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May 9, 2024

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Robotic System Feeds People With Severe Mobility Limitations

May 9, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robotic feeding system that uses computer vision, machine learning and multimodal sensing to safely feed people with severe mobility limitations, including those with spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy and multiple ...

New Study Finds AI-Generated Empathy Has Its Limits

May 8, 2024 — Conversational agents (CAs) such as Alexa and Siri are designed to answer questions, offer suggestions -- and even display empathy. However, new research finds they do poorly compared to humans when interpreting and exploring a user's ...

New Super-Pure Silicon Chip Opens Path to Powerful Quantum Computers

May 7, 2024 — Researchers have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step ...

Experiment Opens Door for Millions of Qubits on One Chip

May 6, 2024 — Researchers have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor. The breakthrough opens up the possibility of integrating millions of these qubits on a single chip using mature ...

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AI Deciphers New Gene Regulatory Code in Plants and Makes Accurate Predictions for Newly Sequenced Genomes

Apr. 26, 2024 — Elucidating the relationship between the sequences of non-coding regulatory elements and their target genes is key to understanding gene regulation ...

Engineers Develop Innovative Microbiome Analysis Software Tools

May 7, 2024 — Engineers have developed two new graph-based computational tools for tracking genomic variation within ...

Cybersecurity Education Varies Widely in US

May 6, 2024 — Cybersecurity programs vary dramatically across the country, a review has found. The authors argue that program leaders should work with professional societies to make sure graduates are well trained ...

VR May Pose Privacy Risks for Kids: A New Study Finds Parents Aren't as Worried as They Should Be

May 6, 2024 — New research finds that, while an increasing number of minors are using virtual reality (VR) apps, not many parents recognize the extent of the ...

Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch Sensitivity

May 3, 2024 — A stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of ...

Scientists Show That There Is Indeed an 'Entropy' of Quantum Entanglement

May 1, 2024 — Scientists have shown, through probabilistic calculations, that there is indeed, as had been hypothesized, a rule of 'entropy' for the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. This finding could help ...

Science Has an AI Problem: This Group Says They Can Fix It

May 1, 2024 — A team of 19 prominent researchers has published guidelines for the responsible use of machine learning in science. They say it could avert a crisis that's smoldering in every ...

Researchers Unlock Potential of 2D Magnetic Devices for Future Computing

May 1, 2024 — A research team has created an innovative method to control tiny magnetic states within ultrathin, two-dimensional van der Waals magnets -- a process akin to how flipping a light switch controls a ...

Physicists Build New Device That Is Foundation for Quantum Computing

May 1, 2024 — Scientists have adapted a device called a microwave circulator for use in quantum computers, allowing them for the first time to precisely tune the exact degree of nonreciprocity between a qubit, the ...

Improved AI Process Could Better Predict Water Supplies

May 1, 2024 — A new computer model uses a better artificial intelligence process to measure snow and water availability more accurately across vast distances in the West, information that could someday be used to ...

Toxic Chemicals Can Be Detected With New AI Method

May 2, 2024 — Researchers have developed an AI method that improves the identification of toxic chemicals -- based solely on knowledge of the molecular structure. The method can contribute to better control and ...

Machine Listening: Making Speech Recognition Systems More Inclusive

Apr. 30, 2024 — One group commonly misunderstood by voice technology are individuals who speak African American English, or AAE. Researchers designed an experiment to test how AAE speakers adapt their speech when ...

Researchers Develop a New Way to Instruct Dance in Virtual Reality

Apr. 29, 2024 — Virtual reality dance made easier with crowd wave technique. Open source code can be downloaded for Quest 2 and ...

Computer Scientists Unveil Novel Attacks on Cybersecurity

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors ...

New Algorithm Cuts Through 'Noisy' Data to Better Predict Tipping Points

Apr. 26, 2024 — A new algorithm can identify the most predictive data points that a tipping point is ...

From Disorder to Order: Flocking Birds and 'Spinning' Particles

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that ferromagnetism, an ordered state of atoms, can be induced by increasing particle motility and that repulsive forces between atoms are sufficient to maintain it. The ...

High-Precision Blood Glucose Level Prediction Achieved by Few-Molecule Reservoir Computing

Apr. 26, 2024 — A collaborative research team has successfully developed a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) device that executes brain-like information processing through few-molecule reservoir computing. ...

Built-in Bionic Computing

Apr. 26, 2024 — The use of pliable soft materials to collaborate with humans and work in disaster areashas drawn much recent attention. However, controlling soft dynamics for practical applications has remained a ...

Computer Vision Researcher Develops Privacy Software for Surveillance Videos

Apr. 25, 2024 — Computer vision can be a valuable tool for anyone tasked with analyzing hours of footage because it can speed up the process of identifying individuals. For example, law enforcement may use it to ...

AI in Medicine: The Causality Frontier

Apr. 25, 2024 — Machines can learn not only to make predictions, but also to handle causal relationships. An international research team shows how this could make therapies safer, more efficient, and more ...

Artificial Intelligence Helps Scientists Engineer Plants to Fight Climate Change

Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists are using artificial intelligence software to analyze plant root systems, laying out a protocol that can be applied to gather data on crop and model plant phenotypes (physical ...

Scientists Tune the Entanglement Structure in an Array of Qubits

Apr. 24, 2024 — A new technique can generate batches of certain entangled states in a quantum processor. This advance could help scientists study the fundamental quantum property of entanglement and enable them to ...

New Study Reveals How AI Can Enhance Flexibility, Efficiency for Customer Service Centers

Apr. 24, 2024 — AI is a valuable asset, so long as it's used properly, though customer service organizations shouldn't rely on it exclusively to guide their strategies, according to new ...

On the Trail of Deepfakes, Researchers Identify 'Fingerprints' of AI-Generated Video

Apr. 24, 2024 — According to new research, current methods for detecting manipulated digital media will not be effective against AI-generated video; but a machine-learning approach could be the key to unmasking ...

Computer Game in School Made Students Better at Detecting Fake News

Apr. 24, 2024 — A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...

Holographic Displays Offer a Glimpse Into an Immersive Future

Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have invented a new optical element that brings us one step closer to mixing the real and virtual worlds in an ordinary pair of eyeglasses using high-definition 3D holographic ...

Opening Up the Potential of Thin-Film Electronics for Flexible Chip Design

Apr. 24, 2024 — The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large 'semiconductor fabrication plants' or 'foundries'. New research by shows that ...

A Novel Universal Light-Based Technique to Control Valley Polarization in Bulk Materials

Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists report a new method that achieves for the first time valley polarization in centrosymmetric bulk materials in a non-material-specific way. This 'universal technique' may have ...

This Tiny Chip Can Safeguard User Data While Enabling Efficient Computing on a Smartphone

Apr. 23, 2024 — A new chip can efficiently accelerate machine-learning workloads on edge devices like smartphones while protecting sensitive user data from two common types of attacks -- side-channel attacks and ...

Unlocking Spin Current Secrets: A New Milestone in Spintronics

Apr. 23, 2024 — Using neutron scattering and voltage measurements, a group of researchers have discovered that a material's magnetic properties can predict spin current changes with temperature. The finding is ...