Machine learning & AI
Language models like ChatGPT are not neutral. Without our realizing it, they can absorb all kinds of bias—for example, around gender and ethnicity—which then become increasingly embedded in the model. According to AI researcher ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Robotics
A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances in artificial intelligence ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Business
The development of batteries for electric vehicles has progressed much faster than experts and policymakers had anticipated. New research shows that the market is well equipped to cope with both raw material shortages and ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
What if the next generation of disposable electronics—the sensors in your food packaging, the diagnostic strips in a medical clinic, the environmental monitors scattered across a farm—were built not on silicon or plastic, ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Internet
A University of Queensland study has shown large language models (LLMs) used in AI content moderation may be prone to subtle biases that undermine their neutrality. A team led by data scientist Professor Gianluca Demartini ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The popularity of cloud computing and AI—driving massive data flows—pushes demand for ultra-high-speed, energy-efficient optical links within and between data centers; links that must be able to deliver data rates well beyond ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A smart pillow sleeve that vibrates to alert people who are deaf to fire and burglar alarms in the night has been created by scientists at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Developed with members of the Deaf community, the ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Business
Generative AI is best known for creating images and text. Now, it is helping industries make better planning decisions. Georgia Tech researchers have created a new AI model for decision-focused learning (DFL), called Diffusion-DFL. ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
US President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as "drill, baby, drill." Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up the global shift from fossil fuels ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Security
Using generative AI to design, train, or perform steps within a machine-learning system is risky, argues computer scientist Micheal Lones in a paper appearing in Patterns. Though large language models (LLMs) could expand ...
Apr 22, 2026
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