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Wearable Device Data Links Reduced Sleep, Activity in Pregnancy to Premature Birth Risk
Scientists have associated a lack of sleep and reduced physical activity during pregnancy with the risk of premature birth.
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Multi-Purpose Robot Changes Shape for Different Uses
A tetrahedron-shaped robot developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Bristol features flexible piping that allows it to alter its shape, size, and movements...
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Procyon Photonics — The High School-Run Startup That Could Revolutionize Computing
Procyon believes it might be possible to run ChatGPT's large language model neural networks on their hardware.
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Three iOS 0-Days Used to Infect iPhone
Researchers said Apple has corrected a series iOS zero-day flaws used to infect Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Eltantawy's iPhone with Predator spyware. ...
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AI Is Policing the Package Theft Beat for UPS
UPS and other large logistics companies are rolling out technology to curtail porch piracy.
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Wearable Optical Device Shows Promise for Detecting Postpartum Hemorrhage
A wearable optical device developed by Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) researchers can detect postpartum hemorrhage early.
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E.U. Law Sets the Stage for a Clash Over Disinformation
The law, aimed at forcing social media giants to adopt new policies to curb harmful content, is expected to face blowback from Elon Musk, who owns X.
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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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These New Tools Could Make AI Vision Systems Less Biased
Two new papers from Sony and Meta describe novel methods to make bias detection fairer.
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Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries
The IEEE-USA 2023 Salary and Benefits Survey indicates U.S. engineering salary growth lagged inflation for the second consecutive year, marking the first multiyear...
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Scientists Closer to Finding a Test for Long COVID
A multi-institutional team of scientists may have discovered biomarkers of long COVID that could lay the groundwork for a diagnostic test.
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Four-Hundred-Pound NYPD Robot Gets Tryout in Times Square Subway Station
The New York Police Department has deployed a nearly 400-pound "fully autonomous outdoor security robot" in Times Square's subway station as a test run.
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Getting Audio from Still Images, Silent Videos
A machine learning tool developed at Northeastern University can obtain audio from still images and muted videos.
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Europe at Forefront of 3D Printing Boom over Last Decade
The European Patent Office found that over the last decade, patent applications for three-dimensional printing technology rose eight times faster than all technology...
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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon
NASA will work with startup Lonestar plus the Isle of Man to send a data payload to the Moon next February to assess lunar-based backup storage as part of the Artemis...
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Cyber Experts Set Out to Secure 2024 U.S. Election
A team of cybersecurity experts established through the U.S.-based nonprofit Information Technology – Information Sharing and Analysis Center will undertake a "clear...
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Sentinel Satellites Map Methane Super-Emitters
An international team of researchers has developed an algorithm that uses machine learning to automatically detect methane super-emitter plumes in data from satellites...
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ChatGPT Can Now Generate Images
OpenAI has integrated a new version of its DALL-E image generator into its ChatGPT online chatbot.
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