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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Using Cameras on Transit Buses to Monitor Traffic
Ohio State University researchers monitored traffic using cameras already installed on the Campus Area Bus Service's transit buses.
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Breakthrough in Monte Carlo Computer Simulations
A new algorithm uses Monte Carlo computer simulations more efficiently to explore nonequilibrium systems with long-range interactions.
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Laser Mapping Reveals Forgotten Maya City
Laser-mapping technology uncovered a long-lost Mayan city in the jungles of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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This Tool could Protect Your Pictures from AI Manipulation
PhotoGuard, created by researchers at MIT, alters photos in ways that are imperceptible to us but stops AI systems from tinkering with them.
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That's Funny—but AI Models Don't Get the Joke
A multi-institutional team of scientists tested artificial intelligence models' ability to understand humor.
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Robot Boosts Solar Energy Research
Scientists developed a new robot for advancing semiconductor materials discovery.
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At Wagner's Festival, New Technology Reveals a Leadership Rift
The use of augmented reality in a production of the opera "Parsifal" opening Germany's Bayreuth Festival has incited a financial and philosophical dispute.
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Stretchy Integrated Electronics May Be Possible with Sandwiched Semiconductor
An international research team engineered a sandwiched semiconductor to provide elasticity to integrated electronics.
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Getting to the Root of the Problem In Tree Digital Twin Models
A new computational model simulates the coordinated three-dimensional development of trees and their roots.
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Researchers Demonstrate 'Unconditionally Secure' Quantum Digital Payments
The research represents a possible breakthrough in quantum communications and, potentially, the onset of the era of quantum fintech.
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Concerns Grow about MFA Bypass Attacks
Cybercriminals increasingly are using specially crafted attacks to bypass Multi-Factor authentication.
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The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next...
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Cleaning Up with TidyBot
A multi-institutional team of engineers mated a mobile robotic arm to a vision model and a large language model to create the TidyBot cleaning robot.
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'A Certain Danger Lurks There': How the Inventor of the First Chatbot Turned Against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans...
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The ESRB Wants to Start Using Facial Scanning Technology to Check People's Ages
The FTC is now seeking public feedback on the ESRB's proposal.
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Teachers Put AI Tutoring Bots to the Test
Three public schools in Newark, NJ, are testing an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted teaching aid from education nonprofit Khan Academy.
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Computer-Assisted Proofs Take on Fluid Flow
Researchers use computers to show that equations can "blow up."
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Algorithm for Robotic Sensing, Movement
University of California, Los Angeles researchers formulated an algorithm that enhances autonomous robots' navigational abilities.
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The Carbon Footprint of Artificial Intelligence
Looking for ways to cut the release of greenhouse gases attributable to AI use, at a time that usage is very likely to grow.
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