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SEC Shakes Crypto with Binance Suit
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a massive lawsuit Monday against the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange and its founder.
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AI Chatbots Lose Money Every Time You Use Them. That's a Problem
The cost of operating the systems is so high that companies aren't deploying their best versions to the public.
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How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox
Companies, like Google, are looking for ways artificial intelligence and machine learning can help prevent phishing.
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Pneumatic Computer Uses Pressure Instead of Electricity
Elliot Hui and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, built a computer from glass and silicone that encodes data using pneumatic pressure instead of...
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Black Men Were Likely Underdiagnosed with Lung Problems Due to Bias in Software
A study published last week suggests built-in software bias may be responsible for the underdiagnosis of lung problems among Black men.
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Artificial Synapses for Neuromorphic Computing
Researchers have developed an interface-type memristive device that could be used to create artificial synapses for next-generation neuromorphic computing.
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Sweater-Wrapped Robots Can Feel, React to Human Touch
The RobotSweater machine-knitted textile "skin" can sense contact and pressure to make a robot "smarter during its interaction with humans."
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The Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram
An international team of researchers developed an acoustic metasurface-based holography technique, which they tested by recreating the Mona Lisa.
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Assessing Political Bias in Language Models
Stanford University researchers developed OpinionQA to evaluate bias in language models.
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Researchers Build Bee Robot That Can Twist
A new robotic bee can fly in all directions with stability and achieve the six degrees of free movement exhibited by most flying insects.
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The Long and Short of Fish Lifespans
Researchers have created a computational model to predict any fish species' lifespan.
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Meet the Forksheet: Imec's In-Between Transistor
The architecture shrinks circuits in a valuable step toward the ultimate CMOS device.
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AI Is Writing Code Now. For Companies, That Is Good and Bad
Chief information officers could see their job getting more complex even as generative AI makes software development easier.
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A Hiring Law Blazes a Path for A.I. Regulation
New York City's pioneering, focused approach sets rules on how companies use the technology in workforce decisions.
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Google's Photo App Still Can't Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple's
Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software, tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.
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3-D Printing Strengthens Material for Energy and Propulsion Applications
A research team led by engineers at MIT developed a new 3D printing method for strengthening materials.
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The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Indirect prompt-injection attacks can leave people vulnerable to scams and data theft when they use the AI chatbots.
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Ethereum Closes Security Hole with Energy-Saving Update
An update rolled out by the Ethereum cryptocurrency reduced the energy needed to produce it, and also fixed a security flaw.
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