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What Would the Chatbot Say?
Seeking to explain the unanticipated abilities of large language models.
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Jewelry Designers Speak Up for People with Hearing Issues
Patrizia Marti at Siena University in Italy is developing a line of smart jewelry to help hearing-impaired people perceive sound.
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Pay Users to Spot Bias in AI, Say Top Researchers
Leading researchers have proposed a system of financially rewarding users to spot bias in algorithms.
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Microsoft Throws Weight Behind Open Data Movement
Microsoft has announced its support for the open data movement.
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China, Huawei Propose Reinvention of the Internet
Huawei, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have proposed a new standard for core network technology.
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Education Robots Offer Leg-Up to Disadvantaged Students
Some education experts think robots can help disadvantaged children.
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China Tech Groups Censored Information About Coronavirus
Researchers said Chinese social media platforms censored keywords related to the coronavirus outbreak as early as December, potentially limiting the Chinese public's...
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Automation Finds Home in Building Design
Startup Higharc iteratively creates customized three-dimensional home designs via algorithmic modeling.
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How to Design AI that Eliminates Disability Bias
AI has proven to magnify the prejudices that skew human decision making against women and ethnic minorities.
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Digital Twins Give Urban Planners Virtual Edge
Digital twins give urban planners, policymakers, resource managers, asset owners, and citizens more dynamic tools and information about their smart cities.
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U.S. to Ground Civilian Drone Program on Concerns Over China Tech
The U.S. Department of the Interior reportedly plans to permanently ground a civilian drone fleet, because the approximately 1,000 drones are partly sourced from...
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Tech Start-up Develops AR Contact Lenses
Start-up Mojo Vision is developing augmented reality contact lenses to allow wearers access to the Internet in real time.
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Wall Street Banks Ramp Up Research Into Quantum Finance
Wall Street banks are accelerating their research into quantum computing.
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3D Printing Offers Hope of Building Human Organs From Scratch
Scientists in Israel used three-dimensional (3D) printing to create perfusable cardiac tissue that was able to beat.
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Race Is on to Build Quantum-Proof Encryption
Experts say quantum computing could upend data security encryption systems, which rely on factoring large prime numbers—a task easily scalable with the power provided...
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Novartis, Microsoft Join Forces to Develop Drugs Using AI
Novartis and Microsoft have agreed to a five-year partnership to use artificial intelligence (AI) to develop new drugs faster, and with greater precision.
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Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix, Facebook
A new study has found that certain smart TVs and streaming dongles transmit information to Netflix, Facebook, and third-party services, in some cases even when...
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Computing 'Boot Camp' is Showing that 'Anyone Can Be a Coder'
School of Code is a U.K.-based startup that offers 15 weeks of free training at a "boot camp" for computer programming.
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Cybersecurity Companies Race to Combat 'Deepfake' Technology
Cybersecurity firms are researching techniques to foil potential deepfake attacks.
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EU Plans Sweeping Regulation of Facial Recognition
The European Commission is planning regulation that will entitle European Union citizens to control the use of their facial recognition data.
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