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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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U.K. Says Russia Has Targeted Lawmakers and Others in Cyberattacks for Years
The government said a group linked to Russia's intelligence service carried out sustained operations to undermine trust in Britain's political system.
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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows
COBOL is one of the top mainframe programming languages in use, but most schools and universities have not taught COBOL in decades.
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Samet Honored with ACM SIGSPATIAL Lifetime Impact Award
Hanan Samet was honored with the inaugural Lifetime Impact Award from ACM’s Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (SIGSPATIAL).
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Bitcoin Mining Used More Water Than New York City Last Year
A study found that water use by bitcoin miners hit 591 billion gallons so far this year, up from 415 billion gallons in 2021.
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AI Networks Vulnerable to Attacks
Tianfu Wu at North Carolina State University and colleagues developed the QuadAttacK software to test deep neural networks for adversarial vulnerabilities.
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2D Material Reshapes 3D Electronics for Hardware
An international team developed a monolithic three dimensional integrated chip comprised of layered two-dimensional materials.
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Bots, Fraud Farms Responsible for 73% of Web Traffic
Arkose Labs reported malicious attacks by bots and human fraud farms accounted for 73% of all Web and app traffic in the third quarter of 2023.
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Drones Protect Wind Turbines from Ice
Researchers developed a method to protect wind turbines from ice using drones.
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DARPA-Funded Research Leads to Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Harvard-led team develops novel logical qubits to enable scalable quantum computers.
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Google's Gemini Is Not the Generative AI Model We Expected
DeepMind product VP Eli Collins claims Gemini Ultra can comprehend "nuanced" information in text, images, audio and code.
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A Drone with Ears
Researchers developed a microphone array that can be added to drones, along with cameras, to help locate disaster victims.
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Network of Robots Monitors Pipes Using Acoustic Wave Sensors
Researchers showed that guided acoustic wave sensors can enable networks of independent robots to inspect large pipe structures for defects.
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Wearable Communication System Could Reduce Digital Health Divide
University of Arizona (UA) researchers developed a wearable monitoring system that can send health data up to 15 miles without major infrastructure.
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How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.'s Harms
Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the U.S. and others are trying to respond, but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies...
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Magnetic Revolution: Diamonds and Rust Rewrite Physics Textbooks
The researchers observed that magnetic monopoles in hematite emerge through the collective behavior of many spins (the angular momentum of a particle).
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Researchers Taught an Algorithm to 'Taste'
Scientists taught an algorithm to better predict an individual's tastes in wines.
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A Simpler Means for Visible Light Communication
Researchers at China's Nanchang University have developed a visible light communication (VLC) equalizer based on a single-order circuit.
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Using LLMs to Code New Tasks for Robots
A research team developed a tool that uses large language models to code new tasks for robots, which it then simulates.
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