The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program has been around for decades, but recently wireless technology has made the search more difficult. And so they decided to connect neural networks to the case.

Specialists trained them on a variety of signals so that neural networks could analyze signals from space and look for anomalies. This was implemented as part of a project led by Peter Ma, a third-year student in the Physics and Mathematics Department at the University of Toronto. Observation data from 820 stars were used as training material – about 115 million fragments in total.

The neural network itself used the TensorFlow machine learning library and the Python Keras libraries. The analysis revealed 8 previously undetected signals that were not recorded during previous studies. Scientists believe that the use of neural networks can improve the recognition of extraterrestrial signals, although so far they have not commented on the detected data.

“SETI aims to find evidence of intelligent life in space using “technosignatures” created by technology scientists. The discovery of an unambiguous technosignature will demonstrate the existence of an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), so it is of great interest to both scientists and the general public.‘, the researchers said.

Note that neural networks are also used in other branches of science, as well as for generating texts, images and other content.

Contrary to some recent rumors, only the most expensive iPhone in the line is likely to get a periscope camera next year as well.

Tianfeng International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that only the iPhone 16 Pro Max or iPhone 16 Ultra will get such a camera in 2024 if Apple changes its name. Recall that such a camera is already expected in the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which Kuo also confirms.

Thus, the periscope camera will be one of the factors in favor of the most expensive iPhone for at least two years, which, according to the latest leaks and rumors, is exactly what Apple needs, which wants to shift the focus in favor of more expensive smartphones in order to increase the average price of the device sold.

What will be the periscope module of the iPhone 15 Pro Max is not yet clear, but there is evidence that this will be a new LG development with a variable zoom value.

Notebooks based on AMD’s Mendocino line of APUs are beginning to appear on the market. And a review of the first such model has already appeared on the Web.

We are talking about a laptop Acer Aspire 3 (A315-24P-R758B) worth $400. For this money, the buyer will receive a 15-inch mobile PC with 8 GB of LPDDR5 memory, a 128 GB SSD and a Ryzen 3 7320U APU, which includes four Zen 2 cores at up to 4.1 GHz and a Radeon 610M GPU with RDNA 2 architecture, but only 128 stream processors.

Unfortunately, the authors of the Liliputing site did not test the system in any real applications for work, but on the other hand, Mendocino APUs are not focused on some kind of heavy load.

In benchmarks, as we can see, the Ryzen 3 7320U processor shows itself approximately at the level of the Core i5-1130G / 1135G7, but the graphics core loses to all test participants, and noticeably. For games, such a laptop can only be used if these same games are very undemanding and / or old.

At the same time, the author of the article noted that in everyday tasks in Chrome, GIMP, Irfanview and LibreOffice, the new Acer behaves very well, and there is no particular difference with much more expensive laptops.

As for autonomy, it is at an average level. In particular, watching YouTube at 60% screen brightness completely drained the laptop in seven hours.

At the same time, this Aspire 3 model offers Wi-Fi 6, USB-C 3.2, Bluetooth 5.2, HDMI 2.1, USB-C charging and an 18.8 mm thick case with a weight of 1.78 kg.

It is worth noting that laptops with Ryzen 3 7320U and other Mendocino APUs play in the same price segment, where there will be models on the new Intel Processor CPUs that have replaced Celeron and Pentium.