Research team counters solar energy misinformation
Resistance to adoption of solar panels as an economical and efficient replacement for fossil fuels is based on inaccurate information being spread by foes of renewable energy.
Energy & Green Tech
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Computer Sciences
A method to mitigate hallucinations in large language models
Large language models (LLMs), artificial neural networks-based architectures that can process, generate and manipulate texts in various human languages, have recently become increasingly widespread. These models are now being ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
BBC explores mind control over TV program choice
The world is growing increasingly digital, and so will modes of interaction. TV watchers might welcome an alternative to under-the-cushion clickers, a thought not lost on the people at BBC. What if our viewers were to control ...
Hardware
Innovative transistor for reconfigurable fuzzy logic hardware shows promise for enhanced edge computing
Edge computing devices, devices located in proximity to the source of data instead of in large data centers, could perform computations locally. This could reduce latency, particularly in real-time applications, as it would ...
Internet
Zoom hack reveals text contents by viewing shoulder movement
Countless companies around the world see the wildly popular video-conferencing tool Zoom as a savior during this era of quarantine and work-at-home routines. Zoom estimates it has more than 300 million meeting participants ...
Computer Sciences
OpenAI announces Point-E, a machine learning system that quickly creates 3D images from a text prompt
A team of researchers at San Francisco-based OpenAI, has announced the development of a machine-learning system that can create 3D images from text much more quickly than other systems. The group has published a paper describing ...
Energy & Green Tech
A strategy to rejuvenate dead lithium inside batteries
Li-ion batteries and other emerging lithium-based battery technologies are currently used to power a wide range of devices, including smartphones, laptops, tablets and cameras. Despite their advantages, batteries containing ...
Oncology & Cancer
Study describes red meat's cancer-causing mechanism in the colon
Over the past 40 years, red meat has changed roles in the American diet from a supporting player to the main attraction, increasing in both portion size and frequency of consumption. The rise in diagnoses of colorectal cancer ...
Robotics
Plant cyborg able to move itself to a preferred light source
A team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab built a cyborg that combines a plant with electronics and ultimately allows the plant to choose when it would like to move to a brighter spot. The cyborg is the brainchild of team ...
Computer Sciences
Infusing machine learning models with inductive biases to capture human behavior
Human decision-making is often difficult to predict and delineate theoretically. Nonetheless, in recent decades, several researchers have developed theoretical models aimed at explaining decision-making, as well as machine ...
