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December 25, 2024

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First Demonstration of Quantum Teleportation Over Busy Internet Cables

Dec. 20, 2024 — Quantum teleportation could provide near-instant communication over long distances. But, inside Internet cables, photons needed for teleportation are lost within the millions of light particles required for classical communications. A new study ...

Image Tool to Help AI Scour Wildlife Shots for Climate Change Clues

Dec. 13, 2024 — A new AI image tool could aid the development of algorithms to analyse wildlife images to help improve understanding of how species around the world are responding to climate change, a study ...

Researchers Reduce Bias in AI Models While Preserving or Improving Accuracy

Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers developed an AI debiasing technique that improves the fairness of a machine-learning model by boosting its performance for subgroups that are underrepresented in its training data, while maintaining its overall ...

AI Needs to Work on Its Conversation Game

Nov. 12, 2024 — Linguistics and computer science researchers have discovered some of the root causes of why AI large language models perform poorly in human-like ...

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A Rudimentary Quantum Network Link Between Dutch Cities

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a network connection between quantum processors over metropolitan distances. Their result marks a key advance from early research networks in the lab towards a future ...

Smart Sensor Patch Detects Health Symptoms Through Edge Computing

Oct. 30, 2024 — Edge computing on a smartphone has been used to analyze data collected by a multimodal flexible wearable sensor patch and detect arrhythmia, coughs and ...

Towards Implementing Neural Networks on Edge IoT Devices

Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new binarized neural network (BNN) scheme using ternary gradients to address the computational challenges of IoT edge devices. They introduced a magnetic RAM-based ...

Deep Learning Illuminates Atmospheric Blocking Events of Past, Future

Oct. 17, 2024 — Atmospheric blocking events are persistent, high-impact weather patterns that occur when large-scale high-pressure systems become stationary and divert the jet stream and storm tracks for days to ...

Engineers Set New Record on How Fast Data Can Be Sent Wirelessly

Oct. 16, 2024 — A new world record in wireless transmission, promising faster and more reliable wireless communications, has been set by researchers. The total bandwidth of 145GHz is more than five times higher than ...

Sharing Biosignals With Online Gaming Partners to Enhance a Mutual Sense of Social Presence Between Complete Strangers

Sep. 27, 2024 — Although interactive online platforms, including esports platforms, aim to foster close connections between people, they often fall short of ...

Language Agents Help Large Language Models 'Think' Better and Cheaper

Sep. 24, 2024 — Researchers have devised an agent to help large language models ...

How Can We Make the Best Possible Use of Large Language Models for a Smarter and More Inclusive Society?

Sep. 20, 2024 — Large language models (LLMs) have developed rapidly in recent years and are becoming an integral part of our everyday lives through applications like ...

Simple Shift Could Make Low Earth Orbit Satellites High Capacity

Sep. 13, 2024 — Researchers have invented a technique that enables low Earth orbit satellite antennas to manage signals for multiple users at once, slashing costs and simplifying designs for communication ...

Major Leap for Nuclear Clock Paves Way for Ultraprecise Timekeeping

Sep. 4, 2024 — Nuclear clocks would measure time based on changes inside an atom's nucleus, which would make them less sensitive to external disturbances and potentially more accurate than atomic clocks. These ...

Age Assurance Online Needs to Be Child-Rights Respecting, New Study Says

Oct. 28, 2024 — A range of different age checks are needed to protect children -- but also to ensure they can take advantages of positive opportunities online -- a new study ...

Toward a Code-Breaking Quantum Computer

Aug. 23, 2024 — Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for ...

From Doom-Scrolling to Mindfulness

Aug. 11, 2024 — Researchers have created Mindful Scroll, a mobile app that helps users transition from doom-scrolling to adding mindfulness into their daily ...

Using Photos or Videos, These AI Systems Can Conjure Simulations That Train Robots to Function in Physical Spaces

Aug. 7, 2024 — Two new studies introduce AI systems that use either video or photos to create simulations that can train robots to function in the real world. This could significantly lower the costs of training ...

Physicists Develop New Method to Combine Conventional Internet With the Quantum Internet

Aug. 5, 2024 — Researchers send entangled photons and laser pulses of the same color over a single optical fiber for the first ...

Towards Smart Cities: Predicting Soil Liquefaction Risk Using Artificial Intelligence

Aug. 1, 2024 — Soil liquefaction that results in infrastructure damage has long been a point of contention for urban planners and engineers. Accurately predicting the soil liquefaction risk of a region could help ...

AI Creates 'More Understandable' Cardiology Reports for Patients

July 31, 2024 — An artificial intelligence program created explanations of heart test results that were in most cases accurate, relevant, and easy to understand by ...

Bright Prospects for Engineering Quantum Light

July 30, 2024 — Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum ...

Breaking MAD: Generative AI Could Break the Internet, Researchers Find

July 30, 2024 — Researchers have found that training successive generations of generative artificial intelligence models on synthetic data gives rise to self-consuming feedback ...

Robotics: Self-Powered 'Bugs' Can Skim Across Water to Detect Environmental Data

July 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a self-powered 'bug' that can skim across the water, and they hope it will revolutionize aquatic ...

Optical Fibers Fit for the Age of Quantum Computing

July 29, 2024 — A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum ...

There Is Mathematical Proof in the Pudding

July 22, 2024 — In blockchain development, there is a rule of thumb that only two of scalability, security, and decentralization are valid simultaneously. However, the mathematical expression of that rule was still ...

AI Tool Successfully Responds to Patient Questions in Electronic Health Record

July 16, 2024 — A new study shows that an AI tool can draft responses to patients' EHR queries as accurately as their human healthcare professionals, and with greater perceived ...

Want Privacy? You're Just a Stick Figure to This Camera

July 18, 2024 — A new camera could prevent companies from collecting embarrassing and identifiable photos and videos from devices like smart home cameras and robotic vacuums. It's called ...

'World Record' for Data Transmission Speed

June 28, 2024 — Researchers have sent data at a record rate of 402 terabits per second using commercially available optical fiber. This beats their previous record, announced in March 2024, of 301 terabits or ...

Researchers Develop New Training Technique That Aims to Make AI Systems Less Socially Biased

June 25, 2024 — Researchers have created a new, cost-effective training technique for artificial intelligence systems that aims to make them less socially ...

Meet CARMEN, a Robot That Helps People With Mild Cognitive Impairment

June 24, 2024 — Meet CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation -- a small, tabletop robot designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) learn skills to ...

Changing Climate Will Make Home Feel Like Somewhere Else

June 20, 2024 — The impacts of climate change are being felt all over the world, but how will it impact how your hometown feels? An interactive web application allows users to search 40,581 places and 5,323 metro ...

Algae Offer Real Potential as a Renewable Electricity Source

June 11, 2024 — The need to transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy production is critical. That's why a team of researchers is looking at a potential power source that not only produces no ...

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 ...