DSC-JGI— Weekly Digest #001

Sure, artificial intelligence can generate hilarious song titles and paint colors, but it’s also powering some of the most compelling new technology of our time. Machine learning and neural networks are playing larger roles in almost every device and system we use. And as the machines get smarter, will the robots one day take over the world as Elon Musk suggests?

To burst your bubble of curiosity, we have compiled a list of some of the latest trends in technologies over the past few days.

Placements and recruitments

Here’s a little something for you, we have assembled a lineup of some of the leading companies in the market with an ongoing hiring process for the freshers:

• Amazon hiring for Cloud Support Associate roles (Job) — Read More
• UnitedHealth Group hiring freshers as Associate Software Engineer Profile in Hyderabad (Job). — Read More
• IBM hiring interns for the Chief Information Officer (Internship). — Read More
• Amazon recruiting interns for Software Engineering Roles (Internship). — Read More

Technical

The world as we know it is changing at a rapid pace. Here are some of the trending topics on emerging technologies from the last week:

• Microsoft explores realistic VR haptics with a wrist-mounted gadget

Virtual Reality (VR) headsets like Oculus Quest 2 and Valve Index are on top of their game, but the touch controllers that come with those devices still feel a little disconnected. A new design from Microsoft’s research division could make the haptics of VR just as realistic as its visuals with a design that puts a motorized handle on your wrist. — Read More

• Whatsapp Web Will Soon Support Voice and Video Calls

Whatsapp is preparing to add a couple of much-needed improvements to WhatsApp Web. With the recent version 2.2043.7 update, the company has started working on adding support for voice and video calls via the web version. — Read More

• Microsoft partners with SpaceX to connect Azure cloud to Musk’s Starlink satellite internet

Microsoft announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to connect its Azure cloud computing platform to Starlink’s satellite network, the purpose of which is to provide high-speed internet globally — Read More

• Netflix to test free weekend-long access in India

Netflix plans to give users in India access to its service at no charge for a weekend as part of a test to expand its reach in the country, a top company executive said Tuesday. — Read More

• Amazon Web Services, NITI Aayog launch Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Centre

The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) said they have established a Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help address societal challenges through digital innovation. — Read More

Computer Science

To help you stay updated with new developments in the field of computer science. Here are some of the popular headlines from the last week:

• Scientists develop ‘minibrain’ to help robots recognize pain and self-repair.

Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists have developed a way for robots to have artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize pain and to self-repair when damaged. — Read More

• AI detects hidden earthquakes

Tiny movements in Earth’s outermost layer may provide a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the physics and warning signs of big quakes. New algorithms that work a little like human vision are now detecting these long-hidden microquakes in the growing mountain of seismic data. — Read More

• Material found in house paint may spur the technology revolution

The development of a new method to make non-volatile computer memory may have unlocked a problem that has been holding back machine learning and has the potential to revolutionize technologies like voice recognition, image processing, and autonomous driving. — Read More

• MIT-led team to develop software to help forecast space storms

To advance our ability to forecast space weather as we do on weather Earth, Richard Linares, an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) at MIT, is leading a multidisciplinary team of researchers to develop software that can effectively address this challenge — Read More

• Researchers discover ‘spooky’ similarity in how brains and computers see

The Johns Hopkins researchers then identified nearly identical responses of artificial neurons, in an early stage (layer 3) of AlexNet, an advanced computer vision network. In both natural and artificial vision, early detection of 3-D shape presumably aids the interpretation of solid, 3D objects in the real world. — Read More

If you’re interested in the future of our society; how robots and how machines will greatly benefit civilization (or obliterate us) or how AR tablets will change education or how low-cost jet engines will reach space without burning fossil fuels, then this series of news digest by DSC — JGI is exactly what you need to look forward to.

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