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Engineering

Wearable thermoelectric technology uses thin films to generate electricity from body heat

Seoul National University College of Engineering has announced that a research team led by Prof. Jeonghun Kwak of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with co-first authors Dr. Juhyung Park and Dr. Sun Hong ...

Internet

55% of U.S. teens have used AI to create sexualized images, survey finds

In a survey study of U.S. teens, more than half (55.3%) reported that they had created at least one image using nudification tools, which use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to show what an individual may look ...

Security

Study finds no single tool can fully protect online financial data

Research in the journal Electronic Government discusses the growing need for protecting one's personal financial data as the online world faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The researchers argue that no single ...

Security

AI model trained on 14,000 Urdu news stories spots misinformation with 96% accuracy

A deep learning model trained on more than 14,000 Pakistani news articles can spot misinformation with 96% accuracy, according to a new report in academic journal Scientific Reports. It's the most comprehensive artificial ...

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Software

Top AI coding tools make mistakes one in four times, study shows

New research from the University of Waterloo shows that artificial intelligence (AI) still struggles with some basic software development tasks, raising questions about how reliably AI systems can assist developers. As Large ...

Computer Sciences

What flocking birds can teach AI about reducing noise

Among the primary concerns surrounding artificial intelligence is its tendency to yield erroneous information when summarizing long documents. These "hallucinations" are problematic not only because they convey falsehoods, ...

Engineering

Atom-thin material could help solve chip manufacturing problem

Making computer chips smaller is not just about better design. It also depends on a critical step in manufacturing called patterning, where nanoscale structures are carved into materials to form the circuits inside everything ...

Computer Sciences

The AI that taught itself: How AI can learn what it never knew

For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it stumbles. A new study ...

Engineering

Hair-thin 'soft yarn' actuator fiber moves with electricity

Researchers at Tohoku University, working with international collaborators in France, have developed an ultrafine "soft yarn" actuator fiber capable of bending, contracting, and producing complex three-dimensional movements ...

Robotics

Robot hands so sensitive they can grab a potato chip

A new type of robotic hand developed at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrates such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them. The technology, called ...

Hardware

Ultra-compact photonic AI chip operates at the speed of light

Australian researchers have built an ultra-compact artificial intelligence (AI) chip that is able to make calculations using the power of light, at the speed of light. The nano photonic chip prototype, which harnesses the ...

Computer Sciences

Improving AI models' ability to explain their predictions

In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its output. Concept bottleneck modeling is one ...