It started with a trek to one of Europes most remote areas. Fascinated by the biodiversity of the worlds less-explored environments, biologists and explorers Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince spent a month on an ice cap in Iceland in 2019 undertaking what is believed to be the worlds first fully off-grid DNA sequencing expedition. Using solar power alone, the team spent a month sequencing DNA from microorganisms living in an area with both ice and a hot spring.

Malicious actors have been pressing their advantage against vulnerable software supply chains with exponentially increasing attacks. Enterprises have been hampered in fighting back by lack of internal consensus on their security capabilities and practices. Recent survey findings uncovered multiple areas of disconnect between senior executives/managers (executives) and hands-on staff (doers).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming a multitude of industries, from healthcare and finance to transportation and marketing.

Imagine completing an ArcGIS project from start to finish without needing to click a user interface, open a tool, load a spreadsheet, or adjust symbols and colors. Rather than manually creating a map, users would simply communicate their requirements in natural language inside the software. A few prompts later, the user would have a map with their desired appearance and specifications.

Tackling VQA with Pretrained Foundation Models without Further Training Authors: Alvin De Jun Tan, Bingquan Shen Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results in many natural language processing tasks. They have also demonstrated ability to adapt well to different tasks through zero-shot or few-shot settings. With the capability of these LLMs, researchers have looked into how to adopt them for use with Visual Question Answering (VQA)