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55% of U.S. teens have used AI to create sexualized images, survey finds
In a survey study of U.S. teens, more than half (55.3%) reported that they had created at least one image using nudification tools, which use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to show what an individual may look ...
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Security
Study finds no single tool can fully protect online financial data
Research in the journal Electronic Government discusses the growing need for protecting one's personal financial data as the online world faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The researchers argue that no single ...
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Sheepdogs reveal a better way to guide robot swarms
Sheepdogs, bred to control large groups of sheep in open fields, have demonstrated their skills in competitions dating back to the 1870s. In these contests, a handler directs a trained dog with whistle signals to guide a ...
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Light becomes matter: Shadowless projection mapping makes images indistinguishable from print
Projection mapping is widely known as a lighting technique that overlays images onto buildings or objects to create visual effects. In fields such as extended reality (XR) and vision science, however, researchers have suggested ...
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AI model trained on 14,000 Urdu news stories spots misinformation with 96% accuracy
A deep learning model trained on more than 14,000 Pakistani news articles can spot misinformation with 96% accuracy, according to a new report in academic journal Scientific Reports. It's the most comprehensive artificial ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
SoulMate LLM accelerator evolves according to the specific characteristics of the user
While large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are adept at answering countless questions, they often remain unaware of a user's minor habits or previous conversational contexts. This is why AI, despite being deeply integrated ...
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Telecom
Acoustic metamaterial can send complex signals directly between water and air
Researchers from IMDEA Materials Institute, in collaboration with China's Nanjing and Huazhong Universities, have developed a new acoustic metamaterial capable of transmitting complex sound signals directly between water ...
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Technology news
Energy & Green Tech
Record efficiency achieved for perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cells
Researchers from the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory (PV-Lab) in EPFL's School of Engineering and CSEM have developed a new solar cell that combines exceptional voltage, high efficiency, and scalable manufacturing. ...
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Robotics
Compostable robot endures over 1 million uses before becoming plant food
The rapid proliferation of robots and electronic devices is placing the world under a new and growing environmental burden. According to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), global electronic waste ...
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Nanoscale hotspots in OLEDs may shorten their lifespans in phones and TVs
The pixels in phone screens and other OLED displays appear to provide a uniform glow, but a team of University of Michigan Engineering researchers has discovered the light actually originates from nanoscale hotspots, some ...
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Robotics
Autonomous navigation of microrobots in complex flows demonstrated for the first time
For the first time, researchers at Leipzig University have shown that tiny synthetic microswimmers can perceive their surroundings directly through their own body shape and autonomously adapt to rapidly changing fluid flows. ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
AI chatbots' tendency to always agree may reinforce delusions in vulnerable users
The integration of large language model-based AI chatbots into multiple facets of our everyday lives has opened us up to advantages that would have been considered impossible even a decade ago. The same development has, however, ...
Software
Top AI coding tools make mistakes one in four times, study shows
New research from the University of Waterloo shows that artificial intelligence (AI) still struggles with some basic software development tasks, raising questions about how reliably AI systems can assist developers. As Large ...
Mar 17, 2026
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Automotive
Small 'edge' computer could help self-driving cars operate in rural areas
As self-driving cars begin operating in cities, a question remains about how to make them work in rural areas with limited telecommunications infrastructure. New research from Washington State University suggests a potential ...
Mar 17, 2026
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Computer Sciences
What flocking birds can teach AI about reducing noise
Among the primary concerns surrounding artificial intelligence is its tendency to yield erroneous information when summarizing long documents. These "hallucinations" are problematic not only because they convey falsehoods, ...
Mar 17, 2026
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Engineering
Dual electrode system cracks seawater electrolysis deposit problem
A research team led by Dr. Ji-Hyung Han from the Convergence Research Center of Sector Coupling & Integration at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a new seawater electrolysis system that overcomes ...
Mar 17, 2026
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Computer Sciences
New model uses team interactions to predict next steps in collaborative work
Finding the right information at the right time is critical for solving complex problems. Researchers have developed an algorithm that helps individuals locate needed information more efficiently by drawing on both a user's ...
Mar 17, 2026
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