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Engineering
Falling for it: A micro-scale look at how parachute fibers act under stress
Parachutes have many applications, decelerating everything from skydivers to supersonic-speed scientific payloads. Regardless of what a parachute is slowing down, two things remain constant: the parachute must withstand large ...
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Machine learning & AI
User-friendly system makes it easier to verify an AI model's responses
Despite their impressive capabilities, large language models are far from perfect. These artificial intelligence models sometimes "hallucinate" by generating incorrect or unsupported information in response to a query.
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Windows kernel defenses aren't enough to stop a lucrative game cheating market, research shows
Hackers commonly bypass Microsoft Windows kernel protections to enable cheating in competitive online games, new research shows. Academics at the University of Birmingham performed a technical analysis of how game cheats ...
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Short duration voltage application to silicon anodes shows potential for restoring Li-Si battery capacity
A team of engineers, chemists and materials scientists at Stanford University, has found that applying short duration voltage to some types of anodes in Li–Si batteries, can restore some of their capacity. In their paper ...
Showing AI users diversity in training data can boost perceived fairness and trust
While artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as home assistants, search engines or large language models like ChatGPT, may seem nearly omniscient, their outputs are only as good as the data on which they are trained. ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Study finds misinformation about wind farms is widespread
Misinformation about wind energy—such as "turbines are harmful to health and are economically inefficient"—undermines the social acceptance of wind power. However, these statements are widespread and met with great approval. ...
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Software
Cloud computing captures chemistry code, offering potential to address urgent energy needs
Some computing challenges are so big that it's necessary to go all in. That's the approach a diverse team of scientists and computing experts led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Heterojunction back contact solar cell reaches 27.09% efficiency in tests
A team of engineers at China's LONGi Central R&D Institute, working with colleagues from Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, reports that its heterojunction back contact (HBC) solar cell has achieved efficiencies as ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Stretchable transistors used in wearable devices enable in-sensor edge computing
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are neuromorphic transistors made of carbon-based materials that combine both electronic and ionic charge carriers. These transistors could be particularly effective solutions for ...
Computer Sciences
New algorithm advances graph mining for complex networks
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a breakthrough in graph mining with the development of a new computational algorithm.
Oct 19, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
DeepMind researchers find LLMs can serve as effective mediators
A team of AI researchers with Google's DeepMind London group has found that certain large language models (LLMs) can serve as effective mediators between groups of people with differing viewpoints regarding a given topic. ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers develop method enabling LLMs to answer questions more concisely and accurately
Large language models (LLMs) are machine-learning models designed to understand and generate human language. State-of-the-art LLMs have demonstrated outstanding potential in open-domain question answering (ODQA), where the ...
Oct 18, 2024
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Robotics
Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision and robotics
In the current AI zeitgeist, sequence models have skyrocketed in popularity for their ability to analyze data and predict what to do next. For instance, you've likely used next-token prediction models like ChatGPT, which ...
Oct 17, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Humans sympathize with, and protect, AI bots from playtime exclusion, finds study
In an Imperial College London study, humans displayed sympathy towards and protected AI bots who were excluded from playtime. The researchers say the study, which used a virtual ball game, highlights humans' tendency to treat ...
Oct 17, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers unlock 'silicate magic' for safer, cheaper, and more efficient batteries
The world is rapidly transitioning to renewable power, but there are shortcomings. Solar power falls at night, and wind power recedes and ascends irregularly. New technologies need to be developed that can store energy from ...
Oct 17, 2024
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Robotics
Engineering research discovers critical vulnerabilities in AI-enabled robots
Within its new Responsible Innovation initiative, researchers at Penn Engineering discovered that certain features of AI-governed robots carry security vulnerabilities and weaknesses that were previously unidentified and ...
Oct 17, 2024
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Security
Using biometrics securely to avoid multiple registrations in humanitarian aid
Millions of people around the world rely on humanitarian aid. One of the challenges when it comes to distributing aid is that resources are almost always scarce. Therefore, organizations want to ensure that people can only ...
Oct 17, 2024
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