Category: 3. Tech

Researchers have utilized AI to uncover new insights into dislocations in polycrystalline materials, challenging existing scientific models and paving the way for enhanced material performance in electronics and solar cells. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have used artificial intelligence to discover a new method for understanding small defects called dislocations in polycrystalline…

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter (technically a rotorcraft) has made dozens of tiny aerial jaunts across Mars since first arriving on the planet in February 2021, but its latest flight set a new record for the tiny aircraft. On December 21, NASA reported Ingenuity’s 69th flight was also its farthest, according to its flight log—over 135 seconds,…

Some Apple users are eligible to receive a small chunk of change as part of a $25 million lawsuit settlement related to the tech company’s Family Sharing feature. Earlier this month, Apple agreed to allocate funds for users enrolled with at least one other person in the popular subscription sharing system between June 21, 2015…

EPFL researchers have developed a groundbreaking algorithm that efficiently trains analog neural networks, offering an energy-efficient alternative to traditional digital networks. This method, which aligns more closely with human learning, has shown promising results in wave-based physical systems and aims to reduce the environmental impact of deep neural networks. (AI-generated DALL-E 3 conceptual image depicting…

Artificial intelligence programs easily and consistently outplay human competitors in cognitively intensive games like chess, poker, and Go—but it’s much harder for robots to beat their biological rivals in games requiring physical dexterity. That performance gap appears to be shortening, however, starting with a classic children’s puzzle game. Researchers at Switzerland’s ETH Zurich recently unveiled…

December 21, 2023 3 min read Large language model does better than human mathematicians trying to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine In the game Set, players must identify combinations of cards based on the shape, colour, shading and number of symbols. The card game Set…

An interdisciplinary team has found that AI models, particularly the Transformer, process memory in a manner similar to the human brain’s hippocampus. This breakthrough suggests that applying neuroscience principles, like those of the NMDA receptor, to AI can improve memory functions, advancing the field of AI and offering insights into human brain function. Credit: SciTechDaily.com…

Is your dog bothered by something but you can’t work out what? Do you wish they could tell you? There’s a huge range of dog “talking” buttons on the market that now claim to let your dog do this. A very basic kit will set you back about $15, while more sophisticated ones can cost…

On Monday, December 18, 2023 a volcano erupted about four kilometers (2.5 miles) away from a town called Grindavik in southwestern Iceland, the land of fire and ice. The region around the volcano was evacuated weeks ago as a precaution when seismic activity increased and started to cause some damage to local homes. The eruption…

Rite Aid is banned from utilizing facial recognition programs within any of its stores for the next five years. The pharmacy retail chain agreed to the ban as part of a Federal Trade Commission settlement regarding “reckless use” of the surveillance technology which “left its customers facing humiliation and other harms,” according to Samuel Levine,…