This week in science and technology

April 9, 2018 / Tags: twistech - science - technology - physics - ai

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If tiny dark matter particle exists, this experiment is now ready to find it. Scientists are turning the tuning knob on an experiment that’s essentially a radio receiver inside of a magnet. It’s been around for years, but now it might finally be sensitive enough to hear a whole new kind of particle—one that could explain the mystery of the Universe’s dark matter. (Gizmodo)

iPhone with triple-lens rear camera said to be introduced next year. At least one new iPhone with a triple-lens rear camera led by a 12-megapixel lens will be introduced in 2019, according to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News. The report claims the camera will have a 6P lens design with 5x zoom, but it doesn’t specify whether that pertains to optical, digital, or hybrid zoom. (MacRumors)

UC Berkeley offers its Foundations of Data Science course for free online. Berkeley’s Foundations of Data Science boasts the fastest-growing enrollment of any course in UC Berkeley history, and now it’s free on the university’s edX distance-education platform. The course is free to audit, but you have to pay if you want to take the exams and receive a certificate of completion. (BoingBoing)

Google launches an improved speech-to-text service for developers. The new and improved Cloud Speech-to-Text API promises significantly improved voice recognition performance. The new API promises a reduction in word errors around 54 percent across all of Google’s tests, but in some areas the results are actually far better than that. (TechCrunch)

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