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June 7, 2024

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Great News, Parents: You Do Have Power Over Your Tweens' Screen Use

June 5, 2024 — For many parents, it can feel like curbing kids' screen use is a losing battle. But new research has found the parenting practices that work best to curb screen time and addictive screen behavior: restricting screens in bedrooms and at mealtimes and ...

Internet Addiction Affects the Behavior and Development of Adolescents

June 4, 2024 — Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional addictive behavior and tendencies, finds a new ...

New Open-Source Platform Allows Users to Evaluate Performance of AI-Powered Chatbots

June 4, 2024 — Researchers have developed a platform for the interactive evaluation of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT. A team of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and cognitive scientists ...

Children's Visual Experience May Hold Key to Better Computer Vision Training

May 31, 2024 — A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate their surroundings could set the stage for the development of more advanced AI ...

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New Weapon Against Dementia

May 22, 2024 — The clumping of proteins is at the root of a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders that affect the brain such as Alzheimer's and dementia. Researchers have now developed a new tool that can help ...

An AI Leap Into Chemical Synthesis

May 8, 2024 — Scientists introduce a large language model-based AI system that revolutionizes chemistry by integrating 18 advanced tools for tasks like organic synthesis and drug ...

Chatbots Tell People What They Want to Hear

May 13, 2024 — Chatbots share limited information, reinforce ideologies, and, as a result, can lead to more polarized thinking when it comes to controversial issues, according to new research. The study challenges ...

A Simple Quantum Internet With Significant Possibilities

May 15, 2024 — It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to physically show ...

New Machine Learning Algorithm Promises Advances in Computing

May 9, 2024 — Systems controlled by next-generation computing algorithms could give rise to better and more efficient machine learning products, a new study ...

'Digital Afterlife': Call for Safeguards to Prevent Unwanted 'Hauntings' by AI Chatbots of Dead Loved Ones

May 8, 2024 — Researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging 'digital afterlife industry' causing social and psychological ...

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 this 'foundry' model ...

Artificial Intelligence Beats Doctors in Accurately Assessing Eye Problems

Apr. 17, 2024 — A study has found that the AI model GPT-4 significantly exceeds the ability of non-specialist doctors to assess eye problems and provide ...

Crucial Connection for 'Quantum Internet' Made for the First Time

Apr. 16, 2024 — Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum ...

Can Language Models Read the Genome? This One Decoded mRNA to Make Better Vaccines

Apr. 5, 2024 — Researchers developed a foundational language model to decode mRNA sequences and optimize those sequences for vaccine development. The tool shows ...

New Privacy-Preserving Robotic Cameras Obscure Images Beyond Human Recognition

Apr. 4, 2024 — In a bid to restore privacy, researchers have created a new approach to designing cameras that process and scramble visual information before it is digitized so that it becomes obscured to the point ...

100 Kilometers of Quantum-Encrypted Transfer

Apr. 2, 2024 — Researchers have taken a big step towards securing information against hacking. They have succeeded in using quantum encryption to securely transfer information 100 kilometers via fiber optic cable ...

Research Reveals Language Barriers Limit Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Resources

Apr. 1, 2024 — Non-English speaking internet users share the same concern about cyber threats and the same desire for online safety as any other individual. However, they are constrained by a lack of culturally and ...

Powerful New AI Can Predict People's Attitudes to Vaccines

Mar. 20, 2024 — A powerful new tool in artificial intelligence is able to predict whether someone is willing to be vaccinated against ...

New Study Shows How AI Can Help Us Better Understand Global Threats to Wildlife

Mar. 13, 2024 — Researchers used AI to scour information from websites and social media to map bat hunting and trade. Research found evidence of bat exploitation in 22 countries that had not previously been ...

Making Quantum Bits Fly

Mar. 6, 2024 — Physicists are developing a method that could enable the stable exchange of information in quantum computers. In the leading role: photons that make quantum bits ...

Compact Chips Advance Precision Timing for Communications, Navigation and Other Applications

Mar. 6, 2024 — Precision timing and synchronization are crucial for navigation, communication and radar systems. Scientists have built compact chips capable of converting light into microwaves, which could improve ...

AI Can Speed Design of Health Software

Mar. 6, 2024 — Artificial intelligence helped clinicians to accelerate the design of diabetes prevention software, a new study ...

Can You Tell AI-Generated People from Real Ones?

Mar. 6, 2024 — If you recently had trouble figuring out if an image of a person is real or generated through artificial intelligence (AI), you're not alone. A new study found that people had more difficulty ...

Online Digital Data and AI for Monitoring Biodiversity

Feb. 16, 2024 — Researchers propose a framework for integrating online digital data into biodiversity ...

AI-Powered App Can Detect Poison Ivy

Jan. 30, 2024 — To find poison ivy before it finds you, scientists have published a new study in which they show how they used artificial intelligence to confirm that an app can identify poison ivy. The app is not ...

Computer Scientists Invent Simple Method to Speed Cache Sifting

Jan. 24, 2024 — Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ...

Health Researchers Develop Software to Predict Diseases

Jan. 23, 2024 — IntelliGenes analyzes genomic data to discover biomarkers associated with health ...

Researchers Propose a Web 3.0 Streaming Architecture and Marketplace

Jan. 23, 2024 — Web 3.0 is a blockchain technology-based internet paradigm that is transparent and decentralized. But, Web 3.0 streaming services require modifications to the existing service structure due to ...

Researchers Unveil New Way to Counter Mobile Phone 'Account Takeover' Attacks

Jan. 22, 2024 — Computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify security weaknesses that leave people vulnerable to account takeover attacks, where a hacker gains unauthorized access to online ...

Advancement in Thermoelectricity Could Light Up the Internet of Things

Jan. 16, 2024 — Researchers have improved the efficiency of heat-to-electricity conversion in gallium arsenide semiconductor microstructures. By judicious spatial alignment of electrons within a two-dimensional ...

Let Me Check My Phone Again

Jan. 13, 2024 — New research finds that smartphone usage can increase and even become unhealthy for those who have obsessive-compulsive ...

Researchers Developing AI to Make the Internet More Accessible

Jan. 9, 2024 — In an effort to make the internet more accessible for people with disabilities, researchers have begun developing an artificial intelligence agent that could complete complex tasks on any website ...

Slow the Scroll: Users Less Vigilant About Misinformation on Mobile Phones

Jan. 8, 2024 — People process information more efficiently but tend to be less vigilant about misinformation on their mobile phones compared to personal computers (PCs). This is especially true for users who have ...

Influencers' Vulnerabilities: A Double-Edged Sword

Jan. 2, 2024 — New research finds that social media platforms and the metrics that reward content creators for revealing their innermost selves to fans open creators up to identity-based ...