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NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Candidate Cracked
It took researchers in Belgium just an hour to crack the SIKE cryptographic algorithm.
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Tennessee High School Students Build Robotic Hand for Classmate
Students at Henderson high school in Tennessee constructed a robotic hand for classmate Sergio Peralta, whose right hand was not fully formed.
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Startup's Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail
"...it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom."
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An Unprecedented Look at Colorectal Cancer
Researchers at Harvard Medical School created large-scale two-dimensional and three-dimensional spatial maps of colorectal cancer that layer molecular information...
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Color Images from the Shadow of a Sample
Researchers at Göttingen University have developed a new method for X-ray color imaging.
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U.S. Intelligence Wants to Use Psychology to Avert Cyberattacks
IARPA scientists are taking up the nascent field of cyber psychology to predict and counter hacker behavior.
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This Startup Is Using AI to Unearth New Smells
Google Research spinout Osmo wants to find substitutes for hard-to-source aromas. The tech could inspire new perfumes—and help combat mosquito-borne diseases.
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Muscle-Powered Robots Have Freedom of Movement
Researchers collaborated on the construction of remote-controlled electronic biological robots powered by organic muscles.
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Art, AI Collide in Landmark Legal Dispute
Human artists and artificial intelligence companies are disputing generative AI-intellectual property in a landmark legal case.
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LG, Whirlpool Target Customers Disconnected from 'Smart' Appliances
Appliance manufacturers LG Electronics and Whirlpool are trying to entice customers whose "smart" appliances are not connected to the Internet to embrace the technology...
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Teaching In The Age Of AI Means Getting Creative
ChatGPT and similar AI systems are being used in realms beyond education, but classrooms seem to be where fears about the bot's misuse — and ideas to adapt alongside...
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Swedish Quantum Computer to be Made Available to Industry
A Swedish quantum computer is to become more widely available.
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Rentokil Pilots Facial Recognition System as Way to Exterminate Rats
U.K. pest control services provider Rentokil is testing facial recognition software as a tool for rat extermination.
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Decoding Brainwaves to Identify What Music Is Being Listened To
A brainwave-monitoring technique created by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Essex can identify to which specific piece of music people are listening.
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Faces from Ancient Egypt Coming Back to Life in Extraordinary Detail
Researchers at the U.K.'s Liverpool John Moores University and Egypt's Cairo University used software and a "reverse aging" process to replicate ancient Egyptian...
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CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn't Disclose That Fact, Staff Say
"They use AI to rewrite the intros every two weeks or so because Google likes updated content. Eventually it gets so mangled that about every four months a real...
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The AI Magic Show
Explanations about how deep learning and large language models actually work often emphasized incomprehensibility, or a model's explainability or interpretability...
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Finally, a Fast Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Negative Graphs
Researchers can now find the shortest route through a network nearly as fast as theoretically possible, even when some steps can cancel out others.
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TAU Robot Can 'Smell' Odors Using Biological Sensor
Scientists at Israel's Tel Aviv University have created a biological sensor to help robots detect and interpret odors.
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3D Printing Reaches New Heights with Two-Story Home
A massive three-dimensional printer is being used to build what is thought to be the first 3D-printed two-story home in the U.S.
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