Monday, Sep 29

Security

Is violent AI-human conflict inevitable?

Are you worried that artificial intelligence and humans will go to war? AI experts are. In 2023, a group of elite thinkers signed onto the Center for AI Safety's statement that "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should ...

Engineering

AlloyGPT: Leveraging a language model to aid alloy discovery

Additive manufacturing of alloys has enabled the creation of machine parts that meet the complex requirements needed to optimize performance in aerospace, automotive, and energy applications. Finding the ideal mix of elements ...

Tuesday, Sep 30

Machine learning & AI

Artificial intelligence may not be artificial

The term artificial intelligence renders the sense that what computers do is either inferior to or at least apart from human intelligence. AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that may not be the case.

Business

How atmospheric water harvesting can be scaled

Water scarcity is a huge global issue. More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water—a situation set to worsen due to climate change, which fuels longer and more severe droughts. As reservoirs shrink, groundwater ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Tiny explosions and soft materials make onscreen braille more robust

From texting on a smart phone to ordering train tickets at a kiosk, touch screens are ubiquitous and, in most cases, relatively reliable. But for people who are blind or visually impaired and use electronic braille devices, ...

Wednesday, Oct 01

Thursday, Oct 02

Energy & Green Tech

Concrete 'battery' now packs 10 times the power

Concrete already builds our world, and now it's one step closer to powering it, too. Made by combining cement, water, ultra-fine carbon black (with nanoscale particles), and electrolytes, electron-conducting carbon concrete ...

Business

Boom or bubble: How long can the AI investment craze last?

The staggering investments in artificial intelligence keep coming: Last week, AI chip giant Nvidia announced it would invest $100 billion to help OpenAI, the frontrunner in generative AI, build data centers.

Friday, Oct 03

Machine learning & AI

Virtual Jesus? People of faith divided as AI enters religion

Artificial intelligence, the technology upending nearly every corner of society, is creeping into religion, serving up virtual Jesus and automated sermons—a change drawing mixed reviews from the faithful.

Business

A bold new blueprint for economically viable solar hydrogen

A review reimagines solar-driven water electrolysis not as a mere hydrogen production technology but instead as a relatively versatile platform for sustainable chemical manufacturing, according to Professor Fatwa F. Abdi ...

Saturday, Oct 04

Consumer & Gadgets

Amazon is overhauling its devices to take on Apple in the AI era

When Amazon.com Inc. recruited longtime Microsoft Corp. product chief Panos Panay in 2023 to run its devices division, his new colleagues thought the e-commerce giant was preparing to take its consumer gadget line upscale.