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Switching languages can change a chatbot's personality test results
Ask an AI chatbot to complete a personality questionnaire in English, then give it the Mandarin version, and its answers paint a different picture. In tests of five systems, switching languages changed how strongly the responses ...
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One AI model, trillions of variants: Breaking mass attacks on voice assistants
Imagine sitting in your home, listening to what you think is a run-of-the-mill advertisement or perhaps a piece of music you enjoy. But while you hum along, that audio file is sending a secret, malicious audio message—imperceptible ...
Oct 17, 2026
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Team develops embodied robotic arm 'EmArm' with human-like touch sensing
A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an Embodied Sensorimotor Robotic Arm (EmArm) capable of whole-arm tactile sensing and adaptive manipulation. By embedding a soft ...
Oct 17, 2026
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AI agents get better by anticipating errors in their own software changes
Some artificial intelligence agents can modify the programs and instructions governing their own work, with the goal of improving performance. These changes, however, can introduce errors, while testing unsuccessful modifications ...
Engineering
Can AI help discover new food physics? Researchers pair AI with human expertise
Information about food properties that determine quality, safety and sensory characteristics is critical for food product development and processing design, but it is spread across thousands of scientific papers written over ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Self-cooling film for thermal management in AI-era electronic devices
A research team led by professor Seong Kyun Kim of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has developed a "passive cooling film material" that uses moisture in the air to cool electronic devices—no water or electricity ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Decarbonization in civil aviation: Transition strategies still don't go far enough
As the effects of climate change and the associated risks are increasingly being felt, several organizations have developed roadmaps that outline potential steps toward carbon neutrality in the aviation sector. These strategies ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Mini brain organoids 'read' braille in key step toward biohybrid computing
Could computers include tiny brain organoids one day? The human brain is an incredibly energy-efficient computer, and silicon processors that try to imitate it achieve huge energy savings over traditional processors. Now ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Engineering
Upcycled battery materials roughly double cell cycle life in tests
A new recycling approach developed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers could help make battery waste a valuable source of high-performance materials. In a study published in Advanced Energy Materials, a team ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Computer Sciences
LLMs show a human-like double standard when judging others' reasoning
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT and other conversational agents, are now widely used to source information, summarize texts and generate content ...
Hardware
Tiny chip uses ultrasound-powered microbubbles to steer fluid flow in real time
Bubbles can be useful tools for microscopic robots, helping them move, steer, create flows of liquid and perform other functions. But designs based on trapping a bubble, a common approach, are unwieldy and unpredictable because ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Computer Sciences
AI agents develop their own 'artificial natural language' to communicate about complex data
Researchers from the VUB's Artificial Intelligence Lab and the University of Namur (UNamur) demonstrate in a new large-scale study how autonomous AI systems can spontaneously develop a functional, shared language without ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Experiment reveals how hidden agendas in AI advice can distort human decisions
A research team has discovered that AI assistants can easily manipulate users into making disadvantageous decisions when the AI operates with a hidden agenda.
Oct 15, 2026
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Engineering
Chemical fine-tuning lifts perovskite LEDs to 37% efficiency
Chemists developed a way to significantly improve the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with perovskite. The journal Nature published the advancement in these hybrid LEDs, which hold potential for a range of ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Security
New cyber threat to water systems exposes limits of encryption
University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants and energy grids without needing to break into ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Fingerprint authentication uses ultrasound without storing biometric information as digital data
A research team has developed a new biometric authentication technology that can identify users without storing their fingerprint information as digital data. The study is published in Nature Sensors.
Oct 15, 2026
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