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Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?
Advances in artificial intelligence tools that can code could improve productivity, but portend disruption.
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North American Companies Notch Another Record Year for Robot Orders
The Association for Advanced Automation reports slightly more than 44,100 robots were ordered by North American companies, mainly in the U.S., last year, up 11%...
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German Constitutional Court Strikes Down Predictive Algorithms for Policing
The systems were deemed unconstitutional as they violated the right to informational self-determination.
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3D-Printed Organs May Soon Be a Reality
Progress is being made in the development of three-dimensionally-bioprinted organs, with Tal Dvir at Israel's Tel Aviv University anticipating transplantation-viable...
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The Whale Prosthetics Blaze Trails with Technology
Makeup artist Adrien Morot used digital sculpting and three-dimensional printing to transform actor Brendan Fraser into the 600-pound protagonist of the movie The...
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Software Gives Police Real-Time Access to 911 Calls
California-based HigherGround's Live911 software allows police to access 911 emergency calls in real time, reducing their response time.
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Tesla Recalls All 362,758 Vehicles with Full Self-Driving Beta because It 'May Cause Crashes'
The recall notice applies to certain 2016-2023 Model S, Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles.
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'Spider-Man' Robot Can Climb Walls, Cling to Ceilings
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology have developed a quadrupedal robot able to climb metal walls and walk across metal ceilings....
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U.K. Government Sets Up Dedicated Department for Science, Technology
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the creation of the new cabinet-level department.
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Love Bytes
Georgia State University researchers are exposing how scammers exploit dating applications to defraud victims.
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U.S. Air Force Successfully Tests AI-Controlled Jet Fighter
The U.S. Air Force said the X-62A VISTA (Variable Stability In-Flight Simulator Test Aircraft) autonomous jet fighter had 17 hours of flight testing.
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Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits.
Missy Cummings, who spent more than a year at the federal auto safety agency, said that drivers were putting too much trust in systems like Tesla's Autopilot and...
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U.S. Border Patrol Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
After 16 years, the agency has implemented the software to cryptographically verify digital passport data—and it's already caught a dozen alleged fraudsters.
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Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
After a backlash, Spotify paused an arrangement that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.
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Google Vice President Warns AI Chatbots Are Hallucinating
Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan has warned the public about a little-known problem with artificial intelligence chatbots: they "hallucinate."
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Securing Supply Chains with Quantum Computing
One of the potential long-term solutions to solving complex optimization problems is to use quantum computers.
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Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants
As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.
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AI Tech Enables Industrial-Scale Intellectual-Property Theft, Say Critics
Grzegorz Rutkowski has become one of the most popular artists to copy using image-generating artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI's Dall-E 2 and Stability...
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Team Refines Precision of Medical Needles in Surgical Simulation
Computationally efficient mathematical models aim to improve the accuracy of flexible medical needles used in surgical simulation without adding unnecessary steps...
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Computing Guru Criticizes ChatGPT AI Tech for Making Things Up
Vint Cerf, who helped create the Internet's core network technology, hopes engineers can improve artificial intelligence's shortcoming.
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