Tuesday - December 19 2023, 00:25 UTC - 11 months ago

Shipping firms depend on seasonal driver helpers to deliver deluges of presents during peak times of the year, and my colleagues and I recently found that a hybrid helper approach, by tweaking the roles these workers have, could save upward of 4 million dollars and shave 8 percent off last mile delivery times.

Monday - December 18 2023, 19:26 UTC - 11 months ago

Green software is an effort to make software development more energy efficient and reduce carbon emissions. It typically involves using efficient algorithms and taking energy efficiency considerations into account during the entire software development cycle. The three pillars of green software are energy efficiency, hardware efficiency, and carbon awareness. Additionally, instituting green software requires a shift in mindset to create the greatest strides in sustainability.

Monday - December 18 2023, 14:32 UTC - 11 months ago

Chris and Julie Ramsey, a husband-and-wife team from Aberdeen, completed the first-ever drive from the Magnetic North Pole to the South Pole in an electric car. The expedition, over 18,000 miles (30,000 km) long, showcased the durability of electric vehicles and their potential to replace diesel vehicles in polar regions. They faced challenges such as range loss due to modifications, unpaved roads in South America, and limited charging infrastructure. By utilizing renewable energy sources and inventive methods to navigate extreme conditions, Chris and Julie have set a historic milestone in electric mobility and shaped the future of sustainable transportation.

Monday - December 18 2023, 09:48 UTC - 11 months ago

As city centers become gentrified and more attractive to large chains, they are also becoming more expensive and thus prices every year. This leads to a contraction of retail stores in inner cities that is lopsidedly affecting lower-income neighborhoods. Analysts say the best solution is to strengthen small businesses and provide access to online shopping so that bigger chains pullback is not so detrimental.

Monday - December 18 2023, 05:29 UTC - 11 months ago

Mike Capps promotes transparency into artificial intelligence decision-making through his company Howso. Open-sourcing their AI engine, Howso is used by major companies such as Mastercard and Virginia's Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to explainable AI. Capps explains why black box AI is a problem and why people should care about the concept of attributable AI.

Monday - December 18 2023, 00:38 UTC - 11 months ago

Google Gemini has achieved a breakthrough in Machine Translation by reaching a score higher than that of even expert humans on the Mandarin Machine Translation Language Understanding (MMLU). Gemini Ultra scored 90.04%, making it even better than expert human level accuracy of 89.8%. This breakthrough is a big step towards reaching artificial general intelligence, while Google has announced that it will release a free version of its Gemini Ultra model for research in the future.

Sunday - December 17 2023, 19:46 UTC - 11 months ago

MIT researchers have designed a wearable ultrasound monitor in the form of a patch that can image organs within the body without an ultrasound operator or application of gel. The patch accurately image the bladder and determine its volume, and can be adapted to monitor other organs within the body and enable earlier diagnosis of deep body cancers.

Sunday - December 17 2023, 14:58 UTC - 11 months ago

Doritos made Dr. Frankenstein proud with their nacho cheese flavored alcohol! The drink has 40% ABV, and has been made available in the US since 2020. It's a unique, eye-catching drink that is perfect for any sort of party or get together. Pre-order is also available!.

Sunday - December 17 2023, 10:15 UTC - 11 months ago

Wisdom teeth have evolved to be a part of humans from the days when early human ancestors had large jaws and teeth. Over the millennia, humans jaws have gotten smaller and flatter due to softer food, and as a result some humans are missing at least one wisdom tooth completely. Sometimes the wisdom teeth can get stuck in the jawbone and result in pain, tooth decay or gum inflammation which is why people get them pulled.

Sunday - December 17 2023, 05:16 UTC - 11 months ago

Déjà vu is an mysterious phenomenon experienced by many where they feel as though they have already experienced a certain situation, even though it is impossible. It has puzzled philosophers, neurologists, and writers for a long time and was first brought to the realm of science by a scientist named Alan Brown who reviewed the scientific literature on the topic. His research looked at common triggers, followed by examinations of the Gestalt familiarity hypothesis, and other potential causes. It is still widely studied today.

Sunday - December 17 2023, 00:41 UTC - 11 months ago

In a world-first, researchers from the GrapheneX-UTS Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a portable, non-invasive system that can decode silent thoughts and turn them into text. This could aid communication for those who are unable to speak due to illness or injury, and also enable seamless communication between humans and machines. The AI model, DeWave, translates EEG signals into words and sentences by learning from large quantities of EEG data. The 29 participants showed that this technology results in a more robust translation than that from one or two individuals due to EEG waves differing between individuals.

Saturday - December 16 2023, 19:39 UTC - 11 months ago

Stanford University researchers have combined nanosized diamond and lithium niobate structures onto a single chip to prove the viability of quantum computing technology. With successful communication of light between the diamond and lithium niobate and an efficiency rate of 92%, this integration of materials shows promise for use in applications like frequency modulation and shaping for quantum information processing.

Saturday - December 16 2023, 15:08 UTC - 11 months ago

Cryptographers have built a new LLL-style algorithm that significantly boosts the efficiency of LLL algorithms. This widens the range of scenarios in which computer scientists and mathematicians can feasibly use LLL-like approaches and can be beneficial in helping break cryptographic systems by finding ways to reduce lattice bases quickly.

Saturday - December 16 2023, 10:10 UTC - 11 months ago

Brainoware is a revolutionary computer system that taps into 3D brain organoids—or "mini-brains." This setup provides an opportunity to better understand the brain’s inner workings while reducing energy costs and speeding up computation.

Saturday - December 16 2023, 05:30 UTC - 11 months ago

Non-English speakers are excluded from clinical trials and research studies in the U.S., with a review of 5,008 papers in three pediatric journals from 2012 to 2021 revealing that only 9% of these studies included non-English speaking volunteers. This is due to language barriers which hinder a person’s ability to provide informed consent to participate. Translation in research is a process of interpretation, with the target text meant to be suitable and comprehensible to readers of the translated language while maintaining the essence of the original text.

Saturday - December 16 2023, 00:50 UTC - 11 months ago

Researchers developed an open-source system called Dobb-E using an iPhone attached to a reacher-grabber stick and data collected from real homes. It was tested over 30 days in 10 homes with an 81% success rate on 109 different tasks. The team is still looking to optimize the system and expand it to other forms of AI for wider application of robotics in different domestic settings.

Friday - December 15 2023, 20:43 UTC - 11 months ago

University of Michigan researchers evaluated the bias in OpenAI's CLIP, a model that pairs text and images, and found that CLIP performs poorly on images that portray low-income and non-Western lifestyles. CLIP has higher scores for images from higher-income households, with most of the countries with the lowest scores being from non-western regions.

Friday - December 15 2023, 15:47 UTC - 11 months ago

Many AI experts believe that for AI to reach its full potential, it needs to be physically embodied with a body. A new machine learning approach developed by the Technical University of Munich can allow robots to learn how their body is configured and understand its layout and positioning in the environment with only sensors on their limbs. The approach has been implemented on various robots and works in real-time, allowing robots to continuously update their internal models as their physical form changes.

Friday - December 15 2023, 10:54 UTC - 11 months ago

For the first time ever, an international team of researchers have created a complete cell atlas of a whole mammalian brain, providing an unprecedented map of cellular organization and diversity across the mouse brain. This atlas serves as a map that can be used to understand human brain function and diseases, paving the way for a greater understanding of the human brain and the development of precision therapeutics for people with mental and neurological disorders of the brain.