Hardware
A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer's available memory by identifying a massive data set's key features and dividing them into manageable batches that don't choke ...
Sep 11, 2023
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Computer Sciences
While West Virginia University researchers see potential in educational settings for the newest official ChatGPT plugin, called Code Interpreter, they've found limitations for its use by scientists who work with biological ...
Aug 25, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Every time a scientist runs an experiment, or a social scientist does a survey, or a humanities scholar analyzes a text, they generate data. Science runs on data—without it, we wouldn't have the James Webb Space Telescope's ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
As reported on Aug. 6, Zoom recently attempted to rewrite its Terms of Service with ambiguous language that would permit the extraction of user data for the purpose of training AI.
Aug 16, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
OpenAI's ChatGPT seems ubiquitous, but open source versions of instruction-tuned text generators are gaining the upper hand. In just six months, at least 15 serious alternatives have emerged, all of which have at least one ...
Jul 18, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Mark Zuckerberg's new social media platform, Threads, has been released in smartphone app stores (although not in the EU). Zuckerberg, who is chief executive of Threads' parent company Meta, says that at least 30 million ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Engineering
A team of researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science aims to enable health care and extended reality—which encompasses virtual, augmented and mixed reality—with their smart sensing ...
Jun 1, 2023
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Computer Sciences
A robot manipulating objects while, say, working in a kitchen, will benefit from understanding which items are composed of the same materials. With this knowledge, the robot would know to exert a similar amount of force whether ...
May 23, 2023
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Engineering
Purdue University researchers have developed techniques to harness big data from connected vehicles to monitor congestion caused by crashes, weather and construction. As part of their work, they analyzed over 503 billion ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Hardware
Recent advancements in cryptography have allowed for something exciting: algorithms can now do direct computation on encrypted data thanks to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
Feb 27, 2023
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