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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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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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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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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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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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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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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Crowdsourced Feedback Helps Train Robots
A reinforcement learning approach trains robots using crowdsourced feedback from nonexpert users.
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Photonic Chip 'Fits Together Like Lego'
A new compact silicon photonic semiconductor chip significantly expands radio-frequency (RF) bandwidth.
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Creating Virtual Objects with the Flick of a Finger
Researchers in the U.K. designed a system that allows the use of quick hand gestures to select tools to create objects and designs in virtual environments.
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The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI
The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI's board exploded all their carefully laid plans.
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Scientists Develop More Efficient Way to Transmit Data Between Devices
Researchers demonstrated a lower-power method for transmitting data at close range while maintaining high throughput using electric, rather than electromagnetic...
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Robot Can Tidy Up Clothes in a Messy Bedroom
Ken Goldberg at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues developed a robot system to efficiently pick up strewn clothes.
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