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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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Meta Will Let You Use AI Chatbots With Personalities, Report Says
Want to chat with Abraham Lincoln? Facebook owner Meta is an artificial intelligence leader, but rivals with advanced chatbots already are abundant.
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Researchers Poke Holes in Safety Controls of ChatGPT and Other Chatbots
A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology.
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Robot Boosts Solar Energy Research
Scientists developed a new robot for advancing semiconductor materials discovery.
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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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Impersonation Detection Feature Safeguards Brands, Personalities from Fake Accounts on Social Media
A Canadian firm has incorproated an impersonation protection feature into its social media monitoring platform.
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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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Computer-Assisted Proofs Take on Fluid Flow
Researchers use computers to show that equations can "blow up."
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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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4D Printing for Nerve Stimulation
Scientists four-dimensionally-printed flexible electrodes for stimulating nerves.
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Brain-Computer Interface Connects via Ear Canal
Scientists in China have built a non-invasive interface that can connect a human brain to a computer via the wearer's inner ear.
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AI That Teaches Other AI
Scientist demonstrated that robots can be trained to train other robots by sharing their knowledge.
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A Surprisingly Simple Way to Foil Car Thieves
Flicking lights or swiping wipers could one day add extra security to vehicles.
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Spinning Into the Future – New Waveguide Is Changing the Way Data Is Transferred, Manipulated
Physicists have pioneered a method to engineer electromagnetic spin on metasurfaces, addressing the data storage and transfer needs of an increasingly digital world...
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Face Recognition In the U.S. Is About to Meet One of Its Biggest Tests
A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America.
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Digital Twins Give Hydrogen a Greener Path to Growth
A researcher thinks digital twins could help lower clean hydrogen production costs by monitoring the state of hydrogen electrolyzers.
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Here's How San Jose Plans to Use Artificial Intelligence to Stop Pedestrian Traffic Deaths
AImay be considered an invaluable tool when talking about traffic and pedestrian deaths in a city where two more lives were lost this past weekend in hit and run...
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Tech Firms Hope Workouts Can Sell Women on VR Headsets
Major technology companies hope to establish a mainstream market for virtual reality products by selling work, fitness, and entertainment applications to young...
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Wearable Biosensor for Monitoring Sweat Electrolytes
Researchers in Japan engineered an innovative sweat biosensor by depositing a flexible chloride ion sensor onto a textile substrate through heat-transfer printing...
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