The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to...The New York Times From ACM News | March 16, 2023
Researchers at the Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology are chasing quantum efficiency.
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed an autonomous robot, ALAN, that can make decisions and complete tasks based on its observations of its environment...Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2023
The first successful delivery of a human donor lung by aerial drone in Toronto, Canada, has implications for the future of transplant science.
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Data modeling systems developed by researchers at Norwegian research and development organization SINTEF can extrapolate new insights from vast datasets using digital...SINTEF (Norway) From ACM TechNews | March 14, 2023
A "cyborg" technique developed by Harvard University researchers can monitor the functional maturation of heart tissue using nanoelectronics.
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Even as start-ups and investors began recovering their money from Silicon Valley Bank, the episode exposed the tech industry's vulnerabilities.
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Computer scientists analyzed the trailers of 29,000 North American movies released from 1960 to 2019 to identify the dominant colors used in individual films, genres...University of Waterloo (Canada) From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2023
Researchers at Google and Germany's Technical University of Berlin recently debuted PaLM-E, described as the largest visual-language model ever created.
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The Stable Diffusion artificial intelligence algorithm can read functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans to replicate images people have recently...Science From ACM TechNews | March 13, 2023
The Saildrone Surveyor unmanned surface vehicle has completed the mapping of the previously uncharted ocean floor off the Alaska and California coasts.
FOX Weather From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2023
Researchers recently demonstrated that a miniature robot could travel autonomously to a superficial femoral artery in a pig, deliver contrast dye, and return safely...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2023
A molecular sensing system used by researchers at Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem can enter plant cells to identify potential crop diseases.
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The researchers demonstrated the technique is scalable at the wafer level, which would make it an attractive option for future quantum computing.
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