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‘Smart’ Tech Is Coming to a City Near You

Apr. 25, 2023 — Confusion, concern when it comes to smart cities: Americans worry that the promise and peril of smart city tech ranging from air quality sensors to gunshot detectors will not be evenly felt across …

AI-Equipped Eyeglasses Read Silent Speech

Apr. 6, 2023 — Researchers have developed a silent-speech recognition interface that uses acoustic-sensing and artificial intelligence to continuously recognize up to 31 unvocalized commands, based on lip and mouth …

How to Overcome Noise in Quantum Computations

Apr. 6, 2023 — Scientists have made significant progress in quantum computing by deriving a formula that predicts the effects of environmental noise. This is crucial for designing and building quantum computers …

DMI Allows Magnon-Magnon Coupling in Hybrid Perovskites

Apr. 4, 2023 — An international group of researchers has created a mixed magnon state in an organic hybrid perovskite material by utilizing the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya-Interaction (DMI). The resulting material has …

Students Use Machine Learning in Lesson Designed to Reveal Issues, Promise of A.I.

Apr. 4, 2023 — In a new study, researchers had 28 high school students create their own machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) models for analyzing data. The goals of the project were to help students …

Absolute Zero in the Quantum Computer

Apr. 4, 2023 — Absolute zero cannot be reached — unless you have an infinite amount of energy or an infinite amount of time. Scientists in Vienna (Austria) studying the connection between thermodynamics and …

New Cyber Software Can Verify How Much Knowledge AI Really Knows

Apr. 4, 2023 — With a growing interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide, researchers have created software that is able to verify how much information an AI farmed from an …

Origami-Inspired Robots Can Sense, Analyze and Act in Challenging Environments

Apr. 3, 2023 — A multidisciplinary team has created a new fabrication technique for fully foldable robots that can perform a variety of complex tasks without relying on …

Forgive or Forget: What Happens When Robots Lie?

Apr. 3, 2023 — Student researchers investigate how intentional robot deception affects trust, examining the effectiveness of apologies after robots …

AI Algorithm Unblurs the Cosmos

Mar. 31, 2023 — Researchers adapted a well-known computer-vision algorithm used for sharpening photos and, for the first time, applied it to astronomical images from ground-based telescopes. While astrophysicists …

Prototype Taps Into the Sensing Capabilities of Any Smartphone to Screen for Prediabetes

Mar. 30, 2023 — Researchers at the University of Washington have developed GlucoScreen, a system that could enable people to self-screen for …

New Details of SARS-COV-2 Structure

Mar. 30, 2023 — Researchers used computational modeling to reveal finer details surrounding the outer shell of the COVID-19 virus. The work expands the scientific community’s understanding of SARS-COV-2, and …

Can AI Predict How You’ll Vote in the Next Election?

Mar. 30, 2023 — Artificial intelligence technologies like ChatGPT are seemingly doing everything these days: writing code, composing music, and even creating images so realistic you’ll think they were taken by …

New Chip Design to Provide Greatest Precision in Memory to Date

Mar. 30, 2023 — Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the hardware on which it runs. But it is hardware become ‘the bottleneck.’ …

AI Could Set a New Bar for Designing Hurricane-Resistant Buildings

Mar. 30, 2023 — Being able to withstand hurricane-force winds is the key to a long life for many buildings on the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast of the U.S. Determining the right level of winds to design for is …

Magnon-Based Computation Could Signal Computing Paradigm Shift

Mar. 29, 2023 — Thanks to a breakthrough in the field of magnonics, researchers have sent and stored data using charge-free magnetic waves, rather than traditional electron flows. The discovery could solve the …

First Silicon Integrated ECRAM for a Practical AI Accelerator

Mar. 28, 2023 — The transformative changes brought by deep learning and artificial intelligence are accompanied by immense costs. For example, OpenAI’s ChatGPT algorithm costs at least $100,000 every day to …

AI ‘Brain’ Created from Core Materials for OLED TVs

Mar. 24, 2023 — A research team develops semiconductor devices for high-performance AI operations by applying IGZO materials widely used in OLED …

New in-Home AI Tool Monitors the Health of Elderly Residents

Mar. 23, 2023 — Engineers are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless technology to unobtrusively monitor elderly people in their living spaces and provide early detection of emerging health …

Optical Switching at Record Speeds Opens Door for Ultrafast, Light-Based Electronics and Computers

Mar. 22, 2023 — Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now, imagine that being the industry standard. Physicists hope to pave the way for that …