Machine learning & AI
We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.
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Telecom
The UK government has announced £65 million in funding for a new system called Borealis which is intended to help the UK military defend its satellites against threats. Borealis is a software system that collates and processes ...
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Machine learning & AI
Ideally, artificial intelligence agents aim to help humans, but what does that mean when humans want conflicting things? My colleagues and I have come up with a way to measure the alignment of the goals of a group of humans ...
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Energy & Green Tech
About 85% of South Africa's electricity is produced by burning coal. The country's move to renewable energy means that the coal industry will be phased out. To this end, the South African cabinet recently approved the country's ...
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Engineering
Bridges, roads, bike lanes, traffic signals, railroads and interstate highways allow millions of people to travel each year, but they are one of the most expensive investments for governments and taxpayers, according to a ...
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Engineering
A wearable system designed to assist navigation for blind and partially sighted people is presented in a study published in Nature Machine Intelligence. This system uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to survey the ...
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Business
Social media company Meta said Monday that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after activists raised concerns ...
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Energy & Green Tech
The Trump administration is working to lift regulations on coal-fired power plants in the hopes of making its energy less expensive. But while cost is one important aspect, utilities have a lot more to consider when they ...
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Internet
A Google Maps scan on Monday of the body of water directly west of the Philippines now shows a name once invisible to most users—the West Philippine Sea.
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Business
Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence super computers in the United States for the first time.
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Robotics
RoboCake is ready. This edible robotic cake is the result of a collaboration between researchers from EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Whether it's for your vehicle or your home, from small-scale uses to the largest, the debate over the most efficient and cost-effective fuels continues. Currently, there's no shortage of options either. Nuclear power provides ...
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Computer Sciences
In recent years, computer scientists have created various highly performing machine learning tools to generate texts, images, videos, songs and other content. Most of these computational models are designed to create content ...
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Telecom
Scientists at Lancaster University have studied satellite images of the UK to produce the most accurate assessment yet on how much land solar farms occupy.
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Business
We live in an era of immense uncertainty. Tensions between great powers are rising, authoritarianism is spreading, while democracy declines and ongoing wars could broaden into wider conflicts.
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Energy & Green Tech
Regardless of political affiliation, Texans on average hold positive views about wind energy developments, welcoming turbines' local benefits despite state and national leaders' criticisms and efforts to disincentivize such ...
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Business
Apple Inc. has managed to dodge its biggest crisis since the pandemic—for the moment, at least.
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Energy & Green Tech
The fires that swept through Los Angeles County in January left behind more than 1 million pounds of damaged lithium-ion batteries, ranging from slim capsules inside iPhones to the brick-like blocks that run electric vehicles.
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Automotive
When Chinese automaker BYD Co. announced plans to build a massive factory in the hardscrabble city of Camacari, in Brazil's northeastern Bahia state, locals saw a new beginning. After years of economic stagnation following ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
Sony said it will raise prices starting Monday for some PlayStation 5 video game consoles in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, citing global economic turmoil.
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Energy & Green Tech
A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers, physicists and battery specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has developed a water-based battery that offers 2,000-cycle stability. In their paper published ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
Surprising new research has revealed that people's perception of motion can be radically manipulated in passive virtual reality environments without making them feel unwell.
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Business
Social media juggernaut Meta stands trial on Monday facing serious US government allegations that it abused its market power to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp before they could become competitors.
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