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September 2023


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Soft Robot Walks by Repeatedly Blowing Itself Up

Soft Robot Walks by Repeatedly Blowing Itself Up

Researchers at Cornell University and Israel's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have engineered a soft quadruped robot that locomotes via internal combustion.


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ChatGPT Can Now Generate Images

ChatGPT Can Now Generate Images

OpenAI has integrated a new version of its DALL-E image generator into its ChatGPT online chatbot.


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Sentinel Satellites Map Methane Super-Emitters

Sentinel Satellites Map Methane Super-Emitters

An international team of researchers has developed an algorithm that uses machine learning to automatically detect methane super-emitter plumes in data from satellites.


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Machine Learning Models Can Produce Reliable Results with Limited Training Data

Machine Learning Models Can Produce Reliable Results with Limited Training Data

Researchers demonstrated that machine learning models can generate reliable results even with limited training data.


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3D Insights into an Innovative Manufacturing Process

3D Insights into an Innovative Manufacturing Process

Researchers used three-dimensional (3D) tomography to document the laser-based power bed fusion process of 3D printing at the microscopic level.


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Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Big Cache of Data

Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Big Cache of Data

Scientists at cloud security company Wiz discovered Microsoft artificial intelligence researchers accidentally compromised a large collection of private data.


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Researchers Unlock Chip-Based Thermionic Cooling for Quantum Computers

Researchers Unlock Chip-Based Thermionic Cooling for Quantum Computers

Researchers at Finland's VTT Technical Research Center designed a device that could potentially cut cooling costs for dilution-refrigerated quantum computers 10-fold.


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Capturing Carbon

Capturing Carbon

Can carbon-capture technologies take the heat off climate change?


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Machine Learning Innovation Reduces Computer Power Usage

Machine Learning Innovation Reduces Computer Power Usage

A new machine learning framework can manage power usage to reduce energy consumption in multi-core computer processors.


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Amazon Adapts Cashierless Tech for Clothing Stores

Amazon Adapts Cashierless Tech for Clothing Stores

A new version of retail giant Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless shopping technology for clothing vendors keeps track of apparel via radio-frequency identification (RFID).


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Driverless Car Company Using Chatbots to Make Its Vehicles Smarter

Driverless Car Company Using Chatbots to Make Its Vehicles Smarter

U.K.-based driverless car company Wayve has tapped chatbot technology to question its vehicles about their driving decisions.


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Nanophotonics Flattens Camera Lenses

Nanophotonics Flattens Camera Lenses

Nanoscale meta-optics holds the promise of improved imaging while removing the bulges from smartphones.


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How Scientists Are Cracking Historical Codes to Reveal Lost Secrets

How Scientists Are Cracking Historical Codes to Reveal Lost Secrets

The DECRYPT project, a collaboration of linguists and computer scientists, aims to automate the process of cracking historical ciphers.


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Study Decodes Surprising Approach Mice Take in Learning

Study Decodes Surprising Approach Mice Take in Learning

Neuroscientists studied the behavior of mice in a learn-reward situation, with the aim of teaching the mice to turn a wheel left or right to receive a reward.


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Asian Games Landmark for eSports Fires Olympic Dreams

Asian Games Landmark for eSports Fires Olympic Dreams

At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, eSports players will have the opportunity to medal for the first time.

The event, which begins Sept. 23, will see eSports players compete in seven games: EA Sports FC, PUBG Mobile, Arena…


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How to Tell if Your A.I. Is Conscious

How to Tell if Your A.I. Is Conscious

In a new report, scientists offer a list of measurable qualities that might indicate the presence of some presence in a machine.


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Israel Builds Airspace Network of Drones

Israel Builds Airspace Network of Drones

Autonomous air taxis were demonstrated in Jerusalem, Israel, last week, taking off from Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital and flying over the city before landing back at the medical center.


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Breakthrough Way to Train Neuromorphic Chips

Breakthrough Way to Train Neuromorphic Chips

A research team has developed a neuromorphic chip that does not require training via external software.


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See-Through Sensors Hide Eye-Tracking in Plain Sight

See-Through Sensors Hide Eye-Tracking in Plain Sight

Semi-transparent image sensors could be incorporated into eyeglasses or curved windshields in front of a user's eyes, with their readout electronics positioned on the side.


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Brain Surgery Visualization using NavTech from Self-Driving Cars

Brain Surgery Visualization using NavTech from Self-Driving Cars

Scientists created a real-time endoscopic neurosurgery guidance method similar to the navigational technologies used in autonomous cars.


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Drones Tackle Shark Safety on New York's Beaches

Drones Tackle Shark Safety on New York's Beaches

Safety officials at New York's Jones Beach are using drones to monitor for potential human-shark interactions.


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Japan's SLIM Moon Lander Is Carrying a Transforming Ball Robot

Japan's SLIM Moon Lander Is Carrying a Transforming Ball Robot

Last week, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the Smart Lander for Investigation Moon probe with a small, spherical lunar explorer aboard.


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AI Regulation Takes Baby Steps on Capitol Hill

AI Regulation Takes Baby Steps on Capitol Hill

The meeting came amidst a week of frenetic activity on AI legislation.


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Helping Computer Vision, Language Models Understand What They See

Helping Computer Vision, Language Models Understand What They See

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other researchers developed a technique that uses computer-generated data to help vision and language models better understand concepts.


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Private Equity Recruits Data-Science Talent as Industry Tackles Machine Learning

Private Equity Recruits Data-Science Talent as Industry Tackles Machine Learning

Private equity firms integrating machine learning and data analytics into their investment processes increasingly are turning to data-science experts to interpret data for investors.


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Study Explains Role of Certain Types of Oxide in Structure, Development of Specialty Glass

Study Explains Role of Certain Types of Oxide in Structure, Development of Specialty Glass

Researchers used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and computational modeling to demonstrate silica network polymerization.


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The U.S. Challenges Google's Search Dominance

The U.S. Challenges Google's Search Dominance

Google's search dominance is going on trial in the biggest U.S. antitrust case since a crackdown on Big Tech that started in 2019.


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A Case That Rhymes With Microsoft

A Case That Rhymes With Microsoft

The prevailing lesson of the Microsoft case, antitrust lawyers say, is that scrutiny from Washington can slow down a company, even when there are no grievous penalties.


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AI Project Imagines Adult Faces of Children Who Disappeared During Argentina's Military Dictatorship

AI Project Imagines Adult Faces of Children Who Disappeared During Argentina's Military Dictatorship

Argentine publicist Santiago Barros uses an app to produce images of what children taken from their parents during Argentina's military dictatorship might look like today.


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Researchers Discover Thousands of Transformable Knots

Researchers Discover Thousands of Transformable Knots

Researchers discovered thousands of new transformable knots via a computational pipeline combining randomized spatial sampling and physics modeling.

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