AlphaFold Spreads through Protein Science
Based on machine learning, DeepMind's code now lies at the heart of a variety of protein-structure tools and workflows. It may ultimately be replaced by models that are bigger but faster.
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Securing Data for Business Telephones
Cybersecurity consultant Alex Tray looks at potential security issues, and solutions, for business telephone systems.
ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?
The specter is that when fully mature, this technology would be able to generate undetectable attacks and the defenders will be constantly fighting these fires. I do not subscribe to this dystopian view of the future.
Lighting the Way at Nanometer Scales
Light waves bouncing around could replace a significant portion of digital computation.
Smartphone-based Satellite Connectivity to Move Beyond Emergency Services
Different approaches emerge in the race to provide direct-to-satellite smartphone services.
Leveraging scalable pointer analysis, value analysis, and dynamic analysis.
Protecting Autonomous Cars from Phantom Attacks
Enabling object detectors to better distinguish between real and fake objects in semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles.
Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.
Technical Perspective: On Abstractions and Embedded Networks
"Symbol-Synchronous Buses," by Jonathan Oostvogels et al., conceives a notion of a symbol-synchronous bus, which effectively makes a multi-hop wireless network behave like a single wire.
Symbol-Synchronous Buses: Deterministic, Low-Latency Wireless Mesh Networking with LEDs
We describe a novel networking paradigm that aims to enable a new class of latency-sensitive applications by systematically breaking networking abstractions.
Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220%
Researchers at the Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology are chasing quantum efficiency.
A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations
Reconsidering liability shield considerations.
A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance
Technologists who understand and measure cyber risk can motivate policyholders to improve security.
AI and Neurotechnology: Learning from AI Ethics to Address an Expanded Ethics Landscape
The merging of machine, body, and psyche is on the horizon due to the technological advancements enabled by neuroscience and AI.
Management and technology challenges of AI-enabled application projects.
Fending off Cyberattacks on Collaborative Robots
Hackers leverage IoT, IIoT vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to cobots.
Feather-light yet providing near-total shielding capability, MXenes effectively conduct electricity, tune frequencies, and enhance the integrity of communications signals better than traditional materials.
Ambient IoT Gets Down to Business
Highly flexible, inexpensive low-energy sensors combined with pervasive connectivity and artificial intelligence deliver real-time triggers without human intervention.
Space Robots Prepare to Grapple and Repair Satellites in Orbit
An interview with William Vincent, Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program manager at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
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.
HPC Forecast: Cloudy and Uncertain
An examination of how the technology landscape has changed and possible future directions for HPC operations and innovation.
An ancient Roman dispatched to find the greatest technological advances of the time may lose something of far greater importance.
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