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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Bitcoin Mining has Raised Texas Electricity Prices 5%
The costs of cryptocurrency are increasingly clear. Are the benefits?
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Germany Taps Africa's IT Sector to Fill Labor Gap
German companies hope to address domestic workforce shortages by training young Africans in information technology (IT).
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OpenAI Will Pay People to Report Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT
OpenAI announced a new bug bounty program that will offer people $200 to $20,000 for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the ChatGPT chatbot.
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ACM Prize in Computing Recognizes Yael Tauman Kalai for Fundamental Contributions to Cryptography
ACM has named Yael Tauman Kalai to receive the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for fundamental contributions to cryptography that have influenced modern practices. ...
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'Digidog Is Out of the Pound': Robot Dog Rejoins New York Police
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the New York Police Department will deploy the technology this summer.
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Italy Became the First Western Country to Ban ChatGPT. Here's What Other Countries are Doing
The move has highlighted an absence of any concrete regulations, with the European Union and China among the few jurisdictions developing tailored rules for AI....
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AI Cough-Monitoring Can Change the Way We Diagnose Disease
Hyfe AI's database of over 700 million cough samples could be used to improve disease diagnosis and treatment.
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Four-Legged Robotic System for Playing Soccer on Various Terrains
The four-legged DribbleBot robot developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers can dribble soccer balls using onboard sensors, computing, and reinforcement...
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What Delivery Apps Reveal About Food Disparities in Los Angeles
University of Southern California researchers used machine learning to analyze digital menus from restaurants across Los Angeles to identify food disparities in...
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Predicting the Effects of Environmental Noise on Quantum Information
An advancement crucial for designing and building quantum computers capable of working in an imperfect world.
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Rage Against the Intelligent Machines
AI safety concerns mount as Large Language Model risks are revealed.
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Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See?
The rapid advent of artificial intelligence has set off alarms that the technology used to trick people is advancing far faster than the technology that can identify...
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The Virtual Vet Will See You Meow
Veterinary telemedicine could help more pet owners access much-needed care and put anxious animals at ease, but challenges remain.
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AI Can't Take Over Everyone's Jobs Soon (If Ever)
Models are still expensive to run, hard to use, and frequently wrong.
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Are Robot Waiters the Future?
Many people envision robot waiters as a solution to the food service industry's labor shortages, with tens of thousands deployed in dining rooms globally.
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Interactive Mosaic Uses NASA Imagery to Show Mars in Vivid Detail
The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars is the highest-resolution global image of Mars ever created, at 5.7 trillion pixels (5.7 terapixels).
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The Women Who Left Their Jobs to Code
Some U.K. women are defying the trend of lower female representation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) compared to men by becoming programmers...
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How A.I., DNA Are Unlocking the Mysteries of Global Supply Chains
Firms are turning to advanced technologies to help answer a surprisingly tricky question: Where do products really come from?
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A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again
Previous advances in A.I. inspired predictions that the law was the lucrative profession most likely to suffer job losses. It didn't happen. Is this time different...
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