Engineering
New technology supported by researchers at Murdoch University has the potential to solve water scarcity issues in remote and rural Australia. While many cities enjoy a steady flow of safe and reliable water, remote communities ...
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Machine learning & AI
Meta on Thursday launched a new open-weight AI model that it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers.
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Internet
Google announced Thursday it will start displaying links to websites and articles more prominently and higher up in search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as brands and news publishers warn of a sharp decline ...
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Machine learning & AI
Veronica Rosas is one of tens of thousands of Mexican mothers looking for a child who has disappeared into a vortex of violence fueled by brutal cartel turf wars.
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Hi Tech & Innovation
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 ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
A research team has discovered that AI assistants can easily manipulate users into making disadvantageous decisions when the AI operates with a hidden agenda.
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Energy & Green Tech
A research team led by professor Wonyoung Lee of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed a technology that addresses interfacial contact resistance, a key factor limiting the performance ...
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Security
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 ...
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Business
Human–AI collaboration is widely seen as the work model of the future: The expectation is that together, humans and AI will be more productive than either working alone. Yet the research to date seemed to tell a different ...
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Hi Tech & Innovation
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.
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Hardware
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 ...
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Engineering
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 ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Thanks to the exponential rise of AI, the rapid construction of large, gigawatt-gobbling data centers across the country has stoked concerns about how the power grid will hold up under this additional strain.
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Robotics
Timothy Wong didn't suspect it at the time, but his dives off the coast of Rockport and the hours he spent studying the wheels and gears of robotics were leading to one mission: figuring out a way to get unwanted sea matter ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Samantha Gateman and her team at Western University use highly localized electrochemical techniques to see how corrosion starts and evolves at the microscopic level.
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers have developed two new organic semiconductor materials using a light-driven chemical reaction. The paper is published in Chemistry—A European Journal.
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Engineering
Solar panels that can be coated onto thin, flexible surfaces could one day be made the way newspapers are printed, at room temperature and without the toxic chemicals the process has relied on, claim researchers from the ...
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Engineering
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering have partnered with Pittsburgh startup Sensible Photonics, co-founded by Pitt professor Paul Ohodnicki, to develop a fiber-optic ultrasonic acoustic-sensing ...
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Business
Dr. Matt Brigida, SUNY Poly professor of finance and chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance, is exploring the evolving relationship between cryptocurrency and traditional financial markets in his new paper, "Crypto ...
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Machine learning & AI
Reading a scientific article is one thing. Exploring the data behind it is another. Even when a research article provides access to its supporting data sets, answering a follow-up question often requires downloading files, ...
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Energy & Green Tech
When trying to figure out a better design for a bacteria-powered biobattery, Binghamton University researchers found inspiration in nature—specifically, the insides of our small intestines.
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Consumer & Gadgets
The standard data migration tools offered by major Android manufacturers such as Samsung, Google and Xiaomi pose security risks, as researchers from the Institute of Information Security at Graz University of Technology (TU ...
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Machine learning & AI
Imagine an artificial intelligence system that has performed reliably for months. Its recommendations are almost always right, and the employee reviewing them has learned that close scrutiny rarely changes the outcome. Then ...
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Internet
The Albanese government has introduced its digital duty of care legislation to parliament today. The bill includes an "off switch" to allow social media users to opt out of recommender algorithms.
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Computer Sciences
Canada has made digital sovereignty a priority in areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and telecommunications. But one important part of its digital infrastructure has received far less attention: the operating ...
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Computer Sciences
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 ...
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Engineering
Woven textiles can do more than provide softness and strength. Their microscopic arrangement of yarns can also influence how sound travels through a material. However, finding suitable over-and-under yarn patterns is a difficult ...
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Computer Sciences
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 ...
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