Researchers design a user-friendly interface that helps nonexperts make forecasts using data collected over time. Whether someone is trying to predict tomorrow’s weather, forecast future stock prices, identify missed opportunities for sales in retail, or estimate a patient’s risk of developing a disease, they will likely need to interpret time-series data,
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Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74. His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14. Wilhite, who lived in Milford, Ohio, won a Webby lifetime achievement award in 2013 for inventing the GIF, which
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IBM and Samsung have announced a new semiconductor design that focuses on efficiency and power while also meeting the global demand for new semiconductor technology. The new design utilises a new vertical transistor architecture that demonstrates a path to scaling beyond nanosheet and has the potential to reduce energy usage by
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US-based tech monolith Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, has announced its plans to invest $1-billion over 5 years to accelerate and support digital transformation across Africa through a series of new initiatives, from faster internet to backing startups. “We’ve made huge strides together over the past decade — but there’s
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After taking a drubbing last month, cryptocurrencies are enjoying a rebound in October — and dog-themed coins are in particular demand. Bitcoin on Wednesday surged more than 9 percent and topped $55,000 per coin briefly for the first time in nearly five months. The crypto was last seen exchanging hands at just below
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Twitter is still a popular social media platform and is used by many people globally. Twitter has more than 130 million active monthly users. You can use Twitter to reach more people within your target audience. A strong Twitter presence, with a strong following and user engagement, can boost your
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Facebook, a technology company with a mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, yesterday, unveiled its new connectivity initiatives, designed to bring the next billion people online and enhance existing infrastructure projects. Since 2013, Facebook Connectivity has helped bring more than 500 million
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Facebook blamed the massive outage that hit Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger users globally pon Tuesday for more than six hours on what it described as an engineering “error of our own making.” The outage — which may have cost the company up to $100 million in lost revenue — was triggered
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As part of its Search On event in the fall of 2021, Google has announced many new updates and features to its main search functionality. To make the Google search experience more simple and appealing for consumers, Google has launched a number of new features as well as some novel artificial
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Human brains use dreams to replay recent events and help form memories — and experts have gotten the first glimpse of this process in action, a study has reported. When we sleep, our brains replay the firing patterns our neurons underwent while awake — a process that experts refer to as
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