tuning based on proven algorithms.
The 5 Hottest Technologies In Banking For 2021
In the movie All The President’s Men, Woodward and Bernstein meet their informant in a parking garage who tells them: “Follow the money.”
If you want to know which technologies are hot in banking, you should do the same. The truly “hot” technologies in banking are the ones that financial institutions invest in—not necessarily the ones the pundits talk about.
Carbon fiber optimized for wind turbine blades could bring cost, performance benefits
A new carbon fiber material could bring cost and performance benefits to the wind industry if developed commercially, according to a study led by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.
How To Prioritize Features That Get Customers To Buy: Understanding What Influences Willingness To Pay
In the battle to win customer’s hearts and minds, marketers develop a go-to-market strategy based on the five P’s of marketing; product strategy, price strategy, promotion, placement, and packaging (some will use similar variations, but the concept holds).
Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2021
Thanks to the tumultuous events of the past year, in 2021 IT professionals will face challenges in the workplace they’ve never seen before. There was no roadmap for taking much of the American workforce remote overnight, and none exists for a large-scale, staggered return to the hybrid environment of in-person and remote work that most organizations expect to make work in the months to come.
10 of the most promising Malta-based startups to watch in 2021
If you’re starting up in Malta, your entrepreneur stresses and strains can easily be balanced with a dip in the Mediterranean Sea, and a trip to one of the island’s stunning coasts or ports. Not so bad, on any accounts.
6 warning signs that your startup might fail soon
Startups fail for many reasons, such as having a non-commited team of founders, or poor market demand. The question is, would you be able to recognize the signs that your startup is on rocks, before it’s too late?
Big Tech’s De-Platforming Binge Highlights The Need For Web 3.0
Following the U.S. Capitol riot last week, the Big Tech leaders simultaneously de-platformed President Trump. Twitter followed suit by suspending 70,000 accounts associated with the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory group. Parler, the social media platform billing itself as a “free-speech paradise” was the next target as Apple and Google banned the mobile app from their app stores and Amazon Web Services stopped hosting Parler’s website.
Bolstering Risk And Cybersecurity Strategy Safeguards The Remote Workforce
When Covid-19 prompted lockdowns around the world last year, most businesses made the impromptu decision to safeguard employees and allow them to work from home (WFH). Most companies acted efficiently in making this abrupt transition to a new remote working model led by WFH.
Cybersecurity: Same Threats, New Challenges
For business leaders, 2020 was many things. A test. A catalyst. An opportunity.
For chief information security officers (CISOs), it was all of these things at once—with the security of the business hanging in the balance. This was especially true when it came to the rapid shift to remote work.
How to keep drones flying when a motor fails
As anxious passengers are often reassured, commercial aircrafts can easily continue to fly even if one of the engines stops working. But for drones with four propellers—also known as quadcopters—the failure of one motor is a bigger problem. With only three rotors working, the drone loses stability and inevitably crashes unless an emergency control strategy sets in.
Fish-inspired robots coordinate movements without any outside control
Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviors that help them find food, migrate and evade predators. No one fish or team of fish coordinates these movements nor do fish communicate with each other about what to do next. Rather, these collective behaviors emerge from so-called implicit coordination—individual fish making decisions based on what they see their neighbors doing.
Diffractive networks improve optical image classification accuracy
Recently, there has been a reemergence of interest in optical computing platforms for artificial intelligence-related applications. Optics is ideally suited for realizing neural network models because of the high speed, large bandwidth and high interconnectivity of optical information processing.