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Team Refines Precision of Medical Needles in Surgical Simulation
Computationally efficient mathematical models aim to improve the accuracy of flexible medical needles used in surgical simulation without adding unnecessary steps...
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Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables Can Help Predict Earthquakes
An international team of researchers at Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem found undersea fiber-optic cables can detect earthquakes occurring at sea 30 seconds...
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Computing Guru Criticizes ChatGPT AI Tech for Making Things Up
Vint Cerf, who helped create the Internet's core network technology, hopes engineers can improve artificial intelligence's shortcoming.
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Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the U.S. military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China. Will it make the world safer?
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The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret
Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.
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Ambient IoT Gets Down to Business
Highly flexible, inexpensive low-energy sensors combined with pervasive connectivity and artificial intelligence deliver real-time triggers without human intervention...
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Why You Shouldn't Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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Why Are You Seeing So Many Bad Digital Ads Now?
Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.
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3D Modeling Tool Recreates a Landscape's Digital Twin
An automated framework developed by Charalambos Poullis and Qiao Chen at Canada's Concordia University can three-dimensionally (3D)-simulate large-scale landscapes...
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Creating 3D Objects with Sound
Scientists have created a technique for assembling three-dimensional (3D) objects using ultrasound.
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Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough Could Mean the Revolution Is Here
Preventing data degradation means the technology might be viable after all as world records are set.
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Japan Rolls Out 'Humble, Lovable' Delivery Robots
Japanese robotics companies are testing autonomous delivery robots to address a shortage of delivery workers.
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Algorithm Detects Autism in Infants
Duke University researchers trained an algorithm to detect signs of autism in infants.
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Digital Twin for Intense Weather Gives Scientists 'Control Loop'
Scientists at Cerebras and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory said they can model extreme weather by accelerating field equations...
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Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning
"Liquid" neural nets, based on a worm's nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability. ...
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TikTok Reveals Russian Disinformation Network Targeting European Users
Accounts spread anti-Ukrainian messages in local languages.
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The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real
Computer-generated avatars created by artificial intelligence software are being used by pro-China bot accounts as part of state-aligned disinformation campaigns...
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Harvard Shutting Down Project Studying Social Media Misinformation
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government announced that next year it will close a research facility that studied online misinformation.
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