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The Holy Grail of Electric Vehicles: Solid-State Batteries
Manufacturers look to make batteries safer and help them last longer by replacing liquid cores with solid ones.
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Inside the Project Trying to Save Datasets from Extinction
Researchers race to find ecological data kept on outdated media or in dusty backroom boxes—before they're lost forever.
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The Race to Build a ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine
A search bot you converse with could make finding answers easier — if it doesn't tell fibs. Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others are working on it.
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A Watermark for Chatbots can Expose Text Written by an AI
The tool could let teachers spot plagiarism or help social media platforms fight disinformation bots.
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Applying Scientific Method to Bail Reform
More than 50 state, city, and county jurisdictions in the U.S. have implemented the Public Safety Assessment (PSA) tool to shift from cash-based bail systems to...
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Flying Robot Echolocates Like a Bat to Avoid Hitting Walls
Frederike Dümbgen and colleagues have equipped a flying robot to use bat-like echolocation to map its surroundings using a simple microphone and speaker.
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Bioengineered Skin Grafts Fit Like a Glove
Columbia University researchers have developed a method for growing engineered skin in complex, three-dimensional shapes to make it easier to graft skin onto irregularly...
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At This School, Computer Science Class Now Includes Critiquing Chatbots
Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
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AI Tech Enables Industrial-Scale Intellectual-Property Theft, Say Critics
Are ChatGPT, Stability AI, and GitHub Copilot the next big breakthroughs, huge legal and regulatory liabilities, or something else entirely?
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Wearable Sensor Provides Cardiac Imaging on the Go
A new portable ultrasound device uses custom algorithms to measure how much blood is being pumped by the heart.
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Virtual Birkin Bags on Trial in Hermès Case Testing IP Rights
French luxury brand Hermès is suing digital artist Mason Rothchild in a New York court to prevent him from selling nonfungible tokens (NFTs) of its Birkin handbags...
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Smart Contact Lens Diagnoses, Treats Glaucoma
A smart contact lens can monitor intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma patients and deliver medications in response to IOP levels.
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AI Bot ChatGPT Needs Some Help With Math Assignments
Large language models supply grammatically correct answers but struggle with calculations.
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Cash-strapped Twitter to Start Charging Developers for API Access
Twitter cutting off free access to its API will block research, kill fun bots.
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DARPA's Quantum Computing is Powered by ... FOMO
Microsoft and friends happy to assuage Uncle Sam's anxiety — for a price.
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Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI
Bad actors use artificial intelligence to propagate falsehoods and upset elections, but the same tools can be repurposed to defend the truth.
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Has the World's First Unhackable Chip Arrived?
Sinanoglu's backers include the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense, which is supporting his research through its Defense Advanced Research...
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AI Has Designed Bacteria-Killing Proteins from Scratch
A multi-institutional team of California researchers engineered an artificial intelligence to design bacteria-destroying proteins that actually worked.
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ML Approach May Aid Water Conservation Push
Researchers used survey data from 3,000 residents of Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Denver to determine which are likely to alter their behaviors to conserve water in...
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