AI
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Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
One of those systems is Israel’s Iron Dome, in which radar systems detect projectiles and then signal units to launch…
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My biotech petunia plants are dead.
Hodge says he got interested in the plants after reading an article about combating light pollution by using bioluminescent flora…
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Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool could help you figure out which ones to trust.
The Trustworthy Language Model draws on multiple techniques to calculate its scores. First, each query submitted to the tool is…
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The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and clean energy’s implications for mining
Until now, AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make them…
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Want less mining? Switch to clean energy.
Many minerals appear in small concentrations in source rock, so the process of extracting them has a large footprint relative…
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Hydrogen could be used for nearly everything. It probably shouldn’t be.
Beyond that, though, hydrogen will probably be most useful in industries where there aren’t other practical options already on the…
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An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
The more data points the AI system has on facial movements, microexpressions, head tilts, blinks, shrugs, and hand waves, the…
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A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person
“It’s an awfully exciting time,” says Andrew Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. “There is a…
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This creamy vegan cheese was made with AI
Using educated guesswork about which plants might perform well as substitutes, Climax food scientists have created more than 5,000 cheese…
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Almost every Chinese keyboard app has a security flaw that reveals what users type
The massive scale of the problem is compounded by the fact that these vulnerabilities aren’t hard to exploit. “You don’t…
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