Robot Teams Win DARPA Subterranean Challenge
The teams behind the real and virtual robots named as winners shared a total of $5 million in prize money.
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AI and Sustainability: Where Are We and What’s Next?
Researchers are exchanging views and proposing solutions as questions around AI's environmental impact become more urgent.
In Space, No One Can Fix Your Sign Errors
Once you've left the Earth, the simple inversion of a critical parameter can cause a mission to fail.
The Outlook for Virtual Meetups
Future online meetings could include people in disparate locations cutting a virtual birthday cake together.
Google’s AI Upscaling Technology Outperforms Previous Models
New models developed by the search giant upgrade the resolution of photos.
Language Imitation Games and the Arrival of Broad and Shallow AI
On the impact of large language models.
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Protecting Today from Tomorrow
Crafting more difficult algorithms to protect secrets so they are resilient to future quantum computers is creating, in effect, post-quantum cryptography.
Frode Hegland has developed three remarkable tools for text generation, viewing, and referencing that illustrate the power of applying computing to text.
Technical Perspective: Liquid Testing Using Built-in Phone Sensors
"Liquid Testing with Your Smartphone," by Shichao Yue and Dina Katabi, proposes a novel technique for determining the surface tension of a liquid by leveraging the optical absorption of waves propagating on the fluid surface.
Algorithms can have a devastating impact on people's lives, especially if they already are struggling economically.
The introduction of the nanosheet transistor is just one step in the continuing attempt to stick to the spirit of Moore's Law.
Two-dimensional materials — graphene and its cousins — could enable better integrated circuits.
Beyond the pandemic, organizations need to recognize what digital assets, interactions, and communication processes reap the most benefits from virtual reality.
Remaining Connected Throughout Design
Applying the unique experiences of designing technologies for vulnerable communities.
Software Development in Disruptive Times
Creating a software solution with fast decision capability, agile project management, and extreme low-code technology.
Human Detection of Machine-Manipulated Media
Technologies for manipulating and faking online media may outpace people's ability to tell the difference.
Liquid Testing with Your Smartphone
We show a simple and accurate approach to measuring surface tension that's available to anyone with a smartphone.
AI Calling ET: How Artificial Intelligence Supports the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Researchers increasingly ask AI whether anybody is out there.
Dialing the Trust Level Down to Zero
With cybersecurity under increasing attacks, experts say we should move to the Zero Trust Architecture.
Who is Camille Noûs, who has contributed to hundreds of papers on Google Scholar?
By 2019, I generally thought there wasn't much that could surprise me about organizing meetups. Then Covid-19 hit. I was so wrong.
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