Tech

To train machine learning models, tech companies are hiring a Germany-based service provider to buy selfies and pictures of ID cards from underpaid gig workers, whose rights are often disregarded. Author: Josephine Lulamae M. was looking for a side hustle to support her family, when she found Clickworker. She was offered a task of sending … Read more

Summary Never-Before-Seen Spacecraft Collision Yields Unexpected Surprises In 2022 NASA embarked on a bold experiment to see if they could change an asteroid’s velocity by smacking it with a ballistic probe – kind of like hitting it with a hammer. This experiment was to test a potential technique to someday deflect an asteroid on a … Read more

Summary Mysterious Features Were First Seen Decades Ago by Voyager Spacecraft Since their discovery by NASA’s Voyager mission in the 1980s, temporary “spoke” features across Saturn’s rings have fascinated scientists, yet eluded explanation. They have been observed in the years preceding and following the planet’s equinox, becoming more prominent as the date approaches. Saturn’s upcoming … Read more

Summary Astronomers Use a Trick of Nature to ‘Weigh’ a Dead Star A famous 1923 short poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” written by Robert Frost ends with: “So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” Though Frost was talking about a day on Earth, this also applies to the next 5 billion years, … Read more

Summary A Deep Gravitational Sinkhole Swallows Unlucky Bypassing Star Black holes have such a voracious gravitational pull that they even swallow light. This makes them hungry monsters lurking in the eternal darkness. There’s no escape if you happen to stumble across one in the inky blackness of space. That’s no worry for astronauts who have … Read more

Artificial Intelligence has been a discussion for a decade, and following the release of GPT-3, the spotlight of AI-generated content once again captures the media headlines. There is no doubt that as technology evolves, it has changed how we communicate, interact, and consume information. AI-generated content, be it articles, audio, or videos, is becoming increasingly … Read more

Summary Orphaned Stars Were Lost into Intergalactic Space Long Ago In the 1960s sci-fi television show “Lost in Space” a small family of would-be planetary colonists get off course and lost in our galaxy. But truth is stranger than fiction when it comes to Hubble Space Telescope discoveries. Thanks to Hubble, astronomers now know about … Read more

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace optical and mechanical components, researchers have designed a tiny spectrometer that breaks all current resolution records. We see light and colours around us every day. However, to analyse the information it carries, we must analyse light using spectrometers, in the lab. These devices detect sparkles and substances that our … Read more

Samsung Electronics has announced plans to launch some game-changing memory chips over the next two years.It’s going to start making fifth-generation 10-nanometer DRAM chips next year and then a ninth-generation Vertical NAND a year later. Samsung announced the news Wednesday at the Samsung Tech Day in Silicon Valley.Fifth-generation DRAM will be much thinner, meaning more … Read more