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In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while contemporary rival Alfred Russel Wallace disagreed, predicting that broader natural selection played as important a role.

Darwin was adamant that sexual selection was not part of natural selection but solely related to differences in mating success. Natural selection covers a broader range of factors that contribute to an individual’s overall ‘fitness.’

In 2,024,150 years or so after these two iconic British evolutionary scientists began their heated rivalry over who was right, researchers have employed machine learning to settle the score. Scientists from the University of Essex, in collaboration with the Natural History Museum and AI research institute Cross Labs, Cross Compass, have used AI to analyze “sexual and interspecific variation” found across 16,734 dorsal and ventral images of birdwing butterflies.

Walmart showed off its use of augmented reality and artificial intelligence in its retail operations. It turns out that AR is leading to better digital sales and cool new applications that haven’t been done before.

The techniques include virtual try-on of outfits, virtual showroom experiences and digital twins, said Desirée Gosby, vice president of emerging technology at Walmart Global Tech, in an interview with VentureBeat.

She emphasized the importance of AR and related technologies for enhancing customer experiences and improve productivity.

This is an important post because where I live people are protesting because of over taxation because of government fraud.

New tools to oversee public sector finance and identify abuses.

OpenAI says GPT-4o can be used to teach you a language and a new demo video seems to prove them right.

Or maybe just something Wallace and Gromit might jam onto a rocket for a second Grand Day Out.

Francesco Cagnetta, Leonardo Petrini, Umberto M. Tomasini, Alessandro Favero, and Matthieu Wyart Institute of Physics EPFL, Institute of Electrical Eng.

A hierarchical model of high-dimensional data reveals how deep neural networks leverage their multiple layers to reduce the data dimensionality and learn from a finite set of examples.

Discover how Transparent Tribe’s latest Android malware campaign targets mobile users, and learn about new threats like Snowblind in Southeast Asia.

South Korea’s SK Hynix is betting $74.6 billion on a move that could reshape the semiconductor industry and the future of AI computing.

Adapted from the new book The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge With AI by Ray Kurzweil.